Replit announced on November 12 that Replit Agent can now purchase supplies for a business and run its Google Ads campaigns. Purchases go through Link, Stripe’s wallet product, with Visa supplying payment infrastructure for agent-initiated transactions. The move pushes a coding agent past building software and into spending a founder’s money.
The shopping flow starts with a plain request. Replit’s own example asks for fifty shipping boxes that fit a given product, with a delivery-inclusive cap of $75. Agent draws on its knowledge of the business to find options, then prepares the merchant’s checkout. Nothing is charged until the owner approves the final total.
Under the hood, a browser subagent does the legwork. It visits the merchant’s site, selects product options, fills the cart, and hands the purchase details back to Agent for sign-off. Replit says the browser comes from Browserbase, so no store-by-store integration is needed. If a site demands a login, the owner can take over the session and then return control.
The safety design is where the announcement is most specific. The session runs in isolation, and Agent stops at checkout. Replit says it never holds open-ended spending permission, that during payment the shell and free-form web browsing are turned off, and that approval checks run in code rather than depending on the model’s judgment. Link, which Stripe describes as a network of more than 300 million users, lets the owner pick a saved payment method and confirm the total, and it processes only the approved purchase.
Availability is narrow. Agentic Commerce is open to Core and Pro users, starts in the US, and covers one-time purchases only. Recurring orders, such as monthly restocking, are outside the launch. Jay Shah of Link at Stripe and Rubail Birwadker of Visa both gave statements stressing founder approval and limits that people set.
The advertising half is broader in reach. Pro users worldwide can have Agent build and launch Google campaigns across Search, YouTube, Display, Discover and more without leaving Replit. Agent reads the site or app, then writes the ad text, produces imagery, and suggests a daily budget. The owner reviews, approves, and launches. Replit gives a sample prompt from a bid-writing software seller targeting contractors on public projects, at $40 a day for 30 days.
One detail gives the ads feature a practical edge. Because Agent wrote the app, it can wire in the conversion tracking ad platforms rely on, so results show up as sign-ups and sales instead of clicks alone. Users without an account can have Replit create and manage a Google Ads account, and they can ask Agent for current performance numbers and optimization ideas.
Replit frames all this as a path to what it calls Self-Driving Companies, and it supports the pitch with two customer stories. Jon Cheney was quoted $105,000 by a development shop, built his product in a weekend for under $400, and reports six figures of revenue within six weeks. Austin Eckman spent $50,000 at a dev studio on a first version he could not use; he now runs Crafting Table from one Replit project and reports $170,000 in 30 days at roughly 4X return on ad spend. Both figures come from Replit’s own post, and the announcement includes no independent data on how often such outcomes occur.
The company also says the number of entrepreneurs connecting Replit-built businesses to Stripe has grown ninefold since May. That is a usage signal, not a revenue figure, and Replit did not give the underlying count.
For anyone building a competing agent, the approval-at-checkout pattern is now the bar to match: a purchase that stops for a human and enforces that stop in code, not in a prompt. Founders on Pro should test the ads workflow against a small daily budget before trusting it with a real one.
Replit, “Replit Agent can now buy for your business and help you reach customers,” published November 12, 2026.
