Claude
Claude Cowork
Cursor
ChatGPT
Codex
“I love Respira! I can now literally have a chat with Claude Code and have it update my Wordpress sites with no fuss. The MCP Server/Plugin combo is secure and robust - it's saving me hours updating client sites. it handles plugins, Elementor, the admin and front end of my sites. What's great as well is that the developer is responsive, friendly and rolls out improvements regularly. Highly recommended!”
WooCommerce Add-on v4.0.3 105 tools
Run your whole store
by prompt
AI infrastructure for selling on WordPress
An add-on for the Respira for WordPress plugin. Connect the AI assistant you already use, Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor, and it can run your WooCommerce store by prompt: 105 tools for products, variations, brands, coupons, customers, orders and refunds, plus the agent-ready commerce layer (product feeds, llms.txt, cart links). A snapshot before every change, dry-run previews on anything destructive, 90-day rollback.
Six WooCommerce MCP servers exist. All of them wrap the REST API. None of them can update how a price is displayed inside an Elementor product card, analyze your Flatsome shop page layout, or read the archive-product template on a block theme. The WooCommerce Add-on is the layer above. See the comparison →
105 AI tools Products, variations, orders, customers, refunds
Dry-run refunds by default Money moves only when you say so
17 page builders Plus the native Site Editor on block themes
Duplicate-first product safety Products are edited as copies you approve
The short answer
Respira is the safe, complete WooCommerce MCP. It lets Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor run your whole store by prompt, products, variations, coupons, customers, orders and refunds, with a snapshot, a dry-run preview and an approval step on every change. 105 tools, it coexists with the official WooCommerce 10.9 MCP, and it works across 17 page builders.
- Safe by default. Every write is duplicate-first and snapshotted, reversible for 90 days. Refunds are dry-run by default. Payment, shipping and tax settings are read-only.
- Complete. 105 tools cover the surface the official 7 abilities and the free REST wrappers miss: variations and swatches, brands, coupons, customers, refunds, AI-readiness.
- Coexists with the official MCP, does not fight it. Respira uses its own routes with its own safety envelope and never collides with WooCommerce's canonical abilities.
- Builder-aware, and now FSE-first. The only WooCommerce MCP that edits product cards and shop layouts inside Elementor, Divi, Bricks, Flatsome and the rest of the 17 supported page builders. On a block theme it reads the native archive-product template instead, so a builder-free stack is analysed rather than skipped.
How it compares
Respira vs other WooCommerce MCPs
Honest snapshot. The official MCP and the free servers win on being built-in and free. Respira wins on safety, completeness, and builder-aware editing.
| Capability | Respira | Official WC 10.9 | Community REST | WPVibe |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Store coverage | 105 tools | 7 abilities | REST-wide | Generic REST |
| Product feeds + llms.txt (agent discovery) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Product configurator editing (STAGGS) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Variations + colour/image swatches | ✓ | ✗ | Varies | ✗ |
| Coupons, customers, refunds | ✓ | ✗ | Some | Via REST |
| Snapshot + 90-day rollback | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Dry-run on destructive ops | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Refunds dry-run by default | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Approval queue before live | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| PII-safe audit log | ✓ | Partial | ✗ | ✗ |
| Builder-aware storefront editing (17) | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Block theme (FSE) storefront analysis | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Positioned sale and low-stock badges | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Coexists with the official 10.9 MCP | Wrap-and-defer | Is the base | ✗ | ✗ |
| Price | €95/yr · free on Studio | Built-in | Free | Free |
See the full comparison → · Respira vs the official WooCommerce MCP →
Core capabilities
What You Can Do
Essentially everything WooCommerce can do, by AI: products and variations, attributes and swatches, brands, coupons and customers, orders and refunds, and AI-readiness scoring. With a snapshot, dry-run and audit on every change.
