MCP

AI agents can now buy products from your store without a human ever visiting your website. In April and May 2025, Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal each launched agentic payment platforms within weeks of each other, and Perplexity became the first AI search engine to complete end-to-end purchases through PayPal’s checkout. If your ecommerce store is not structured for AI agents to discover, evaluate, and purchase your products, you are already losing sales to competitors who are. ...

An MCP server is a standardized interface that lets AI agents talk to your store’s backend in real-time, querying products, checking inventory, and initiating actions without scraping your website or relying on proprietary APIs. For ecommerce, it means ChatGPT, Copilot, Perplexity, and every future AI shopping tool can interact with your catalog directly, accurately, and instantly. What Is the Model Context Protocol (MCP)? The Model Context Protocol is an open standard developed by Anthropic and released in late 2024. It defines how AI models connect to external data sources and tools. Think of it as USB for AI: a universal connector that lets any AI model plug into any service without custom integrations for each pair. ...