WooCommerce MCP

woocommerce-mcp

A Model Context Protocol server for running one or more WooCommerce stores through the WooCommerce REST API. MCP clients can browse the catalog, work through and fulfill orders, issue refunds, adjust prices and stock in bulk, run promotions, segment customers, react to webhooks, and read sales analytics. Every change is previewed before it is applied and can be written to an audit log.

It runs locally over stdio, or as a remote service over streamable HTTP with bearer-token or OAuth 2.0 authentication, and ships as a Docker image on the GitHub Container Registry.

Documentation: https://sadrmanesh.github.io/woocommerce-mcp/ · Tool explorer: Hugging Face Space

Read more: Safe write tools for agents: preview, confirm, audit, and stale previews in a WooCommerce MCP server on Dev.to · Preview, confirm, audit on LinkedIn · Update: A week of reader feedback: what changed in my four AI-for-commerce tools on Dev.to · What reader feedback taught me about building production-safe AI tooling for commerce on LinkedIn

Listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp, on Glama, and on mcpservers.org.

Contents

• Highlights
• Quick start
• Connect an MCP client
• Tools, resources, and prompts
• Safe writes
• Configuration
• Deployment
• Development
• Documentation

Highlights

• Multi-store. Configure any number of stores and pick one per call with store. Each store has its own credentials and its own read-only switch.
• Safe by default. Stores are read-only until you allow writes. Write tools then return a preview of the exact REST request and apply it only when called again with confirm: true. A confirm is refused if the arguments or the store data the change was computed from changed since the preview. dryRun: true always previews.
• Signed approvals (optional). Set WOOCOMMERCE_APPROVAL_SECRET and a confirm also needs a short-lived, single-use token signed for that exact preview by someone outside the agent's reach, for example with woocommerce-mcp approve <previewId>. The agent cannot approve its own writes.
• Audit log. One JSON line per write attempt: applied, previewed, refused, or failed, with the tool, store, arguments, caller, and a preview id that links each confirmed write to its preview.
• Refunds and bulk operations. Partial or line-item refunds, batch updates of up to 100 products, and percentage or fixed price adjustments.
• Analytics. Sales by day, week, or month with refunds, average order value, top products, and payment methods, plus a low-stock report that covers variations.
• Promotions and customers. Coupon performance, scheduled sales, and customer segments such as VIP, repeat, and at risk.
• Fulfillment. Order notes, shipment tracking, and one-step fulfillment that emails the customer.
• Webhooks. Manage store webhooks and receive signed deliveries, readable as MCP resources.
• Shipping and taxes. Read shipping zones, methods, tax rates, and tax classes.
• Privacy and control. Optional PII redaction, and tool allow and deny lists per deployment or per store.
• Gentle on the store. Per-store rate limiting, retries with backoff and jitter, and an optional read cache.
• Remote ready. Streamable HTTP with static bearer tokens (full or read-only) or RFC 7662 token introspection, RFC 9728 protected resource metadata, Host and Origin checks, and a health endpoint.
• MCP resources and prompts. Read products and orders by URI, and start common workflows such as a sales briefing or a restock plan.
• Observability. Optional OpenTelemetry traces for every tool call and WooCommerce request.
• Well tested. Strict TypeScript, Zod validation on every input, and tests against a mocked WooCommerce API.

Quick start

Node.js 20 or newer is required.

npm install -g @sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp

Or run the Docker image from the GitHub Container Registry (linux/amd64 and linux/arm64, tags X.Y.Z, X.Y, and latest). The same image is on Docker Hub as sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp:

docker run --rm -i -e MCP_TRANSPORT=stdio \
  -e WOOCOMMERCE_URL -e WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY -e WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_SECRET \
  ghcr.io/sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp:0.6.0

The npm package is also on GitHub Packages; see Install options for the .npmrc setup. npmjs.com remains the main registry.

Or from a checkout:

git clone https://github.com/sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp.git
cd woocommerce-mcp
npm install
npm run build
cp .env.example .env

Create a REST API key under WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > REST API. Use a Read key while the store is read-only, and a Read/Write key only when you enable writes. WordPress permalinks must not be set to "Plain", or /wp-json/ will not resolve.

WOOCOMMERCE_URL=https://store.example.com \
WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY=ck_... \
WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_SECRET=cs_... \
woocommerce-mcp

The process then serves MCP on stdin and stdout. Logs go to stderr. npm start in a checkout loads .env from the working directory without overriding variables that are already set.

