Replit Agent Can Now Spend for Your Business: It Buys Supplies via Stripe's Link and Visa and Runs Google Ads, With Every Payment and Campaign Launch Approved by the Owner First
On November 12 Replit gave Replit Agent two new abilities. The first is agentic commerce: using what it knows about your business, Agent compares products on merchant sites, fills the cart and prepares checkout, and nothing is charged until you approve the final total in your Link wallet. It is limited to Core and Pro users in the US and to one-time purchases. The second is agentic ads: Agent reads your site or app, drafts ad copy, generates images and recommends a daily budget, then launches a Google Performance Max campaign after your review. It is available to Pro users worldwide. Replit docs say a new Replit-managed ads account needs an average daily budget of at least $15, with ad spend deducted from Replit credits.
Key Takeaways
- Two new abilities: purchasing paid through Link (from Stripe) and Visa, and Google Ads campaigns, both run from the Replit chat
- Purchasing limits: Core and Pro users only, starting in the US, one-time purchases only; the docs also allow fixed-price subscriptions whose initial and renewal totals are identical
- Safety design: merchant sites are driven in an isolated Browserbase browser and Agent stops at checkout for approval; shell access and general browsing are disabled during payment, and approval checks are enforced in code, not left to the model
- Ads requirements: Pro plan, personal Workspace and auto-reload enabled; only Performance Max is supported, a new account runs 1 campaign at a time, and the average daily budget is at least $15 and is not a hard cap
- Replit-reported figures: entrepreneurs connecting Replit-built businesses to Stripe are up 9x since May; one featured user made $170,000 in 30 days at roughly 4x return on ad spend (company case study, not independently verified)
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