AI commerce glossary: 15 terms merchants should distinguish
A practical glossary of product feeds, variants, offers, ACP, UCP, discovery, checkout and release evidence, with a merchant-focused example.
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AI commerce fundamentals
Understand AI product discovery, merchant data and the route from a shopping question to a trustworthy offer.
Start with your existing product feed
AI commerce brings several jobs together: helping a shopper find a product, retrieving an accurate offer and, when enabled, completing a purchase. A merchant feed supplies product facts, but every destination still needs its own mapping and integration. Start by identifying the shopper action you want to support and the data you can already maintain reliably.
10 guides
AI product discovery vs agentic checkout: what merchants must separate
Learn the difference between AI product discovery, offer data and agentic checkout so your team can scope a realistic commerce project.
Read the guide ↗Seven AI shopping visibility myths that lead to bad projects
Avoid common AI shopping mistakes around feed conversion, keyword stuffing, schema, AI copy and guaranteed visibility. Includes a practical review method.
Read the guide ↗Product Feed Audit: Checklist, Examples and Fixes
Audit a product feed for identity, price, availability, attributes and update reliability. Use a finding template and prioritize fixes by cause and risk.
Read the guide ↗GEO for Ecommerce: Product Data and AI Search Guide
Improve ecommerce information for search and AI answers with useful pages, consistent product facts, crawlable links and a measurable acquisition path.
Read the guide ↗Google Merchant Center to AI Commerce: Feed Preparation
Prepare a Google Merchant Center feed for AI commerce with a source audit, destination mapping, field review and a repeatable release checklist.
Read the guide ↗Missing Product Attributes: Find and Fix Catalog Gaps
Find missing product attributes, separate mapping errors from source gaps, and prioritize supported fixes for product discovery and comparison.
Read the guide ↗Product feeds vs product pages vs structured data
See how merchant feeds, visible product pages and structured data work together, where they disagree, and how to choose a source of truth.
Read the guide ↗Product, variant and offer IDs: how to keep catalog identity stable
Understand product, variant and offer identifiers, preserve leading zeros, and prevent identity changes during price, title or stock updates.
Read the guide ↗What is agentic commerce? A practical merchant guide
Understand agentic commerce, the data merchants need, and how product discovery differs from checkout. Includes a practical first-project checklist.
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