Stripe supporting additional payment methods for agentic commerce

Viraj Gupta, Product Manager, Cards Vault, at Stripe announced in a blog post: “Last year, we launched Shared Payment Tokens, a payment primitive for agentic commerce that lets agents initiate payments with a customer’s permission and preferred payment method, without exposing the underlying credentials. We’ve seen widespread adoption of SPTs by leading businesses such as Etsy (ETSY) and URBN, including Anthropologie, Free People, and Urban Outfitters (URBN). Since then, sellers have asked us for access to more of the most popular payment methods for agentic transactions. To that end, we’re expanding SPT support to enable broader access to network-led agentic payment capabilities, including Mastercard (MA) Agent Pay and Visa (V) Intelligent Commerce, as well as buy now, pay later methods such as Affirm (AFRM) and Klarna (KLAR). This makes Stripe the first and only provider that supports both agentic network tokens and BNPL tokens in agentic commerce through a single primitive. These capabilities are already rolling out: Stripe is using agentic network tokens to process transactions across supported AI agents.”