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Overview

Your storefront is your buyer-facing home on Scope3 Interchange: the business presence, name, and discovery surface buyers use to understand who they are buying from. Behind it, the Merchandising Agent answers buyer briefs, composes products, and runs the AdCP media-buy workflow on your behalf, drawing from one or more inventory sources you connect. This page is the operator’s map of the storefront object. Each domain below has its own task pages; this overview explains what the pieces are and how they fit together.
All examples use the storefront base URL and a bearer token:

Inventory sources

An inventory source is private upstream supply behind your storefront. It can be an AdCP-compatible agent, an ad-server connection, a runtime link to another storefront, or a modular lifecycle. Each path supports the product discovery (get_products) and media-buy execution (create_media_buy) stages it advertises. A storefront can use multiple sources, and the products buyers see are assembled from the supply they provide. Sources come in a few shapes:
  • External sales agents you already run, connected by endpoint and auth.
  • Managed ad servers — Google Ad Manager, FreeWheel, or SpringServe — where Scope3 runs the sales-agent plumbing in front of your ad server.
  • Other storefronts that have authorized passthrough or federation.
  • Modular sources assembled from catalog/avails, booking, creative, execution, reporting, and human-work modules.
Use Choose how your storefront gets supply before connecting anything. It also explains the separate storefront-adapter path, which configures the storefront dispatcher rather than adding an inventory source. Each source declares its capabilities (products, createMediaBuy, updateMediaBuy, signals, wholesaleProducts) and whether it requires authentication. A composition storefront assembles products across active sources; a passthrough storefront proxies get_products to one upstream source and overlays your storefront identity and buyer instructions on the response.

Business profile

Your business profile is captured during storefront setup and helps the Merchandising Agent describe your business, follow the right merchandising guidance, and understand which publisher domains it is authorized to sell through the storefront. businessProfile.regions is the canonical market configuration used by storefront qualification and cards. The legacy top-level regions field remains a compatibility alias: writing it updates the Business Profile, and reads project the Business Profile value so the two surfaces cannot disagree.
Example
Omitting publisherDomains means the authorized domains are unknown or have not been captured yet. It does not mean the storefront is authorized to sell every domain.
In an MCP-compatible assistant, call get_business_profile to open the portable Business Profile page. Operators can review, create, and edit the profile in the page. An assistant can also call update_business_profile for an exact change confirmed in conversation. That tool applies a patch: omitted fields from the profile state read for that call stay unchanged, while an explicit null clears a field. Overlapping patch calls use last-writer-wins behavior, so clients should serialize concurrent edits. For managed sales-agent storefronts, this field is the authoritative publisher-domain set Interchange syncs to the managed sales agent. See Publisher domains for replacement and removal behavior.

Operating instructions

Operating instructions are versioned guidance that steers how your storefront responds to demand — what to package, how to position, and how to negotiate. Exactly one version is active at a time; publishing a new version supersedes the prior one without losing history. Operating instructions are authoritative over historical analytics signals. When the Merchandising Agent composes products, your written instructions and buyer instructions win over any directional signal derived from recent outcomes.

Readiness diagnostics

GET /readiness tells you whether your storefront can transact now. It returns blocking checks for inventory sources, agent status, and agent auth, plus a per-source sourceDiagnostics[] array used by setup surfaces. The overall status is ready or blocked; each check reports complete, partial, missing, or optional, and carries an isBlocker flag. Storefront lifecycle is not stored as a state. The seller-owned control is the buyer intake hold, exposed under the released compatibility name isPaused. It defaults to false. Setting it to true removes products from buyer discovery and blocks new media buys and buyer edits. Seller preview still works, and an approved buy that has not yet been sent to a source waits in the queue and forwards automatically after intake resumes. An intake hold does not pause campaigns already delivering in your ad server. Existing campaigns keep delivering and reporting. A storefront-wide delivery freeze is a separate, confirmed operation because resuming it must not activate campaigns that were already paused before the freeze. Effective status remains the v2-compatible archived, paused, blocked, or live. A storefront without an intake hold becomes live automatically when every current requirement passes, and becomes blocked automatically when any new or existing requirement fails. The deprecated transacting field is only the inverse compatibility alias for isPaused; it is not proof of readiness. See Get readiness for the full field reference.

Marketplace review and AAO signals

New storefronts start in a pending-review marketplace state. You can configure and use your storefront, and open it for known transactions, but public buyer discovery only includes storefronts that Scope3 has reviewed and listed. Marketplace listing uses signals from the Agentic Advertising Organization (AAO) registry. Source registration, storyboard compliance, and publisher authorization are different checks: registration blocks connecting an external agent source; compliance is advisory for activation; publisher adagents.json authorization is surfaced as an advisory setup/product signal today. Scope3’s marketplace review decides when a live storefront is listed in public buyer discovery. Use Discover agents and Resolve brand to inspect what the registry knows about your operator domain and the brands you transact with.
An admin can hide a listed storefront, which removes it from public buyer discovery without deleting the storefront or its inventory sources.

Storefront domains

Inventory sources

Connect and manage the AdCP agents and ad servers behind your storefront.

Operating instructions

Versioned merchandising and negotiation guidance.

Signals

The targeting and optimization inputs your sources expose.

Media-Buy Approvals

Review and decide on incoming media buys before they go live.

Billing

Payout bank details and fees so Scope3 can pay you.

Analytics

Win rate, buyer asks, top products, and negotiation posture.

Buyer instructions

Per-buyer discounts, notes, and country scoping.