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Show HN: CommerceTXT – An open standard for AI shopping context (like llms.txt)

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Like llms.txt, but for e-commerce

TL;DR: llms.txt is for content discovery. CommerceTXT is for commerce transactions. If AI needs to know your price, inventory, or shipping policy—you need CommerceTXT.

Aggregated review data in 50 tokens instead of scraping 15,000.

Handle recurring payments for SaaS and subscription products.

Impact: AI can say "Only 3 left" instead of guessing.

Real-time stock levels eliminate "Is it available?" hallucinations.

Both protocols help AI understand websites, but they solve different problems:

Every AI shopping query that gets the right answer = potential sale. Wrong price/availability = lost customer. CommerceTXT ensures accuracy.

Not just multi-language—multi-currency, multi-shipping, multi-policy. German customers see EUR prices and GDPR-compliant terms.

Maps to Schema.org. When AI quotes your price or return policy, it's pulling from the same structured data that Google uses. Defensible, verifiable.

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