ChatGPT’s new Wallet lets AI agents shop and check out for you
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ChatGPT agents can now complete purchases for a limited set of U.S. Pro users using stored Visa, Mastercard, or AmEx cards, with tokenized payment and biometric user approval at checkout. This turns consumer agents from shopping assistants into transaction initiators, so teams shipping commerce flows need to decide whether to support agent checkout paths, expose fulfillment data safely, and handle an emerging split between agent-friendly retailers and platforms that block them.
OpenAI's ChatGPT now allows AI agents to complete purchases on behalf of users, initially available to a limited number of U.S. ChatGPT Pro subscribers, using a payment token that substitutes actual card details, thereby enabling autonomous transactions while maintaining user control and credit card protections. This capability shifts the constraint for production LLM and agent deployments from handling transactions to integrating with retailers and managing user permissions. It enables shipping AI assistants that can autonomously handle e-commerce tasks.