Payment Readiness: Testing Agentic and Cross-Border Checkout | Presented by Applause
Summary
AI agents are starting to initiate purchases, and most checkouts weren't built to authenticate them. For payments and risk leaders, that creates a new set of checkout scenarios to validate, along with more places where revenue can slip away unnoticed.
At the same time, merchants need to validate cross-border payments across constantly shifting payment methods, regulations, and customer expectations. Each new market, local payment method, and device adds to the test matrix, and gaps in coverage can quietly reduce authorization rates and conversion.
In this webinar, Zeb Winzenried, Senior Director of Testing Services at Applause, takes a practical look at validating payments under real-world conditions. He will explain what changes when AI agents initiate transactions and why traditional assumptions about authentication, spending limits, and revocation may no longer hold.
The session also covers why test cards and sandboxes often miss failures that appear in live environments, and how in-market testing with local payment methods, real cards, real devices, and real users surfaces issues before customers encounter them. Attendees will leave with a clearer view of where to focus validation first.
Join this session to learn how to build a test strategy that accounts for agent-led shopping and coverage across markets, payment methods, and devices, helping protect authorization rates and conversion as checkout evolves.
What You'll Learn
- Where agentic commerce breaks existing assumptions, from human-based authentication to spending caps and revocation.
- Why test cards and sandboxes miss real-world failures, and how in-market testing with real cards and devices catches them.
- How to build a test strategy that accounts for agent-led shopping and coverage across markets, payment methods, and devices.
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