Vendure vs WooCommerce API + MCP

Vendure

Full cart, coupon, shipping and payment flow in the GraphQL Shop API, with ErrorResult types an agent can branch on. No vendor-hosted API. Vendure Cloud is only partly available.

WooCommerce API + MCP

Free GPL software with no platform fee or revenue share. Uptime, speed and security depend on each store's host and plugins. No vendor status page.

Vendure

1. Keep the session token from the first Shop API response and send it on every call. It holds the active order
2. Check each mutation result's __typename and errorCode. Expected failures return 200 with an ErrorResult
3. Don't retry addItemToOrder blindly. Read the active order first, since a repeat adds the quantity again
4. For server-side work, enable api-key in authOptions.tokenMethod and give the key one role in one channel
5. Run 3.7.3 or later, and purge old job records, which may still hold session tokens

WooCommerce API + MCP

1. Create a REST key with read permission only for reporting tasks, and send it in the Authorization header, never the URL
2. Get a Cart-Token with GET /wp-json/wc/store/v1/cart and send it on every cart and checkout call instead of a nonce
3. Add _fields=id,name,price to REST calls to cut response size
4. Page with per_page up to 100 and stop at X-WP-TotalPages
5. Product delete only trashes unless you pass force true, so check the trash before assuming it's gone