§ UCP Development Services

UCP development services,
without the maintenance burden.

Q: Which platforms do your UCP development services support?

WooCommerce today via a free plugin, with Magento, BigCommerce and headless connectors in development. Custom platforms are handled as scoped projects.

Q: Do we need our own developers?

No. The managed core and connector model exists so mid-market merchants without spare engineering capacity can be UCP-ready.

Q: What happens when the UCP spec updates?

Nothing on your side. UCPhub updates the UCP Core centrally and your store stays compliant. That is the main advantage over a one-off development project.

From readiness audit to live agent checkout: UCP development services delivered by the team that runs a production UCP platform, plus a managed core that keeps your store on spec as the protocol evolves.

What are UCP development services?

UCP development services cover everything needed to connect your store to the Universal Commerce Protocol: readiness auditing, manifest and endpoint implementation, checkout wiring, testing against real AI agents, and ongoing spec maintenance. UCP is the open standard co-developed by Google and Shopify that lets AI shopping agents like Gemini, ChatGPT, Copilot and Perplexity discover your products and complete purchases. Getting it live requires real protocol work, and keeping it live requires tracking a spec that versions rapidly.

UCPhub delivers UCP development as a productized service: our managed UCP Core does the heavy lifting, and our team handles the store-specific work around it.

What our UCP development services include

UCP readiness audit

We run your store through our free Store Check and a deeper manual review: catalog structure, product data quality, checkout flow, payment gateways and crawler access. You get a concrete gap list before any work starts.

Protocol implementation

We stand up your /.well-known/ucp manifest and the product, offer, checkout, identity and order endpoints defined in the official UCP specification, wired into your existing order and payment logic. For WooCommerce this is delivered through our free plugin plus configuration; for other platforms we scope a connector.

Agent testing

Before launch we validate your store against a working reference agent, so you see an actual AI agent discover products, build a cart and complete checkout on your store, not just a passing validator.

Ongoing spec maintenance

UCP changes fast. Shopify tracks it natively; everyone else needs someone watching the spec. Our UCP Core is updated centrally, so every store we serve stays compliant without new development work each time the protocol moves.

UCP development services vs building in-house

An in-house build typically runs $20,000+ and takes months, and the real cost starts after launch: every protocol update lands on your engineering backlog. That trade only makes sense for large retailers with dedicated platform teams. For everyone else, buying UCP development as a service means launching in days and never owning the maintenance burden. If you are weighing the decision, ask any vendor two questions: who updates the integration when UCP versions, and what does that cost.

How engagement works

Start with the free Store Check. If your platform is WooCommerce, most stores go live with the plugin the same day. If you need custom work, custom platforms, complex catalogs, multi-store setups or white-label deployments, we scope it with you directly. Talk to us or see the live agent flow in our demo.

UCP development services FAQ

Which platforms do you support?

WooCommerce today via our free plugin, with Magento, BigCommerce and headless connectors in development. Custom platforms are handled as scoped projects.

How long does a typical project take?

WooCommerce stores usually go live the same day. Custom connector projects are scoped case by case, typically in weeks, not the months an in-house build takes.

Do we need our own developers?

No. The managed core and connector model exists precisely so mid-market merchants without spare engineering capacity can be UCP-ready.

What happens when the UCP spec updates?

Nothing on your side. We update the UCP Core centrally and your store stays compliant. That is the main advantage over a one-off development project.

§ 01 · Capabilities

What UCPhub actually does.

UCP Core, maintained

We implement UCP Core and keep it to spec. Your store tracks UCP as it evolves without your team chasing it.

→ tracking 2026-04-08

→ versioned releases

→ migration notes included

Connector framework

Plug-in connectors per commerce platform. One shipped, more in active dev. Bringing a new stack in isn’t a rewrite — it’s a connector.

→ WooCommerce — live

→ Magento, BigCommerce — in dev

→ Headless — on the map

Business-side endpoints

Product, offer, checkout, identity and order endpoints — spoken in UCP, over REST + JSON-RPC. What agents actually transact through.

