Let AI agents order from your store.
When a shopper asks their AI assistant to place an order, Pay By AI lets that agent check out on your WooCommerce store just like a customer would. Orders land in your usual WooCommerce dashboard. Money settles to your Stripe account. You fulfill and ship exactly as you do today.
This page walks you through installing the plugin and connecting it to your Pay By AI account. It takes about 5 minutes and no code.
You'll need a Pay By AI merchant account — that's how we know where to send the money when a sale goes through. If you haven't signed up yet: start your 15-day free trial. You'll get a merchant API key that looks like pbai_mk_.... Keep it somewhere safe — you'll paste it into WooCommerce in Step 3.
Download the plugin
Click the button to download paybyai-for-woocommerce.zip to your computer. That's the whole plugin — no installer, no dependencies.
Install it in WordPress
In your WordPress admin:
- Go to Plugins → Add New.
- Click Upload Plugin at the top of the page.
- Click Choose File and pick the ZIP you just downloaded.
- Click Install Now, wait a few seconds, then click Activate Plugin.
Paste your Pay By AI key
Now go to WooCommerce → Settings in your WordPress admin. You'll see a new tab at the top called Pay By AI. Click it.
Paste your merchant API key into the field and click Save changes. That's it — your store is now connected.
Behind the scenes, the plugin checks your key with Pay By AI and automatically tells us where to send payment confirmations back to your store. You don't need to configure webhooks, URLs, or anything else.
You're live. Here's what happens next.
When a shopper tells their AI assistant something like “order a large pepperoni from AI Pizza and ship it to me,” here's what you'll see:
- The agent browses your products and picks an item — the same way a customer would use your storefront.
- A new order appears in WooCommerce → Orders with status Pending payment. The shipping address, email, and any notes are already filled in.
- Pay By AI charges the shopper's saved card and sends the funds to your Stripe account (minus Stripe's normal processing fee).
- The order flips to Processing automatically. Your fulfillment emails and shipping labels fire off just like any other online sale.
No card numbers touch your WordPress site at any point. Pay By AI and Stripe handle that piece; you never see it, never store it, never have to worry about PCI compliance.
See it working
We run a live demo store called AI Pizza with this exact plugin installed. Eight pizzas, seven locations (including Clarkston, MI), all priced at $1 for demo purchases. You can browse it like a customer or point an AI agent at it to see the end-to-end flow.
Common questions
▸Does this replace my checkout page?
▸Where does the money go?
▸Do I pay transaction fees?
▸What if I stop using Pay By AI?
▸Does this work with variable products, taxes, shipping zones?
▸I got an error saying 'this store is not connected'
pbai_mk_test_, live with pbai_mk_live_).Building a custom integration or have a developer helping you? Read the developer guide for the technical details — REST API, webhooks, and the full MCP tool reference.
