Make your store visible to AI agents
AI is already influencing how people discover and buy products — and your WooCommerce store’s infrastructure opens the door for discovery. Here’s how to make sure AI sends customers your way.
What is agentic commerce?
Agentic commerce means AI playing an active role in how products are recommended, discovered, and bought. When a shopper asks for a product recommendation, AI tools pull answers from stores they can actually read: ones with structured product data, clear content, and accessible pages.
WooCommerce is your agentic advantage
Agentic commerce relies on open, structured, machine-readable content. WooCommerce runs on WordPress, so your store’s open-source infrastructure is built for AI discovery.
AI can already talk to your store
Through the built-in WordPress Abilities API, AI assistants can read your product catalog, check order status, and understand your store’s capabilities.
Your brand is fully legible to AI
Your store’s colors, typography, and design tokens live in theme.json, a structured, machine-readable format that AI can read alongside the rest of your site.
Your store is content-rich by design
WordPress’s REST and Abilities APIs allow AI to read your complete product catalog, pages, posts, and reviews to aid in discovery.
Build your stack on your terms
You own your store, and you’re fully in control. Scale without a growth tax, choose your payment gateway, and adopt new protocols on your schedule — not someone else’s.
WooCommerce protocol status
As agentic commerce evolves, stores that work with every AI assistant — not just one vendor’s — will have more visibility. We’ll keep this table updated as new standards ship.
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Live
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
AI assistants can read your store’s products, orders, and settings. Shipped in WordPress 6.9 and WooCommerce 10.3 with 9 built-in abilities.
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Live
Abilities API
Your store declares what it can do in a format any AI agent understands. Built into WordPress core.
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Coming soon
Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) — Google
Google’s protocol for AI-powered shopping. If you already sync to Google Merchant Center or use structured data, you have the foundation.
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Coming soon
Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) — Stripe
Connects your product catalog to multiple AI agents through the Stripe Agentic Commerce Suite. Shoppers discover and buy your products with native checkout through the agent or your store.
Use AI to manage your store
These prompts will turn your preferred AI tool into a practical ecommerce assistant today.
Get a weekly hot list
Quickly understand what to restock, fix, and prioritize this week — and what’s not urgent yet.
Produce content
Increase discoverability by generating product descriptions, FAQs, and buying guides readable to human shoppers and AI agents.
Speed up customer communications
Draft replies to reviews, support queries, and follow-up emails in your store’s voice.
Simplify campaign and promo planning
Upload your catalog for a seasonal calendar, promo concepts, and email drafts.
Coming soon: WooCommerce AI
We’re building an AI assistant for WooCommerce merchants. Be the first to know when it’s available!
Extensions to power agentic commerce
Connect your store to AI shopping channels with these extensions. As new protocols emerge, they'll be enabled automatically.
Stripe for WooCommerce
Agentic checkout is coming to Stripe for WooCommerce — install the extension now to prepare. Once it’s live, upload your catalog to Stripe’s Agentic Commerce Suite, and start selling through multiple AI agents with a single integration. You choose which agents to sell through and where shoppers check out: through the agent or your store.
Google for WooCommerce
Syncs your product catalog to Google Merchant Center, making your products visible to Google AI. If you're already syncing your catalog, you have the groundwork for AI-powered discovery, campaign optimization with Performance Max, data insights, and pricing recommendations.
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Developer resources
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