agent-merchant-activation · capability module
Agent Merchant Activation
Prepare a service business to be discovered, evaluated, purchased, fulfilled, and reconciled by agents without weakening its existing checkout or customer support.
Who it is for
A fit when the operating case is real
- API and MCP sellers entering machine commerce
- Service businesses preparing agent-readable catalogs and checkout flows
- Merchants that need conformance evidence before distribution
Included when scoped
The workstream
- Service catalog normalization
- Agentic checkout and payment-route readiness
- x402 and MPP readiness for suitable deterministic services
- Validate-before-charge and output-contract design
- Discovery files and conformance plan
- Test purchase, monitoring, support, and refund runbook
Deliverables
What this module can leave with you
Process
Four steps from scope to handoff
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Step 1
Normalize the offer
Inputs, outputs, price rules, milestones, support, and refund boundaries become explicit.
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Step 2
Choose the rails
High-touch services use quotes or deposits. Deterministic machine tools may use protocol payments.
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Step 3
Prove delivery
A controlled purchase validates price, payment, output, receipt, settlement, and support routing.
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Step 4
Publish
Discovery metadata ships only after the live surface matches the catalog.
Start with evidence
Scan first. Launch only what the scan supports.
Do not send a full EIN, identity document, private key, seed phrase, or reusable payment credential through a public form.
Run the free readiness scan