UCP for WooCommerce
Let UCP shopping agents find a live WooCommerce catalog without rebuilding your store. With KaliCart Bridge and the opt-in Federated Catalog, KaliCart Global serves your products in the UCP Catalog format, while price, availability and checkout stay on your WooCommerce store.
What this solves
Agents need a reliable way to learn what a store can expose before they search it. Without one, they are left to guess from page markup, generic APIs or stale copies. UCP provides a common catalog format and a discovery convention; Bridge makes the store's live catalog available, and KaliCart Global speaks UCP to the agents.
Discovery, not a checkout claim
KaliCart Global publishes a UCP profile at https://global.kalicart.com/.well-known/ucp and answers the UCP Catalog tools (search_catalog, lookup_catalog, get_product, specification 2026-08-25) for stores that joined the Federated Catalog. Since version 1.0.137 the plugin does not publish a UCP profile on your own domain: it would declare a UCP binding that the plugin itself does not implement. Neither claims a complete UCP transaction stack, payment token exchange or an agent-operated checkout. A purchase continues through the merchant's own WooCommerce flow.
Live catalog facts, owned by the merchant
Search answers from KaliCart Global's index of your catalog and says when it was read. When an agent opens a product, price and availability are read live from your Bridge, and the answer states whether they are live or from the index. Every variant names your store as the seller, with a link to it. Agents get product identity, variants, price and availability without screen scraping.
How a store gets there
Install Bridge and activate the Federated Catalog from WP Admin → KaliCart Bridge. There is no UCP endpoint to configure on your server and no profile to maintain: when the UCP specification changes, KaliCart Global follows it in one place.
How it fits with the rest of the store
- WooCommerce remains authoritative. Products, inventory, prices and checkout stay on your store; KaliCart Global keeps an index for search and reads your Bridge for the facts that change.
- Agent access is bounded. The public catalog surface is read-only and rate-limited; administrative WooCommerce credentials are never published.
- Catalog quality still matters. Discovery makes an interface findable, not a weak product record trustworthy. Use the readiness report to improve missing fields.
UCP and ARC are complementary
UCP is useful for declaring capabilities and connecting commerce layers. ARC is KaliCart's catalog-legibility contract: discovery, compact search, explicit offer facts and a handoff to merchant checkout. They meet at the catalog, without pretending that discovery alone completes a transaction.
Read: UCP and ARC, two layers rather than two rivals.
What Bridge does not promise
Installing a plugin cannot guarantee that any assistant, platform or marketplace will index, rank or transact with a store. UCP support is an interoperable catalog surface, served through KaliCart Global for stores that join the Federated Catalog. Eligibility, agent behavior and checkout capabilities remain decisions of the relevant platform and the merchant.