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Find the WooCommerce catalog errors that cost sales
For ecommerce teams who want missing SKUs, bad prices and negative stock found across the WooCommerce catalog by their AI assistant.
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Connector
Connect WooCommerce, pick your AI tool and paste the prompt.
The problem
Catalog errors that quietly cost sales
A WooCommerce catalog collects errors over time: missing and duplicate SKUs, products with no price, bad sale prices and negative stock. Each one costs sales or breaks an integration, but finding them means paging through every product and variation.
Without PopdockAI
- Page through every product and variation
- Check SKUs, prices and stock by eye
- Look for unused categories, tags and terms
- Find the error when an order fails
With PopdockAI
- Products and variations are read, with categories and terms for a full audit
- SKU, price, stock and category rules are applied
- Findings are grouped by rule, most harmful first
- It is read-only and warns when results may be truncated
The prompt
Use this prompt
Copy it into any AI tool connected to PopdockAI. Swap the values in braces for your own.
**Objective:** Audit the WooCommerce product catalog for data problems and report them grouped by rule. If `{category}` is given, only audit products in categories whose name contains it.
**Step 1: Pull the catalog**
* `woocommerce-get-product` with `max-records` 2000, and `categories.contains` = `{category}` when given.
* `woocommerce-get-product-variation` with `max-records` 5000. When `{category}` is given, keep only variations whose `product-id` is in the product set.
* Only when `{category}` is empty: `woocommerce-get-product-category`, `woocommerce-get-product-tag`, `woocommerce-get-product-attribute`, and for each attribute `woocommerce-get-product-attribute-term` with `product-attribute-id`.
**Step 2: Apply the rules**
Products and variations:
* **No SKU** on a published product or variation.
* **Duplicate SKU:** the same `sku` on two products, two variations, or a product and a variation.
* **No price:** `regular-price` empty or 0 on a published `simple` product or a published variation.
* **Bad sale price:** `sale-price` equal to or above `regular-price`.
* **Negative stock:** `stock-quantity` below 0.
* **Uncategorized:** `categories` empty or only "Uncategorized".
* **Variable with no variations:** a `variable` product with no variation rows.
* **Not published:** `draft`, `pending` or `private` products. List them without calling them wrong.
Taxonomy (whole store only):
* Categories with `number-of-products` 0.
* Tags and attribute terms with `count` 0.
**Step 3: Report**
1. A count per rule.
2. One section per rule, most harmful first (duplicate SKU, no price, bad sale price, negative stock, then the rest): up to 20 examples each with name, SKU, id and the problem, plus "and N more".
3. Suggested fixes. Point price and stock fixes at the update-product-by-sku prompt.
**Rules & Guidelines:**
* This prompt is read-only. Do not call any write tool: `woocommerce-add-order`, `woocommerce-update-order`, `woocommerce-add-order-note`, `woocommerce-send-order-details`, `woocommerce-add-refund`, `woocommerce-add-customer`, `woocommerce-update-customer`, `woocommerce-add-product`, `woocommerce-update-product`, `woocommerce-update-product-variation`, `woocommerce-add-coupon`, `woocommerce-update-coupon`.
* Pass `max-records` explicitly (500 unless stated otherwise). If a read returns exactly that many rows, say the result may be truncated and that totals are a lower bound.
* `grouped` and `external` products have no price of their own. Do not flag them under "No price".
**Validation:**
* If no products match `{category}`, list the closest category names from `woocommerce-get-product-category` with `name.contains` and stop.
* If the catalog is empty, say so and stop.Who it's for
One answer, three teams that use it
Ecommerce managers
Fix the errors that lose orders
Get missing prices, bad sale prices and negative stock at the top of the list, with examples and fixes.
Audit the WooCommerce catalog and show me products with no price or a sale price above the regular price.
Integration specialists
Find SKU problems before they break syncs
Missing and duplicate SKUs are flagged, so integrations that match on SKU keep working.
Which WooCommerce products or variations have missing or duplicate SKUs?
Catalog managers
Tidy categories and tags
Uncategorized products and unused categories, tags and terms are listed for clean up.
Audit the Outdoor category in WooCommerce for data problems.
How it works
What PopdockAI does when you ask
You can name a category or audit the whole store, and your AI assistant checks every product against clear rules. It suggests fixes and changes nothing.
01
Ask
You optionally name a category.
02
Read
It reads products and variations, plus categories, tags and terms for a full audit.
03
Check
It applies rules for SKUs, prices, stock and categorization.
04
Report
You get findings by rule with examples and suggested fixes.
What PopdockAI provides
The tools behind the answer
Ready made tools for WooCommerce and one secure connection to your AI tool. No code, no exports.
woocommerce-get-product
woocommerce-get-product-variation
woocommerce-get-product-category
woocommerce-get-product-tag
woocommerce-get-product-attribute
woocommerce-get-product-attribute-term
This report is built from Get data tools only. PopdockAI applies the row, field and parameter rules your admin sets, and every query is written to the audit trail.
The outcome
Costly catalog errors found in one sweep
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