Woo Product Lifecycle Manager

woo-product-lifecycle-manager

Purpose

Automate WooCommerce product lifecycle transitions: archive slow-moving products to draft, publish pending products that meet criteria, or move discontinued items to private status. Filters by product age, days since last sale, or zero-sale count. Includes dry-run preview before any status changes.

Prerequisites

• WooCommerce store with REST API enabled
• Consumer Key with Read/Write scope
• Minimum WooCommerce version: 3.5.0

Parameters

| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | |-----------|------|----------|---------|-------------| | store_url | string | yes | — | Base URL of the WooCommerce store | | consumer_key | string | yes | — | WooCommerce REST API consumer key (ck_...) | | consumer_secret | string | yes | — | WooCommerce REST API consumer secret (cs_...) | | dry_run | bool | no | true | Preview changes without executing | | format | string | no | human | Output format: human or json | | source_status | string | yes | — | Current product status: publish, draft, pending, private | | target_status | string | yes | — | New status to apply | | filter_no_sales_days | int | no | — | Only include products with no sales in last N days | | filter_min_age_days | int | no | — | Only include products created at least N days ago | | category_id | int | no | — | Limit to this category |

Authentication

WooCommerce uses OAuth 1.0a for HTTP and Basic Auth over HTTPS.

For HTTPS stores (recommended):

Authorization: Basic base64(consumer_key:consumer_secret)

For HTTP stores (development only): Use OAuth 1.0a — include oauthconsumerkey, oauthnonce, oauthsignature, oauthsignaturemethod=HMAC-SHA1, oauthtimestamp, oauthversion=1.0

Never log or output consumerkey or consumersecret values.

See docs/AUTHENTICATION.md for full setup instructions.

Safety

Step 3 changes product visibility. Drafting or privatizing published products removes them from the storefront immediately. Always run with dry_run: true first (the default). Verify the product list carefully.

Workflow Steps

Step 1 — Fetch products in source_status

GET /wp-json/wc/v3/products
  ?status=&per_page=100&page=1
  [&category=]

Filter client-side by date_created for filter_min_age_days.

Step 2 — Check sales for each product (if filternosales_days set)

GET /wp-json/wc/v3/orders
  ?status=completed&after=&per_page=100&page=1

Build set of product IDs with recent sales. Exclude these from the transition list.

Step 3 — Preview or execute

If dry_run: true: output transition preview table and stop.

If dry_run: false and confirmed:

PUT /wp-json/wc/v3/products/{id}
  Body: { "status": "" }

API Endpoints Used

GET  /wp-json/wc/v3/products         — products in source status
GET  /wp-json/wc/v3/orders           — sales check for filter_no_sales_days
PUT  /wp-json/wc/v3/products/{id}    — update product status

Pagination Strategy

WooCommerce REST API uses page/per_page pagination (not cursor-based).

Standard pattern:

page = 1
while True:
  response = GET /endpoint?per_page=100&page=page
  process(response)
  if len(response)                       ║
║  TIME:                     ║
║  MODE:                   ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝

PER-OPERATION (emit after each API call batch):

[N/TOTAL]   →  records | params: =

COMPLETION (human format):

╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  COMPLETE: woo-product-lifecycle-manager ║
║  RECORDS PROCESSED:                   ║
║  OUTPUT: stdout                          ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝

COMPLETION (json format):

{
  "skill": "woo-product-lifecycle-manager",
  "store": "",
  "completed_at": "",
  "records_processed": ,
  "output_file": null,
  "dry_run": 
}

Output Format

Human format: table listing product ID, name, current status, new status, and filter criteria matched.

Error Handling

| Error | Cause | Resolution | |-------|-------|------------| | 401 Unauthorized | Invalid credentials | Verify consumerkey and consumersecret | | 403 Forbidden | Key lacks Read/Write scope | Regenerate with Read/Write scope | | 429 Too Many Requests | Rate limit | Wait 2 seconds and retry |

Best Practices

• Always run with dry_run: true first (the default). Unpublishing products is immediately visible to customers.
• Use filter_no_sales_days: 180 to archive products that genuinely haven't sold recently.
• Set filter_min_age_days: 30 to avoid archiving newly-listed products that need time to gain traction.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: navarroido
• Source: navarroido/Woocommerce-skill
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.