When we first shared WooCommerce for Claude, the question was not simply “can Claude call WooCommerce APIs?” WooCommerce core already has MCP support in developer preview. The more interesting question was what can intelligence layer on top of store data look like?
The latest work moves that experiment from flexible querying into prebuilt merchant workflows.
Instead of asking Claude to figure out which analytics calls to make, a merchant can now run guided reviews such as:
/woocommerce-claude:weekly-store-review/woocommerce-claude:product-performance-review, or/woocommerce-claude:revenue-drop-triage
A useful way to think about these is that each workflow starts where a standard report often stops. A report can tell you that a product sold less, a channel changed, or refunds increased. The workflow asks the follow-up questions: was the sample large enough to matter, did the comparison period move too, is the signal isolated or store-wide, and what can the merchant actually do next?
Start using these prebuilt skills
The video above shows the install flow and one workflow in action. The important part is not the slash command itself; it is that Claude is following a repeatable review process over live WooCommerce data instead of improvising a one-off answer.
The workflows available today
The companion agent plugin adds a set of 18 prebuilt WooCommerce workflows that can be run from Claude using slash commands. Each one is designed around a real merchant question, combines the relevant store analytics, and returns a practical readout with next actions.
| Workflow | Useful for |
|---|---|
/woocommerce-claude:weekly-store-review | A regular store health check covering revenue, orders, customers, products, channels, refunds, watch items, and next actions. |
/woocommerce-claude:revenue-drop-triage | Understanding why revenue is down by separating order volume, average order value, customer mix, refunds, product movement, channel changes, and payment pipeline. |
/woocommerce-claude:coupon-performance-triage | Reviewing whether discounting is helping, which coupon codes are driving revenue or acquisition, and where discount or refund cost needs attention. |
/woocommerce-claude:customer-value-review | Looking at repeat purchasing, customer lifetime value, one-time versus repeat buyers, cohort retention, and retention opportunities without exposing customer PII. |
/woocommerce-claude:customer-acquisition-review | Understanding new versus returning customer mix, acquisition channels, first-time customer quality signals, and tracking coverage. |
/woocommerce-claude:product-performance-review | Reviewing top products by revenue, quantity, and orders, product mix shifts, newly entered or dropped-out top products, category/SKU coverage, and refund signals. |
/woocommerce-claude:catalogue-merchandising-review | Turning product trading, slow movers, current stock state, sale pricing, categories, and product-page checks into merchandising actions. |
/woocommerce-claude:inventory-risk-review | Prioritising stock risks by combining current catalogue stock state with recent product sales, sale-priced stock issues, and slow movers. |
/woocommerce-claude:channel-performance-review | Seeing which channels, sources, media, campaigns, or devices are associated with paid revenue, customer mix, attribution coverage, and on-hold pipeline. |
/woocommerce-claude:geography-performance-review | Reviewing country-level revenue, order concentration, customer context, refund signals, coverage, and operational/tax-context checks. |
/woocommerce-claude:shipping-method-review | Understanding which shipping methods carry paid order value, shipping charges, pipeline, refunds, unassigned coverage, and shipping-setting checks. |
/woocommerce-claude:payment-method-review | Reviewing paid revenue by payment method, on-hold pipeline, failed orders, payment-label coverage, and gateway/admin checks. |
/woocommerce-claude:failed-order-triage | Separating failed checkout risk from on-hold payment pipeline, identifying stuck payments, and creating an order follow-up queue. |
/woocommerce-claude:refund-triage | Understanding refund size, refund rate, timing, top refunded products/countries, and practical checks for refund pressure. |
/woocommerce-claude:tax-reconciliation | Reconciling collected paid tax, shipping tax, refunded tax, pending/on-hold tax, top rates, and WooCommerce admin tax views. |
/woocommerce-claude:catalog-audit | Auditing catalogue AI-readiness across product completeness, schema coverage, content quality, and policy completeness. |
/woocommerce-claude:store-health-monitor | Checking operational catalogue issues such as missing images, weak descriptions, stock gaps, pricing gaps, and policy issues. |
/woocommerce-claude:product-content-generator | Generating improved product descriptions, FAQs, attributes, SEO metadata, and alt text from existing product details. |
Try it out – give us feedback!
This is still an experiment, but it points to a useful direction: AI for commerce should not just expose data. It should help merchants notice what standard reporting can make easy to miss, while staying grounded in the data the store actually returned.
- Repo: github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce-claude
- Install: clone, composer install, activate – or grab the latest pre-release zip.
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