Chat replies now stream through the WordPress HTTP API. No action needed.<\/p>","1.0.4":"
The plugin has been renamed to Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce. Nothing needs attention: your settings, licence and conversations carry over untouched.<\/p>","1.0.2":"
If you placed the [buy_with_ai] shortcode on a page, change it to [aise_buy_with_ai]; nothing else needs attention.<\/p>","1.0.1":"
Fixes the "Class ... not found" error that could appear on the update screen immediately after updating.<\/p>","1.0.0":"
Security hardening for the stored licence key, document parsing and the chat endpoints, plus better catalogue search.<\/p>","0.4.4":"
Fixes product recommendations showing unrelated items and search missing plural-vs-singular matches.<\/p>","0.4.3":"
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Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant is an AI chatbot and sales assistant for\nWooCommerce<\/strong>. Shoppers ask for what they want in their own words, and it searches\nyour catalogue, answers questions about your products, adds items to the cart,\npresents your real shipping rates and payment methods, and hands over to your\nnormal WooCommerce checkout.<\/p>\n\n It replaces several things at once: a product finder and conversational search\nfor your catalogue, a customer support chatbot that answers from your own\npolicies, a product recommendation engine, and a live chat inbox with human\nhandoff for the conversations that need a person.<\/p>\n\n Answers are grounded in your<\/strong> content. Upload your shipping policy, returns\npolicy, size guides or spec sheets, and the assistant answers from those instead\nof guessing.<\/p>\n\n This plugin is a client for the Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant service and does not\nwork on its own.<\/strong> All AI processing happens on the service's servers, not on\nyour site, so a free or paid account is required \u2014 there is nothing the plugin\ncould do locally without one.<\/p>\n\n The free plan includes 800,000 tokens per month, one store, and three\nknowledge-base documents. It does not ask for a payment card.<\/strong> You register\non the vendor's storefront, receive a licence key, and paste it into the plugin.<\/p>\n\n This design is deliberate: it means you never handle an AI provider API key,\nnever pay an AI provider directly, and never expose a key on your own server.<\/p>\n\n Every conversation passes through a fixed policy layer that cannot be switched\noff. The assistant stays on the subject of your store, refuses to reveal system\nprompts or credentials, obtains store data only through defined tools, and\ndeclines illegal or unethical requests. Replies are filtered before they reach\nthe browser.<\/p>\n\n Product data is read through the WooCommerce REST API, and shipping and payment\noptions through WooCommerce's own hooks \u2014 never by querying WooCommerce tables\ndirectly. The plugin is compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS).<\/p>\n\n Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant for WooCommerce is an independent product\nand is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by<\/strong> WooCommerce,\nAutomattic Inc., OpenAI, or F5, Inc. \"WooCommerce\" and \"OpenAI\" are used only to describe\nthe software this plugin works with, and remain the trademarks of their\nrespective owners.<\/p>\n\n This plugin relies on external services to function. By activating it and using\nthe assistant, data from your site is transmitted to the services below. If you\nare not comfortable with this, do not use the plugin.<\/p>\n\n 1. Extraordinary AI Shopping Assistant Gateway<\/strong> \u2014 https:\/\/chat.f5digitalmarketing.com<\/p>\n\n The service that holds the AI provider credentials, verifies your licence, meters\nyour token usage, and streams the assistant's replies back to your site.<\/p>\n\n Data sent, and when:<\/em><\/p>\n\n Shopper names, email addresses and payment details are not<\/strong> sent.<\/p>\n\n Terms of service: https:\/\/f5digitalmarketing.com\/software\/terms\/\nPrivacy policy: https:\/\/f5digitalmarketing.com\/software\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n 2. OpenAI<\/strong> \u2014 https:\/\/openai.com<\/p>\n\n The gateway forwards the prompt content described above to the OpenAI API to\ngenerate replies and embeddings. This plugin never contacts OpenAI directly and\nnever holds an OpenAI key.<\/p>\n\n Terms of service: https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/row-terms-of-use\nPrivacy policy: https:\/\/openai.com\/policies\/row-privacy-policy<\/p>\n\n 3. Licence servers<\/strong> \u2014 https:\/\/f5digitalmarketing.com\/software and https:\/\/www.estudarti.com.br<\/p>\n\n The storefronts that issue and validate subscriptions. Your plugin talks to\nwhichever one issued your key.<\/p>\n\n Data sent, and when:<\/em> your licence key, your site URL and the plugin version \u2014\nwhen you activate a licence, once a day on an automatic re-validation, and when\nyou deactivate.