Worldline Adds UCP Payment Handler for AI Purchases

Paris based payments company Worldline announced a payment handler for the Universal Commerce Protocol, an open standard developed jointly by Google and industry partners. The integration lets merchants accept purchases initiated by AI across multiple platforms through one setup.

Merchants can declare their payment configuration once and accept card payments, mobile wallets and European payment methods across platforms connected to UCP. Worldline says this is meant to let merchants support new AI purchasing surfaces without building duplicate payment integrations.

The payment handler is available through Worldline's Global Collect platform for cross border payments. Gertjan Dewaele, VP Product and Technology at Worldline Global Commerce, described it as a universal adaptor connecting agentic commerce platforms and merchant backends.

In January, Worldline announced other agentic commerce capabilities and said it was supporting emerging standards including Google's Agent Payments Protocol and UCP with a focus on European regulatory requirements.