UCP Verification Report
sherocommerce.com
Live Universal Commerce Protocol & Agentic Commerce status, profile, and capability breakdown.
✓Verified
A
97/100
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97
/ 100
UCP Score
A
sherocommerce.com publishes a conforming profile with broad capability coverage.
Agent Discovery100
UCP Conformance93
Capability Coverage100
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/llms.txt content
The plain-text brief this store publishes to AI agents. Captured on the most recent check.
declares attribution
# Shero Commerce
Shero Commerce is a Shopify Plus agency helping eCommerce brands migrate, scale, and grow profitably. We specialize in complex replatforming projects, B2B, CRO, UX/UI, and digital marketing strategy. Our team supports mid-market and enterprise merchants across the U.S., U.K., and Europe.
## Organization Details
- Organization Name: Shero Commerce
- Website: https://sherocommerce.com
- Headquarters: 21 Glen Pond Drive, Red Hook, NY 12571, USA
- Phone: +1 (845) 656-3000
- Email: [email protected]
- Founded: 2010
- Locations: United States, United Kingdom, Albania, Finland (via Shero Nordics initiative)
## Founders
- Gentian Shero - Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer
Leads digital strategy, SEO, and client relationships.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gentianshero/
- Beth Shero - Co-founder & CEO
Oversees operations, partnerships, and growth.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-shero-b38039b/
## Services Overview
### Shopify Development & Strategy
- Shopify Plus Services: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/shopify
- Migrations to Shopify: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/shopify-migration-services
- Conversion Rate Optimization: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/conversion-rate-optimization
- UX & Creative Design: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/ux-and-creative-design
- Analytics & Reporting: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/analytics
- Email & SMS Marketing: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/email-marketing
- Digital Strategy Consulting: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/digital-strategy
## Resources
- Blog: https://sherocommerce.com/blogs/insights
- Case Studies: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-work
- About Us: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/about
- Contact: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/contact
## Integration-Friendly Links
- RSS Feed: https://sherocommerce.com/blogs/insights.atom
- Sitemap: https://sherocommerce.com/sitemap.xml
- Privacy Policy: https://sherocommerce.com/policies/privacy-policy
## Teams
- Daniel Bello: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-team
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-bello-a6aba210b/
- Donalt Cengu: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-team
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donalt-cengu-78065b117/
- Richmond Arce: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-team
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richmond-arce-623baa163/
- Iris Sherifi: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-team
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iris-sherifi/
- Sara Osmani: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-team
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-osmani-6971951b0/
## Locations
- Shero Commerce Locations: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/about-us
## Browse
- All blog posts: https://sherocommerce.com/blogs/insights
- Case studies: https://sherocommerce.com/pages/our-work
- Search: https://sherocommerce.com/search?q={query}
## For Agents & Developers
This site supports structured discovery for AI agents and programmatic access.
- Sitemap: https://sherocommerce.com/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://sherocommerce.com/robots.txt
## Platform
This website is built on Shopify (https://www.shopify.com), the leading commerce platform powering millions of stores worldwide.
Shero Commerce is a Shopify Plus Partner agency: https://www.shopify.com/plus/partners
## Usage Terms for LLMs
Content may be indexed and cited by AI models and search engines, provided attribution is made to Shero Commerce with a hyperlink to the original source.
Do not replicate full articles without permission. Summarization, linking, and brief quoting is permitted under standard fair use.
## AI Use Statement
We support responsible AI content generation. This llms.txt file exists to help language models and researchers better understand our content, services, and mission.
For inquiries about structured data, LLM access, or partnership, contact:
[email protected]Capabilities Detected
| Cart ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Order Management ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Checkout ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Discount Extension ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Fulfillment Extension ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Permalink ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Identity Linking ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Catalog Lookup ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Catalog Search ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
| Dev Shopify Catalog Extension ✓ Bound | 2026-08-25 |
Technical Vitals
| UCP Status | Verified |
| Endpoint | https://sherocommerce.com/.well-known/ucp |
| HTTP Status | 200 |
| UCP Version | 2026-08-25 |
| Transports | MCP, EMBEDDED |
| Last Observed | |
| Last Full Index |
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Access
AI Agent Access (robots.txt)
| GPTBotOpenAI / ChatGPT | ✓Allowed |
| Google-ExtendedGemini / Google | ✓Allowed |
| ClaudeBotClaude / Anthropic | ✓Allowed |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple Intelligence | ✓Allowed |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | ✓Allowed |
Google
Against Google's merchant guide
What Google's UCP merchant guide asks a store's profile to have, for checkout in AI Mode and Gemini. Read from the public profile only. Google's own sandbox, in Merchant Center, is invite-only; this is not Google's verdict. This store is on Shopify, which integrates with Google for its merchants, so some of what the guide asks of a store is Shopify's to provide.
