Revenue By Period

Purpose

Generate a revenue summary report for WooCommerce aggregated by day, week, or month. Combines the /reports/sales endpoint with order-level data for accurate gross revenue, total refunds, and net revenue calculations. Useful for financial reporting, board updates, and trend analysis. Read-only.

Prerequisites

• WooCommerce store with REST API enabled
• Consumer Key with Read scope
• Minimum WooCommerce version: 3.5.0

Parameters

Authentication

WooCommerce uses OAuth 1.0a for HTTP and Basic Auth over HTTPS.

For HTTPS stores (recommended):

Authorization: Basic base64(consumer_key:consumer_secret)

For HTTP stores (development only): Use OAuth 1.0a — include oauth_consumer_key, oauth_nonce, oauth_signature, oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1, oauth_timestamp, oauth_version=1.0

Never log or output consumer_key or consumer_secret values.

See docs/AUTHENTICATION.md for full setup instructions.

Safety

Read-only skill — no mutations are executed. Safe to run at any time.

Workflow Steps

Step 1 — Fetch WooCommerce sales report

GET /wp-json/wc/v3/reports/sales
  ?period=custom&date_min=<date_after>&date_max=<date_before>

Extract: total_sales, net_sales, total_orders, total_refunds, total_tax, total_shipping

Step 2 — Fetch orders for period breakdown

GET /wp-json/wc/v3/orders
  ?status=completed&after=<date_after>T00:00:00Z&before=<date_before>T23:59:59Z&per_page=100&page=1

Group total by group_by period (day/week/month of date_created).

Step 3 — Fetch refunds in same period

GET /wp-json/wc/v3/orders?status=refunded&after=...&before=...&per_page=100&page=1

Subtract from period totals.

Step 4 — Format and export

API Endpoints Used

GET  /wp-json/wc/v3/reports/sales   — aggregate sales report
GET  /wp-json/wc/v3/orders          — order-level detail for period breakdown

Pagination Strategy

WooCommerce REST API uses page/per_page pagination (not cursor-based).

Standard pattern:

page = 1
while True:
  response = GET /endpoint?per_page=100&page=page
  process(response)
  if len(response) < 100: break
  page += 1

Maximum per_page is 100 for most endpoints. The X-WP-Total and X-WP-TotalPages response headers report totals. Always read X-WP-TotalPages on the first request to estimate job size.

Session Tracking

Claude MUST emit the following output at each stage. This is mandatory.

STARTUP:

╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  SKILL: woo-revenue-by-period            ║
║  STORE: <store_url>                      ║
║  TIME:  <ISO-8601 UTC>                   ║
║  MODE:  READ-ONLY                        ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝

PER-OPERATION (emit after each API call batch):

[N/TOTAL] <METHOD> <endpoint> → <result_count> records | params: <key>=<val>

COMPLETION (human format):

╔══════════════════════════════════════════╗
║  COMPLETE: woo-revenue-by-period         ║
║  RECORDS PROCESSED: <n>                  ║
║  OUTPUT: <filename>                      ║
╚══════════════════════════════════════════╝

COMPLETION (json format):

{
  "skill": "woo-revenue-by-period",
  "store": "<store_url>",
  "completed_at": "<ISO-8601>",
  "records_processed": <n>,
  "output_file": "<path>",
  "dry_run": false
}

Output Format

CSV filename: woo-revenue-by-period_<YYYY-MM-DD>_<YYYY-MM-DD>.csv Columns: period, orders, gross_revenue, refunds, net_revenue, tax_total, shipping_total

Error Handling

Best Practices

• Use group_by: month for monthly P&L reports and group_by: day for short-term trend analysis.
• Always specify date_after and date_before aligned to full periods (e.g., full months) for clean comparisons.
• Compare to the same period in the prior year for YoY growth analysis.