In this guide
Before you start, you need:
- An active Seyaq plan, with the store set up for WooCommerce.
- Your store's web address, working over https, with WooCommerce active and pretty permalinks turned on: in WordPress admin → Settings → Permalinks, any option except Plain, such as Post name.
- A WordPress login as an administrator or shop manager to approve the connection. Installing the plugin needs an administrator.
WooCommerce runs on your own WordPress site, so there is no app to wait for. Seyaq checks your address, you approve the connection on your site, and your products start syncing. The Seyaq for WooCommerce plugin then puts your product data on your storefront.
Enter your site address
Seyaq checks that WooCommerce is there
Approve in WooCommerce
As an administrator or shop manager
Products sync
Changes arrive within minutes, plus a full sync every day
Install the plugin
From the Store tools page, already linked to your store
Connect in four steps#
Check your store's address on the Connect store page
Open the Connect store page from the sidebar. Type your WordPress site's address, for example
https://your-store.com, and press Check address. Seyaq confirms that WooCommerce is there.Screenshot from the Seyaq dashboard (demo store) Press Connect WooCommerce to open the approval screen
WooCommerce's own approval screen opens on your site. If asked, sign in to WordPress as an administrator or shop manager.
Approve Seyaq on your site
WooCommerce asks for read/write access. Seyaq needs write access only to add notifications (webhooks) that tell it about product changes. It reads your products and never your orders, customers or payments. Press Approve to return to the Connect store page.
Let the first sync finish
The page confirms that the store is connected, and the first sync starts. The page refreshes itself while the sync runs. When it finishes, the Store data sync section shows your product count and the Recent syncs list.
Screenshot from the Seyaq dashboard (demo store)
What Seyaq takes from WooCommerce#
- Products and their variations, each product's main category, brands, up to 10 images, and descriptions.
- Prices and stock, in your WooCommerce currency. Seyaq uses the sale price while one is active, and for a product with variations, the lowest price you can buy it at.
- Titles and descriptions as you wrote them, in the language you wrote them in. Seyaq never translates them.
- Draft, pending, scheduled, private, hidden and password-protected products arrive as drafts, which stay hidden from AI assistants.
Install the Seyaq for WooCommerce plugin#
The plugin adds your product data to your product pages and your store details to the rest of your storefront. It also links to your AI-readable catalog page, and makes /llms.txt (a summary file for AI tools) on your own domain open your Seyaq file, unless your site already has its own llms.txt. It adds no product data to cart, checkout or account pages, and reads nothing from orders, customers or payments. It needs WordPress 6.5, WooCommerce 8.0 and PHP 7.4 or later.
Download the plugin from the Store tools page
Open the Store tools page from the sidebar and press Download the plugin (.zip). The download appears as soon as the store is connected, and the plugin is already linked to your store.
Screenshot from the Seyaq dashboard (demo store) Upload and activate it in WordPress
In WordPress admin → Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the .zip file and install it. Then activate it.
Check the installation in Seyaq
Once the first sync has finished, go back to the Store tools page and press Verify now in the Verify installation section. The Seyaq for WooCommerce plugin check should show Found. Seyaq repeats the check every day.
Screenshot from the Seyaq dashboard (demo store)
Installed a copy that isn't linked yet, for example from WordPress.org? In WordPress admin → WooCommerce → Seyaq, press Link to Seyaq. The plugin finds your store by your site's address. Or, once your store is active, you can enter the store code shown on the Store tools page. Once linked, the same screen lets you switch off either of the plugin's two features.
What happens next#
- Product changes in WooCommerce reach Seyaq within minutes through verified notifications, and a full sync runs every day to catch anything missed. To pull everything again now, press Sync products on the Connect store page.
- Once the first sync completes, Seyaq prepares your tracked shopping questions from your catalog and starts your first audit automatically. To review this setup any time, press Audit settings on the Visibility reports page.
- If your catalog is larger than your plan allows, the sync imports up to the limit and says so in the Store data sync section. Compare plans.
Disconnect, or revoke Seyaq's key#
- Pressing Disconnect WooCommerce on the Connect store page removes Seyaq's notifications from your site, deletes Seyaq's copy of the access key and stops the sync. The store stays paused until you reconnect.
- Your imported products stay, unless you tick the option to delete them, or delete them later from the Connect store page. Deleting can't be undone. It also clears the saved address, so reconnecting starts again at Check address and imports the products again. Products you added in Seyaq always stay.
- To revoke the key in WooCommerce itself, go to WordPress admin → WooCommerce → Settings → Advanced → REST API keys, and revoke the key whose name starts with Seyaq. If you do this while connected, the Connect store page asks you to press Re-connect WooCommerce the next time Seyaq tries to sync.
If something doesn't work#
| What you see | What to do |
|---|---|
| We couldn't reach that address. Check it, and that your site is online over https. | Check the address (use your WordPress site's main address) and that the site opens over https. |
| We reached your site but couldn't find WooCommerce's REST API. Check that WooCommerce is active and that no security plugin blocks /wp-json. | Make sure WooCommerce is active, that no security plugin or firewall blocks /wp-json, and that you entered the address of the site WooCommerce runs on. |
| Turn on pretty permalinks in WordPress (Settings → Permalinks → Post name), then try again. | In WordPress admin → Settings → Permalinks, choose any option except Plain (for example Post name) and save. Then check the address again. |
| The connection was not approved on your site. Press Connect to try again. | Press Connect WooCommerce and approve again, signed in as an administrator or shop manager. |
| Still connecting to your WooCommerce store — refresh this page in a moment. | Wait a moment and refresh the page. The connection finishes on its own. |
| The WooCommerce connection did not complete. Please try again., or a WooCommerce error page on your site | Press Connect WooCommerce again and approve within a few minutes. The approval screen expires after 30 minutes. |
| "…its REST API refused the key" or "…blocked Seyaq's requests" | Make sure the site runs on https, and allow the WooCommerce REST API (/wp-json/wc/) in your security plugin or firewall. Then connect again. |
| WooCommerce refused Seyaq's access key — it may have been revoked. Re-connect to restore the sync. | The key was probably revoked. Press Re-connect WooCommerce and approve again. |
| This WooCommerce store is already connected to another Seyaq store. | That site is linked to another Seyaq store. Contact us if it should be yours. |
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