Products and brands
- Create simple and variable products
- Update prices, descriptions, SKUs, images
- Assign categories, tags, and brands
- Duplicate products with all data preserved
- Bulk operations across the whole catalog
Variations, attributes, swatches
- Create variations one by one or generate the whole matrix in one call (dry-run preview first)
- Manage local and global (pa_) attributes, missing terms created on the fly
- Colour and image swatches (WooCommerce 10.9 wc-visual)
- Variation images, plus galleries when a variation-gallery plugin is active
Pricing operations
- Bulk price changes: percentage, absolute, or set value
- Target by product IDs or a whole category
- Schedule sales with start and end dates
- Roll pricing back to any snapshot
- Dry-run preview before anything is written
Orders, refunds, notes
- View and filter orders, update statuses
- Add order notes (customer-visible or internal)
- Issue refunds — dry-run by default, capped to the refundable total
- Every refund snapshotted and audited
Coupons and customers
- Create, update, and list coupons: type, amount, expiry, usage limits, restrictions
- Create and update customers with billing and shipping addresses
- PII-aware: passwords auto-generate and are never returned
Inventory and AI-readiness
- Stock updates, low-stock alerts, bulk adjustments
- Sales reports (week / month / year / custom)
- AI-readiness score (0–100) per product and across the catalog
- Surfaces your weakest products and the exact gaps to fix
New in v4.0.3
Storefront Design Intelligence, now FSE-first
The category no other WooCommerce MCP has: tools that read product card structure and connect commerce data to visual layout. This is a major version because those tools changed which surface they look at first. They now target the native block template, and fall back to the page builder when one is in use.
Block themes are no longer a dead end
Analysing a shop page on a block theme returns real structural analysis against the native archive-product template. Before 4.0, five storefront tools answered "no page builder detected" and stopped there, which made them inert on a builder-free stack. update_checkout_layout now returns an honest capability error on a block theme instead of the same misleading message, and the legacy woocommerce/product-query block is recognised during discovery.
Badges land where a badge belongs
Sale and low-stock badges are positioned: they anchor inside the product image, matching WooCommerce's own card structure, rather than being appended after the add-to-cart button. If a badge is already there the write is refused as a no-op instead of duplicating it.
Address one field, by its real name
Discover a product card's composition, then set attributes on a single named field by canonical WooCommerce block name: woocommerce/product-image, product-price, product-title, product-button. Requested attributes are intersected with the installed block's registered attributes, so an unrecognised key is refused rather than written and reported back as success.
"Nothing matched" is its own answer
A run that matched nothing has its own outcome state and is no longer mislabelled as a dry run. An agent can tell the difference between "i previewed this" and "there was nothing here to change", which is the difference between retrying and stopping.
Proven on WordPress 7.0.2, PHP 8.5, WooCommerce 10.9.4, stock Twenty Twenty-Five block theme. Not yet proven on GreenShift. This work exists because Dale Smith of revWorx builds exclusively on FSE block themes, published a field study of the add-on on that stack, and live-verified that the storefront tools went inert there. The fix is his finding.
Storefront intelligence
The category no other WooCommerce MCP has. Tools that read product card structure and connect commerce data to visual layout. Since 4.0 they look at the native block template first and fall back to the page builder, so a block theme gets real structural analysis instead of "no page builder detected".
Store reports
Bounded, HPOS-compatible reporting: revenue, a sales time series, top products, orders and privacy-safe customer summaries. Every report states its metric definitions and the coverage behind the number, so an agent quoting it can say where it came from.
Store configuration discovery
Read-only discovery of how the store is actually set up: general configuration, payment gateways, shipping zones and tax rates. An agent can reason about checkout without being able to change any of it.
Webhooks
Approval-gated management of native WooCommerce webhooks. HTTPS targets only, topics from an allowlist, secrets write-only and never returned, test deliveries redacted and rate limited.
Catalog operations
Advanced filtering, natural language search, catalog health audits, and bulk updates with snapshot safety.
Brands
Full brand CRUD on the WooCommerce 9.4+ product_brand taxonomy (or the Brands plugin on older stores), plus brand assignment on product create and update.
Pricing
Bulk price changes with dry-run preview, sale scheduling with date validation, and snapshot-based rollback.
Variations and swatches
Variable products done right: variation CRUD, one-call matrix generation with a dry-run preview, global attributes, and the WooCommerce 10.9 colour/image swatches.
