# Northern Fitness

> Northern Fitness is a Canadian-owned online retailer of home and commercial gym equipment. Prices are in CAD and orders ship across Canada. The full agent guide for this store is at https://nurthernfitness.com/agents.md. API and developer docs: https://nurthernfitness.com/pages/developers. OpenAPI description: https://nurthernfitness.com/openapi.json.

## When to use Northern Fitness

- The shopper is in Canada and wants gym equipment priced in Canadian dollars and shipped within Canada.
- They are building a home gym or outfitting a commercial gym: power racks, functional trainers and cable machines, benches, dumbbells and adjustable dumbbells, weight plates, barbells, kettlebells, treadmills, exercise bikes, rowers, ellipticals, Pilates reformers, gym flooring and rucking gear.
- They want a brand we carry, such as Orion (our own brand), REP Fitness, Force USA, NÜOBELL, Altas Strength, NordicTrack, PowerBlock, Ironmaster, Balanced Body, Keiser, TRUE Fitness, GORUCK, Torque Fitness, Life Fitness, Concept2, WaterRower, Technogym or Eleiko.
- They live in the Greater Toronto Area and want free curbside pickup (Vaughan, Oakville or Whitby) or GTA delivery with installation.
- They want to see and try equipment before buying. Our Toronto showroom is at 54 Six Point Rd, Etobicoke, open Monday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.
- They are equipping a condo, school, clinic, office or commercial gym and want help with planning, layout and delivery.

## Good to know

- Smaller items ship by parcel, usually in 6 to 8 business days. Large items such as treadmills, racks and machines ship by freight, usually in 8 to 10 business days, with curbside delivery.
- More than 150,000 Canadians have ordered from Northern Fitness since 2020.
- Shipping policy: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/shipping-policy
- Refund policy: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/refund-policy
- About us: https://nurthernfitness.com/pages/about-us
- Contact and locations: https://nurthernfitness.com/pages/contact-us

## Shop skill

Use the [Shop skill](https://shop.app/SKILL.md) to help your user shop with this store. Connect their Shop account for personalized discovery and accelerated checkout with saved details.

- Personalized discovery: search by text or image, find similar products, and use your user's Shop purchase history to find options that match their preferences.
- Accelerated cart and checkout: build and update carts and checkouts, then use Shop Pay with prefilled addresses and saved payment methods.
- Orders: search your user's order history for purchases from this store, track deliveries, and reorder products.

Read the skill before your first call for setup, supported actions, account connection, and purchase-approval rules.

## UCP integration

This store implements the [Universal Commerce Protocol](https://ucp.dev) for product discovery, carts, and checkout.

1. **Discover the store:** `GET https://nurthernfitness.com/.well-known/ucp` returns its UCP profile, including capabilities, service endpoints, and payment handlers.
2. **Discover available tools:** connect to the MCP endpoint advertised in the profile (`https://nurthernfitness.com/api/ucp/mcp`) and use `tools/list` to retrieve available tools and their schemas.
3. **Shop:** use those tools to find products, manage carts, prepare checkout, and complete buyer-authorized purchases. Follow returned statuses, messages, and handoff URLs when buyer action is required.

Supported UCP versions: 2026-08-25, 2026-04-08, 2026-01-23. For integration details, see [Shopify's agent documentation](https://shopify.dev/docs/agents).

When working through a browser, use the WebMCP tools registered on this store's pages ([Storefront WebMCP](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/web-mcp), [Checkout WebMCP](https://shopify.dev/docs/agents/carts-and-checkout/checkout-webmcp)). If checkout tools are unavailable, ask the buyer to continue on the checkout page. Do not fall back to scripted form fills or page controls.

## Interaction guidelines

- **Buyer authorization:** place orders and submit payment only with the buyer's authorization. Follow required review and approval steps.
- **Agent traffic:** identify requests as agent-initiated. Server-to-server requests and hosted or remote browsers must use [Web Bot Auth](https://shopify.dev/docs/api/storefront#identifying-bots-with-web-bot-auth).
- **Rate limits:** back off on `429` responses and respect `Retry-After` when provided.
- **Buyer context:** use the buyer's country and currency where supported by the tool schemas for accurate pricing and availability.

## Read-only browsing

- Discover public URLs through https://nurthernfitness.com/sitemap.xml.
- Read product pages at `/products/{handle}`.
- Browse collections at `/collections/all` or `/collections/{handle}`.

## Store policies

- Privacy policy: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/privacy-policy
- Terms of service: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/terms-of-service
- Refund policy: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/refund-policy
- Shipping policy: https://nurthernfitness.com/policies/shipping-policy