Agentic Commerce – Product Images for WooCommerce

Description

Your next customer might be an AI. Is your catalog ready for it?

Shoppers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode and Amazon Rufus to find and compare products for them. Before a human ever sees your store, an AI reads your product images, and it is far pickier than any web browser. Wrong format, too small, no alt text, and your product is quietly skipped.

This plugin is built for that shift to agentic commerce. It fixes what AI shoppers need, adds AI editing (background removal, lifestyle scenes, upscaling), and keeps your store fast for humans too.

⚡ Start free: run the AI Shopper Image Audit. 30 seconds, no signup, no account. It scores every product for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Pinterest and Amazon Rufus, and tells you exactly what to fix.

🆓 Six tools that work the second you activate (no account, no API key, no network calls)

• 🔍 AI Shopper Image Audit: a per-product score with specific fixes: “fails ChatGPT carousel (WebP), passes Google AI (1500×1500), outside Pinterest ratio.” Right on the Edit Product screen.
• 🚀 Format-aware delivery: serves AVIF/WebP to browsers for speed, and JPEG/PNG to AI shopper crawlers (ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, GPTBot and more), exactly as the Agentic Commerce Protocol requires.
• ✅ Upload-time compliance: upload a WebP or AVIF and the plugin auto-creates an AI-shopper-ready JPEG sibling, then tells you what it did.
• 🔁 Variation hover-swap: hover a product card and the image flips to a variation or gallery shot. Block-theme friendly.
• 🎬 Shoppable video block: a Gutenberg block with product pins and an add-to-cart overlay.
• 🧹 Image dedupe: perceptual-hash detection of duplicate product images you re-uploaded.

🤖 Five AI tools (100 free AI edits a month, per site)

Connect once and unlock studio-grade editing, run on our managed AI so there is no separate provider account or key to babysit:

1. ✂️ Background Remover: detect the product and cut a clean, precise cutout. One photo or a bulk catalog pass.
2. 🏝️ Scene Generator: drop the cutout into an AI-generated lifestyle scene, the editorial imagery Perplexity and Pinterest surface first.
3. 🔬 Image Enhancer: upscale low-res photos 2x or 4x, denoise and sharpen, so every listing clears the Google AI Mode minimum.
4. 📝 AI Alt Text: generate accurate, descriptive alt text for SEO and AI shoppers, and bulk-fix an entire catalog in one pass.
5. 📐 Marketplace Auto-crop: subject-aware crop to 1:1 (Google + Agentic Commerce), 4:5 (Pinterest) and 16:9 (video), without lopping off the product.

📈 Why this is suddenly urgent

• OpenAI’s Agentic Commerce Protocol (Jan 2026) requires product image_url to be JPEG or PNG only. Most WordPress image plugins default to WebP/AVIF, which breaks ChatGPT Shopping carousels.
• Google AI Mode enforces a 500×500 minimum from June 2026.
• Perplexity favours lifestyle, in-context imagery.
• Amazon Rufus reads the text inside a product image as a ranking signal.

Your images may be perfectly optimised for humans and still invisible to the assistant doing the shopping. This plugin closes that gap.

🤝 Works alongside your image-optimization plugins

Image-optimization and CDN plugins compress and serve your images. This plugin adds AI editing and AI-shopper-aware delivery on top, detects an existing image CDN, and stays out of its way.

💰 Simple pricing

• Free forever: the six always-on tools above are fully local.
• AI tools: 100 free AI edits every month, per site. Then $5 for a 500-edit pack, one time, credits never expire.

🔓 Open source

Read the code, open an issue, or send a pull request: https://github.com/xpaysh/product-images-for-woocommerce. Built by xpay✦ Commerce.

The illustrative product photos bundled with the plugin (in public/img/) were generated with FLUX.1 [schnell] and Recraft; their outputs are freely usable and GPL-compatible.

Third-party services

This plugin makes no autonomous or background calls. The six always-on tools run entirely on your site. The plugin contacts our servers only after you connect (sign in), and only when you take an explicit action.

When you sign in, your site URL, WordPress / WooCommerce / plugin versions and email are sent to the xpay✦ Commerce API (product-images.xpay.sh) to link this site to your account.

When you use an AI tool, the image URL you select is sent to the xpay✦ Commerce API (product-images.xpay.sh), which runs the model on Replicate (models such as cjwbw/rembg, black-forest-labs/flux-schnell, nightmareai/real-esrgan and lucataco/moondream) and meters your quota. No AI-provider API key is stored on your site. Bundle-pack purchases are completed through Stripe Checkout.

When you click “See how AI shoppers read your store” (or a product’s “Why?”) on the AI Shopper Image Audit screen, the plugin sends that screen’s aggregate audit numbers (your site URL, WordPress / WooCommerce / plugin versions, product count, overall score, and how many products fail each check) to the xpay✦ Commerce API (product-images.xpay.sh) to generate a plain-language explanation. No image files and no order or customer data are sent. This only happens when you click.

You can disconnect at any time from Settings, Privacy, which removes the stored sign-in token from your site.

• xpay✦ Commerce API: https://product-images.xpay.sh (terms, privacy)
• Replicate: https://replicate.com (terms, privacy)
• Stripe: https://stripe.com (terms, privacy)