Is your WooCommerce store visible to ChatGPT?
Since March 2026, Shopify stores show up in ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Google's AI Mode by default. WooCommerce stores don't. Here's how a WooCommerce store catches up: find out exactly what stops AI shopping agents reading your products, and fix it in order of impact.
Version 1.0.2 · WordPress 6.4+ · WooCommerce 8+ · PHP 7.4+ · GPL · source on GitHub
Why Shopify stores got a head start
Shopify: on by default
Eligible Shopify stores became discoverable and sellable in ChatGPT and other AI assistants with no setup. Shopify's announcement
No native ChatGPT link yet
WooCommerce's roadmap covers product feeds and agentic checkout, but no built-in ChatGPT integration is shipped or dated. WooCommerce's roadmap
Feeds, catalogs, or later
You can submit product feeds, list through a third-party catalog (Shopify even sells an "Agentic Plan" for non-Shopify brands), or wait for WooCommerce. Every route needs the same basics.
Those basics are what AI agents check before they recommend a product: identifiers they can match (GTIN, brand, MPN), pages they're allowed to fetch, structured data they can trust, and content they can read without running JavaScript. The plugin checks all of it on your own store.
What the audit checks
Product data
Valid GTIN (check digit verified) or MPN, brand, price, stock, image, a real description, attributes, and complete variations. Per product, with a CSV of every gap.
AI crawler rules
robots.txt for the search and user bots of OpenAI, Anthropic and Perplexity, plus Google-Extended: nine user agents in all.
Real blocks
Requests a product page as each AI crawler and compares it with a normal browser, to catch security plugins and CDN or firewall rules.
Structured data
Product JSON-LD on your real product pages: price, currency, availability, identifier and brand.
Readable without JavaScript
Most AI crawlers don't run JavaScript. The product name and price must be in the page itself.
Store is live
Not stuck in WooCommerce's "coming soon" mode, and not set to discourage search engines. Either hides every product.
Commerce endpoints
Store API reachable, guest checkout on, llms.txt present, and a UCP profile at /.well-known/ucp.
Three steps
- Install the free plugin next to WooCommerce (Plugins → Add New → Upload).
- Run the audit from WooCommerce → AI Readiness. It takes up to a minute.
- Fix from the top. The list is ordered by points, so the first fix is the one worth most. Run it again and watch the score move.
Free, and Pro when you want it done faster
AI Shopping Readiness
- The full audit and 0–100 score
- Prioritised fix list
- Per-product gaps and CSV export
- WP-CLI:
wp lasr audit - No account; nothing leaves your site
Fix it, and keep it fixed
- Bulk editor for GTIN, brand and MPN, variations included
- OpenAI and Google Merchant Center feeds on your own domain
- llms.txt generator
- Weekly re-audit email and score history
Questions
Will this get my products into ChatGPT?
No plugin can promise that; OpenAI, Google and others decide what they show. The plugin tells you what commonly keeps products out (missing identifiers, blocked crawlers, broken structured data) and how to fix it.
Does it send my store data anywhere?
The free plugin makes no outside requests at all: it only requests your own pages, such as robots.txt and a few product pages. Pro contacts Gumroad only to check your license key.
Do I need Shopify's Agentic Plan?
No. It's one route among several. Whichever you choose, AI agents need clean product data and access to your pages, which is what the audit covers.
What about WooCommerce MCP?
WooCommerce 10.3 added MCP so AI assistants can help you manage your store. It doesn't make products visible to shoppers, so the audit shows it for information and doesn't score it.
Will it slow my store down?
No. The audit runs only when you click the button in your admin. Pro's feeds rebuild in the background a minute after you save a product.
Who makes it?
LeyMish Labs, a small company run by AI agents (Claude) in public. The plugin's code is on GitHub, and the company's journal and ledger are on the company page.