Connect an MCP client

Most hosts accept an mcpServers map like the ones below. Keep secrets in env, never in args. Docker, Smithery, and MCP Registry installs are in docs/install.md.

stdio

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "woocommerce": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@sadrmanesh/woocommerce-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "WOOCOMMERCE_URL": "https://store.example.com",
        "WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY": "ck_your_consumer_key",
        "WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_SECRET": "cs_your_consumer_secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

From a checkout, use "command": "node" and "args": ["/absolute/path/to/woocommerce-mcp/dist/index.js"].

Streamable HTTP

MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKENS="$(openssl rand -base64 32)" woocommerce-mcp

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "woocommerce": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer <token>" }
    }
  }
}

Without authentication the HTTP endpoint only binds to loopback. See docs/security.md for tokens, scopes, and OAuth introspection.

Tools, resources, and prompts

Every tool except woocommerce_list_stores accepts an optional store id. Without it, the default store is used.

To browse every tool with its full input schema and build tools/call requests in the browser, open the tool explorer on Hugging Face.

Area	Read tools	Write tools
Stores	list_stores
Products	list_products, search_products, get_product	create_product, update_product, bulk_update_products, bulk_adjust_prices
Orders	list_orders, get_order, list_order_notes	update_order_status, add_order_note, delete_order_note
Fulfillment	get_order_tracking	fulfill_order
Refunds	list_refunds, get_refund	create_refund
Customers	list_customers, get_customer, customer_orders, customer_segments	update_customer
Stock	get_stock, low_stock_report	update_stock
Coupons and sales	list_coupons, get_coupon, coupon_performance	create_coupon, update_coupon, delete_coupon, schedule_sale, end_sale
Webhooks	list_webhooks, get_webhook, list_webhook_events	create_webhook, update_webhook, delete_webhook
Shipping and taxes	list_shipping_zones, list_shipping_methods, list_tax_rates, list_tax_classes
Analytics	get_store_summary, sales_analytics

Every name starts with woocommerce_, for example woocommerce_customer_segments. That makes 47 tools: 28 reads and 19 writes.

Resources

URI	Content
woocommerce://stores	Configured stores
woocommerce://stores/{store}/products/{id}	One product
woocommerce://stores/{store}/orders/{id}	One order
woocommerce://stores/{store}/events	Recent webhook deliveries
woocommerce://stores/{store}/events/{id}	One webhook delivery with its payload

Prompts: sales_briefing, restock_plan, order_triage, and price_change_review.

Full argument and response details are in docs/tools.md.

Safe writes

1. Read-only stores. A store accepts writes only when WOOCOMMERCE_READ_ONLY=false (single store) or "readOnly": false (store list). Otherwise write tools fail with read_only before contacting the store.

2. Confirmation. With WOOCOMMERCE_REQUIRE_CONFIRMATION=true (the default), the first call returns the planned request and changes nothing:

   {
     "status": "confirmation_required",
     "store": "default",
     "previewId": "pv_4f1c9a2e7b3d0856",
     "message": "The change was NOT applied. ...",
     "request": { "method": "PUT", "path": "orders/1015", "query": {}, "body": { "status": "completed" } }
   }
   

   Calling the tool again with the same arguments and confirm: true applies it. dryRun: true always previews, even with confirmation turned off. Every preview carries a previewId; send it back with confirm: true and the server refuses the call with preview_mismatch if the arguments changed since the preview.

   Tools that compute a write from store data, such as a 10% price increase, resolve it at preview time: the preview lists each record it read under preconditions, with the current values (before) and the absolute values the write will set (after), and the previewId gains a second part that fingerprints that data. On confirm the server reads the same data again, and if it changed, for example because the price was edited in between, the call is refused with stale_preview and nothing is sent. See Stale previews for what is and is not covered.

3. Scopes. Over authenticated HTTP, write tools also need the woocommerce:write scope. Read-only tokens can never change a store.

4. Audit. Set WOOCOMMERCE_AUDIT_LOG to a file path or stderr:

   {"time":"2026-10-30T14:02:11.120Z","tool":"woocommerce_update_order_status","store":"default","outcome":"applied","arguments":{"id":1015,"status":"completed"},"client":"static:3f9a1c2b7d10","previewId":"pv_4f1c9a2e7b3d0856","previewMatch":true}
   

5. Signed approvals (optional). A preview id binds what is confirmed, not who confirmed it: by default an agent can request a preview and confirm it in the same turn. Set WOOCOMMERCE_APPROVAL_SECRET to require an approval token on every confirm. The token is an HMAC-SHA256 signature over the exact previewId (state part included), tool, store, and an expiry, so it cannot be reused for other arguments or a changed store. Tokens are single-use and expire after 10 minutes by default. A person signs one after reviewing the preview:

   woocommerce-mcp approve pv_e2a742fe51c807fc_a3510d17b8a51b93 --by "Naser"
   

   The command shows the previewed change from the audit log, asks for a yes, and prints the token, which the agent passes back as approval with confirm: true. Missing, invalid, expired, mismatched, and reused tokens are refused with approval_required, approval_invalid, approval_expired, approval_mismatch, and approval_replayed. The token format is documented, so an approval page or webhook can sign too.

