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AEO Ultimate for WooCommerce

Questions people actually ask

If something is going wrong, Troubleshooting is the better page. This one is about how the plugin behaves and why it makes the choices it does.

Do I need the WordPress plugin as well?

No. This extension is complete for commerce on its own. If you do run both, the WordPress plugin stands down from commerce output automatically so nothing publishes twice — you do not have to configure anything to make that happen.

Running both makes sense when you also want the non-commerce features — llms.txt, author E-E-A-T, Local SEO, the Command Center — on the same site.

Will this duplicate the schema WooCommerce already outputs?

WooCommerce’s own Product and breadcrumb markup is suppressed automatically — but only with your one-click consent. Until you give it, both may be present, which is why a validator can legitimately show two Product blocks on a fresh install.

The consent step exists because silently removing another plugin’s output is the kind of thing that should be your decision.

Does my schema go stale when prices change?

No. Structured data is rebuilt from live WooCommerce data on every page load — it is never frozen into a saved copy. Change a price, sell the last unit, add a variation or edit a shipping zone, and the published schema follows immediately.

This is the main reason a mismatch between your storefront and your schema should not happen. If you see one, it is almost always a page cache rather than stale data.

Which price does it publish — with or without tax?

The tax-inclusive figure a shopper actually sees, so your schema matches your storefront and your Merchant Center feed. A schema price that disagrees with the visible price is a feed error and erodes trust with the engine.

What happens to products with no price?

They publish no offer at all — not an offer of zero. An empty price field is not a price of nothing, and publishing zero would be a false statement about your catalogue.

The same principle runs through the plugin: where a fact cannot be established honestly, nothing is published rather than something invented.

How are variable products handled?

As a ProductGroup with every variant, and an AggregateOffer carrying a real low and high price rather than a single guessed figure.

Products from Bookings, Subscriptions, Bundles and similar extensions publish a “From” price or a range — never a definite price their own page would contradict.

Is it HPOS compatible?

Yes — High-Performance Order Storage and the Cart & Checkout blocks are both declared compatible. The plugin never touches order storage directly, which is what makes that safe rather than merely claimed.

What does Merchant Center sync actually check?

It compares your catalogue against what Google and Bing actually list, rather than what you think you submitted — surfacing missing products, rejected items, price mismatches and identifier gaps, with an integrity score.

That distinction matters: a feed can upload successfully and still have items silently rejected downstream.

Am I billed for AI by you?

No. There is no credit meter and no surcharge. You connect an API key you already control — Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, Perplexity, xAI or Mistral — and settle with that provider at their raw rate.

Nothing is sent anywhere until you configure a feature and trigger it. The plugin is fully functional with no AI configured at all.

Does the plugin phone home?

It collects no usage telemetry, no tracking and no analytics.

It does check for updates. Because it is not hosted on WordPress.org, updates come from our licence server instead: once you enter a licence key the plugin joins WordPress’s own routine update check, sending your licence key, site URL and plugin name — nothing else. Before a key is entered it makes no contact at all, and an expired licence stops updates only.

No store-visitor or customer personal data is ever sent anywhere. See the privacy policy.

What happens when my licence expires?

Nothing breaks. The plugin keeps publishing your schema exactly as before — it never disables itself. You stop receiving updates and support until you renew.

$99 a year, one site, GPL-2.0+, with a full refund within 30 days of purchase. Full terms.

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