Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce

Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant is an AI chatbot and sales assistant for WooCommerce. Shoppers ask for what they want in their own words, and it searches your catalogue, answers questions about your products, adds items to the cart, presents your real shipping rates and payment methods, and hands over to your normal WooCommerce checkout. It runs on our hosted AI service, so a free or paid account is required and there is no API key for you to manage — see Third-Party Services below for exactly what that involves. Try it before you install Live demo store: https://store.f5digitalmarketing.com — a real WooCommerce shop with the assistant running on it. Ask it for something, add it to the cart, and take it to checkout. Nothing to install and no account to create. Full details: https://f5digitalmarketing.com/software/ai-shopping-experience What a conversation looks like

Shopper: I need a jacket for a wet commute, under $300 Assistant: The Denim Trucker Jacket ($279.90) is the closest in that range. Your returns policy gives you 30 days if it is not right. Add it? Shopper: yes, medium — and what is the cheapest delivery? Assistant: Added. Standard shipping is $4.90, 3–5 days. Ready to check out?

Those prices, shipping rates and the returns answer all come from your store and your own uploaded documents — not from the model's imagination. What it does

• Conversational product discovery — search and compare your catalogue in natural language
• Recommendations — personalised from the shopper's own past orders when they are signed in
• Cart control — add, remove and change quantities, including product variations
• Shipping and payment — your real WooCommerce rates and gateways, never invented ones
• Order help — a signed-in shopper can ask about their own orders
• Knowledge base (RAG) — upload PDF, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), CSV, TXT or Markdown
• Custom instructions — set the assistant's persona and house rules
• Answers in your language — follows your site language, or force a specific one
• Conversations inbox — read shopper chats in wp-admin, pause the AI and reply as a human
• Sales analytics — revenue, add-to-cart and conversion attributed to chat

Grounded in your own content Upload your shipping policy, returns policy, size guides or spec sheets, and the assistant answers from those instead of guessing. It replaces several things at once: a product finder and conversational search for your catalogue, a customer support chatbot that answers from your own policies, a product recommendation engine, and a live chat inbox with human handoff for the conversations that need a person. How it works: no API key, no AI bill All AI processing happens on our servers rather than yours. That means you never create an AI provider account, never paste an API key into WordPress, never expose a key on your own server, and never receive a bill from an AI provider — your plan covers it. The trade-off is that the plugin is a client for that service and does not work on its own. The free plan exists precisely so this costs nothing to find out: 800,000 tokens a month, one store, three knowledge-base documents, and no payment card. Signup asks for your name and email and takes about two minutes. You paste the licence key into the plugin and you are running. Safety Every conversation passes through a fixed policy layer that cannot be switched off. The assistant stays on the subject of your store, refuses to reveal system prompts or credentials, obtains store data only through defined tools, and declines illegal or unethical requests. Replies are filtered before they reach the browser. Built for WooCommerce Product data is read through the WooCommerce REST API, and shipping and payment options through WooCommerce's own hooks — never by querying WooCommerce tables directly. The plugin is compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS). Trademark notice Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WooCommerce, Automattic Inc., OpenAI, or F5, Inc. "WooCommerce" and "OpenAI" are used only to describe the software this plugin works with, and remain the trademarks of their respective owners.

1. Install and activate the plugin. WooCommerce must be active.
2. You will land on the setup screen. Click Get your free licence, which opens the storefront in a new tab.
3. Complete the free signup — it asks for your name and email. No payment card and no billing address.
4. Copy the licence key from the confirmation page or email.
5. Return to the setup screen, paste the key, and click Activate.
6. Use Send test message to confirm the assistant answers.

That is the whole setup, and it usually takes about two minutes. The chat launcher is added to every storefront page automatically — there is no shortcode to place. Use the [aise_buy_with_ai] shortcode only if you additionally want a dedicated full-page assistant on a page of your choosing. Optional next steps: upload documents under Knowledge Base so answers come from your own policies, and set a persona under Settings → Assistant.

1.0.6

• The setup screen now links a live demo store, so you can see the assistant working on a real shop before creating an account anywhere.
• Clearer about what claiming the free plan involves: it asks for your name and email, takes about two minutes, and needs no payment card or billing address. The setup screen also names the store that issues your licence, so following the link is not a surprise.
• The "no licence activated" notice now appears after three days instead of seven — a plugin doing nothing for a week with no explanation was not helping anyone. It is still a single notice and still dismissible for good.

1.0.5

• Chat replies now stream through the WordPress HTTP API instead of a direct cURL connection. Nothing changes on screen; the plugin no longer opens a connection of its own, so hosts keep control of proxies, TLS and request filters.

1.0.4

• Renamed: the plugin is now Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce. Your settings, licence, knowledge base and stored conversations are unchanged.

1.0.2

• Renamed: the plugin carries a new name. Your settings, licence and stored conversations are unchanged.
• Action needed if you used the shortcode: it is now [aise_buy_with_ai]. Update any page carrying the old [buy_with_ai]. The automatic chat launcher is unaffected, and most stores use no shortcode at all.
• Admin notices are narrower and every one of them can now be dismissed for good. The plugin no longer posts notices on WooCommerce's own screens, and the 75% token warning no longer carries a plan call to action.
• Updated the bundled Alpine.js to 3.17.1.
• Removed a function deprecated in PHP 8 from the Word and Excel document parsers.
• Translations now come from translate.wordpress.org instead of being bundled with the plugin.

1.0.1

• Fixed: a fatal error ("Class AISE\Security\Crypto not found") could be shown on the Plugins or Updates screen in the moment right after the plugin updated itself. The update had already completed and reloading the page cleared it, but the error looked like a broken site. The update check now stays out of that window, and the class loader no longer gives up when the plugin's own directory has just been replaced underneath it.

1.0.0

• The stored licence key is now authenticated as well as encrypted; keys saved by earlier versions keep working and are upgraded the next time settings are saved.
• Added rate limiting to the chat, cart, history and message endpoints.
• Hardened knowledge-base document parsing against malformed and hostile DOCX, XLSX and PDF files.
• The compliance guardrails are now also enforced on the vendor gateway, so they cannot be bypassed by bypassing the plugin.
• Catalogue search now filters on a real price range and retries singular word forms, so requests like "shirts under $200" return matching products instead of unrelated ones.

0.4.4

• Fixed: asking for a specific kind of product with a budget (e.g. "shirts under $200") could still show unrelated products as cards, because the recommendation tool has no way to filter by type or price. The assistant now uses the catalogue search with real min/max price filtering instead.
• Fixed: a plural search term (e.g. "shirts") could report "no results" even when matching products existed under a singular name (e.g. "Shirt"). The catalogue search now retries with the singular form before giving up.

0.4.3

• First WordPress.org release.
• New first-run setup screen with a guided licence activation and a built-in test message.
• Settings are now editable before a licence is activated.
• The "no licence" admin notice is dismissible and limited to relevant screens.
• Added personal-data export and erase support, plus suggested privacy policy text.
• Free-plan claims now skip local, staging and development hostnames.