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SommelierX Wine Advice
v1.4.14 · by sommelierx
The right wine for every dish, taste or bottle, from your own range. A wine advice widget for WooCommerce wine shops. Connect in one click, 14 days to …
About this plugin
Help your customers choose the right wine for dinner, and sell more of your own wines.
SommelierX adds wine advice to your WooCommerce shop. On every wine product page, customers see a short line about the wine and the five dishes that fit it best, each with a score; more on request. In a search bar they type what they are cooking and get wines from your range. Only wines from your own range are recommended, and every recommendation links to your product page.
It fits around your shop, not the other way round. The widget sits next to the product image or below your product information, never above it. It takes your theme’s fonts, works in a narrow column, and you set the accent colour.
Three clicks to set up. Install the plugin, click Connect to SommelierX (no account, no API key to copy), then Import your catalog. We read your products and match every wine; what we do not recognise, our team does by hand.
Ready for the holidays. Customers planning a Christmas dinner can look up their menu and find the matching wine in your shop.
14 days to try, then €9 or €29 per month, cancel anytime. Starter (€9) or Growth (€29 per month, excl. VAT). See https://sommelierx.com/en/webshops.
Starter (€9 per month, excl. VAT): Advice for dishes, ingredients, taste and bottles. Wines, prices and stock updated daily. Compact standard design. Dutch, English, German and French. Simple usage counter.
Growth (€29 per month, excl. VAT): Everything in Starter. Shoppers who come to you through the SommelierX app. Your own colours and branding. Detailed usage and click-through statistics.
Built over 17 years with scientists and sommeliers.
External services disclosure
This plugin relies on the SommelierX service:
- On “Connect”, the plugin briefly publishes a random verification token at
/wp-json/sommelierx/v1/handshakeand askshttps://api.sommelierx.comto provision your store; the endpoint only shows a SHA-256 fingerprint of the token, which SommelierX checks to confirm you own the domain, then returns your widget key. No account or password is involved. - On “Choose Starter / Growth” and “Manage subscription”, the plugin asks
https://api.sommelierx.comfor a Stripe payment page and sends you tocheckout.stripe.comorbilling.stripe.com. Your payment details go to Stripe only; the plugin never sees them. - On “Import your catalog”, SommelierX reads your published products from the public WooCommerce Store API (
/wp-json/wc/store/products) to build your wine assortment. - On product pages, the plugin loads a script from
https://sommelierx.com/widget/v2.js, which sends the wine’s product information (name, ID, and your widget key) tohttps://api.sommelierx.comto fetch wine advice. - No customer personal data is sent — only product and widget usage information.
Terms of service: https://sommelierx.com/terms
Partner terms for webshops (accepted when you subscribe): https://sommelierx.com/partnervoorwaarden
Privacy policy: https://sommelierx.com/privacy
Four focused wine advice flows:
- Product mode — On each wine product page: a one-line wine card (style, region, grapes, taste) and the five dishes that pair best, with the rest behind “Show more”.
- Search mode — A search bar where visitors type a dish (or even a single ingredient) and get wine recommendations from your catalog.
- Build your Dish mode — Visitors add main ingredients, preparation, sauce, sides, and amounts before seeing wines from your catalog.
- By Taste mode — Visitors choose a wine colour and taste tags while matching wines from your catalog update immediately.
- Multilingual — Search and results in Dutch, English, German, or French.
Key features:
- One-click connect — install, click “Connect to SommelierX”, done. No account.
- One-click catalog import from the WooCommerce Store API — recognised wines become ready for the widget; the rest are staged for a quick review.
- Place any flow anywhere with the
[sommelierx_widget]shortcode, for example[sommelierx_widget mode="builder"]. - Search by dish name or ingredient, in Dutch, English, German, or French.
- Choose the placement: next to the product image (right column) or below the product information.
- Light and dark theme, your accent colour and your theme’s fonts.
- Loads asynchronously — no impact on page speed.
- Works with WooCommerce HPOS (High-Performance Order Storage).
- Fully responsive on mobile and desktop, and in a narrow sidebar or column.
All four widgets are included in your subscription:
- Product page:
[sommelierx_widget mode="product"]shows dishes matching this bottle. Use on a wine product page, or select Widget Mode = Product with automatic Placement. - Dish search:
[sommelierx_widget mode="search"]finds wines from your shop for a dish such as Risotto or Asparagus. - Dish builder:
[sommelierx_widget mode="builder"]gives wine advice after choosing a main ingredient, preparation and sauce. - Taste profile selector:
[sommelierx_widget mode="taste"]finds wines from your shop by colour and taste preferences.
Add a Shortcode block in WordPress, Elementor or Gutenberg and paste one or more shortcodes. Use search, builder and taste on your homepage or a dedicated wine advice page.