How AI Works & Credit Costs

WooDonkey’s AI features are powerful but predictable: they’re metered in credits, you trigger them deliberately (nothing silently runs up a bill), and results are always yours to review before they go live.

How AI works here

  • You’re in control. AI actions run when you click Generate (or approve a batch) – they don’t run continuously in the background.
  • Large jobs take minutes, not seconds. Bulk AI runs (e.g. generating SEO across a big catalog) are processed in throttled batches and run as background jobs.
  • Powered by Google’s Gemini models, used consistently across the platform.
  • You review before publishing. AI produces drafts and suggestions; you approve what actually gets written to your store.

What each action costs (in credits)

AI action Credits
Assistant chat (per message) 1
SEO / description field (per field, or per product in bulk) 1
Full product content (description + SEO + FAQs) 2
FAQ set (per product) 2
Promotion from text 2
Analytics executive summary 2
GEO score 4
URL / AI product import 4
AI image edit (charged on save) 4
Background removal (charged on approve) 6

Free actions: the semantic search index (embeddings), AI Cross-Sell ranking, and image-edit previews don’t cost credits – image edits and background removal are only charged when you save/approve the result.

What to expect from each AI feature (accurate scope)

  • Product content (descriptions, SEO, FAQs): generated per product or in bulk; you can review and overwrite. Bulk runs skip products that already have content unless you choose to overwrite.
  • URL / AI import: works on many product pages, not all – JavaScript-heavy or login-walled pages may not extract well. The result is a reviewable draft, not a guaranteed finished product.
  • GEO score: a content-quality opinion (0-100 across facts, structure, directness, authority, completeness) based on the product’s text. It is not image analysis and not a live search-ranking measurement.
  • AI Cross-Sells: candidate products are found using your store’s own signals (co-purchases, shared tags/categories, similarity); the AI ranks them, and you approve and link them – nothing is pushed to your store automatically.
  • Assistant chat (in-app): a conversational assistant that answers questions about your store – it can search and count your products, orders, customers, and coupons, surface top products/customers, and summarize order status or source breakdowns. It’s read-only (it reports data, it never changes your store), costs 1 credit per message, and handles up to ~40 messages per conversation.
  • Image editing: non-destructive (saved as new media); quality on reflective, transparent, or complex products isn’t guaranteed.

If you run out of credits

AI actions pause until you top up (see Billing, Plans & AI Credits); everything non-AI keeps working. If the AI service is briefly unavailable, features like the executive summary fall back to a free, computed version so nothing breaks.