ShopToAI Connector

Description

ShopToAI Connector places machine-readable product data (Schema.org / JSON-LD) on your WooCommerce product pages so AI shopping assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini can read your catalog and recommend your products.

It connects your store to ShopToAI, a hosted service that audits your catalog, fixes gaps and builds the markup. The plugin is the piece that puts that markup into your live pages, where the REST API alone cannot reach reliably.

What the plugin does on your site

• Adds one authoritative Schema.org Product block to each product page, pulled from your ShopToAI feed.
• Suppresses duplicate Product markup from WooCommerce core, the Yoast SEO WooCommerce add-on, Rank Math and All in One SEO Pro, so an assistant never reads two conflicting blocks. Your WebPage, Breadcrumb and Organization schema are left untouched.
• Allows AI search crawlers in robots.txt (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended and others). A rule you set for a crawler yourself is always kept, and crawlers that only collect content to train AI models are left alone unless you opt in on the settings page.
• Warns you in wp-admin when something on your site overrides its robots.txt rules or /llms.txt, such as a physical file in the site root or an SEO plugin’s own llms.txt feature.
• Shows the FAQ you published in the ShopToAI dashboard as a “FAQ” tab on the product page, with its FAQPage markup inside that tab, so the markup only describes text your shoppers can see.
• Serves /llms.txt at your store root and comparison guides at /ai-guides/{slug}, both fetched from ShopToAI and cached, so an assistant that cites them cites your domain.
• Reports a heartbeat so your store shows as connected in the ShopToAI dashboard.

The plugin never invents product data. It only places markup that you have reviewed and approved in the dashboard, and every response it fetches is cached with a short fallback so a brief network problem never slows your pages.

External service: ShopToAI

This plugin requires an account with ShopToAI, a third-party service operated by YAStuning OÜ (the data controller named in the Privacy Policy). The plugin will not produce any markup without it. When configured, the plugin makes requests to the ShopToAI API (by default https://shoptoai.com) to:

• fetch the approved JSON-LD for a product (the request sends your store’s feed token and the product’s SKU and WooCommerce ID),
• fetch your /llms.txt and any AI guides (the request sends your feed token),
• send a heartbeat and a disconnect signal (these send your feed token and a plugin secret so the dashboard can show the connection status; the heartbeat also sends the plugin version and short codes naming anything on your site that overrides the plugin’s robots.txt rules or /llms.txt, for example a physical robots.txt file).

No customer or order data is sent. The requests carry product identifiers and your connection keys only. The API base URL is fixed to https://shoptoai.com; a self-hosted or white-label deployment can override it with the SHOPTOAI_API_BASE constant in wp-config.php.

• Service: https://shoptoai.com
• Terms of Service: https://shoptoai.com/legal/terms
• Privacy Policy: https://shoptoai.com/legal/privacy

Developed by ILUXA WEB (https://iluxa-web.com) for ShopToAI.

Compatibility note

The plugin requires WooCommerce’s REST API v3, which shipped as the standard in
WooCommerce 3.5 and later; a store on an older WooCommerce release will show a clear
“not found” error at connection time rather than a silent failure. Automated tests run
against a lightweight WordPress/WooCommerce test double, not a live install of every
listed version – if you hit an issue on a specific WordPress or WooCommerce release,
please report it so we can confirm and update this note.

Technical details