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MASTERCARD AGENT CONNECT

Connecting merchants and AI agents at scale

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Transforming Commerce

Enabling the agentic ecosystem of the future

Mastercard Agent Connect extends Mastercard’s trusted network model to agentic commerce, enabling AI agents, merchants, commerce platforms and payment providers to interact securely at scale across the shopping journey without requiring thousands of individual integrations.

Product Catalog Discovery

Access to merchant-authorized catalog data, including real-time visibility via Agent API call.

Cart Orchestration

Select products for a shopper's cart and confirm details including pricing, taxes, shipping and fulfillment costs and details.

Payment Enablement

Complete transactions using secure payment credentials with Mastercard Agent Pay capabilities for Mastercard and other networks' payment cards.

Less complexity. One connection. Greater reach.

Rather than maintaining multiple point-to-point relationships, with Mastercard Agent Connect, businesses gain access to a scalable network of participants in a broad agentic ecosystem designed for long-term growth.

Ecosystem connectivity

Connect to a growing ecosystem of AI agents, merchants, and PSPs through a single integration point. 

Protocol-agnostic architecture

Support for multiple protocols in the future to avoid dependence on a single protocol path.

Dynamic merchant catalogs

Provide AI agents with dynamic product information, pricing and availability from merchant-managed sources. Real-time access to the dynamic information requires an agent API call to the catalog.

Network scale & fast onboarding

Benefit from one-to-many connectivity that expands distribution and participation without requiring ongoing maintenance, including no-code onboarding options for eligible merchants.

WHY MASTERCARD

Built for trust
and scale

Mastercard Agent Connect is designed to support the future of agentic commerce that helps participants scale while maintaining flexibility and control. Mastercard Agent Connect is built to connect across merchants and agents without restricting participants to a single provider or protocol.

Support ecosystem-wide connectivity

Expand participation across a growing network of commerce stakeholders.

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Reduce integration complexity

Avoid building and maintaining separate integrations for each AI platform or protocol.

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Preserve flexibility

Maintain existing relationships while participating in an open and extensible framework.

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Enable future growth

Build upon a platform designed to evolve with new commerce capabilities, services, and ecosystem participants.

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Designed to connect the agentic commerce ecosystem

For more than 60 years, Mastercard has connected participants across the commerce ecosystem at global scale. Mastercard Agent Connect extends that established model into agentic commerce, helping merchants, platforms, payment providers and AI agents interact through trusted, secure and interoperable connections.

Merchants

  • Increase discoverability across AI-powered shopping experiences
  • Reach new customers and unlock incremental sales without managing multiple AI integrations
  • Maintain control over product information and commerce experiences
  • Participate in a growing ecosystem of AI agent providers through a single connection.
  • Maintain merchant-of-record status in new, incremental sales channels

AI Agents

  • Access a growing ecosystem of participating merchants and PSPs
  • Accelerate commerce enablement through a single integration
  • Improve shopping experiences with dynamic catalog information

Partnering to connect the ecosystems

Beginning in the United States, a growing network of technology companies and platforms are exploring new commerce experiences plan to leverage Mastercard Agent Connect.

Agent Suite for Merchants

Agent Connect is a part of Agent Suite for Merchants, a Merchant Cloud-enabled set of solutions that support agentic initiatives. Agent Suite for Merchants brings the capabilities of Agent Connect and Mastercard Shopping Agent together to support AI-powered commerce.

Agent Connect helps merchants become discoverable and shoppable through agents, while Shopping Agent helps merchants create AI-enabled shopping experiences within their own websites, apps, and digital environments.

Together, they provide a holistic approach for participants to engage in agentic commerce, extending merchant reach into agent-led journeys while improving the owned-shopping experiences where merchants maintain direct control.

To learn more, visit Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants.