E-commerce

Talk to your Shopify store through Claude

A store owner connected Claude Desktop to a Shopify MCP server so he can query orders and update products in chat.

By A Reddit user on Reddit · Posted · Added Oct 16, 2026

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What they did

He hosted a Shopify MCP server on Railway and added it to Claude as a custom connector.

How it went

Claude can look up orders and edit products.

Worth knowing

A commenter warned about write-scoped tokens and third-party code; pin the repo or use read-only access.

Builder recipe

Our own starting point, written from the source. Adapt it to your setup.

Stack

  • Claude Desktop
  • Shopify MCP server
  • Railway

Steps

  1. Connect store data (orders, products, policies).
  2. Have the agent answer or act within written policy.
  3. Hand off refunds and edge cases to a human.
  4. Review transcripts weekly.

Starter prompt

Which 10 products sold most this month, and which are under 5 units in stock? Do not change anything.

Tags

Agent Claude
Industry E-commerce

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