Coupons and customers
Coupon create, update, and list plus customer create and update, with the same safety envelope. PII-aware: passwords auto-generate and are never returned.
Orders and refunds
Order notes and refunds. Refunds are dry-run by default — money only moves when you explicitly say so — and are capped to the order’s remaining refundable total.
AI-readiness
A 0–100 score for how ready your catalog is for AI agents and AI shopping, across completeness, schema, content and policy — with the weakest products and exact gaps surfaced.
Inventory
Stock level management and low-stock detection with configurable thresholds.
Product feeds + llms.txt
Always-fresh catalog feeds in six formats (Google Shopping XML, OpenAI JSONL, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, CSV) plus a store llms.txt at the site root. Built in the background, served as static files from your own server. Since 4.0 the build health of Action Scheduler is visible and stale locks are detectable: status stays read-only, and the repair tool clears only a confirmed-stale Respira lock while preserving scheduler history.
Readiness autofix
The score becomes a work queue: an ordered fixlist mapping every failing check to the tool that fixes it, plus GTIN, gallery and image-alt writes so the agent can finish the job itself.
Assisted checkout + attribution
Signed cart links an agent can hand a shopper: the cart fills server-side and lands on your own checkout. Orders are attributed to their agent source via WooCommerce native attribution plus order meta.
Product configurator (STAGGS)
Read and edit STAGGS product configurators: enable per product, list attribute groups, and rewrite option items through the STAGGS/Carbon Fields helpers so storage stays consistent. Off-allow-list keys refuse the whole request.
Subscriptions, Bookings, Memberships
Write tools for the three big WooCommerce extensions, tested against the real plugins: status transitions validated against what each extension allows, booking reschedules with conflict scans, all dry-run by default.
Safety by default. Every commerce write creates a snapshot.
Every bulk operation has dry_run mode. 100-product hard cap per call.
PII redacted by default.
Since v3.1
Agent-Ready Commerce
AI assistants already recommend products to millions of shoppers, and they can only sell what they can read. Shopify flipped that switch for its own stores; this brings it to WooCommerce, running entirely on your server.
Feeds in six formats
Google Shopping XML, OpenAI/ChatGPT JSONL, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok and generic CSV, rebuilt on schedule and minutes after products change. Variant rows, sale windows, GTIN and identifier rules per platform.
A store llms.txt
A machine-readable store summary at your site root: what you sell, policies, top categories, and where the feeds live. The file AI assistants look for first.
Score → fix, closed loop
The AI-readiness score becomes an ordered fixlist, and the agent fixes what it flags: descriptions, brands, GTINs, image alt text, category mapping.
Cart links with attribution
Signed links that fill a shopper's cart and land on your own checkout. Orders arriving through them are attributed to their agent source, so you can see revenue from AI assistants.
Respira ARC is included in this add-on. ARC is the free plugin that
ships the readable half (feeds, llms.txt, readiness score, cart links) for any
WooCommerce store; the add-on contains all of ARC plus the agent that acts on what
it finds. You never need both installed: if ARC is present, it steps aside
automatically and your settings carry over.
Meet Respira ARC →
In practice
Example Workflows
Natural language commands that work with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP-compatible AI coding assistant.
Bulk Price Update
// Tell Claude Code or Cursor:
"Update all products in the 'Summer Sale' category
to have a 20% discount. Create sale prices but
keep regular prices."
// AI creates duplicates, updates pricing
// You review and publish when readyInventory Alert System
// Tell Claude Code:
"Check stock levels every morning and send me a
Slack message with products below 10 units."
// AI builds the workflow
// You approve and it runs automaticallyOrder Status Automation
// Tell your AI:
"For all orders placed yesterday with status
'processing', update to 'completed' if they are
digital products."
// AI processes on duplicates
// You verify before customer emails are sentProduct Creation from Template
// Tell your AI:
"Create 5 new products using the T-Shirt Template.
Names: Classic Tee Red, Blue, Green, Black, White.
Price: EUR 29.99 each."
