Shop Explorer – AI Powered Inventory Management | Complete Store Management Solution for WooCommerce
Shop Explorer is a complete WooCommerce store management plugin that unifies product editing, order management, customer relationship management, invoice generation, expense tracking, review moderation, and AI-powered analytics into a single admin dashboard. Every tool you need to run your store is one click away – no switching between plugins. Shop Explorer | Documentation Features 📊 Analytics Dashboard A live, interactive analytics dashboard that updates without leaving the page: Revenue analytics with daily, weekly, and monthly breakdowns Interactive AreaChart with teal gradient fill (powered by Recharts) Total Orders, Revenue, and Average Order Value (AOV) KPI cards Order trend visualization — spot seasonal peaks before they happen Top-performing products ranked by revenue and units sold Customer type widget — new vs. returning customer ratio Customer segments widget — behavioral and spend-based groupings Order locations globe — interactive 3D visualization of where orders come from Low stock widget — alerts for products approaching zero inventory Recent orders widget with status indicators Conversion funnel chart — add to cart → checkout → purchase drop-off Cart interactions analytics — add, remove, and update events per product Incomplete orders section — abandoned checkout recovery tracking Extended KPI cards with period-over-period growth indicators Order rates widget — processing vs. completed vs. refunded breakdown Custom date filtering: today, yesterday, last 7/15/30 days, or custom range using Ant Design RangePicker AI Revenue Analysis panel — AI-generated insights on sales trends and conversion opportunities 🛒 Bulk Product Editor A fast, full-featured product editing engine replacing WooCommerce’s limited built-in bulk editor: Bulk price updates — regular price, sale price, or percentage increase/decrease Bulk stock management — set quantities, fix stock status, resolve low-stock issues Bulk category and tag assignment across thousands of products at once Bulk status changes — publish, draft, privatize, toggle featured status Variation bulk editing — update variation-specific pricing, stock, and attributes at scale Batch processing with configurable batch sizes (default 5,000 products) Real-time progress tracking with live success/failure counts and cancel mid-run Product filtering by type, price range, stock, category, tag, attribute, featured, or on-sale status Search by product name, SKU, or description Sort by date, name, price, stock, or SKU (ascending/descending) Attribute manager — create and manage product attributes Brand selector — assign brands to products Category and tag management panels Variation generator — create variations from attribute combinations Image uploader with WordPress Media Library integration Custom fields manager 📦 Order Management Handle your entire order workflow without clicking through individual order screens: Complete order list with advanced search and multi-criteria filtering Filter by status, date range, price range, item count, customer name/email/phone, payment method, and product Date range presets using Ant Design RangePicker (consistent with orders and analytics) Bulk order status updates — move hundreds of orders in one action Bulk order export to CSV with custom field selection Inline order notes — add, edit, and delete without leaving the list Full order detail panel — customer info, payment, shipping, line items, notes, and refunds Bulk Order Editor — common field edits (status, billing, shipping, notes) across multiple orders at once, with individual-row mode for per-order changes Order create dialog — create new WooCommerce orders directly from the dashboard Order edit dialog — modify existing order details inline Advanced filters — payment method, transaction ID, coupon, product, customer type, and more (PRO) Customer notification sender — bulk email notifications to multiple order recipients 🧾 Invoice Generator A complete PDF invoice system built on mPDF: 6 invoice templates: Minimal — clean white, simple table layout Modern — gradient accents, rounded corners, modern typography Classic — traditional layout with professional borders Corporate — multi-column executive layout Premium — luxury gold accents, serif typography Elegant — minimalist ultra-light typography Full invoice settings panel with tabs: Template, Colors, Company, General, Columns, Footer Company branding — logo, name, tagline, address, phone, email, website, tax ID Custom primary/text/accent color pickers per template Column toggles — SKU, product image, attributes, tax, discount Section toggles — company logo, tax breakdown, shipping row, discount row, customer notes, payment method, order number Invoice numbering — custom prefix, start number, padding Auto-generation — trigger on order status change (configurable statuses) Admin download button on WooCommerce order edit page Customer PDF download from My Account page — customers download their own invoice with one click Invoice caching — generated PDFs stored in uploads, regenerated only when settings change Page size selection (A4, Letter, etc.) Footer text and legal text per invoice Attachment to WooCommerce order emails (configurable) 👥 Customer Management A complete customer hub next to your product and order management: Full customer database with advanced search and filtering Customer profile page — lifetime value, purchase history, tags, notes Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) calculation per account Registration date and last-order date tracking Refund total tracking per customer Customer notes — add, view, delete internal notes on each customer Customer tagging (see below) Customer editor — update customer details inline Bulk customer export to CSV 🏷️ Customer Tagging Automatic and manual customer classification: Automatic rule-based tags: VIP Customer — high-value spenders At-Risk Customer — customers showing churn signals New Customer — first-time buyers Loyal Customer — repeat purchasers Big Spender — top percentile by order value Discount Hunter — primarily coupon users Frequent Buyer — high order frequency Dormant — no purchases in a defined period Wholesale Buyer — bulk order patterns International Customer — ships outside home country Manual tags — create and apply custom labels to any customer Tag settings — configure thresholds for each auto-tag rule (order count, spend amount, days inactive, etc.) Customer Tag Badge component — visual labels on customer lists and profiles Tag filtering — filter customer lists by any tag Tag Manager — view, edit, and delete tags from the Settings > Customer Tagging tab 💰 Expense Manager Track store operating costs alongside revenue: Expense list with search, filter by category, and date range Expense categories: Operating, Marketing, Inventory, Shipping, Software, Salaries, Other Recurring expense support — mark expenses as repeating Expense create/edit modal with amount, category, date, and notes Expense view modal — full detail overlay per expense Dashboard KPI cards — total expenses, by category breakdown Expense editor page — full-page editing mode CSV export of expense data Expense summary widgets integrated into the analytics dashboard ⭐ Review Management Moderate and respond to WooCommerce product reviews: Full review list with status, star rating, author, and product filters Filter by: all, approved, pending, spam, trash, and verified-only Search reviews by content or author Sort by date, rating, or author Approve, reject, spam, and trash reviews in one click Reply to reviews directly from the dashboard Expandable review detail view Review settings — enable/disable reviews, verified-only mode, star rating requirements, show verified badge Bulk review actions — approve or trash multiple reviews at once Review count badges per status tab 🤖 AI Integration Shop Explorer connects to the AI provider of your choice and uses it across the entire plugin: AI Content Generator — generate product names, descriptions, pricing, SKUs, and stock levels from a single prompt AI Revenue Analysis — turn sales data into plain-language insights about trends, growth patterns, and conversion suggestions AI Generate Button — appears in the Product Editor and Order Editor when AI Integration is enabled Supported providers: Google Gemini (Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, and more) OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4o-mini, GPT-4.1, O4-mini) Anthropic Claude DeepSeek X.AI Grok OpenRouter (100+ models from multiple providers) API key storage — encrypted in WordPress database, masked in the UI, never exposed to the frontend Provider switcher — change providers at any time without losing content Model selector — choose from all available models per provider Generation parameters — Temperature slider (Precise → Creative) and Max Tokens selector Test connection button — verify key and model before using AI features AI settings save integrated with global Settings save button AI Revenue Panel — dedicated panel with AI-written analysis of your revenue data 🔐 Roles & Permissions Granular control over who can do what inside Shop Explorer: Shop Manager role — full capability set for store managers (non-admin access) Roles & Permissions table — toggle individual capabilities on/off per role Capabilities covered: manage products, manage orders, manage customers, view analytics, export data, manage settings, and more Visual capability matrix — rows for capabilities, columns for roles Changes apply immediately to WordPress capability system Settings tab: Roles & Permissions with full CRUD control 📤 Export Settings Flexible data export across all entities: Products — export full catalog or filtered subset to CSV Orders — export with custom field selection (customer, payment, shipping, line items, notes) Customers — export customer base with CLV and tag data Expenses — export filtered expense records to CSV Analytics data — export revenue and order trend data 🔔 Notifications Order toast notifications — real-time pop-up alerts in the admin when new orders arrive Sound notifications — optional audio alert with new order toasts Email notifications — alerts for sync completions, errors, and bulk operation results Configurable notification email address ⚙️ Settings A tabbed settings panel covering every part of the plugin: General — Database mode, Multivendor mode (coming soon), Auto export (coming soon) Quick Actions — one-click shortcuts for common bulk operations WooCommerce — Analytics dashboard toggle, Incomplete Orders Tracking, Cart Interactions Tracking, abandonment delay, cleanup schedule, Bulk Edit batch size, threshold limits, Optimize Mode AI Integration — full provider/model/key/parameter configuration (see AI section above) Export Settings — configure which fields appear in each CSV export Notifications — toast, sound, and email notification preferences Customer Tagging — auto-tag rule thresholds and manual tag management Invoices — complete invoice generator configuration (see Invoice section above) Roles & Permissions — capability matrix for each role More — additional plugin configuration Global Save Settings button — saves all tabs including AI Integration settings in one click 🛡️ Safety & Reliability Speed without safety is risky. Every bulk operation includes: Threshold system — configurable maximum records per operation, with confirmation dialog before writing Batch processing — configurable batch sizes with memory-efficient execution for 50,000+ product catalogs Progress tracking — live progress bars, success/failure counts, detailed logs, cancel mid-run Validation engine — checks for errors before any bulk change is written to the database HPOS compatibility — supports WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage AI provider APIs used: api.openai.com (OpenAI), api.deepseek.com (DeepSeek), generativelanguage.googleapis.com (Google Gemini), api.anthropic.com (Anthropic Claude), api.x.ai (X.AI Grok), and openrouter.ai (OpenRouter). Full terms of service and privacy policy links for each provider are listed in the plugin’s Privacy section. External Services This plugin connects to external services only when the relevant integration is enabled or feature is used by the site administrator. Freemius Checkout Loads the Freemius checkout script when a user opens the Pro upgrade modal in the WordPress admin. The script is served from checkout.freemius.com. No personal data or form submission data is sent. Terms: https://freemius.com/terms/ | Privacy: https://freemius.com/privacy/ WPAzleen Settings API Loads display configuration for the Pro upgrade modal in the plugin admin area. No personal data or form submission data is sent. Privacy: https://wpazleen.com/privacy-policy AI provider The only external connection is the AI provider API you choose to use. AI provider endpoints: – https://api.openai.com/v1/ (OpenAI) – https://api.deepseek.com/v1/ (DeepSeek) – https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/ (Google Gemini) – https://api.anthropic.com/ (Anthropic Claude) – https://api.x.ai/ (X.AI Grok) – https://openrouter.ai/api/ (OpenRouter) Full terms of service and privacy policy links for each provider are in the plugin’s Privacy section. Compatibility All WooCommerce product types: Simple, Variable, Grouped, External/Affiliate All standard and custom WooCommerce order statuses WordPress Multisite compatible Built following WordPress coding standards and WooCommerce best practices Zero frontend footprint – no impact on site speed or customer experience Competitor Analysis Search the WordPress plugin directory for a WooCommerce bulk edit or store management plugin and a handful of names come up again and again, so it is worth being clear about where Shop Explorer actually fits among them. WooCommerce Dashboard, Abandoned Cart Recovery, Google Sheets Sync, Inventory Management & Bulk Editor is the closest match. It is also a free, all-in-one admin replacement with its own bulk editor, real-time analytics dashboard, order management, and inventory tools, so anyone comparing the two is comparing like for like. Where BrikPanel pulls ahead is breadth outside the core workflow: abandoned cart recovery, a live visitor widget, and native Google Sheets sync. Shop Explorer pulls ahead on AI: an AI content generator that writes product names, descriptions, and pricing from a single prompt, AI-written revenue analysis with specific recommendations, and an Ask Anything chat assistant that answers questions about your store data directly, none of which BrikPanel’s free version includes. Advanced WooCommerce Bulk Edit & Inventory Management is a mature, spreadsheet-style editor that can bulk edit almost any WordPress post type and custom field, not just WooCommerce products, and it has a large Pro add-on library for advanced workflows like scheduled edits and undo history. That depth is real, but most of it, including CSV export and most bulk actions, sits behind the Pro tier. Shop Explorer’s free version bulk edits full WooCommerce catalogs, orders, and customers with CSV export included, and adds the AI dashboard and chat assistant Smart Manager does not offer at any tier. Beyond those two, most of the other names that show up nearby are solving a narrower problem, not a weaker version of the same one. Bulk Edit Products for WooCommerce – WP Sheet Editor, Bulk Edit Categories and Tags, and Bulk Edit Coupons for WooCommerce are three separate spreadsheet-style editors from the same developer, each scoped to one data type (products, taxonomy terms, or coupons), with the free tier limited to a handful of fields per plugin. Bulky – Bulk Edit Products for WooCommerce is a straightforward bulk field editor for products, orders, and coupons with no order management panel, customer database, or analytics dashboard attached. Product Import Export for WooCommerce – Import Export Product CSV Suite is built for moving product data in and out of WooCommerce through CSV files, migrations, and catalog transfers, including AI-generated descriptions during import, rather than for editing an existing live catalog in place. A few more names turn up in “WooCommerce store management” and “WooCommerce reporting” searches, and each covers a narrower …
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