After teaming up with Google on agentic commerce this month, funds large PayPal introduced Tuesday it’s including new options to its PayPal Honey browser extension. The options will present AI chatbot customers, who’re researching objects they need to buy, Honey’s product suggestions, pricing, and entry to offers.

When customers ask their most popular AI chatbot a shopping-related query, PayPal Honey’s extension will show hyperlinks to the merchandise the AI chatbot recommends, together with real-time pricing, service provider choices, and provides, PayPal says. The system can even determine when the AI’s personal suggestions might have neglected main retailers and floor these extra choices to the buyer.

The options are designed to assist customers higher examine pricing and enhance service provider gross sales by the addition of customized provides, PayPal notes.

The agentic buying integrations are designed to be AI agnostic, PayPal instructed TechCrunch, however will initially work with OpenAI’s ChatGPT with extra to comply with.

The corporate says the brand new options are a part of its broader rollout of agentic commerce initiatives, which embrace the Google partnership, an agentic commerce providing, a distant MCP server, Agent Toolkit, in addition to different, smaller offers — like a proposal to use Perplexity’s premium service for a yr totally free, and free entry to its new Comet browser.

In fact, the AI suppliers can be a competitor for merchandise like Honey, as they transfer into making product suggestions and connecting customers with retailers immediately. As an illustration, simply yesterday OpenAI introduced a plan to tackle Amazon and Google with its personal agentic buying system, which incorporates an “Immediate Checkout” function.

Whereas OpenAI’s system initially solely helps Etsy with plans for Shopify retailers “quickly,” it’s a sign of what’s to come back within the AI period. As an alternative of shopping the online or Amazon when searching for merchandise and proposals, customers might begin their buying analysis in an AI chatbot, as an alternative of simply shopping the online, the place Honey beforehand had traction, necessitating new merchandise like this.

The AI options are launching after fairly a little bit of unhealthy press for Honey. A YouTuber accused the corporate of stealing cash from influencers by taking credit score for gross sales that creators had pushed. The revelation has even led to some lawsuits over the matter.