Expose marketplace inventory
to AI shopping agents.
A multi-seller catalog is exactly what an AI agent wants — breadth, price competition, live availability — and exactly what it can't read from a marketplace's web pages. Nile compiles seller inventory, eligibility rules, and routing into one agent-readable surface, so agents in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can shortlist and buy from your sellers with your rules intact.
Why marketplaces need this now
The agent is a new demand source that behaves like a very impatient power buyer: it compares across sellers in private and shows its human two options. Marketplaces that are not on the agentic shelf lose that comparison before it starts.
Breadth is invisible
Thousands of sellers and millions of offers are an advantage only if an agent can query them as structured supply. Category pages and search UIs don't expose that; a compiled catalog does.
Sellers expect the channel
Sellers already ask how to be found by AI assistants. Offering agentic distribution as a marketplace service keeps that demand — and its data — inside your platform.
Rules must survive the agent
Seller eligibility, buy-box logic, regional restrictions, and commission terms cannot be re-negotiated per assistant. They have to be enforced once, at the source, on every rail.
How an agent buys from a marketplace
The typical workflow, from a shopper's question to a routed order.
The shopper asks an assistant
“A 65-inch OLED under $1,500 with delivery this week” — intent, budget, delivery window, and country are parsed before any offer is considered.
The agent queries the multi-seller catalog
Offers from every eligible seller are compared on the same structured terms: price, stock, seller rating, shipping speed to the buyer's location, return policy.
Your rules decide what is shown
Seller eligibility, buy-box or best-offer logic, regional availability, and category restrictions are applied by the rules you define once — identically in every assistant.
The order routes to the seller
The shopper confirms; checkout completes on your marketplace and the order routes to the seller's fulfilment exactly as an on-site order would. Commission and settlement stay in your systems.
What Nile publishes for agents
The pieces an agent needs to choose among sellers with confidence — synced from your platform, compiled to every rail.
Multi-seller offers
One product, many offers: seller, price, condition, stock, and shipping options modelled as the agent compares them, not flattened into a single listing.
Per-seller inventory
Availability and price refresh per seller on your sync cadence, so an agent never recommends an offer that has sold out or repriced.
Eligibility & ranking
Which sellers, categories, and regions are agent-eligible, and how competing offers are ordered — enforced at the source, on every rail.
Multi-seller carts
Agent-carried carts complete in your checkout after buyer confirmation, then split to sellers the way your platform already does.
Attribution by seller
Completed-sale attribution per seller and per assistant, ready to feed your seller reporting and commission logic.
ACP, UCP, MCP, Skills
One compiled catalog published to ACP (ChatGPT's commerce protocol), UCP (Google's), tool access (MCP), and a distributable skill — see the Nile Agentic Protocol.
Integration architecture
Nile sits beside the marketplace, reading catalog and inventory and handing orders back — the same shape as any other sales channel you already operate.
| Layer | What Nile does | What stays with you |
|---|---|---|
| Catalog & offers | Ingests via feed or API; compiles per-seller offers into agent-readable context | Product data, seller onboarding, taxonomy |
| Inventory & price | Continuous per-seller sync; recheck at cart and checkout | Source of truth for stock and pricing |
| Rules | Enforces eligibility, ranking, and regional restrictions on every rail | Defining the rules; buy-box and commission logic |
| Checkout & routing | Hands the confirmed cart to your checkout | Payment, order split, seller settlement, fulfilment |
| Reporting | Attributed sales and ranking per seller and assistant | Seller dashboards, finance |
What it does for the platform
New demand, kept on-platform
Agent-sourced buyers arrive pre-sold and check out on your marketplace — the customer, the order, and the seller relationship stay with you.
A service you can offer sellers
Agentic distribution becomes part of the marketplace proposition, with per-seller attribution to show what it delivered.
Rules enforced once
Seller eligibility, ranking, and regional logic defined once and applied identically in every assistant — no per-channel exceptions to audit.
No integrations team
ACP, UCP, MCP, and Agent Skills are compiled from one catalog. New rails appear as a toggle, not a roadmap item.
Platform-level controls
Buyer confirmation before payment, live rechecks at cart and checkout, click-through-only attribution, and sandboxed measurement apply to a marketplace exactly as they do to a single store — see the merchant page for those. Three things are platform-specific:
Offer recheck
Each seller's price and stock are validated against your platform at cart and again at checkout, so an agent never carries a stale offer into a purchase.
Seller and category eligibility
Only agent-eligible sellers, categories, and regions are exposed; restrictions are enforced at the source, not per assistant.
Settlement stays yours
Payment, commission, and payouts run in your systems exactly as for an on-site order; Nile reports attributed sales per seller so you can pass results through.
Implementation steps
Connect the catalog
Feed or API with seller and offer dimensions. Nile ingests products, offers, price, and inventory per seller.
Define seller and ranking rules
Eligibility, best-offer logic, regional restrictions, and brand guardrails — set once, in plain language for Pro and enterprise.
Wire checkout hand-off
Confirmed carts land in your checkout; orders split and route to sellers as they do today.
Go live and report
Publish to every rail; track ranking and attributed sales per seller and per assistant. Commission-only pricing applies from the first sale.
Questions marketplaces ask
What is agentic commerce for marketplaces?
Making a multi-seller catalog discoverable and buyable by AI shopping agents — assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity that compare offers and buy on a shopper's behalf — while the marketplace's seller rules, checkout, and settlement stay exactly as they are.
Does Nile support multiple sellers per product?
Yes. Offers are modelled per seller — price, condition, stock, shipping, rating — so an agent compares them the way a buyer would, and your ranking rules decide which offers are shown.
How is seller inventory kept in sync?
Per-seller price and availability sync continuously on your feed or API cadence and are rechecked at cart and checkout, so agents never transact against a stale offer.
How do commission and seller routing work?
Unchanged. The confirmed cart completes in your checkout and splits to sellers as an on-site order would; commission and payouts run in your systems. Nile reports attributed sales per seller so you can pass results through.
Can we restrict which sellers or categories agents can sell?
Yes. Eligibility by seller, category, and region is defined once and enforced on every rail, along with brand guardrails for how offers are described.
Who is the merchant of record for an agent order on our marketplace?
Exactly who it is today. The confirmed cart completes in your checkout, so the marketplace (or the seller, depending on your model) remains merchant of record and settlement, tax, and refunds run through your existing systems. Nile is a demand channel, not a party to the transaction.
More solutions
The same backend, framed for the team that is asking. Enterprise controls for all of them are on the enterprise page.
Merchants & brands
Make a single store readable and buyable for AI shopping agents.
Retail & multi-brand
Run agentic commerce as a governed channel across banners, regions, and stores.
Product discovery
Give agents the attributes, availability, and fit signals they compare on.
Headless & custom stacks
Connect a custom or headless storefront by API without touching checkout.
Put your sellers on the agentic shelf.
No setup fee. No retainer. Commission only on completed, attributed sales.
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