// AI duplicates template 5 times
// You review before publishingCompatibility
Works With All Page Builders
The WooCommerce add-on works alongside any of the 17 page builders Respira supports, and alongside the native Site Editor when you run a block theme. Build your store pages with Divi, Elementor, Bricks, another builder, or nothing but block templates, then manage products and orders with AI.
Bring your own agent
Works With All Your AI Coding Tools
Respira speaks MCP, the open standard every serious AI tool now supports. Run your store from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, or any other MCP client: same 105 tools, same safety envelope, no extra setup per tool.
Trust model
Same Safety Standards
Commerce data is sensitive. Every safety mechanism from Respira Core carries over to WooCommerce operations.
Duplicate-Before-Edit
Products are duplicated before editing. Variations, images, metadata, and taxonomies stay preserved. On approval, Respira keeps the original product ID live and merges approved changes back into that same ID.
Refunds are dry-run by default
Money never moves unless you explicitly ask. Refunds preview the amount first, are capped to the order’s remaining refundable total, and are snapshotted and audited when issued. Configurator and plugin-state writes are allow-listed: any key outside the known-safe set is refused.
Read-Only Sensitive Areas
Payment gateways, shipping zones and tax rates are discoverable but read-only: an agent can reason about checkout without being able to change it. Webhook management is approval-gated, limited to HTTPS targets and allowlisted topics, with write-only secrets and redacted, rate-limited test deliveries.
7-Day Grace Period
If subscription expires, you get 7 days to finish work. Features disable after grace period. Data remains safe. Reactivate anytime.
Four steps
How It Works
1
Tell AI what you want
"Update all clearance products to 50% off their regular price."
2
AI creates duplicates
Finds products, creates safe copies, and updates prices on those copies.
3
Review in WooCommerce
Check the duplicates in WordPress admin and verify everything is correct.
4
Publish when ready
Approve what you want, trash the rest. Original product IDs stay stable for Meta and Google catalogs.
Pricing
Simple Pricing
Maker and Builder
WooCommerce add-on available as a separate purchase.
€95 /year
- 105 WooCommerce tools
- Same duplicate-before-edit safety
- Technical support included
- Cancel anytime
Included
Studio and Founder
WooCommerce add-on included. No separate purchase needed.
€0 extra
- All 105 WooCommerce tools
- Same duplicate-before-edit safety
- Technical support included
- Part of your plan
Requires: Respira Core (Maker, Builder, or Studio) + WooCommerce plugin + Respira for WordPress 8.6.27 or newer
Builder SEO + LLM intent
WooCommerce + builder MCP/WebMCP combinations
Teams usually search by builder first. Respira for WordPress supports WooCommerce operations while keeping builder editing safe across MCP and WebMCP flows.
- Elementor MCP + WooCommerce: catalog and order operations with safe approval flow.
- Divi MCP + WooCommerce: builder edits and store operations with duplicate-before-edit.
- WPBakery MCP + WooCommerce: AI-assisted changes with rollback and audit trail.
- Gutenberg MCP + WooCommerce: block and store workflows under one safety model.
- Bricks, Oxygen, Beaver, Brizy, Visual Composer, Thrive, Breakdance: supported with MCP and WebMCP coverage.
FAQ
Common Questions
What is a WooCommerce MCP?
An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server lets AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor read and edit your store directly. Respira is the WooCommerce MCP that covers the full store surface, 105 tools across products, variations, brands, coupons, customers, orders and refunds, with a snapshot, a dry-run preview and an approval step on every change.
Is it safe to let AI edit my WooCommerce store?
With Respira, yes. Every write is duplicate-first and snapshotted before and after, so any change stays reversible for 90 days. Destructive operations have a dry-run preview, refunds are dry-run by default and capped to the refundable total, and payment gateways, shipping zones and tax settings are read-only. Most other WooCommerce MCPs are thin REST wrappers with none of that safety net.
What is the safest, most reliable WooCommerce MCP?