→ products & offers

→ checkout + identity (OAuth 2.0)

→ order webhooks

Platform-side reference

A working UCP agent you can shop, compare and buy through at app.ucphub.ai/demo. Build your agent against a real UCP counterparty.

→ live demo agent

→ end-to-end checkout

→ no scraping needed

Overrides & extensions

When your catalog needs more than the protocol defines — per-product, per-category, per-market — extend UCP cleanly through UCPhub’s override layer.

→ custom attributes

→ taxonomy mapping

→ localization rules

Open & versioned

UCP is developed openly at ucp.dev. Every UCPhub release is versioned, documented, reversible — no surprise breaking changes.

→ versioned protocol

→ reversible at any time

→ no vendor lock-in

§ Architecture

Core + Connectors.
That’s the whole architecture.

One UCP Core, maintained by us and kept to spec as UCP evolves. One connector per commerce platform that plugs into it. Adding a new stack doesn’t mean a rewrite — it means a connector.

core

UCP Core

The protocol-side implementation. Checkout, identity, orders — kept up to the latest UCP spec so your integrations don’t drift.

Tracked to UCP 2026-04-08
Business + platform reference implementations
REST + JSON-RPC transports
Compatible with AP2, A2A, MCP
Versioned releases, migration notes, audit trail

connectors

Platform connectors

The platform-side implementation. One connector maps your commerce platform into UCP Core — cleanly, reversibly, per-platform.

WooCommerce — live (WordPress plugin)
Magento — in development
BigCommerce — in development
Headless / custom — on the roadmap
Shopify — native UCP, no connector needed

See the platform →

§ 02 · Workspace

Your workspace
for running UCP.

Manage the store you’ve connected, the UCP integration it exposes, and the checkout sessions and orders agents route through it. Honest about what ships today — no vaporware analytics.

Open your workspace

Read install guide

app.ucphub.ai · northfield-apparel UCP · 2026-04-08

connected stores

1

WooCommerce · live

products synced

4,217

synced 2m ago

checkout sessions · 24h

42

18 completed

orders · 24h

$2,140

18 orders · 24h

Checkout sessions last 7 days

Apr 14151617181920

Recent orders via UCP

#12843 · ChatGPT 2m ago paid $128

#12842 · Gemini 14m ago paid $64

#12841 · ChatGPT 1h ago paid $210

#12840 · Claude 3h ago paid $48

§ Both sides

Both sides of the spec.
Under one roof.

UCP has a business side (the store being shopped) and a platform side (the AI agent doing the shopping). Most tools only do one. We ship both — so merchants have a place to sell, and agent builders have a real counterparty to build against.

business

For your store

The connector, the UCP endpoints, the dashboard. Everything your store needs to be discoverable and buyable by any UCP-compatible agent.

WooCommerce connector (more platforms in dev)
Product, offer, checkout & order endpoints
Overrides, observability, auth
Spec-tracked by us, not by you

Get started →

platform

For agent builders

A fully working UCP platform (the agent side) you can browse, compare and transact against. Use it to develop, test and demo your own agent — no scraping, no reverse-engineering.

Fully implemented UCP platform
Real product catalog to buy against
Discovery → checkout → order, end to end
Free, no account needed

Try the demo agent →

§ 03 · Protocol

An open standard,
not a walled garden.

UCP is developed openly at ucp.dev by Google, Shopify, Etsy, Wayfair, Target and Walmart. UCPhub is one implementation of it — purpose-built for the platforms that don’t ship UCP natively, so merchants can adopt without waiting on a spec committee seat.

spec

What UCP defines

product & offer objects
checkout (cart, pricing, tax)
identity linking (OAuth 2.0)
order management (webhooks, tracking, returns)
REST + JSON-RPC transports
compatible with AP2, A2A, MCP

hub

What UCPhub adds

spec-tracking UCP Core implementation
connector framework per commerce platform
platform-side reference agent (the demo)
dashboard, overrides, observability
hosted infrastructure, auth, SSO
billing, audit trails, roles

See pricing →

UCP development services,without the maintenance burden.