--- type: WebPage name: Put your money where your mandate is id: "https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/agentic-payments" url: "https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/agentic-payments" publisher: "did:web:selfe.ai" description: "How money moves with proof of who authorised it, what it covered, and what happens if it was wrong." --- # Put your money where your mandate is > How money moves with proof of who authorised it, what it covered, and what happens if it was wrong. Every agent payment carries a clear record of who authorised it, what it covers and a route back out. It settles to your account with a reference your systems recognise. ## The argument you never end up having. Payments made on somebody's behalf face a card query, finance review or refund against an order that has changed. Selfe records the authority, accepted terms and route back out while money moves. Deposits, part payments and refunds follow the same rule. When someone asks six weeks later, the answer is already beside the payment, in a record your team can act on. ## What every payment carries. **Mandates.** What the customer authorised, including the limit. **Your terms, agreed.** Deposit, cancellation and delivery, accepted at payment. **Deposits and part payments.** The same rules as a full payment. **Changes and refunds.** The original authority remains with the changed order. **Settlement into your account.** Into your account, against an order your systems recognise. **The record, the whole way.** Permission and terms travel with the money. **Adventure Patch** An outdoor and adventure gear shop in Keswick, connecting through its Shopify shop, via Visit Keswick. **Tractors & Cream** A Somerset farm café and glamping stay, connecting through ResNexus, the same adapter already proven end to end, live, on a real partner sandbox. ## Your payment provider starts taking money from AI agents. Your provider keeps handling the money. Selfe lets an agent assemble an order, accept your terms and complete checkout directly, with no browser journey. The authority travels with the payment, so it can answer who authorised what and on which terms. ## Worth reading next The latest on how AI agents actually work, written as it happens. **The request behind your booking button is what matters.** A booking button helps a person start a journey. An agent needs to establish the terms of a specific request, know what it may do and carry the relevant context into the next step. **Someone asks for a dog-friendly stay in October. What happens next?** A dog-friendly stay in October sounds like a simple filter until an AI agent tries to act on it. What happens next depends on details a first-pass search never asks for. **How much does an agent need to know before it can buy?** Not everything. An AI agent working through a booking request doesn't need a business's full history, it needs the small number of facts that resolve the specific thing the person asked for. A page with forty things to say and none of them the right one loses to a page with three. ## Do we keep our existing payment provider? Yes. Selfe passes an authorised payment through the provider and account you already use. The mandate, agreed terms and confirmation travel with the transaction, while your existing provider continues to handle the regulated movement of money. **Can an AI agent really complete a sale or booking?** Yes, where your connected systems and rules allow it. Selfe checks live availability and terms, takes authorised payment through your existing provider, and writes the order or booking into the system your team already uses. Anything outside your rules stops before it commits. **What is an outside agent allowed to access?** Only the facts and actions your Selfe publishes for that purpose. Your playbook controls what may be answered, quoted, held, booked or paid without asking you. The systems behind Selfe are not handed over to an outside agent, and a request beyond the permitted action is refused or escalated. **Is that instead of card fees, or on top?** On top. Your payment provider still processes the money into your account and charges its normal fee. Selfe never becomes the merchant or holds your proceeds. Its transaction charge is for creating and completing the attributable sale, not for moving the card payment. **What does Selfe do when it is not sure?** It stops and asks, showing the conflict, sources and decision required. Everything it settles alone is logged. Your answer can become a playbook rule, so the same uncertainty does not keep returning. ## Act on this - [Check whether an agent can buy from you](https://selfe.ai/agentic-commerce/buyability-check) — the free readiness scan. - [Discover venues](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/discover) — `POST`, semantic browse across the registry. - [Match a bookable answer](https://selfe.ai/api/registry/match) — `POST` with dates and party size. - [Verify Selfe's identity](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/did.json) — `did:web:selfe.ai`. - [Agent card](https://selfe.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json) — how to connect over A2A or MCP.