As AI-powered tools and automated agents become more involved in online purchasing, standardized ways for software systems to interact with merchants are becoming essential. Two emerging standards in this space are ACP and UCP.
Instead of building custom integrations for each partner or AI surface, companies can implement UCP once and become accessible to any compatible system.
As AI and automation reshape online commerce, the way software systems connect to merchants, marketplaces, and customers is changing rapidly. Traditional integrations are slow, expensive, and difficult to scale. Universal Commerce Protocol, or UCP, was created to solve this problem.