chatsell

ChatSell Widgets brings powerful AI-powered customer support and product discovery to your WordPress site. Connect your site to your ChatSell account and embed fully customisable widgets in minutes.
Chat Widget
<ul>
<li>Real-time AI-powered customer support</li>
<li>Product recommendations and search</li>
<li>Customisable appearance and behaviour</li>
<li>Multiple positioning options</li>
<li>Sound notifications and avatar display</li>
</ul>
Product Search Widget
<ul>
<li>Lightning-fast product search</li>
<li>Floating or inline positioning</li>
<li>Product variant filtering</li>
<li>Customisable styling</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcut (press “/” to open)</li>
<li>Responsive design</li>
</ul>
Ask AI Widget
<ul>
<li>Let visitors ask questions answered from your knowledge base</li>
<li>Floating button or inline embed</li>
<li>Fully customisable appearance</li>
</ul>
Key Features
<ul>
<li>Easy setup through WordPress admin — no coding required</li>
<li>Shortcode support for flexible widget placement</li>
<li>Customisable colours and positioning</li>
<li>Product variant filtering</li>
<li>Real-time WooCommerce product, page, and post sync (optional)</li>
<li>Mobile-responsive design</li>
</ul>
<h4>External Services</h4>
This plugin connects to the ChatSell service (https://chatsell.co) to power the AI chat, product search, and Ask AI widgets. By configuring and enabling this plugin, the following data may be transmitted to ChatSell servers:
<ul>
<li>Your ChatSell Site ID (stored locally, sent with API requests)</li>
<li>Visitor chat messages and product search queries (processed by the ChatSell AI)</li>
<li>WooCommerce product data and published page/post content (only when real-time sync is enabled)</li>
</ul>
Widget JavaScript files are loaded from the configured ChatSell frontend URL (default: https://app.chatsell.co).
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://chatsell.co/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://chatsell.co/privacy</li>
</ul>

ChatSell Widgets

Easy-to-use chat and product search widgets for WordPress sites. Add AI-powered customer support and product discovery to your site.

Samuel Silva

AI Search for WooCommerce makes your store’s search actually work. When a shopper types “summer blue dress” they find your “light cotton navy sundress”. When they search “headphones for running” they find your sweat-resistant wireless earbuds — even if the word “running” isn’t anywhere in the product description.
Default WooCommerce search matches keywords. AI Search matches meaning. It reads your entire product catalog — titles, descriptions, SKUs, categories, tags, and attributes — and converts each product into a vector that captures what it actually is. When a shopper searches, the plugin finds the closest matches by meaning, not by exact word overlap.
The result: fewer empty search pages, more products surfaced for long-tail queries, and shoppers who find what they wanted on the first try.
Also works with blog posts, pages, and any custom post type — so you can use the same intelligent search across your whole site.
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce Product Search: Full product catalog indexing — titles, short and long descriptions, SKUs, categories, tags, and product attributes (size, color, material, etc.). Pre-configured defaults so you can go live in minutes.</li>
<li>Understands Shoppers, Not Just Keywords: Semantic search means “cozy winter sweater” matches your “merino wool pullover”. Long-tail and descriptive queries stop returning empty pages.</li>
<li>Cross-Lingual & Multilingual: Works with 100+ languages — Portuguese, Spanish, French, German, Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and more. International stores get consistent search quality across every language, and an English query can still match content in other languages.</li>
<li>SKU & Attribute Matching: Customers can search by SKU fragments, attribute values, or technical specs and still find the right product.</li>
<li>Smart Fallback System: 4-tier fallback ensures shoppers never hit a zero-result page — if AI search finds nothing, standard WordPress search takes over automatically.</li>
<li>No OpenAI Account Required: Uses our free embedding service (up to 10,000 embeddings per site). Works out of the box for most stores.</li>
<li>Bring Your Own API Key: Optionally use your own OpenAI API key for unlimited indexing.</li>
<li>Bulk Embedding Generation: Index your entire existing catalog in one click, filtered by post type or category.</li>
<li>Quota Management: Real-time monitoring of AI service usage and limits (v1.14.0+).</li>
<li>Works Beyond Products Too: Same intelligent search for blog posts, pages, and any public custom post type.</li>
<li>ACF Compatible: Index Advanced Custom Fields data for deeper product metadata search.</li>
<li>Tunable Similarity Threshold: Fine-tune how strict or broad search results are, per store.</li>
<li>Intelligent Caching: Fast results with automatic local caching.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Perfect For</h3>
<ul>
<li>WooCommerce stores with large or varied product catalogs</li>
<li>Fashion & apparel stores where shoppers describe products in their own words (“something flowy for summer”)</li>
<li>Electronics & home goods stores with complex technical specs and model numbers</li>
<li>Books, media, and marketplaces with thousands of titles</li>
<li>International stores selling in multiple languages</li>
<li>Membership sites, knowledge bases, and directories — any content-heavy WordPress site</li>
</ul>
<h3>How It Works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Each product in your WooCommerce catalog is converted into a numeric “meaning fingerprint” (called an embedding) that captures its title, description, SKU, categories, tags, and attributes.</li>
<li>When a shopper types a search query, their query gets its own fingerprint in the same way.</li>
<li>The plugin compares the query’s fingerprint against every product’s fingerprint and returns the closest matches by meaning — not just by word overlap.</li>
<li>Results are ranked by relevance, so the products shoppers actually want appear first.</li>
<li>If no semantic matches pass the threshold, a 4-tier fallback kicks in so shoppers never hit an empty results page.</li>
</ol>
Embeddings are generated automatically when you publish or update products — no manual work after setup.
<h3>Learn More</h3>
Visit our website for documentation, demos, and examples: 
https://wp-search.ai/
Browse technical documentation, see live demos of the plugin in action, and learn best practices for AI-powered search.
<h3>Usage</h3>
<ul>
<li>Your existing WooCommerce search form (and the default WordPress search) are automatically upgraded — no theme or template changes required.</li>
<li>Manage settings, switch providers, and monitor quota via the AI Search menu in your WordPress admin.</li>
</ul>
<h3>External Service</h3>
This plugin connects with:
<ul>
<li>OpenAI Embeddings API: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings</li>
<li>Custom Node.js Embedding Service</li>
</ul>
Please read more here: 
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/embeddings

AI Search for WooCommerce – Intelligent Product Search


Love the idea and the implementation. I'll be using this more and more on all of our Woo sites.


Works like a charm

AI-powered semantic search built for WooCommerce stores. Understands what shoppers actually want — even when they use different words than your produc …

ChatSell Widgets vs AI Search for WooCommerce – Intelligent Product Search