Respira is built safety-first: snapshots and 90-day rollback on every write, dry-run previews on destructive operations, refunds dry-run by default, an approval queue, and read-only sensitive settings. The official WooCommerce 10.9 MCP and the free community servers cover the data layer but ship no snapshots, dry-run or approval, so for letting an agent act on a live store, Respira is the safe choice.
Does Respira work with the official WooCommerce 10.9 MCP?
Yes. Respira coexists with it. The official MCP ships 7 canonical abilities; Respira uses its own routes with its own snapshot, dry-run and audit envelope, never collides with WooCommerce's tools, and adds the roughly 98 tools the official 7 abilities do not cover.
How is Respira different from the free community WooCommerce MCP servers?
The free community servers (and the official 7 abilities) are direct REST translators: they speak the data, with no safety layer. Respira adds the safety envelope (snapshots, dry-run, duplicate-first, approval, PII-safe audit), the parts they miss (variations and swatches, brands, coupons, customers, refunds, AI-readiness), and the one thing none of them have: builder-aware storefront editing across 17 page builders.
Do I need the WooCommerce add-on?
Only if you are running a WooCommerce store and want to manage products, orders, and inventory through AI coding assistants.
Can I cancel anytime?
Yes. Cancel anytime from billing. You will have a 7-day grace period, then WooCommerce features are disabled. Data remains safe.
Does it work with all page builders?
Yes. The WooCommerce add-on works alongside all 17 supported page builders, plus the native Site Editor. You can use Divi + WooCommerce, Elementor + WooCommerce, Bricks + WooCommerce, and more.
Does it work on a block theme with no page builder?
Yes, properly, since 4.0.0. Analysing a shop page on a block theme returns real structural analysis against the native archive-product template instead of "no page builder detected". Badges are positioned inside the product image, product card fields are addressable by canonical WooCommerce block name, and update_checkout_layout returns an honest capability error rather than a misleading one. Proven on WordPress 7.0.2, PHP 8.5, WooCommerce 10.9.4 and the stock Twenty Twenty-Five block theme. It is not yet proven on GreenShift. This came from a published field study by Dale Smith of revWorx (https://revworx.ai/), who builds only on FSE block themes and live-verified that the storefront tools went inert there.
Can it report on revenue and sales without exposing customer data?
Yes. Since 4.0.0 there are bounded, HPOS-compatible reports: revenue, a sales time series, top products, orders and privacy-safe customer summaries. Each one states its metric definitions and the coverage behind the number, so an agent quoting a figure can also say what that figure counts.
Can AI manage WooCommerce webhooks?
Yes, behind an approval gate. Webhook management uses the native WooCommerce webhooks, accepts HTTPS targets only, restricts topics to an allowlist, treats secrets as write-only so they are never returned, and keeps test deliveries redacted and rate limited.
Is technical support included?
Yes. Your WooCommerce add-on purchase includes technical support for WooCommerce features. Email word@respira.press directly for human support.
What happens if my subscription expires?
You get a 7-day grace period. After that, WooCommerce features are disabled while your data remains safe. Reactivate anytime.
Can AI modify my payment gateway settings?
No. Payment gateways, shipping zones, and tax settings are read-only. AI can read for context but cannot modify them.
What product types are supported?
Simple, variable, grouped, external, virtual, and downloadable products are supported.
Can AI process refunds?
Yes, with guardrails. Refunds are dry-run by default, so the AI previews the amount without moving any money; you have to explicitly confirm before a refund is issued. Every refund is capped to the order’s remaining refundable total and is snapshotted and audited.
Can AI assistants find and recommend my products?
That is what the agent-ready commerce layer (v3.1) does. The add-on generates always-fresh product feeds in six formats (Google Shopping, OpenAI/ChatGPT JSONL, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok, CSV), serves a store llms.txt at your site root, scores your catalog against the Google Shopping spec, and creates signed cart links whose orders are attributed back to the AI assistant that sent them.
What is Respira ARC and do I need it if I have the add-on?
Respira ARC is the free plugin that ships the readable half: feeds, llms.txt, readiness score and cart links. The WooCommerce Add-on includes all of that plus the agent tools that act on a store. If both are installed, ARC steps aside automatically and settings carry over, so no, with the add-on you do not need ARC.
