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UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol) is Shopify’s agentic-commerce protocol: a standard way for an agent to search products, read catalogs, and open a checkout across participating Shopify merchants. Prava integrates with UCP so an AI application can discover what to buy and get an initial price, before the Browser Harness confirms the real total and completes the order.
UCP is Shopify-specific. Any Shopify store that advertises UCP is reachable through it.

What UCP gives you

Search

Query a single merchant, or Shopify’s global catalog across all participating merchants at once.

Catalog

Full product details: variants, options (size/color), pricing, availability, and images.

Quote

Open a checkout and get an initial price (subtotal, tax estimate, and shipping options where the merchant exposes them).

How Prava integrates with UCP

Prava speaks UCP to Shopify stores that advertise it, and layers a consistent discovery-to-purchase pipeline on top:
1

Reach the merchant

A Shopify store that advertises UCP exposes a commerce endpoint Prava can call. Prava can target one merchant directly, or search Shopify’s global catalog spanning every participating merchant with a single query.
2

Search & catalog

Prava runs the search, normalizes the results into a consistent shape (product id, title, price estimate, image, merchant), and fetches a product’s variants (options, prices, and availability) so the exact item can be chosen.
3

Open a checkout (quote)

For the chosen variant and destination, Prava asks UCP to open a checkout. That returns a checkout and an initial proposal: subtotal, a tax estimate, and (for merchants that expose it) shipping options. This is an estimate, not the binding total.
4

Hand off to the Browser Harness

Prava drives that live checkout with the Browser Harness, which reads and reconciles the true final total (shipping + tax settled) and completes the purchase with the one-time tokenized card.
This is the first half of the pipeline: exactly the chain the CLI exposes as prava shop search → product → quote → checkout.

Supported merchants

UCP reaches participating Shopify merchants (for example Fashion Nova, SKIMS, Alo Yoga, Steve Madden, Glossier, Everlane, Harry’s, and Ridge) plus any Shopify store that advertises UCP.
Coverage varies by merchant. Some merchants expose shipping options and tax through UCP; others don’t. Treat UCP prices as an estimate: the binding final total is always confirmed at checkout by the Browser Harness before any charge.

Next

Browser Harness

How the true total is confirmed and the order is completed from a UCP quote.

Agentic shopping (CLI)

Run this discovery-to-purchase flow from the command line.