About this plugin
Respira ARC makes a WooCommerce store readable to AI assistants and shopping surfaces, and shows you when they start sending orders. It runs on your own site: no API key, no product limit, and nothing is sent anywhere unless you choose to connect a free Respira account for the weekly site check.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot and Google’s AI results now answer “what should I buy” questions. They recommend what they can read. ARC gives them a clean, current view of your catalog and policies, and counts the orders that come back.
ChatGPT product feed
An OpenAI product feed in JSONL, following OpenAI’s product feed spec: unique rows per variant, prices and sale windows, availability, identifiers, the seller name, and variant grouping. Register its URL once in OpenAI’s merchant onboarding.
Google Shopping feed
A Google Merchant Center XML feed for scheduled fetch (Bing Merchant Center accepts the same file), with Google’s identifier rules for brand, GTIN and MPN.
Meta, Pinterest and TikTok catalogs
CSV catalogs for Facebook and Instagram (Commerce Manager), Pinterest and TikTok, plus a generic CSV export.
All feeds rebuild in the background on your schedule, and again a few minutes after a product changes. Variations export as proper variant rows with their own prices and images.
llms.txt for WooCommerce
txt: what you sell, your policies (privacy, terms, returns, shipping, contact), top categories, brands, bestsellers with prices, payment methods, your sitemap and where the feeds live. txt file already sits in your site root, ARC says so instead of claiming its own is served.
Orders from AI assistants
One screen shows the orders and revenue AI assistants sent you in the last 30 days:
- orders WooCommerce’s own order attribution traces to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini or Copilot (by referrer or utm_source), with no setup;
- orders placed through signed agent cart links, which fill a shopper’s cart and land on your own checkout.
Checkout, payments and customer data never leave your store.
See which AI crawlers read your store
txt. Counted on your server, no IP addresses stored. The “-User” fetchers visit while someone is chatting, so a count there means a real shopper’s question reached your store.
AI-readiness score
ARC checks your products for what shopping surfaces reject: missing images, thin descriptions, missing brands and identifiers, unmapped categories. It names the failing products and what each one needs. The score covers every published product: each feed build scores the catalog in the same background pass that writes the feeds, so a large store gets a full score without a slow admin screen.
Google product categories
Map each store category to Google’s product taxonomy on the ARC screen, with a Google category ID or the full path. The screen shows how many products each category holds and which ones are not mapped yet. Subcategories use their parent’s mapping unless they have their own, and every feed picks up a change at the next rebuild.
On every product
A “What the AI agent sees” panel on the product edit screen: the product’s actual feed row, each readiness check with pass or fail, and a one-click exclude-from-feeds switch.
Store readiness
txt status, and a one-checkbox option to explicitly welcome AI crawlers.
Private by design
txt, scores and counters run on your own server. ARC sends nothing anywhere unless you connect a free Respira account for the site check below.
Free with a Respira account: a weekly vulnerability check
press account from the ARC screen, and ARC checks WordPress core, every installed plugin and every installed theme against more than 40,000 known vulnerabilities from the Wordfence Intelligence database, once a week and whenever you click Check now. The ARC screen shows which ones have known vulnerabilities, how severe the worst one is, and the version that fixes them; your free Respira dashboard lists every record with its CVE and a link to Wordfence.
The same account includes an accessibility scan of any page on the store. No card and no trial, and ARC works the same whether you connect or not.
What Respira adds
ARC shows what is wrong with your catalog. Respira for WordPress with its WooCommerce Add-on lets your AI assistant fix it: “fix every product failing the feed checks”, “put the three slowest movers on sale”, “pause the subscription on order 1204”. That is 104 WooCommerce tools, with a snapshot before every write, dry-run previews and 90-day rollback.
If you install the add-on later, ARC steps aside while the add-on runs your feeds, and your settings and feed URLs carry over.
External services
press), for the free site check.
- When: when an administrator clicks “Connect a free account” and approves on respira.press, then once a week, and whenever an administrator clicks “Check now”. “Disconnect” sends one last request that deletes the connection.
- What is sent: the site address, the WordPress version, and the folder name, name and version of each installed plugin and theme, with the site’s connection token. No products, orders, customers or other content from the store.
- What it is for: matching those versions against known vulnerabilities and showing the result on the ARC screen and in your Respira dashboard.
- Terms: https://www.respira.press/terms
- Privacy policy: https://www.respira.press/privacy
, used under its licence; each record links to Wordfence.
txt are files on your own server that the platforms you register them with (OpenAI, Google, Meta, Pinterest, TikTok) fetch themselves; ARC does not send them anywhere.