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title: "UCP forms a Payments Technical Council | Agent Ready Checkout"
description: "2 Sep 2026: UCP announced a Payments Technical Council with Adyen, Ant International, Coinbase, Global Payments, Google, PayPal."
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# UCP forms a Payments Technical Council | Agent Ready Checkout

> 2 Sep 2026: UCP announced a Payments Technical Council with Adyen, Ant International, Coinbase, Global Payments, Google, PayPal.

Source: https://agentreadycheckout.com/news/2026-09-02-ucp-forms-a-payments-technical-council-with-shopify
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Last reviewed: 2026-11-04

News, 2 Sep 2026

# UCP forms a Payments Technical Council with Shopify among members

In short

UCP announced a Payments Technical Council with Adyen, Ant International, Coinbase, Global Payments, Google, PayPal, Shopify and Stripe as inaugural members. The matrix entry to read next for this 2 Sep 2026 item is UCP on Shopify, which is live as of 4 Nov 2026. UCP on Shopify: UCP co-developer; Cart, Checkout and Order MCP servers at /api/ucp/mcp.

## What was reported

UCP announced a Payments Technical Council with Adyen, Ant International, Coinbase, Global Payments, Google, PayPal, Shopify and Stripe as inaugural members.

Primary source: [ucp.dev](https://ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/), read 4 Nov 2026.

## Where it sits in the matrix

-   [Shopify](https://agentreadycheckout.com/platforms/shopify): 1 live, 0 pilot, 1 announced and 0 not supported in the matrix.

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-   30 Sep 2026 [Mastercard adds trust and intelligence services to Agent Pay, working with Skyfire and Cloudflare](https://agentreadycheckout.com/news/2026-09-30-mastercard-adds-trust-and-intelligence-services-to)
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-   22 Sep 2026 [PayPal announces checkout partnership with Meta's Muse](https://agentreadycheckout.com/news/2026-09-22-paypal-announces-checkout-partnership-with-metas-muse)

## Sources

1.  [ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/](https://ucp.dev/documentation/announcements/), read 4 Nov 2026

Last reviewed 4 Nov 2026

## Edition

Matrix edition of 4 Nov 2026.

Reviewed 4 Nov 2026, [1 sources](#sources-h).

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