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In order for agentic commerce to truly scale, the payment experience has to be seamless for the consumer on the frontend and scalable for any merchant or platform on the backend.

Agentic commerce represents a transformative opportunity for companies poised to usher in the next era of e-commerce by using conversational AI. Especially when it comes to the payment process of agentic commerce.

The last few months have been a whirlwind of activity in the AI realm, with agentic commerce being a hot topic. We’re starting to slide towards calling this agentic payments, where agentic (being capable of acting independently) is really just a fancy word for an AI model acting on behalf of a user.

Agentic commerce is a term we have been using a lot lately at VGS. But what does agentic commerce mean? How do payments fit into the agentic commerce space? We broke it down for you so you can better understand agentic commerce as a whole and where payments fall into the AI commerce landscape.

AI is clearly mainstream. The skyrocketing user growth on the big AI platforms, the threat to Web 2.0 household names like Google and Meta, the roller coaster of the AI chip makers: AI has filled headlines for a few years now.

Today, one of the biggest payment challenges that exists is solving the last-mile of a purchase made using an AI agent. In agentic commerce, a truly universal platform needs to ensure a consumer can buy any product, from any merchant, using any payment method – and VGS has one of the only platforms that can make this possible.

At VGS, we’re the World's Leader in Payment Tokenization for a reason. With over 4 billion tokens stored globally, we are always looking to make our customer experiences better. That’s why we are excited to announce several improvements to our network tokens.

As the gig economy keeps growing, gig platforms face increased payment infrastructure challenges. Security, scalability, and compliance are more important than ever to ensure gig workers and customers have reliable, flexible, and secure payment experiences.

Learn how by combining these ensures a robust payment infrastructure that increases authorization rates, reduces costs, maximizes coverage, and retains access to the PAN.

Optimizing your payments stack requires a focus on data centralization, improved payment outcomes, and faster time to market while delivering seamless user experiences.