Free plugin for WooCommerce stores
Is ChatGPT putting your products on the shelf?
Shoppers now ask AI assistants what to buy. CitedShelf is a free WooCommerce plugin that shows whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your products, who they pick instead, and fixes the product data that keeps you off the list.
Free and open source. Listing on WordPress.org is in review.
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Questions shoppers ask AI assistants every day
How it works
Score your catalog, see your share of AI answers, fix what's weak
AI assistants recommend products whose data they can trust: a clear title, a brand, a barcode, a real description, a price and a photo. Most small stores miss two or three of these on half their products.
Scan every product for AI shopping readiness
A 0–100 readiness score for each product and for the whole store, with the issues that cost you most listed first and plain instructions to fix them.
- Brand, GTIN, images, price, description, variations
- Store checks: HTTPS, returns and privacy pages, shipping, indexing
- Runs on your own server; nothing is sent anywhere
Track whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend you
Add the questions your customers ask. Every Monday CitedShelf asks each assistant with web search on, and shows whether your store, brand or products appear, at what position, and which sites were cited instead.
- Share of AI answers that mention you, week by week
- The full answer and its sources for every question
- A short report in your inbox each Monday
Fix weak products with one click
AI rewrites titles and descriptions, finds the brand and adds useful attributes, using only facts already in your product data. You compare old and new side by side, keep what you like, and can undo.
- Never invents specs, sizes or barcodes
- Never overwrites your existing attributes
- Tells you which facts only you can add
Free AI shopping readiness checker
Check one product against AI shopping rules
This is the same scoring the plugin runs on your whole catalog. Edit the example or paste your own product. Nothing you type leaves this page.
out of 100
Your connections, your data
No middleman between your store and the assistants
Connect once in WordPress
On WordPress 7.0 and later, CitedShelf uses the AI providers you connect under Settings → Connectors. For Perplexity or older WordPress, add a key in CitedShelf. You pay the provider directly, usually a few cents a week.
Stored encrypted
Keys added in CitedShelf are encrypted in your WordPress database and are only ever sent to the provider they belong to.
Opt in first
Nothing leaves your site until you tick the consent box. Customer and order data is never sent, to anyone. CitedShelf runs no server and receives no data.
Pricing
Free to start
CitedShelf
$0 free forever
- Readiness scan for every product
- Visibility tracking for up to 25 questions
- One-click product improvement with undo
- Weekly email report
CitedShelf Pro
For stores and agencies that want more without managing their own AI connections.
- No API keys needed
- Competitor tracking over time
- Bulk improvement across the catalog
- White-label reports for agencies
Guides
Learn how AI shopping assistants pick products
How to get your WooCommerce products recommended by ChatGPT
Six steps that make your products easy for ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to find, trust and recommend.
Read the guide →The AI shopping product data checklist for WooCommerce
Every product field AI assistants look for, why it matters and how to fix it in WooCommerce.
Read the guide →GEO and AEO for online stores: what changes from SEO
What generative engine optimization and answer engine optimization mean for a shop, and what to do differently.
Read the guide →FAQ
Questions store owners ask
What is CitedShelf?
CitedShelf is a free WordPress plugin for WooCommerce stores. It scores every product for AI shopping readiness, tracks whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your store, and rewrites weak product data with AI so assistants can understand and trust it.
How do I get my WooCommerce products recommended by ChatGPT?
Make sure assistants can find and trust your products: let AI search crawlers such as OAI-SearchBot read your site, give every product a clear title, a brand, a GTIN barcode where one exists, a real description, a price, stock status and a photo, and keep product structured data on your pages. Then measure whether you appear for the questions your customers ask. CitedShelf does the scoring, the fixes and the measuring inside WordPress.
Is CitedShelf free?
Yes. The plugin is free and open source (GPLv2 or later). AI features use AI providers you connect yourself, so you pay the provider directly, usually a few cents a week for a small store.
Does CitedShelf put my products into ChatGPT shopping?
No. Product feeds are submitted to each platform separately, for example through ChatGPT's merchant tools or a product feed plugin. CitedShelf makes the product data in those feeds strong and measures whether assistants actually recommend you.
Which AI assistants does CitedShelf track?
ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google) and Perplexity. Each tracked question is asked with live web search turned on, and CitedShelf records whether your store, brand or products appear, their position in the answer and which sites were cited.
What is GEO, and how is it different from SEO?
GEO (generative engine optimization) is the work of getting your brand and products mentioned in answers written by AI assistants. SEO aims for a position in a list of links; GEO aims to be named and cited inside the answer. Both depend on clear, crawlable, trustworthy content, and GEO adds complete product data, structured data and mentions on sites that assistants cite.
What is AEO?
AEO (answer engine optimization) means structuring content so that search engines and assistants can lift a direct answer from it: a clear question, a short answer first, then detail. CitedShelf's guides and product suggestions follow this pattern.
Will the AI change my products without asking?
Never. Suggestions appear side by side with your current text. Only the fields you tick are saved, existing attributes are never overwritten, and you can undo the last change.
Does CitedShelf send customer or order data anywhere?
No. The readiness scan runs entirely on your server. AI features only start after you opt in, and they send only your tracked questions and the product data you choose to improve, directly to the AI provider you connected. CitedShelf itself runs no server and receives no data.
Do I need an API key?
Not for the readiness scan. For AI features on WordPress 7.0 or later, connect OpenAI or Google once under Settings → Connectors and CitedShelf uses that connection. Perplexity, or older WordPress versions, need a key added in CitedShelf's settings.
Are the visibility results exactly what shoppers see?
No tool can promise that. CitedShelf asks each provider's API with web search on, which is close to what shoppers see, but answers vary between runs and between the API and the app. Watch the trend over several weeks rather than a single result.
Which WordPress and WooCommerce versions are supported?
WordPress 6.4 or newer, WooCommerce 8.0 or newer and PHP 7.4 or newer. It is compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and works alongside any product feed plugin.