{
 "categories": [
  "commerce",
  "retail"
 ],
 "deployment": "hybrid",
 "evidence": [
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "homepage",
   "note": "WooCommerce presents its current open commerce platform for WordPress stores.",
   "source": "https://woocommerce.com/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "license",
   "note": "WooCommerce identifies core as a free, open-source WordPress commerce platform with separately priced hosting, payments, and optional extensions.",
   "source": "https://woocommerce.com/pricing/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.exists",
   "note": "WooCommerce integrates a public JSON application interface with the WordPress REST API.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.kinds[0]",
   "note": "REST API v3 is the current recommended version for new WooCommerce integrations.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.auth[0]",
   "note": "WooCommerce generates user-bound consumer keys and secrets with read, write, or read/write permissions and supports an application authorization endpoint for merchant grants.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/authentication/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.api.coverage",
   "note": "v3 covers coupons, customers, products, variations, orders, actions, notes, refunds, taxes, shipping, payment gateways, settings, reports, system data, status, and webhooks with individual and batch operations.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk",
   "note": "WooCommerce publishes its official JavaScript REST client in the current API documentation.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.sdk.languages",
   "note": "The current official-library section identifies the maintained JavaScript client.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.mcp.first_party",
   "note": "WooCommerce core includes a first-party MCP developer preview built on the WordPress Abilities API and shared WordPress MCP adapter.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/features/mcp/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.cli.exists",
   "note": "WC-CLI is included with WooCommerce and exposes store resources, settings, tools, webhooks, data stores, blueprints, and extension-marketplace work through wp wc commands.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/wc-cli-commands",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.scripting",
   "note": "WooCommerce extends WordPress through plugins, extensions, server actions and filters, block interfaces, and now transport-neutral Abilities API contracts.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/overview/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.extensibility.webhooks",
   "note": "WooCommerce supports HMAC-signed JSON webhooks for customer, order, product, coupon, action, and custom topics with retries, logs, and API management.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v2/webhooks",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.export",
   "note": "The REST API returns JSON and WC-CLI emits supported WP-CLI formats including JSON and CSV.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/wc-cli-examples",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "modalities.data_access.import",
   "note": "REST and WC-CLI accept structured resource fields to create and update products, orders, customers, settings, shipping, tax, and related store data.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/using-wc-cli/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.api",
   "note": "The API is broad, read/write, batch-capable, webhook-enabled, and permission-bound, but self-hosting, version, extension, and server variability reduce reliability across stores.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.mcp",
   "note": "WooCommerce 10.9 supplies official canonical product and order abilities through the shared MCP adapter, but the feature is a developer preview with a deliberately small initial domain and changing integration details.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/2026/05/12/mcp-abilities-api-10-9/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "verdict.scores.cli",
   "note": "The bundled CLI has broad resource CRUD, configuration, webhook, storage, status, blueprint, extension, and maintenance commands with machine-readable output, but requires local shell access to the WordPress host.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/wc-cli-commands",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[0].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current recommended REST API v3 reference.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[1].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current MCP preview architecture, adapter, endpoint, and deprecation guidance.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/features/mcp/",
   "tier": "declared"
  },
  {
   "date": "2026-08-16",
   "fact": "freshness.watch[2].url",
   "note": "Opened and verified as the current WooCommerce CLI command inventory.",
   "source": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/wc-cli-commands",
   "tier": "declared"
  }
 ],
 "freshness": {
  "last_verified": "2026-08-16",
  "volatility": "high",
  "watch": [
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/"
   },
   {
    "type": "mcp",
    "url": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/features/mcp/"
   },
   {
    "type": "docs",
    "url": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/wc-cli/wc-cli-commands"
   }
  ]
 },
 "homepage": "https://woocommerce.com/",
 "id": "woocommerce",
 "license": "open-source",
 "modalities": {
  "agent_docs": {
   "llms_txt": "unknown"
  },
  "api": {
   "auth": [
    "consumer-key-secret"
   ],
   "coverage": "full",
   "docs": "https://developer.woocommerce.com/docs/apis/rest-api/v3/",
   "exists": true,
   "kinds": [
    "rest"
   ]
  },
  "cli": {
   "exists": true
  },
  "computer_use": {
   "issues": [],
   "viability": "unknown"
  },
  "data_access": {
   "export": [
    "api-json",
    "cli-json",
    "cli-csv"
   ],
   "import": [
    "api-json",
    "cli-fields"
   ]
  },
  "extensibility": {
   "scripting": [
    "wordpress-plugins",
    "woocommerce-extensions",
    "actions",
    "filters",
    "abilities-api"
   ],
   "webhooks": true
  },
  "integrations": {
   "make": "unknown",
   "n8n": "unknown",
   "power_automate": "unknown",
   "zapier": "unknown"
  },
  "mcp": {
   "first_party": true,
   "third_party": [],
   "verdict": "official"
  },
  "rpa": {
   "drivability": "unknown",
   "notes": "No repeatable UI probe was run. WooCommerce's REST API, WC-CLI, hooks, extensions, webhooks, and native MCP preview provide supported paths that avoid browser control.",
   "ui_stack": [
    "web-dom"
   ],
   "vendor_support": []
  },
  "sdk": {
   "exists": true,
   "languages": [
    "javascript"
   ],
   "official": true
  }
 },
 "name": "WooCommerce",
 "platforms": [
  "web"
 ],
 "related": {
  "alternatives": [
   "shopify",
   "magento",
   "bigcommerce"
  ],
  "our_products": []
 },
 "schema_version": 1,
 "score_version": 1,
 "status": "active",
 "vendor": "Automattic",
 "verdict": {
  "best_path": "api",
  "scores": {
   "api": 8,
   "cli": 8,
   "computer_use": null,
   "integrations": null,
   "mcp": 6,
   "overall": 8,
   "rpa": null
  },
  "summary": "WooCommerce has a broad, self-hosted automation surface. REST API v3 reads, creates, updates, deletes, and batch-processes products, variations, orders, customers, coupons, refunds, taxes, shipping, payment gateways, settings, reports, system status, data, and webhooks as JSON. User-bound consumer keys can be read-only, write-only, or read/write, and the application authorization endpoint lets merchants grant keys without copying them. WooCommerce includes `wp wc` commands for most API work plus database, storage, extension-marketplace, blueprint, status, and delivery operations with structured formats. The plugin and extension model exposes extensive PHP actions, filters, block interfaces, and custom webhook topics. WooCommerce core now also has native MCP support, but it remains a developer preview. The current shared WordPress MCP adapter exposes canonical product query/create and order operations through the Abilities API; an older direct WooCommerce MCP endpoint is deprecated. The MCP contract is official and promising but is much narrower and less stable than REST or WC-CLI. Hosting, WordPress and WooCommerce versions, extensions, PHP execution, server security, and store-specific customization create more operational variability than a managed SaaS. Computer-use viability is unassessed.\n"
 }
}