About this plugin
Your next customer is asking AI what to buy.
When a shopper asks an AI assistant for the best product in your category, the answer names a handful of products, and every other store is invisible. AnswerEng for WooCommerce shows you whether your products make it into those answers, how you compare with your competitors, and what to change when you’re missing.
How it works
- Connect. Paste your free AnswerEng API key into WooCommerce → AnswerEng Settings, and add your brand and competitor names.
- Sync. Your published catalog syncs to AnswerEng in the background and stays current as you edit products.
- Measure. AnswerEng asks AI answer engines the buying questions your shoppers ask, and records which products come back recommended.
- Improve. Results appear right in wp-admin, with drafted fixes for the questions where your products were missing.
What you’ll see
- Overall visibility: how often AI answer engines recommend your products, with a confidence interval so you know how solid the number is.
- Per-engine presence: results for each engine AnswerEng samples, currently Claude, Perplexity, Mistral, and Llama.
- Visibility trend: whether you’re gaining or losing ground from run to run.
- Share of voice: how often you’re recommended compared with the competitors you name.
- Drafted fixes: for each question you were missing from, a diagnosis and a ready-to-copy draft. You review and apply them yourself; nothing on your store changes automatically.
Honest numbers, not hype
AI answers vary from one ask to the next, so a single chatbot conversation proves very little. AnswerEng reports every visibility number with a 95% confidence interval: a narrow range means a solid result, and a wide one means the picture is still forming.
Built for store owners
- Works with your existing WooCommerce catalog. No theme edits and no changes to your products.
- Syncs in the background with WooCommerce’s Action Scheduler, and caches results so admin pages stay fast.
- Sends product data only, never customer or order data. See “External services” below for exactly what is sent and when.
- Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and block-based cart and checkout.
Plans
An AnswerEng account is required. io/signup and your API key arrives by email. Paid plans add weekly sampling, more questions, and more stores.
See pricing.
External services
This plugin relies on AnswerEng, a hosted service operated by Fullspec Studio LLC. io ); if you enter a different Engine URL on the settings page, it connects to that address instead. It contacts only that one endpoint, and only in these situations:
- On catalog sync — when a product changes (if auto-sync is enabled) or on the nightly reconcile, the plugin sends the following data for each published product to the endpoint’s /catalog route, so it can be analyzed by AI answer engines: product SKU, title, short description, price, category, and attributes. It also sends your store key (by default, your site’s domain name), your brand names (by default, your site title), and your configured competitor names. No product images and no customer or order data are ever transmitted.
- On results viewing — when you open the AnswerEng results page, or click “Test connection” / “Refresh”, the plugin requests your visibility summary and drafted fixes from the endpoint.
Every request is authenticated with the API key you entered. There is no telemetry, tracking, or third-party analytics of any kind.
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