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State of agent checkout, week of 12 Oct 2026
Not a random sample of US stores.
In ARC's 12 October 2026 snapshot, 650 of 1,331 US stores (48.8%) returned a UCP checkout link to ARC's automated check: 629 of 715 Shopify stores (88.0%) and 21 of 616 stores not detected as Shopify (3.4%). Platform is detected from public signals; 498 of the 616 have no confirmed platform. ARC's store list is curated, not a random sample of US stores. A checkout link is not a purchase.
Platform is detected from public signals; 498 of the 616 have no confirmed platform. ARC's store list is curated, not a random sample of US stores. A checkout link is not a purchase.
Baseline
Share of US online stores that returned a UCP checkout link to ARC's automated check
Agentic Report Card (ARC, arcreport.ai). "State of agent checkout, week of 12 Oct 2026." arcreport.ai, 13 October 2026, snapshot 2026-10-12.r2. CC-BY-4.0. https://www.arcreport.ai/blog/state-of-agent-checkout-2026-10-13
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