<\/p>\n\n Terms of service: https:\/\/f5digitalmarketing.com\/software\/terms\/ and https:\/\/www.estudarti.com.br\/termos-de-uso-software\/\nPrivacy policy: https:\/\/f5digitalmarketing.com\/software\/privacy\/ and https:\/\/www.estudarti.com.br\/politica-de-privacidade-software\/<\/p>\n\n Data stored on your own site<\/strong><\/p>\n\n Conversations \u2014 including those held by visitors who are not signed in \u2014 are\nstored in your site's database so you can read them in the Conversations screen.\nYou are the controller of that data and should describe it in your own privacy\npolicy. The plugin adds suggested wording under Settings \u2192 Privacy<\/strong>, and\nsupports WordPress's personal-data export and erase requests for signed-in\ncustomers.<\/p>\n\n\n The chat launcher is added to every storefront page automatically \u2014 there is no\nshortcode to place. Use the Optional next steps: upload documents under Knowledge Base<\/strong> so answers come\nfrom your own policies, and set a persona under Settings \u2192 Assistant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n No. You never handle an AI provider key. The key lives on the vendor's gateway,\nwhich is one of the main reasons the plugin works this way.<\/p><\/dd>\n No. All AI processing happens on the vendor's servers, so the assistant cannot\nanswer without an account. The free plan exists precisely so that this costs\nnothing to try: 800,000 tokens a month, no payment card.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. One store, three knowledge-base documents, 800,000 tokens a month, and no\ncard. The free plan may be used on one store permanently \u2014 local, staging and\ndevelopment hostnames are exempt, so trying it on a staging copy does not use up\nyour store's allowance.<\/p><\/dd>\n See the Third-Party Services section above, which lists every destination and\nexactly what is sent to it.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes, on your own site, so you can read them in the Conversations screen and reply\nas a human. They are also covered by WordPress's export and erase tools for\nsigned-in customers.<\/p><\/dd>\n All three, for a store. It answers as an AI chatbot by default, recommends\nproducts from the shopper's own purchase history, and lets you take over any\nconversation yourself from the Messages inbox \u2014 pause the AI and reply as a\nhuman, like a live chat plugin. What it adds over any of them is that the\nshopper can complete the purchase in the conversation.<\/p><\/dd>\n The assistant runs on OpenAI models through our gateway. You never create an\nOpenAI account, never paste an API key, and never receive a bill from an AI\nprovider \u2014 your plan covers it.<\/p><\/dd>\n No, by design. A fixed policy layer keeps it to shopping and store support, and\nit will decline off-topic requests. This cannot be disabled, only extended.<\/p><\/dd>\n PDF, Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx), CSV, TXT and Markdown. Legacy binary .doc and\n.xls are not supported \u2014 save them as .docx\/.xlsx first. Scanned PDFs that\ncontain only images have no text layer and are rejected with a message saying so.<\/p><\/dd>\n Every request the plugin makes goes through the WordPress HTTP API. The reply is\nsent back as Server-Sent Events, and the plugin reads it as it arrives from the\n requests-request.progress action WordPress fires for each block of the\nresponse body, so nothing opens a connection of its own. On a host where no such\nblock is reported, the reply simply appears in one piece instead of word by word.<\/p><\/dd>\n Yes. HPOS compatibility is declared, and order data is read through WooCommerce's\nown APIs.<\/p><\/dd>\n\n<\/dl>\n\n\nAn account is required<\/h4>\n\n
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[aise_buy_with_ai]<\/code> shortcode only if you additionally\nwant a dedicated full-page assistant on a page of your choosing.<\/p>\n\n\n
Do I need an OpenAI API key?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does the plugin work without a licence?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is the free plan really free?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
What data leaves my site?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Are shopper conversations stored?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Is this a chatbot, a live chat plugin, or a product recommendation plugin?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it use ChatGPT or my own OpenAI account?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Can the assistant be used as a general-purpose chatbot?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Which file types can the knowledge base read?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
How do replies arrive token by token?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
Does it work with High-Performance Order Storage?<\/h3><\/dt>\n
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[aise_buy_with_ai]<\/code>. Update any page carrying the old [buy_with_ai]<\/code>. The automatic chat launcher is unaffected, and most stores use no shortcode at all.<\/li>\n1.0.1<\/h4>\n\n
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