---
type: Agentic Web Standard
title: "AP2 Checkout Mandate"
description: "What exactly did the user approve for checkout?"
resource: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/main/docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md"
tags: ["pay", "document-format", "industry-body", "agent-checkout", "delegate-user-authority", "audit-agent-actions"]
status: deprecated
generated: { by: agenticweb-builder/1.0, at: 2026-10-30T00:00:00Z }
verified: { by: process:agenticweb-engine, at: 2026-10-23T00:00:00Z }
stale_after: 2026-11-22T00:00:00Z
sources:
  - id: ref-1
    resource: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/main/docs/ap2/specification.md"
    title: "docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md is a topic page inside the AP2 specification (docs/ap2/specification.md), not a standalone protocol with its own governance, versioning, or repository."
  - id: ref-2
    resource: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/main/docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md"
    title: "The Checkout Mandate and its Checkout Receipt are defined as part of AP2's Mandates section alongside the Payment Mandate; both mandate types share AP2's roles, verification model, and dispute-evidence design."
  - id: ref-3
    resource: "https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/releases/tag/v0.2.0"
    title: "v0.2.0 released 2026-04-28"
    last_modified: 2026-04-28T00:00:00Z
---

# AP2 Checkout Mandate

AP2 Checkout Mandate is an agentic-web standard (document format) at step 7, Pay, governed by FIDO Alliance / AP2; its status is "AP2 specification component, not an independently published protocol". It answers: "What exactly did the user approve for checkout?" Replacing or extending Signed purchase order, implementation status is none found, last verified 2026-10-23.

# Overview

This record is withdrawn as a distinct protocol entry. The "AP2 Checkout Mandate" is not a separate specification: it is one topic page (`docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md`) inside the single AP2 specification document tree, defining the Checkout Mandate object and its Checkout Receipt as one of AP2's two Mandate types (the other being the Payment Mandate) [^ref-1][^ref-2]. It has no independent governance, repository, versioning, or discovery mechanism apart from AP2 itself — it is versioned, donated to FIDO, and maintained exactly as AP2 is. Content and evidence for this concept has been folded into the `ap2` record. This id is kept in the dataset only so a reader who encounters "AP2 Checkout Mandate" as a separate name is redirected rather than finding a dead link.

# Examples

```http
none none
# parse: not applicable
# on absent: not applicable; this record is retired, see ap2
```

# Knowledge Graph

* **Lifecycle Step**: [7 Pay](/category/pay/index.md)
* **Part of**: [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](/okf/protocols/ap2.md)
* **Builds on**: [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](/okf/protocols/ap2.md)
* **Pairs with**: [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](/okf/protocols/ap2.md), [Agentic Commerce Protocol](/okf/protocols/agentic-commerce-protocol.md), [Trusted Agent Protocol (TAP)](/okf/protocols/tap.md), [EMV® Agentic Payments – Framework for Specifications](/okf/protocols/emv-agentic-payments.md), [Verifiable Intent](/okf/protocols/vi.md)
* **Related terms**: [Mandate](/okf/terms/mandate.md)

[^ref-1]: docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md is a topic page inside the AP2 specification (docs/ap2/specification.md), not a standalone protocol with its own governance, versioning, or repository. (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/main/docs/ap2/specification.md)
[^ref-2]: The Checkout Mandate and its Checkout Receipt are defined as part of AP2's Mandates section alongside the Payment Mandate; both mandate types share AP2's roles, verification model, and dispute-evidence design. (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/main/docs/ap2/checkout_mandate.md)
[^ref-3]: v0.2.0 released 2026-04-28 (https://github.com/google-agentic-commerce/AP2/releases/tag/v0.2.0)