Description

Antom Shopping Agent is an AI shopping assistant for WooCommerce. It helps shoppers discover products, review product information, manage their cart, use eligible coupons, provide delivery details, and continue to checkout through a conversational storefront experience.

Key features

Product search by keyword, category, price range, popularity, or recency
Product details, variations, stock information, pricing, and customer reviews
Cart item addition, quantity updates, and removal
WooCommerce coupon discovery and application
Billing and shipping address collection
Available shipping-method selection
WooCommerce checkout using payment methods enabled by the merchant
Order-information lookup for authorized shoppers
Streamed AI shopping-assistant responses
Configurable assistant name, icon, support email, and suggested question
English and Simplified Chinese support

Antom Shopping Agent requires WooCommerce 3.6.4 or later and at least one enabled Antom payment method. Merchants must complete the required Antom onboarding and KYC process before activation.

Current release limitations

This release is intended for installation, deactivation, deletion, and reinstallation validation. The production chat service is not yet available. Product synchronization remains configured for development/testing and is rejected outside the development environment. Do not use this build for production product synchronization. An empty catalog displays no preview products.

External Services

Antom Shopping Agent uses Antom-hosted services to load the storefront assistant and generate responses to shopper questions.

Installation authentication uses the Antom imgs gateway. Activation registers the store domain or signs a credential rotation; deactivation and deletion send signed lifecycle notifications. Chat sessions exchange a server-held installation credential for a short-lived JWT bound to a visitor identifier. Installation secrets remain in WordPress options and are not sent to the browser. Uninstall retains these credentials and their store bindings so reinstall can authenticate and rotate them; appearance and initialization settings are removed. A retained credential does not override the backend installation status. The default authentication gateway is https://imgs-sea.alipay.com/mgw.htm; test environments are selected explicitly through the env/chat_env URL parameters. Without these parameters the plugin uses production.

Services

Frontend JavaScript assets load the shopping-assistant interface on storefront pages after Antom Shopping Agent is configured.
The Antom Bot Chat API processes shopper questions and returns assistant responses.
The product synchronization service receives development-only start, status, and stop requests. Its endpoint and merchant context remain configured for development/testing; production synchronization is unavailable. Product webhooks are rejected until signed delivery is configured.

When and what data is sent

The frontend assets are requested when a visitor opens a storefront page after Antom Shopping Agent is configured. When a visitor interacts with the assistant, the service may receive the shopper’s question, session identifiers, current page URL, information entered into the assistant, storefront session context, and standard HTTP request information such as IP address, user agent, referrer, and request time.

When a merchant starts, checks, or stops product synchronization, the plugin sends the request type, store and merchant identifiers, and session context to the configured service. Product-webhook requests also send the event type and supplied product details, including catalog and inventory information. The PHP Chat and synchronization proxies currently forward the complete incoming Cookie header as platformSession; reducing that data and replacing the development synchronization configuration require backend coordination before production release.

Antom Terms and Conditions

Antom Privacy Policy

Screenshots

Find and install Antom Shopping Agent from the WordPress plugin directory.

Configure Antom Shopping Agent and confirm the Antom payment integration status. — Find and install Antom Shopping Agent from the WordPress plugin directory.

Installation

Install and activate WooCommerce.
Install the Antom payment plugin, complete Antom onboarding and KYC, and enable at least one Antom payment method under WooCommerce > Settings > Payments.
In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New Plugin and search for Antom Shopping Agent.
Select Install Now, then activate the plugin.
Open Antom Shopping Agent from the WordPress admin menu.
Enter the assistant name, icon URL, support email, and suggested question.
Review and accept the applicable terms.
Select Verify & Save Configuration.
Open the storefront and confirm that the assistant appears.

For payment-plugin setup, see the Antom WooCommerce plugin installation guide.

FAQ

Is WooCommerce required?

Yes. WooCommerce must be installed and active before Antom Shopping Agent can run.

Do I need an Antom account?

Yes. You must complete Antom onboarding and KYC, install the Antom payment plugin, and enable at least one Antom payment method.

Where do I configure Antom Shopping Agent?

After activation, open Antom Shopping Agent in the WordPress admin menu. Enter the assistant name, icon URL, support email, and suggested question, then review the terms and save the configuration.

Does Antom Shopping Agent replace WooCommerce checkout?

No. Antom Shopping Agent assists shoppers while continuing to use your WooCommerce catalog, cart, orders, shipping configuration, and enabled payment gateways.

Why is there an admin environment bridge under mu-plugins?

