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WooCommerce vs EcomIndex

WooCommerce leaves AI shopping to extensions and to Google. Nothing in it shows which brands AI answers name in your category, or which sites they cite. EcomIndex does, from your store's address, with no plugin to install.

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Side by side

What you want to know	WooCommerce and its official extensions	EcomIndex
Sends your catalog to Google	Yes. Google for WooCommerce, a free official extension, syncs your products to Merchant Center.	No. The Playbook checks the product data that feed carries, such as GTINs.
Lets AI agents buy from your store	In beta. The WooCommerce AI extension has an agentic commerce setting, off by default.	No. We never touch checkout.
Reports AI traffic or AI orders	Not in WooCommerce itself. WooCommerce suggests checking AI referrals in your analytics.	No. We count answers, not traffic.
Shows which brands AI answers name in your category	No.	Yes. 20 buyer questions, up to three engines, three runs each, and every brand the answers name.
Shows which websites AI answers cite	No.	Yes. The review sites, forums and retailers the answers cite, most cited first.
Shows your share of Google's AI shopping results	Through Merchant Center's AI performance insights, once your products sync.	No. We leave Gemini out under Google's terms; the Playbook reads your Search Console instead.
Checks what AI crawlers can reach	You edit robots.txt through WordPress or an SEO plugin. Nothing reports on it.	Yes, in the Playbook: the AI search crawlers your robots.txt lets in, line by line.
Writes product copy	Through third-party extensions.	Get on the shelf rewrites the pages that matter from verified facts. Nothing goes live until you approve it.
Price	WooCommerce is free; extensions vary.	$99 or $750 once, or $1,750 a month.

Keep using these

Google for WooCommerce, so your catalog reaches Merchant Center.
Merchant Center's AI performance insights, for your share of Google's AI shopping results.
Your SEO plugin, for titles, descriptions and robots.txt.

What EcomIndex adds

The competitors AI answers name across up to three engines, counted out of every completed answer.
The websites those answers cite, so you know who to pitch.
Checks built for WooCommerce stores: your product and category pages, policies, structured data and GTINs (Playbook).
A 90-day plan built on your Search Console, or the work done for you.

How they work together

The report needs only your store's address: no plugin, no login and nothing to install on WordPress.

The Playbook reads your Search Console and your public pages, and its instructions name the places you'll make each fix: the GTIN field on the Inventory tab, your SEO plugin's robots.txt editor, Merchant Center.

For Get on the shelf, you create a custom user role for us that can edit products, pages and media, and can't see orders, payments, customers or reports. WooCommerce's built-in Shop Manager role can see orders, so we don't use it. We send the exact settings.

How we measure

Start with a report

AI Shelf ReportWho AI names in your category, and the sources the answers cite.: $99
Report and PlaybookThe report, plus your Search Console, site and catalog checks, and a 90-day plan.: $750
Get on the shelfWe do the work: pages rewritten from verified facts, buying guides and disclosed outreach.: $1,750 a month

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Sources

Checked on Nov 4, 2026. Platforms change these features often. If something here is out of date, email hello@ecomindex.ai.

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