{"id":12129,"date":"2026-08-12T15:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/?post_type=glossario&#038;p=12129"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:39:53","slug":"agent-payments-protocol","status":"publish","type":"glossario","link":"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/en\/approfondimenti\/glossario\/agent-payments-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is Google's open standard, announced in September 2025, for letting AI agents make payments on a user's behalf, with a broad set of launch partners including PayPal, Mastercard and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"translation-block\">AP2 focuses on the payment layer of agentic commerce, complementing discovery-and-checkout standards such as Google's <a href=\"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/en\/resources\/glossary\/universal-commerce-protocol\/\" target=\"_self\">Universal Commerce Protocol<\/a> and OpenAI's <a href=\"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/en\/resources\/glossary\/agentic-commerce-protocol\/\" target=\"_self\">Agentic Commerce Protocol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Discover more:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/en\/resources\/glossary\/universal-commerce-protocol\/\">Universal Commerce Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/highstreet.io\/en\/resources\/glossary\/agentic-commerce-protocol\/\">Agentic Commerce Protocol<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L\u2019Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) \u00e8 lo standard aperto di Google, annunciato a settembre 2025, che consente agli agenti AI di effettuare pagamenti per conto di un utente, con un ampio insieme di partner di lancio, tra cui PayPal e Mastercard. 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