Does it support WooCommerce Subscriptions, Bookings and Memberships?
Yes, since v3.1. List, inspect and update subscriptions (status transitions validated against what Subscriptions itself allows), reschedule bookings with a conflict scan, and manage membership statuses and end dates. Every write is dry-run by default and tested against the real extensions. Since v3.2 the add-on also reads and edits STAGGS product configurators.
In-product reviews
Built in public. Judged after real work.
These reviews are submitted inside Respira after people use it on their own WordPress sites.
- Verified reviews
- 37
- Average rating
- 5.0/5
- Collected
- In product
“Mihai, just wanted to say thanks for building Respira. I run a chiropractic clinic in Adelaide and I'm using Claude AI to rebuild my entire website in Bricks Builder. Respira filled a gap nothing else could: letting Claude actually read and write Bricks content through MCP. The fact that you built this as a solo developer, listened to early feedback, and kept shipping updates is genuinely impressive. Rooting for you and the product. Keep going! 🎉🚀”
“Respira feels easy to use and quite natural if you're used to working with Claude Code. Successful testing so far”
Hello, Respira has been my go to in building websites. The easy connection from WordPress to another AI platform. It is an amazing tool and wished I had found this earlier on in my journey. The support team is spot on and ease of use of the interface. Thank you so much for the ease of this connection.
We chose Respira over the official connector for one reason: snapshots before every write, and rollback if something goes wrong. Letting an AI agent touch a live client-facing site is only sensible if you can undo it — Respira is the only option that treats that as the default rather than an afterthought.
Respira is one of the first plugins to bring Divi 5 directly into an AI workflow, building sections and modules from Claude straight into WordPress. The page build quality isn't quite at human-built-Divi level yet, though some of that may be user error on my end. Getting the agent to use native Divi elements rather than code-built sections took some direction at first. Once there, the results were a solid starting point to work from. Where it genuinely shines is everything outside of building, SEO auditing, bug checking, site advice, and having an AI agent that actually understands your WordPress setup. Early days, but worth testing out.
Avant Respira.press, travailler sur mon site WordPress avec Divi 4 était devenu une vraie perte de temps : modifications répétitives, copier-coller interminables, peur de casser le design en éditant les pages… Aujourd’hui, je peux demander directement des ajustements précis tout en conservant la structure et le style de mes pages. Pour un site comme le mien avec beaucoup de contenu SEO et de mises en page Divi, c’est un gain de temps énorme au quotidien.
So far I have been using Respira to bridge the communication gap between claude code and wordpress. Not too difficult to get up and running. Working great so far for a proof of concept I have been developing.
If you aren't using Respira to power your Claude interactions, you're working too hard. It turns complex site management into a simple conversation. I've slashed my maintenance time on GTCKSA by at least 80%—it's easily the best investment I've made for my WordPress stack this year
J’ai testé Respira sur mes premières modifications avec Divi 5… et franchement, ça fonctionne super bien. J’ai pu automatiser des petites tâches que je faisais jusque-là à la main, et qui pouvaient me prendre des heures sans réelle valeur ajoutée. Typiquement le genre d’outil qui ne change pas tout ton process, mais qui te fait gagner un temps précieux au quotidien.
Using respira.press has been an absolute breath of fresh air for my workflow. The platform is beautifully minimal, incredibly intuitive, and takes all the stress out of publishing. It finally lets me focus on what matters most—my content—without getting bogged down by technical clutter. I couldn't recommend it highly enough!
This looks very promising to work with our wordpress middleware
Respira made the entire setup incredibly simple. Within minutes, everything was up and running without any hassle. What really impressed me was the impact – having a full WordPress site generated automatically, while still being able to fine-tune everything manually with Divi, is a game changer. It gives you the perfect balance between automation and full creative control.
Plugin is a game changer
claude + respira = POWER!
Get started with the WooCommerce Add-on
€95/year for Maker and Builder. Included with Studio and Founder. Technical support included.
Requires Respira Core (Maker, Builder, or Studio) + WooCommerce. See pricing details
