Àpèjúwe
UPCODEA Store Chat is an AI chatbot and live chat widget for your WooCommerce storefront. Customers can ask about products in plain language — “do you have this in blue?”, “whatÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s on sale under $30?”, “is this in stock?” — and get answers generated from your live product catalog, not a stale export.
Developed by UPCODEA.
Key features
- Floating chat widget with product/category page awareness.
- Answers grounded in real-time WooCommerce data (price, stock, SKU, description, permalink).
- Powered by Google Gemini — a generous free tier means most small stores can run it at no AI cost.
- Nonce-protected, rate-limited REST API endpoint; no API keys ever reach the browser.
- Configurable widget appearance (title, button label, colors).
- Optional site-wide daily reply cap to protect against unexpected API costs.
- Guardrails keep the bot on-topic and resistant to prompt-injection attempts from users.
Requirements
- WooCommerce 8.0+
- A free Google Gemini API key from aistudio.google.com/apikey
Third-party service
UPCODEA Store Chat relies on the Google Gemini API to generate chat replies. To do so, the plugin sends the visitorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s chat message and a small, relevant slice of your product catalog (name, price, stock, SKU, short description, permalink) to GoogleÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s servers for each chat turn. No chat content is stored on your own server; conversation history lives only in the visitorÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s browser for the duration of the session.
By using this plugin you are sending customer-submitted data to a third party. Please review and link to in your own storeÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s privacy policy:
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Google Gemini API Terms: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms
UPCODEA Store Chat adds suggested language to your siteÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s Privacy Policy draft automatically (Settings Privacy “Suggest Text”) — review and publish it before going live.
Àwọn àwòrán ìbòjú
Ìgbéwọlẹ̀
- Upload the
upcodea-store-chatfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip via Plugins Add New Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin. WooCommerce must already be installed and active.
- Go to UPCODEA Store Chat in the wp-admin menu.
- Paste a free Gemini API key from aistudio.google.com/apikey.
- Customize the widget title, button label and colors as needed.
- Review Settings Privacy and publish the suggested disclosure text.
FAQ
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Does this cost money to run?
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The plugin itself doesnÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’t add a subscription fee. Google Gemini has a free tier (
gemini-2.5-flash,gemini-2.5-flash-lite) generous enough for most small-to-medium stores. You can also set a daily reply cap in the pluginÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s settings to hard-limit usage. -
Where does the customerÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s data go?
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Chat messages and a relevant slice of your product catalog are sent to GoogleÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s Gemini API to generate a reply. See the “Third-party service” section above.
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Can I use my own OpenAI/Claude key instead of Gemini?
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Not in the current version — Gemini-only for now.
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Does the bot see private/draft products?
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No. The catalog query only fetches published, publicly visible products via WooCommerceÌtumọ̀ Yorùbá: ’s own product query APIs.
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What happens if I uninstall the plugin?
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All plugin options and transients are removed automatically on deletion (not on simple deactivation).
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0.2.1
- Fixed: the floating button, header, user message bubble, and send button colors could be silently overridden by theme CSS that sets
background-coloron generic button selectors. Colors are now set explicitly (including thebackground-colorlonghand, not just thebackgroundshorthand) with the priority needed to respect the color pickers in the plugin settings.
0.2.0
- Changed: plugin name to “UPCODEA Store Chat” and text domain to
upcodea-store-chat. The original working name (“WoobotAI”) was flagged during WordPress.org review as confusingly similar to an existing WooCommerce chatbot plugin and to a registered chatbot trademark, so it was replaced before the first public release. - Added: site-wide daily reply cap to protect against unexpected API costs.
- Added:
uninstall.phpto fully clean up plugin data on removal. - Added: Privacy Policy suggested-text integration and in-widget data disclaimer.
- Added: minimum PHP version check with a graceful admin notice.
- Improved: friendlier handling of Gemini safety-blocked responses.
- Improved: error logging via the WooCommerce logger for easier troubleshooting.
- Fixed: chat now falls back to catalog search if an invalid
product_idis supplied. - Reduced: outbound AI request timeout to avoid PHP execution-time fatals on shared hosting.
0.1.0
- Initial MVP: chat widget, REST endpoint, WooCommerce catalog context, Gemini integration, admin settings.