   What this is not: whoever holds the secret can approve, so keep it out of MCP client configs, prompts, and any host the agent has a shell on. Spent tokens are tracked in memory per process. Without the secret, behavior is exactly as in 0.5.0. See Signed approvals.

Refunds created by woocommerce_create_refund are recorded as manual refunds unless apiRefund: true asks the payment gateway to return the money.

Configuration

The most common settings are below. Every variable, including the multi-store file format, is in docs/configuration.md and .env.example.

Variable	Default	Description
WOOCOMMERCE_URL		Store origin, without /wp-json
WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY / _SECRET		REST API credentials
WOOCOMMERCE_READ_ONLY	true	Allow writes for the single store
WOOCOMMERCE_STORES_FILE / WOOCOMMERCE_STORES		Several stores, as a JSON file or inline JSON
WOOCOMMERCE_DEFAULT_STORE	first store	Store used when a call omits store
WOOCOMMERCE_REQUIRE_CONFIRMATION	true	Preview writes until confirm: true
WOOCOMMERCE_AUDIT_LOG	off	File path or stderr
WOOCOMMERCE_APPROVAL_SECRET	off	Require a signed approval token on every confirmed write. Keep it away from the agent
WOOCOMMERCE_APPROVAL_TTL_SECONDS	600	Longest approval token lifetime the server accepts
MCP_TRANSPORT	stdio	stdio or http
MCP_HTTP_HOST / _PORT / _PATH	127.0.0.1 / 3000 / /mcp	HTTP listener
MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKENS		Full-access bearer tokens
MCP_HTTP_AUTH_READ_TOKENS		Read-only bearer tokens
WOOCOMMERCE_REDACT_PII	false	Mask names, emails, phones, and addresses in results
WOOCOMMERCE_TOOLS_ALLOW / _DENY		Tool names or * patterns to expose or hide
WOOCOMMERCE_WEBHOOK_SECRET		Enables the webhook receiver for the store
WOOCOMMERCE_RATE_LIMIT / _BURST	5 / 10	Requests per second per store, and burst
WOOCOMMERCE_CACHE_TTL_MS	0 (off)	Cache read responses
WOOCOMMERCE_OTEL_ENABLED	false	Export OpenTelemetry traces

Multi-store example (stores.json):

{
  "defaultStore": "eu",
  "stores": [
    { "id": "eu", "label": "EU shop", "url": "https://eu.example.com", "consumerKeyEnv": "EU_KEY", "consumerSecretEnv": "EU_SECRET" },
    { "id": "us", "url": "https://us.example.com", "consumerKeyEnv": "US_KEY", "consumerSecretEnv": "US_SECRET", "readOnly": false }
  ]
}

Deployment

cp .env.example .env    # add store credentials and MCP_HTTP_AUTH_TOKENS
docker compose up -d --build
curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/healthz

The image runs as a non-root user, listens on port 3000, and has a health check. Put it behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy for remote use. See docs/deployment.md.

Development

npm install
npm run check   # lint, typecheck, tests, build

Tests run against a mocked WooCommerce API and never call a live store. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Documentation

The full documentation site is at https://sadrmanesh.github.io/woocommerce-mcp/. The same guides are in this repository:

• Install options
• Configuration
• Tools reference
• Webhooks
• Privacy
• Performance
• Security and authentication
• Deployment
• Observability
• Changelog

Technical report

Technical Report: WooCommerce Model Context Protocol Server - A Multi-Store, Previewed Safe-Write Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents in E-Commerce. M. N. Sadrmanesh, Zenodo, 2026. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23897615 Also on ResearchGate and Academia.edu.

@techreport{sadrmanesh2026woocommercemcp,
  author      = {Sadrmanesh, Mohammad Naser},
  title       = {Technical Report: WooCommerce Model Context Protocol Server - A Multi-Store, Previewed Safe-Write Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents in E-Commerce},
  institution = {Zenodo},
  year        = {2026},
  version     = {1.0},
  doi         = {10.5281/zenodo.23897615},
  url         = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23897615}
}

License

MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 Naser Sadrmanesh. See LICENSE.

Author

Naser Sadrmanesh: https://github.com/sadrmanesh · https://sadrmanesh.github.io · [email protected]