How to Connect Woocommerce to Cursor — via MCP

Connect WooCommerce to Cursor

WooCommerce powers ~30% of online stores. With AnythingMCP and Cursor, you can run merchandising, inventory, order management, and growth analysis — entirely through conversation.

What You Can Do

• "Find every out-of-stock product that sold well last month and bump stock to 50."
• "Build a markdown KPI report for this month vs last month — revenue, AOV, top sellers, refunds."
• "Identify products with weak descriptions and rewrite them for SEO."
• "Cancel all pending orders older than 48 hours."
• "Create a 15% off code MCPLAUNCH valid for 30 days, limited to 200 uses, percentage discount."

Setup

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

1. Generate REST API credentials in /wp-admin → WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → REST API → Add key with Read/Write permission.
2. Open http://localhost:3000/connectors/store, import the WooCommerce adapter.
3. Supply WOOCOMMERCE_URL, WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_KEY, WOOCOMMERCE_CONSUMER_SECRET. HTTPS required.
4. Assign the connector to an MCP server.

Connect Cursor

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "url": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP and check that anythingmcp is listed and connected.
4. Start chatting — the agent can now call the WooCommerce tools.

Self-hosting with the quickstart above? Use your server's local endpoint http://localhost:4000/mcp/<server-id> as the URL.

Skill Tools (the AI-native edge)

When you ask "optimise inventory", Cursor calls woocommerce_skill_inventory_optimization and receives the full playbook: find out-of-stock, cross-reference with top sellers, batch-update stock. No need to pre-write that recipe in your system prompt.

Available skills:

• woocommerce_skill_inventory_optimization
• woocommerce_skill_product_seo_optimization
• woocommerce_skill_upsell_cross_sell
• woocommerce_skill_low_conversion_analysis
• woocommerce_skill_abandoned_order_triage
• woocommerce_skill_revenue_kpi_snapshot

Bulk Writes Done Right

For any operation touching ≥3 products, Cursor uses woocommerce_batch_update_products (one HTTP call, up to 100 products) instead of fanning out individual updates. The skill recipes enforce this pattern.

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT
• Connect to Gemini
• Connect to Meta Muse