Quick start

Quick start

From nothing to asking Claude about your store

The short version, end to end: connect your Shopify store, add Mercopilot to Claude, ask it something. Five minutes, four steps, one address to paste.

  • About 5 minutes
  • Nothing to install
  • No API key needed

This is the express route. It takes the one path that works for most people and skips every alternative. For the other ways in — ChatGPT, the connector directories, Claude Code, and what to do when a step goes wrong — take the Shopify guide and the Claude guide instead.

  1. Connect your Shopify store

    Create a Mercopilot account, then open Stores in your dashboard and type your store's domain:

    Your myshopify.com domain
    your-store.myshopify.com

    Shopify asks you to approve the install. Approve it, and you land back on your dashboard with the store listed.

  2. Copy the Mercopilot address

    This is the only thing you have to paste, and it's the same for every store:

    MCP server URL
    https://api.mercopilot.com/mcp

    There's no API key to generate. Claude signs in to Mercopilot the same way you do.

  3. Add it to Claude

    Open Settings → Connectors — your profile picture on claude.ai, or Ctrl ⌘ + , in the desktop app. Click Add → Add custom connector, name it Mercopilot, paste the URL, and click Add.

    Then click Connect on the new entry. A Mercopilot window opens: sign in, pick your store, click Authorize. The window closes on its own.

    In Claude Code it's one command instead, then /mcp to sign in:

    Terminal
    claude mcp add --transport http mercopilot https://api.mercopilot.com/mcp

  4. Switch it on and ask

    Connectors are off by default in each conversation — this is the step people miss. Start a new chat, click + next to the message box, choose Connectors, and toggle Mercopilot on. Then ask:

    • “How is my store doing this month?”

    • “Where am I losing money right now?”

    • “Which slow sellers should I discount, and by how much?”

    Anything that changes your store — a price, a title, stock, a discount — is shown to you for approval before it happens.

If it doesn't answer

Claude says it has no access, or just answers from memory
The connector is off for that conversation. Connectors are per-chat: open the + menu next to the message box and switch Mercopilot on, then ask again.
It says there are no stores on your account
The connection worked, but step 1 did not finish. Connect Shopify from your dashboard and ask again — nothing here needs redoing.

Anything else, the full guides have it. Claude, in detail

Where to next

ShopifySet up Shopify Connect your store — start hereClaudeSet up Claude Directory, custom connector, or Claude CodeChatGPTSet up ChatGPT Plugin directory, or a custom connector Everything you can ask All nine tools, and the question each one answers

Still stuck? Email [email protected] and we'll walk you through it.

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