# Checkout From creating a cart and adding products to shipping and delivery; Violet lets you power multi-merchant checkout natively in your experience through a unified API. ## Unified API Our unified Checkout API gives you a single interface to use to read and write data to multiple third-party E-Commerce Platforms. ## Common Models Violet integrates with a variety of E-Commerce platforms so you don't have to. We also unify the data models that you need to power Checkout, including Offers, SKUs, Carts, etc. so that you only need to manage your integration with us. ### Available Dashboards #### [📈 Channel Dashboard](/resources/channel-dashboard.md) Manage your Violet-connected merchants and control your settings all in one place. Through the Channel Dashboard you can: * Monitor connected merchants * Review orders and payouts * Configure application settings #### [🔲 Merchant Dashboard](/resources/merchant-dashboard.md) Let your Violet-connected merchants control their payouts and product offerings. The Merchant Dashboard enables merchants to: * Manage payout settings * Configure product offerings --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.violet.io/prism/checkout-guides.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.