Shopify

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Hosted online store platform that handles products, checkout, payments and orders for businesses selling online.
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Shopify API

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OAuth 2.0. OAuth 2.0; API access on: All plansSource

MCP server

What it is
Official Shopify MCP servers are per store ({shop}/api/mcp for policies/FAQs, Customer Accounts MCP) or local (Dev MCP via stdio, no auth); no single fixed endpoint, so server_url omitted. Catalog/cart tools on {shop}/api/mcp were removed in favour of UCP.

Checked on 2026-10-10 in the developer documentation.

How to automate Shopify

API and webhooks

Shopify documents a GraphQL Admin API for products, customers, orders and inventory, and a Storefront API for custom storefronts. Webhooks notify your app when something in a store changes, such as a new order.

Automation idea: when an order is created, push it to your accounting tool and post a message in Slack for orders above a size you choose.

MCP server

Shopify has an official Dev MCP server. It runs locally, needs no sign-in and connects an AI assistant to Shopify's developer resources, including docs and API schemas. It is built for development work.

Automation idea: connect it to Claude and ask for the GraphQL query that lists last week's orders, then run that query from a script.

No-code automation

Check whether Zapier or Make have a Shopify app before you plan a flow around it.

Automation idea: when a customer places a first order, create or update the contact in HubSpot and start a welcome sequence.