How do I use WooCommerce's Create Order ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside WooCommerce, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "Create a new order for customer ID 57 with two units of product 482, billed to their address on file, using bank transfer as the payment method."

Create Order is a WordPress ability from WooCommerce — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Create Order

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WooCommerce Ecommerce woocommerce/orders-create

Create a new WooCommerce order with customer, billing/shipping, and line item details.

Requires the WooCommerce plugin active on WordPress 6.9+, with the experimental 'mcp_integration' feature flag enabled (WooCommerce > Settings > Advanced > Features). Abilities are only registered for requests hitting WooCommerce's own /woocommerce/mcp REST endpoint, and each request must authenticate with a WooCommerce REST API key (consumer_key:consumer_secret) sent via the X-MCP-API-Key header over HTTPS — the key's read/write permission scope must match the HTTP method used.

What it does

This ability creates a new order by dispatching a POST request through wc/v3/orders, using WooCommerce's order schema fields: status, currency, customer_id, customer_note, billing and shipping address objects, payment_method and payment_method_title, line_items (each with product_id, variation_id, and quantity), and coupon_lines. As with products, WooCommerce's own schema does not flag any field as strictly required, though a usable order generally needs at least line_items and a billing address. The response returns the newly created order object with WooCommerce's computed totals.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Create a new order for customer ID 57 with two units of product 482, billed to their address on file, using bank transfer as the payment method."

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
status	string	No	Order status. Defaults to 'pending'.
currency	string	No	Currency the order is created with, in ISO format.
customer_id	integer	No	User ID who owns the order; 0 for guests. Defaults to 0.
customer_note	string	No	Note left by the customer during checkout.
billing	object	No	Billing address object (first_name, last_name, company, address_1/2, city, state, postcode, country, email, phone).
shipping	object	No	Shipping address object (first_name, last_name, company, address_1/2, city, state, postcode, country).
payment_method	string	No	Payment method ID.
payment_method_title	string	No	Payment method title.
line_items	array	No	Array of line items, each with product_id, variation_id, and quantity.
coupon_lines	array	No	Array of coupons applied to the order.

Returns

The newly created order object, including WooCommerce-computed totals and tax fields.

Permission

Registered as a write (POST) operation. Requires a WooCommerce REST API key sent via the X-MCP-API-Key header over HTTPS with 'write' or 'read_write' permission scope.