# Offer cost legibility

> An agent can read your full cost on a cold product page - the current price and any sale in parseable text with currency and tax, plus shipping, fees, unit price, and any free-shipping threshold - and every figure matches checkout.

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- **Affects (funnel stage):** Comparison
- **Evidence:** hypothesis
- **Confidence:** Low
- **Impact:** 3/3
- **Status:** active
- **Last verified:** 2026-07-08

## Per-platform status

Undocumented platforms show "unknown" - honest unknowns, never invented.

| Platform | Status | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Gemini / Google AI Mode | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Perplexity | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Copilot | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Claude | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |

## Evidence and sources

- [Google: Shipping policy structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/shipping-policy) (2026-07-08)
- [Google: Merchant listing structured data](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/merchant-listing) (2026-07-08)

## How to act on this

With images suppressed, confirm the current price, sale window (priceValidUntil), currency, tax treatment, shipping, fees, unit price, and free-shipping threshold are all present as real numbers and match checkout.

### Related checklist items
- [Make total landed cost (price + shipping + fees) readable before the agent commits to checkout.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-01) (Selection)
- [State unit pricing (per 100 ml, per count, per kg) where it aids comparison.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-03) (Selection)
- [Put the current price in parseable text/markup, never only inside an image.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-04) (Selection)
- [Make currency and tax treatment explicit near the price (e.g., incl./excl. VAT).](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-05) (Selection)
- [Make sale pricing and its validity window legible, matching checkout.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-offer-legibility-06) (Selection)
- [Show shipping cost before checkout, not only at the payment step.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-delivery-returns-02) (Selection)
- [State free-shipping / free-returns thresholds as concrete numbers.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-delivery-returns-10) (Selection)

### Handbook chapters
- [Information Density: Facts Per Token on Machine Surfaces](https://agentmint.net/handbook/information-density/)

### Related signals
- [Competitive price awareness with parity](https://agentmint.net/signals/price-competitive-awareness/)
- [Delivery ETA is computable per destination](https://agentmint.net/signals/delivery-eta-legibility/)
- [Offer consistency and freshness across surfaces](https://agentmint.net/signals/offer-consistency-freshness/)