Activation installs a small managed loader at wp-content/mu-plugins/antom-shopping-agent-admin-environment.php. It loads only the existing admin URL-preservation script for authorized administrators while the main plugin is inactive, including after a page reload. It stores no credentials or environment selection and makes no gateway calls. It is removed after WordPress confirms successful deletion of the main plugin files; failed deletion retains it. A write-permission failure is reported in the normal admin notice area.

Only the installed MU copy has a plugin header. The bundled runtime template is not a second plugin in the native deletion confirmation page.

What languages are supported?

The plugin includes English and Simplified Chinese translations. English is used as the fallback language.

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Contributors & Developers

“Antom Shopping Agent” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.1.2

Standardized the display name as Antom Shopping Agent while retaining the plugin slug, text domain, and compatible settings.
Preserved URL-selected environments across native lifecycle actions and reported deactivation outcomes in the original plugin list.
Retained installation credentials and store bindings on uninstall so reinstall can sign a credential rotation.
Aligned lifecycle signatures with integer Unix timestamps in seconds and verified credential persistence before marking a connection successful.
Kept the inactive admin environment loader out of the native deletion confirmation plugin list and removed it after successful deletion.
Updated the production Entry and Product resource references to Widget 1.0.6.
Restored the WordPress user before WooCommerce REST session initialization and stopped cart operations when initialization fails.
Checked currently available payment gateways and preserved orders when a payment response is uncertain.
Preserved streamed event boundaries and rejected upstream error pages.
Removed placeholder catalog products and private reviewer email fields from public responses.
Rejected production requests to development-only product synchronization.
Added persistent checkout guards, current shipping and cart validation, and payment recovery checks before retrying.
Preserved deleted product order lines and used store currency precision for order amounts.
Corrected catalog price filtering, address-dependent shipping refresh, and stale session responses.
Refreshed English and Simplified Chinese catalogs and added a translation template, including translated lifecycle feedback.

1.1.1

Added signed installation lifecycle requests, chat JWT exchange, and administrator connection recovery.
Added administrator capability and REST nonce checks to product synchronization start, status, and stop operations.
Updated the default production Widget resource to version 1.0.4 and aligned its loader parameters.
Limited the administrator product preview to five records while retrieving the matching catalog total.
Corrected uninstall-hook registration for the plugin’s own settings.
Removed sensitive request and upstream-response content from PHP diagnostic output.
Standardized PHP formatting, translator comments, and administrator output escaping.
Routed Chat requests through the WordPress HTTP API while preserving incremental SSE output and trace headers.
Clarified external-service data handling and remaining production integration limitations.

1.1.0

Improved reliability of streamed chat responses.
Added batch coupon application and removal.
Added coupon availability, minimum-spend, and potential-discount information.
Improved coupon sorting by availability and discount amount.
Removed redundant REST API argument callbacks.

1.0.9

Added a dedicated Chat API module.
Removed the former session-key endpoint and identity-token mechanism.
Added product price-range filtering.
Added explicit popularity and recency sorting.
Added random product retrieval.
Allowed price filters to work independently or with keyword and product-ID searches.
Simplified the setup wizard authentication flow.
Updated the Privacy Policy URL.
Performed minor code cleanup.

1.0.8

Updated WooCommerce compatibility through version 10.0.
Declared WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage compatibility.
Added WordPress.org plugin icons.

1.0.7

Addressed WordPress plugin-review security feedback.
Clarified the session-key endpoint and authentication flow used by that release.
Improved authentication-related code comments.

1.0.6

Refactored API authentication and session handling.
Used WooCommerce session cookies for storefront requests.
Used RSA-SHA256 signatures for supported backend requests in that release.
Removed the earlier frontend API-token approach.
Removed the deprecated openssl_free_key() call.
Added PNG plugin-icon assets.
Performed minor code and documentation cleanup.

1.0.5

Updated the plugin name, description, and slug.
Standardized the text domain as antom-shomi.
Updated the related translation files.

1.0.4

Fixed a REST API authentication issue.
Required valid signature headers for sensitive endpoints in that release.
Removed an incorrect early return.

1.0.3

Added accessible Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links.
Standardized the External Services section.

1.0.2

Added external-service disclosures.
Added Terms of Service and Privacy Policy links.

1.0.1

Improved the Shomi administrator settings interface.

1.0.0

Initial release.
Added product search, order creation, and order-management capabilities.
Added the original RSA-SHA256 request-signature and replay-protection flow.
Added English and Simplified Chinese support.