Monthly Update: ApparelHub goes open source
May closed and June opened with a big push toward open source. We published two GitHub projects this month: a Claude Code skill that lets AI agents manage ApparelHub stores natively, and a WooCommerce shipping plugin that combines live Printful rates with flat Printify rates at checkout. Both are free, GPL-2.0 licensed, and live on GitHub today. Inside the platform you can now curate which mockups show up on your product, reconcile manual orders to their real storefront entry, and pass per-item live shipping rates through to WooCommerce. Here is what is new.
Open source: a Claude Code skill for AI agents
We published the apparelhub-skills repository on GitHub so anyone running Claude Code can hand off product creation, mockup workflows, store sync, and order management to an AI agent that already knows our conventions. The skill ships the prompt patterns we use internally plus Python helpers for the trickier mechanics: transparent background generation, embroidery thread color mapping, multi-phase preview job polling, and the field-name quirks of the product create endpoint that have tripped up every first integration.
Install in two steps: clone the repo and symlink the skill into your Claude Code skills directory. The README walks through both. Free to fork, contribute, and adapt for your own workflows.
Why this matters: as more merchants pair Claude Code with their store, the agents need a shared vocabulary for talking to ApparelHub. The open skill is that vocabulary. We will keep extending it as new platform capabilities ship, and we welcome pull requests from anyone running ApparelHub agents in production.
Open source: a WooCommerce shipping plugin
Mixed-fulfillment stores have a hard shipping problem. If you sell some products through Printful and others through Printify on the same WooCommerce site, WooCommerce only sees one flat shipping rate at checkout. Either your customers pay too much and bounce, or you eat the loss when the real shipping cost arrives later.
The apparelhub-woocommerce-plugin repository on GitHub fixes it. Install the plugin into your WooCommerce site, generate a shipping token from your Store Dashboard, paste it into the plugin settings, and your checkout now pulls live Printful rates per item plus your configured flat Printify rates, combined into one shipping line. If the rate lookup fails for any reason, the plugin falls back to your flat rates so checkout never breaks. GPL-2.0 licensed, ready to download from the Releases page.
Curate your product gallery
When you generate mockups across colors and angles for a single product, you usually want only some of them on the storefront. The Edit Product modal now has a Mockups section. Check or uncheck each preview to decide what stays in your gallery and what gets hidden. Excluded mockups drop out of the gallery on your product page and out of every connected sales channel after the next sync.
If you exclude the preview that was your product thumbnail, we auto pick a new one from the remaining included previews so your product card never breaks. At least one preview always has to stay included so the product still has a face.
Reconcile manual orders to your storefront
Sometimes you take an order outside your storefront. A phone call. A custom request. A one-off through ApparelHub directly. Then you realize the customer also placed the same order through your Shopify or WooCommerce store and you have two records for one shipment.
The order detail page now has a "Link to storefront order" action. Pick the integration, type the order number from your storefront, click Link. Payment status flips to paid automatically since the storefront already handled the charge through its own gateway. The Source chip on your orders list updates to show the actual sales channel so you can tell at a glance which orders came from where. No more duplicate work.
Smarter shipping for WooCommerce stores
Behind the open-source plugin sits a new rate engine. Each WooCommerce integration now has its own shipping configuration with a flat-rate base plus per-item add-on for Printify items, and the live Printful rate engine pulls real carrier prices per shipment. The plugin sums everything into the single shipping line WooCommerce expects at checkout.
Reconciliation runs on every paid order so we flag any order that shipped underwater on margin. Generate a per-store shipping token from your Store Dashboard, paste it into the plugin, and the whole pipeline works end-to-end. Connecting your first store takes about a minute.
What is next
We are continuing to invest in the agentic side of the platform. If you are building with Claude Code or any other AI agent on top of ApparelHub, the skill is the fastest way to get started, and the team behind it watches the repo's issues. Open a discussion if you have a workflow you would like the skill to cover.
Most of the merchant-facing work above is already live on apparelhub.ai. Sign in, open a product, and look for the Mockups section in the editor. Connect a WooCommerce store and grab a shipping token from the Store Dashboard. Then file the rest of your weekend under "things you will not have to do anymore."