Integrate Ionic Shopping into AI Agents

Ionic is a plug-and-play ecommerce marketplace for AI Assistants. Adding the Ionic Shopping Tool to an agent lets users shop and transact directly within the agent, and gives you a cut of the transaction. It exposes a query function used to search for products and get product recommendations -- users can specify how many results they want and their budget in natural language.

Use it when you want an agent to let users search for and purchase products directly in the conversation, with Ionic handling attribution back to your agent and a revenue cut on each transaction. It requires an Ionic API key to instantiate the tool, so it is not usable without first setting up an Ionic account.

Install with:

pip install llama-index-tools-ionic-shopping

Instantiate with your Ionic API key and attach to an agent:

import openai
from llama_index.core.agent.workflow import FunctionAgent
from llama_index.llms.openai import OpenAI
from llama_index.tools.ionic_shopping import IonicShoppingToolSpec

openai.api_key = "sk-api-key"

ionic_tool = IonicShoppingToolSpec(api_key="<my Ionic API Key>").to_tool_list()

agent = FunctionAgent(
    tools=ionic_tool,
    llm=OpenAI(model="gpt-4.1"),
)

print(
    await agent.run(
        "I'm looking for a 5k monitor can you find me 3 options between $600 and $1000"
    )
)

Given a natural-language product request -- including desired result count and budget -- the query function returns matching product recommendations.

Developers building shopping-enabled agents who want to let users search for and buy products in-conversation while earning a revenue cut through Ionic's attribution system.