The open record of agentic commerce · data as of 8 Nov 2026

Can AI agents shop your store?

63%of the 11,526 stores in ARC's full check: ARC's automated check got a checkout link back

    7,220 of 11,526. 605 turned ARC's check away and count as not reached. A checkout link is not an order: ARC stops before payment. The downloadable 6 Nov 2026 snapshot has 67% of 10,698.

    35,167 stores checked so far (live); the full check above is a deeper check on a subset. What each count means. Free, independent, open data. Counts from ARC's saved checks, each with its own date (checks ran 8 Oct to 8 Nov 2026).

    Tap or hover a dot to see the store behind it, then open its result.

    Where agents get stopped

    Same stores, sorted by how far an agent got. ARC's automated check was turned away on 605 of the 11,526 stores, before it could look at a product. A block is a response to ARC's checker, not a judgment about the store.

    • 260of 11,036 stores whose robots.txt (the file that tells bots which pages they may visit) we could read tell AI crawlers to stay away
    • 179of those also turn away the agents that answer shoppers' questions
    • 415stores where ARC's agent found the product, then checkout was not detected

    The stores that speak agent

    Left: stores with a valid UCP profile, the open protocol agents use to search a catalog and build a cart. Right: stores without one. 7,220 of the 7,220 checkout links came from the left.

    • 8,247have a UCP profile that passes validation (of 11,526 attempted)
    • 7,635returned the tested product through it (of 11,526 attempted)
    • 7,220returned a checkout link (of 11,526 attempted)

    It mostly comes down to the platform

    Shopify switched on agent checkout for its stores. Outside Shopify, almost nobody has, yet.

    • 7,171of 8,108 checked Shopify stores: checkout detected
    • 0of 656 checked stores on other detected platforms (Salesforce, Magento, WooCommerce and more): checkout detected
    • 49of 2,157 checked stores where the platform was not detected: checkout detected
    Each dot is one store · checks ran 8 Oct to 8 Nov 2026
    ARC's agent got a checkout link7,220 of 10,921 stores the check got past the door
    Found it, checkout not detected415 of 10,921 stores the check got past the door
    ARC's agent didn't find a product3,286 of 10,921 stores the check got past the door

    By category

    Share of stores in each category that handed an agent a checkout link. Sort by any column, filter by platform or market, and click a row to see its stores.

    Platform
    Market
    Rank
    1 Home goods
    84.2%
    4,504 of 5,346
    		 87.8% 1% 93.9% 5,346
    2 Jewelry
    73.1%
    391 of 535
    		 76.1% 5.1% 80.4% 535
    3 Supplements
    68.3%
    271 of 397
    		 75.8% 4.1% 80.6% 397
    4 Kids
    64.8%
    274 of 423
    		 69.7% 5.2% 74.7% 423
    5 Beauty
    57.6%
    297 of 516
    		 61.4% 7.7% 66.1% 516
    6 Apparel
    57.1%
    450 of 788
    		 59.5% 8.2% 64.2% 788
    7 Outdoor
    51.4%
    180 of 350
    		 58.3% 8.6% 60.9% 350
    8 Footwear
    49.1%
    159 of 324
    		 56.8% 7.2% 63% 324
    9 Pets
    45.1%
    133 of 295
    		 51.9% 10.6% 58% 295
    10 Food & drink
    44.1%
    353 of 800
    		 47.1% 8.6% 51.4% 800
    11 Electronics
    26.4%
    72 of 273
    		 30% 19.9% 34.8% 273

    Percentages are out of completed checks in each row; Blocked is out of every attempted check. Data as of 8 Nov 2026.

    ARC Benchmarks

    Five benchmarks, one open record

    What ARC measures about agentic commerce. Live means published in every snapshot; beta means partial data; planned means no figure yet.

    67.5%completed stores in the 6 Nov 2026 snapshot where UCP create_cart returned a checkout link (ARC stopped before payment; no order was placed): 7,220 of 10,698. ARC Protocol Conformance Index, snapshot of

    All benchmarks and methods

    Where agents shop

    The channels agents buy through

    Every agent channel and payment rail, with its status, how merchants join and the primary source.

    8,193of 10,698 checked stores (76.6%) have a valid UCP profile, the open protocol agents use to search a catalog and build a cart. Last check

    All channels and rails

    What changed

    Snapshot to snapshot

    Stores that started or stopped serving UCP, blocking AI crawlers or handing an agent a checkout link.

    3readings changed between the snapshots of and

    Every change, by store

    Open data

    Every number, downloadable

    CSV, Parquet and JSON for every dated snapshot. Each version folder is immutable.

    10,698stores with a completed check in snapshot 2026-11-06, published

    Licence: CC BY 4.0. Cite as ARC (arcreport.ai).

    Get the dataset

    For agents

    Three calls, no key

    Point any MCP client at ARC's free server, check before trying, find a store, then confirm checkout.

    7,220stores in the dated snapshot where ARC's check got a checkout link back, snapshot of

    MCP URL https://www.arcreport.ai/api/ask

    {
  "mcpServers": {
    "arc": { "url": "https://www.arcreport.ai/api/ask" }
  }
}
    1. precheckCheck before trying
      {"name":"precheck","arguments":{"url":"https://allbirds.com/products/shoe"}}
    2. find_agent_ready_storesFind a reach-checkout link
      {"name":"find_agent_ready_stores","arguments":{"category":"running shoes","limit":5}}
    3. can_agent_checkoutReach-checkout check
      {"name":"can_agent_checkout","arguments":{"url":"allbirds.com"}}
    Setup for Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and more

    Explore the record

    Category rankings, store results and the open data behind every number.