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term: "Checkout Mandate"
category: "Commerce and checkout"
url: https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/checkout-mandate
source: AgenticOpenFinance glossary
---

# Checkout Mandate

> In AP2, the mandate that authorises completing a checkout, bound in its closed form to a merchant-signed cart.

In the Agent Payments Protocol, a Checkout Mandate is the mandate used to authorise completion of a checkout. Its content is created by the shopping agent, shown to the user on a trusted surface and verified by the merchant, and in its closed form it includes a checkout object signed by the merchant. Its open form instead carries the user's constraints and goals before a specific cart exists.

Related terms: [Payment Mandate](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/payment-mandate.md), [Closed mandate](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/closed-mandate.md), [Open mandate](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/open-mandate.md), [Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)](https://agenticopenfinance.com/glossary/agent-payments-protocol.md)