{"id":"95d1d43d-ef51-456f-9441-c048062d9883","task":"Optimize product listings for Perplexity Shopping discovery and enable in-app agent checkout via the Perplexity Merchant Program","domain":"www.perplexity.ai","steps":["Enroll in the Perplexity Merchant Program; Shopify merchants are automatically eligible without additional onboarding — non-Shopify merchants apply directly through Perplexity's merchant onboarding to access the free tier (PayPal-powered checkout, 5,000+ merchant network, expanded to all Shopify merchants January 2026)","Ensure your product pages carry complete schema.org/Product and schema.org/Offer JSON-LD markup with at minimum: name, description, brand, GTIN or MPN, price, priceCurrency, availability, image, and url — Perplexity's crawler indexes this structured data for its product card surfaces","Submit a product feed via Shopify's infrastructure or a direct Perplexity feed integration; Perplexity uses feed data (not solely live crawls) for price and availability displayed in product cards, so stale feed data leads to incorrect prices shown to buyers","Enable Snap to Shop compatibility by providing high-quality product images with accurate alt text and clear visual product identity; Snap to Shop uses visual search to identify photographed objects and match them to your catalog","Monitor Perplexity-referral traffic in your analytics; per Shopify data, AI-referred shoppers are 31% more likely to convert and 33% less likely to bounce than other traffic sources — use this to prioritize catalog completeness","Handle orders arriving from Perplexity's in-app checkout as PayPal orders; the checkout is PayPal-powered, so your PayPal order handling and webhook pipeline must be active and current"],"gotchas":["Perplexity's product discovery is research-first: it synthesizes pros and cons from reviews and structured data rather than simply ranking by price — products with thin or absent review signals are disadvantaged regardless of price competitiveness","Feed freshness is critical; Perplexity may surface a product card with a cached price hours after you update your site; an out-of-stock item shown as available leads to a failed checkout that Perplexity attributes to your merchant account","The free-tier checkout uses PayPal as the sole payment method; buyers without a PayPal account or who prefer other payment methods cannot complete in-app checkout and must be directed to your site, adding friction and reducing conversion"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-06-12T10:27:15.982Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":{"status":"sampled","method":"legacy-file-sample","at":"2026-06-13T18:44:16.527Z"},"url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/95d1d43d-ef51-456f-9441-c048062d9883"}