Glance is now integrated with PayPal.
The AI-powered personal shopping platform backed by global technology company InMobi, said the agentic commerce integration with the payments platform brings “real-time product data and native checkout directly to Glance for tens of millions of consumers in the United States.”
This allows shoppers to discover and visualize products and build a cart while also completing their purchase by “leveraging PayPal’s trusted offerings without leaving the experience,” the companies said in a statement.
The integration creates an ultra-smooth shopping experience for consumers.
Mike Edmonds, vice president of agentic commerce at PayPal, said, “The lines between where people discover, shop and buy are disappearing. Our goal is to help prepare merchants for a future where commerce can happen anywhere. As emerging AI shopping agents like Glance change how people shop, PayPal gives a reliable way to buy with confidence.”
Glance said its platform is already pre-installed on millions of phones and can also be downloaded. And it is fun to use. “From a single photo, shoppers using Glance can generate images of themselves to virtually try on clothes with an AI avatar and share looks with friends,” the company said. “When ready to purchase, shoppers can use PayPal to complete their purchase without being redirected to another site.”
Glance said since PayPal is the only partner to provide native in-app checkout on its app, PayPal is accelerating the path to purchase for consumers.
For retailers and brands, the integration serves as a way to provide a simple way to extend their storefronts on Glance’s platform. For its part, PayPal’s agentic commerce services allow retailers and brands to easily connect to multiple AI-powered shopping experiences via a single integration.
Real-time product information is easily surfaced as a result, and this includes availability and pricing. Transactions can be completed while maintaining control of the customer relationship; “enabling trusted commerce between consumers, merchants and AI agents,” the company said.
Mansi Jain, chief operating officer at Glance, said the platform “meets consumers at the moment of inspiration, before they’ve even thought to search. Bringing native PayPal checkout into that experience means we can now carry consumers from the moment something catches their attention through purchase in the same flow.”
As a result, Jain said Glance is more valuable to merchants “because they can reach consumers earlier, help them evaluate what to buy, and give them a direct way to complete the transaction. As AI takes on more of the shopping journey, connecting discovery with commerce in the same experience becomes increasingly important.”
In regard to Glance being embedded across more than 60 million mobile and CTV devices, the company said this done through relationships with leading device manufacturers such as Samsung, Motorola, DirecTV and Google’s Android TV— as well as two of the top three U.S. mobile operators.