| Speaks the release Google's guide usesUCP 2026-04-08 and 2026-01-23 (under supported_versions; the profile itself is 2026-08-25) | ✓Has it |
| Shopping service over RESTNot in the store's own profile; Shopify integrates with Google for its merchants. | –Shopify's side |
| Checkout capabilitydev.ucp.shopping.checkout is declared. | ✓Has it |
| Order capability, for order updatesdev.ucp.shopping.order is declared. | ✓Has it |
| Signing keys for webhooksNot in the store's own profile; Shopify integrates with Google for its merchants. | –Shopify's side |
| Google Pay payment handlercom.google.pay with a merchant configuration. | ✓Has it |
| Cart, discounts and fulfilmentcart declared, discounts declared, fulfilment declared. Optional in the guide. | –Optional |
Needs a live checkout to show, so not read here: terms of service and privacy links on every checkout; carts that return continue_url and expires_at; a completed order with its label and permalink_url; errors in the 2026-04-08 shape (ucp.status "error", severity, continue_url).
Checkout
Payment Configuration
💳 Google Pay
gpay
Gateway:Shopify
💳 Shopify Card
shopify.card
Gateway:Shopify
💳 Shop Pay
shop_pay
Gateway:Unknown
Raw UCP Profile JSON
{
"ucp": {
"version": "2026-08-25",
"services": {
"dev.ucp.shopping": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/overview/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/services/shopping/mcp.openrpc.json",
"version": "2026-08-25",
"endpoint": "https://sherocommerce-com.myshopify.com/api/ucp/mcp",
"transport": "mcp"
},
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-04-08/specification/overview/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-04-08/services/shopping/embedded.openrpc.json",
"version": "2026-04-08",
"transport": "embedded"
}
]
},
"capabilities": {
"dev.shopify.catalog": [
{
"spec": "https://shopify.dev/docs/agents/catalog/storefront-catalog",
"schema": "https://shopify.dev/ucp/schemas/2026-08-25/shopify_catalog.json",
"extends": [
"dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.search",
"dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.lookup"
],
"version": "2026-08-25",
"requires": {
"protocol": {
"min": "2026-08-25"
}
}
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.cart": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/cart/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/cart.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.order": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/order/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/order.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.checkout": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/checkout/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/checkout.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.discount": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/extensions/discount/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/discount.json",
"extends": [
"dev.ucp.shopping.checkout",
"dev.ucp.shopping.cart"
],
"version": "2026-08-25",
"requires": {
"protocol": {
"min": "2026-08-25"
}
}
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.permalink": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/permalink/",
"config": {
"endpoint": "https://sherocommerce.com/buy"
},
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/permalink.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.fulfillment": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/extensions/fulfillment/",
"config": {
"multi_destination": [],
"method_combinations": [
[
"shipping"
]
]
},
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/fulfillment.json",
"extends": [
"dev.ucp.shopping.checkout",
"dev.ucp.shopping.cart"
],
"version": "2026-08-25",
"requires": {
"protocol": {
"min": "2026-08-25"
}
}
}
],
"dev.ucp.common.identity_linking": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/common/identity-linking/",
"config": {
"scopes": [],
"providers": {
"app.shop.accounts": [
{
"type": "oauth2",
"auth_url": "https://accounts.shop.app"
}
]
}
},
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/common/identity_linking.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.lookup": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/catalog/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/catalog_lookup.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
