Mastercard launches Agent Connect for AI shopping

Mastercard has launched Agent Connect to give merchants one integration for product discovery, cart creation and customer-approved payments across AI shopping platforms. Summary Agent Connect links merchants, AI agents, digital platforms, and payment providers through one connection. Merchants can provide current product, price, and inventory data from their existing catalogs. Agent Pay uses tokenized permissions to verify that customers authorized AI-initiated purchases. More than 30 companies support Mastercard’s payment system for autonomous software and machines. Mastercard Agent Connect reduces separate merchant integrations Mastercard said in a Sep. 9 announcement that Agent Connect allows merchants to participate in AI-assisted shopping without building a separate technical connection for every AI platform. The next front door to commerce may be an AI agent.Today, we're introducing Mastercard Agent Connect and expanding Agent Suite for Merchants to help businesses build, connect, and scale AI-powered shopping experiences.Learn more about how we're powering the future of commerce… pic.twitter.com/VE1OvdRue4— Mastercard (@Mastercard) September 9, 2026 Through the service, an A...