Gemini-powered Universal Cart helps you shop the web with deal tracking, proactive help

Ben Schoon | May 19 2026 - 10:49 am PT

Google is launching a new Universal Cart tool that leverages Gemini and the Universal Commerce Protocol to allow buyers to gather together products from across the web through Gemini, Gmail, YouTube, and more, with added benefits such as deal tracking and smart recommendations.

The Universal Cart essentially boils all of your shopping, at least on Google, into one central hub. Whether you’re finding products on Search, Gemini, YouTube, or Gmail, you can add everything to a single cart. When you do add something to the cart, Gemini works in the background to find deals, track price changes, and even makes useful recommendations based on what it sees.

One of the clever use cases Google lays out here is shopping for PC parts – ironic, given the AI-fueled pricing crisis hitting the gaming market. Gemini will be able to identify PC parts in your cart, even if they’re from multiple retailers, and be able to identify product incompatibilities without you asking.

Another way the Universal Cart can proactively help is by knowing perks and loyalty programs for the retailers you’re shopping with, even leveraging info from Google Wallet, to help you use points or find additional savings.

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For compatible retailers – which will include some big names such as Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair, Nike, Target, and more – the Universal Cart will be a one-step checkout too, with buyers able to make a purchase across multiple retailers with a single Google Pay process. You can even transfer items from one merchant to another within the Universal Cart.

Google says that Universal Cart is rolling out first in Search and Gemini in the US “this summer” with YouTube and Gmail to follow.

Meanwhile, the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is expanding from the US to Canada and Australia, with the UK next in line. UCP checkout is coming to YouTube, too, while also expanding to hotel bookings and food delivery. Google’s Agents Payment Protocol (AP2) is launching as a way to help AI agents “make secure payments on your behalf” and will start rolling out to Google products soon, starting with Gemini Spark.