# AI shopping-agent readiness checklist

Companion to **Is your eCommerce store ready for AI shopping agents?**.

Merchants cannot control every shopping agent. They **can** make product data machine-usable.

## Data

- [ ] Unique SKU / GTIN where required
- [ ] Structured attributes (size, material, color, compatibility) not only buried in HTML
- [ ] Current inventory (or honest "unknown" rather than stale in-stock)
- [ ] Reliable price + currency + tax/shipping disclosure
- [ ] Variant relationships (parent/child) are explicit

## Access

- [ ] Catalog / inventory / price APIs exist (storefront or middleware)
- [ ] Rate limits and auth documented
- [ ] No requirement that the only catalog is a rendered HTML page

## Policy

- [ ] Return, shipping, and warranty copy versioned
- [ ] Restricted categories flagged (age, hazardous, Rx)
- [ ] Discount rules are deterministic — agents must not invent coupons

## Score

Count checked items. Below 8: fix data before inviting conversational commerce. 8–12: pilot one category. 13+: you can evaluate a shopping-agent or copilot surface without lying about stock and price.