ACP vs UCP: What Ecommerce Merchants Need to Know
Compare ACP and UCP by catalog data, hosted services, discovery, checkout and the work a merchant needs to complete for each integration.
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ACP, UCP & channels
Separate catalog formats, transport, platform onboarding and checkout responsibilities before choosing your integration.
Choose a destination before choosing a format
ACP and UCP describe different integration responsibilities. OpenAI’s product-feed contract covers catalog data and delivery; a UCP implementation advertises and serves specific capabilities. Use these guides to separate the file you can prepare from the account access, hosted service and checkout behavior a destination may require.
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Google Merchant Center to OpenAI: Feed Mapping
Map Merchant Center fields to OpenAI’s stable product feed: identifiers, URLs, seller context, availability and a worked JSON record.
Read the guide ↗Multi-market product feeds: languages, currencies and shared identity
Plan market-specific catalog views that preserve product identity while keeping language, currency, availability and policy differences explicit.
Read the guide ↗The nine OpenAI discovery feed fields: a merchant checklist
Review the nine basic fields in OpenAI’s Stable discovery feed and build a practical ownership checklist before preparing your first sample.
Read the guide ↗OpenAI full-snapshot feed delivery: an operations checklist
Plan full-snapshot catalog delivery with stable files, complete releases, failure checks and clear evidence of what was sent and accepted.
Read the guide ↗Shipping and returns data: make product promises consistent
Audit shipping and return information across product pages, policies and commerce channels without inventing delivery promises.
Read the guide ↗Stable vs draft commerce schemas: keep feed changes controlled
Build a schema-version policy that separates production exports from experiments and makes protocol upgrades testable and reversible.
Read the guide ↗Supplemental feeds and safe overlays: improve data without losing provenance
Design a safe catalog overlay with stable join keys, field ownership, previews and source-change checks before releasing enriched values.
Read the guide ↗UCP Catalog vs Checkout: Capabilities and Setup
Understand the difference between a UCP catalog snapshot, live search and lookup capabilities, a business profile and an enabled checkout flow.
Read the guide ↗UCP discovery profiles: a merchant implementation checklist
Plan a UCP discovery profile with a tested version, declared capabilities, working endpoints and clear ownership of merchant configuration.
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