How to Connect Woocommerce to Gemini — via MCP

Connect WooCommerce to Gemini

WooCommerce powers ~30% of online stores. With AnythingMCP and Gemini, 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 Gemini

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.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (on Windows %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "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 gemini.
3. Run /mcp inside Gemini CLI (or gemini mcp list in your shell) — anythingmcp should show as connected.
4. Start prompting — Gemini CLI 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", Gemini 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, Gemini 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

Where does Gemini CLI look for MCP servers? In ~/.gemini/settings.json for your user, or in .gemini/settings.json inside a project. gemini mcp list shows each server and whether it connects.

Next steps

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