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

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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 . 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 " } } } }

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.

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

Resources

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",