],
"dev.ucp.shopping.catalog.search": [
{
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/specification/shopping/catalog/",
"schema": "https://ucp.dev/2026-08-25/schemas/shopping/catalog_search.json",
"version": "2026-08-25"
}
]
},
"payment_handlers": {
"com.google.pay": [
{
"id": "gpay",
"spec": "https://pay.google.com/gp/p/ucp/2026-01-11/",
"config": {
"api_version": 2,
"merchant_info": {
"auth_jwt": "",
"merchant_id": "16708973830884969730",
"merchant_name": "Shero Commerce",
"merchant_origin": "sherocommerce.com"
},
"api_version_minor": 0,
"allowed_payment_methods": [
{
"type": "CARD",
"parameters": {
"allowed_auth_methods": [
"PAN_ONLY",
"CRYPTOGRAM_3DS"
],
"allowed_card_networks": [
"VISA",
"MASTERCARD",
"AMEX",
"DISCOVER"
],
"billing_address_required": true,
"billing_address_parameters": {
"format": "FULL",
"phone_number_required": false
}
},
"tokenization_specification": {
"type": "PAYMENT_GATEWAY",
"parameters": {
"gateway": "shopify",
"gatewayMerchantId": "95440142703"
}
}
}
]
},
"schema": "https://pay.google.com/gp/p/ucp/2026-01-11/schemas/config.json",
"version": "2026-01-11"
}
],
"dev.shopify.card": [
{
"id": "shopify.card",
"spec": "https://ucp.dev/specification/payment-handler-guide",
"config": {
"payment_methods": [
{
"type": "card",
"enabled_card_brands": [
"visa",
"master",
"american_express",
"discover",
"diners_club"
]
}
]
},
"schema": "https://shopify.dev/ucp/card-payment-handler/2026-01-15/config.json",
"version": "2026-01-15"
}
],
"dev.shopify.shop_pay": [
{
"id": "shop_pay",
"spec": "https://shopify.dev/ucp/shop-pay-handler/2026-04-08/spec.md",
"config": {
"shop_id": "95440142703"
},
"schema": "https://shopify.dev/ucp/shop-pay-handler/2026-04-08/schema.json",
"version": "2026-04-08"
}
]
},
"supported_versions": {
"2026-01-23": "https://sherocommerce-com.myshopify.com/.well-known/ucp/2026-01-23",
"2026-04-08": "https://sherocommerce-com.myshopify.com/.well-known/ucp/2026-04-08"
}
}
}
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Frequently Asked
About this sherocommerce.com report
What does it mean that sherocommerce.com is verified for UCP?
It means sherocommerce.com publishes a valid UCP profile at
/.well-known/ucp, the profile passes schema validation against 2026-08-25, and AI agents can discover its commerce capabilities without needing to scrape HTML. That is what the store declares. Whether an agent actually completes a purchase is a separate question — where an observed agent run is shown on this page, it answers that one.Can I trust sherocommerce.com for AI agent purchases?
Verification means the store is technically ready — payment handlers declared, transports reachable, schema valid. It doesn't grade business reputation or fulfilment quality. For trust on the commerce side itself, check the store's own reviews. For trust on the agent integration side, this page is the source of truth.
What platform does sherocommerce.com use for UCP?
Our detection identifies sherocommerce.com as running on Shopify. Many large UCP-verified stores use Shopify, BigCommerce, or custom stacks built on the open spec. The transport list above shows the exact mechanism (REST, MCP, A2A, Embedded) the profile declares.
How was this UCP report for sherocommerce.com generated?
Our crawler fetches
sherocommerce.com/.well-known/ucp directly, parses the profile against the official UCP JSON schema, checks robots.txt for AI bot policies, and runs payment-handler validation. No manual review, no opinions — just what the profile actually says. The check ran 8 hours ago.How often is sherocommerce.com re-checked?
Every domain in our directory is re-crawled at least every 24 hours. You can also trigger a fresh check from this page at any time, or subscribe to alerts to get notified the moment the status changes — that's how we built the only continuously updated UCP directory on the internet.
Why does this status matter?
Universal Commerce Protocol is the standard AI shopping agents (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Apple Intelligence) use to discover what a store sells, how to add items to a cart, and how to check out. If a store isn't UCP-verified, agents can still scrape it — but they'll be slower, less reliable, and far more likely to fail at checkout. UCP turns a guess into a guarantee.
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