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Here’s what’s new: how agents and digital wallets are reshaping checkout, a new protocol for machine payments, adaptive pricing for subscriptions, and more.

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How agents, digital wallets, and trust are reshaping checkout

How people discover and complete purchases is changing fast across devices, payment methods, and now agents. New data from nearly 20,000 businesses shows what’s shifting and what it means for online conversion.

Introducing the Machine Payments Protocol

The Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) is an open standard for agents and services to coordinate payments programmatically, enabling microtransactions, recurring payments, and more. Businesses on Stripe can accept payments over MPP in a few lines of code using our Payment Intents API.

10 things we learned building for agentic commerce

A future where we buy with agents feels inevitable. Making it actually work is harder. Use these lessons from the first wave of agentic commerce to decide what to build, avoid common bottlenecks, and prepare for what’s next.

Three first-party fraud trends to look out for

62% of merchants have seen an increase in disputes from first-party fraud over the past year, according to the Merchant Risk Council. We analyzed hundreds of millions of transactions to break down the fastest-growing types of first-party fraud: account abuse, free trial abuse, and refund fraud.

How Stripe Adaptive Pricing affects subscription performance

Subscription businesses are more global than ever. But as they expand into more markets, setting the right price in the right currency is still complex. We analyzed 1.5 million subscription checkout sessions to measure what happens when businesses offer local currency pricing instead and found a 4.7% increase in conversion and a 5.4% increase in lifetime value per session on average.

One more thing: How to get ready for agentic commerce

Agentic commerce is moving quickly, and businesses are frequently asking the same questions: which channels to launch first, how to get discovered by agents, and how to manage fraud in a new channel. This guide walks you through practical steps you can take, from structuring your organization to preparing your product catalog and tech stack.

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