AI product listings for WooCommerce, approved by you

Global or custom attributes: why does it matter so much on WooCommerce?

WooCommerce has two kinds of attributes. Global attributes are created once under Products › Attributes and reused across products: they power your store’s filters, and renaming a value there changes it everywhere. Custom attributes are typed straight into a listing and exist for that product only.

In a catalog filled in by hand, the two get mixed up fast: a global “Color” on one side, a custom “color” on the other, and products that drop out of your filters. For a listing to land cleanly in your catalog, it has to reuse your global attributes and their existing values.

Argos matches the attributes you already have instead of creating yet another one. Attributes are matched during prep, and each listing reaches you with what was checked.

Simple or variable product: how are variations built?

A product that comes in sizes or colors is a variable product in WooCommerce. Its variations come from attributes ticked “Used for variations”, and each one can carry its own price, stock, SKU and image. You also pick the variation shown by default on the product page.

Pricing: Regular price and sale price, variation by variation. Your pricing rules (tiers, rounding, price endings) have to hold on every variation, not just on the product.
Images: A product image, a gallery, and one image per variation (recent WooCommerce versions also allow a gallery per variation).
Attribute visibility: The “Visible on the product page” box shows the attribute in the Additional information tab.

With Argos, your pricing formula is applied and broken down on every listing, and main, gallery and variant images are prepared following your store’s style guide.

Short description, long description: where does the copy go?

WooCommerce splits the short description, shown next to the images on most themes, from the long description, further down the page. Many stores add fixed blocks on top: key benefits, dimensions, care, shipping.

Argos writes in your store’s voice and sticks to your format: copy format, required blocks, number of images. Every listing comes out in the target store’s format, not copy-pasted from the supplier page.

Categories and tags: where does the listing get filed?

WooCommerce categories are hierarchical (a parent category, subcategories); tags aren’t. A product that isn’t filed anywhere lands in the default category, “Uncategorized” until someone renames it: often the sign of a listing done in a rush.

Categorization is part of what Argos prepares on every listing, following your rules, configured at setup.

Draft or published: what state does the listing arrive in?

Approval happens in Argos first: every listing lands in an approval queue, and nothing goes to your site until a human has approved it. Then, two options:

publish directly: the product is published and visible to your customers;
send as a draft: the product exists in your WordPress admin, but isn’t published. You publish it whenever you want.

Images in the right format for your theme?

WooCommerce produces several sizes of each image: the single product image, the thumbnail used in shop grids (cropped to the ratio set in the Customizer: square, custom or uncropped) and the small gallery thumbnails. Supplier photos in mixed formats make for uneven grids, and heavy files slow your site down.

Argos keeps the product exactly as it is in the photo and redoes background, lighting and staging following your style guide. Images are cropped, made consistent and compressed, so your site stays fast. Every render goes through a separate check.

Several WooCommerce sites: do I need several Argos?

A WooCommerce portfolio often means one WordPress install per store, each with its own attributes, categories and plugins. With Argos, you run all your stores from the same interface, and each one keeps its own style guide and rules. We plug Argos into each of them at setup.

What should I prepare before the call?

how many sites you run and how many products you list;
your global attributes (Products › Attributes) and your main categories;
two or three great listings, as a simple product and as a variable product;
the plugins that add fields to your listings (SEO, brands, size guides…);
your preference: publish directly or as a draft.

Questions about Argos and WooCommerce

Can Argos publish straight to my WooCommerce site?

Yes, after you approve. You choose: publish directly in one click, or send as a draft. Either way, nothing goes live until a human has approved the listing.

Where can Argos import products from?

From a product page link. AliExpress is connected through its official API; for every other source, our in-house scraping tools read the page. The listing is then built in your WooCommerce store’s format.

Argos for WooCommerce