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How to use an agent to buy things

Reagan McCullough

Let's imagine you're going on a vacation. You pull up your personal AI agent and tell it that you want to go to Croatia. It already knows what kinds of activities you want to do and goes ahead to book them… until it has no way to pay. Sure, you can give it your credit card, but do you really want it to have this information?

The safe way for your agent to pay is Authoryze. Only a few simple steps are between you and this time draining task being handled by your agent. The simple process to set it up is as follows:

  1. Create an Authoryze account
  2. Add a billing card for the Authoryze transaction fees
  3. Add a payment card for the agent to make purchases with
    • The payment card is the one that your agent's payment tokens are issued from. This keeps your agent from accessing your actual card information
  4. Create an agent (in Authoryze)
  5. Add rules such as allowed merchants/domains, spend limits, time-constrained budgets, etc.
  6. Optional Give your agents an automatic spending budget if you want them to not require your approval for each purchase
    • Parameters for these can be adjusted such as amount, time period, individual transaction limits, etc.
  7. Connect your agent by OAuth

At this point, your agent can browse the web and build out a customized itinerary for you in a matter of minutes instead of days. Wine tours, boat days, and swims in the Adriatic all scheduled and paid for as fast as you're able to click a button to approve! Spend less time on planning and payment and let your agent handle it for you.

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How to use an agent to buy things | Authoryze Blog