Shopify Admin MCP

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A1 Shopify Admin MCP connects AI applications to one Shopify store through the Admin GraphQL API. Ask in plain language about products, orders, customers, inventory, discounts, and shop data; the assistant uses the server's ready-made tools and shows the result.

• One store per server. The store domain and access token come from configuration; tools cannot switch to another store.

• 16 focused tools. Read shop data, products, orders, customers, locations, inventory, and discounts, plus create or update the supported records.

• GraphQL failures are surfaced. Shopify can return HTTP 200 for a failed mutation, so the server checks userErrors and rejects empty or malformed GraphQL responses.

• Cost-aware responses. Every result includes the GraphQL cost bucket: the cost of the request and the points currently available for the next calls.

• Risk is visible. Reads are read-only; product, price, inventory, and discount writes are explicit; order cancellation and arbitrary GraphQL are marked destructive.

Start with a read-only request:

Show the latest orders and the products that currently have inventory.

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See it work in a minute

You: Show the latest orders and the products that currently have inventory.

Assistant: Shows recent orders with their statuses and totals, then products with prices and inventory. Nothing changes.

You: Prepare a 20% discount code called SUMMER for two weeks.

Assistant: Shows the proposed code, percentage, dates, and limits, then asks for confirmation before creating it.

You: Confirm.

Related MCP server: Shopify Store MCP Server

Contents

• Quick start

• What you can ask it to do

• What can change in Shopify

• Getting access

• Configuration

• Data, limits, and background work

• Technical documentation

• Support

Quick start

You need Node.js 20+, a store domain such as my-store.myshopify.com, and a valid Shopify Admin API access token. This server accepts a ready-to-use token through SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN; it does not perform OAuth, client-credentials exchange, or token refresh.

1. Get access and prepare a current Admin API access token.

2. Add the MCP server to your AI application.

3. Send the safe request from the opening section.

The server runs locally over stdio through npx. Browser-only ChatGPT and Claude web sessions cannot start a local stdio process directly.

Through the app:

1. Open Settings → Plugins → MCP servers.

2. Select Add server.

3. Add npx -y mcp-shopify-admin@latest and set SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN and SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Through the CLI:

codex mcp add shopify-admin \
  --env SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN=my-store.myshopify.com \
  --env SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN=shpat_your_token \
  -- npx -y mcp-shopify-admin@latest

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claude mcp add \
  --env SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN=my-store.myshopify.com \
  --env SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN=shpat_your_token \
  --transport stdio --scope user shopify-admin \
  -- npx -y mcp-shopify-admin@latest

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Open Settings → Developer → Edit Config and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopify-admin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-shopify-admin@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN": "my-store.myshopify.com",
        "SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "shpat_your_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

If Edit Config is not available, edit ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows.

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Add this server to ~/.cursor/mcp.json on macOS/Linux or %USERPROFILE%\.cursor\mcp.json on Windows:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "shopify-admin": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-shopify-admin@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN": "my-store.myshopify.com",
        "SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "shpat_your_token"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Run MCP: Open User Configuration and add:

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "shopify_store_domain",
      "description": "Shopify store domain, for example my-store.myshopify.com"
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "shopify_access_token",
      "description": "Shopify Admin API access token",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "shopify-admin": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-shopify-admin@latest"],
      "env": {
        "SHOPIFY_STORE_DOMAIN": "${input:shopify_store_domain}",
        "SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:shopify_access_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Check the server with MCP: List Servers.

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What you can ask it to do

• Inspect the store. Show shop details, locations, products, orders, customers, or discounts.

• Work with products. Create a product draft, update product fields, or change variant prices.

• Track inventory. Find locations and set the absolute available quantity for inventory items.

• Review orders. Search orders, inspect a complete order, or cancel an eligible order with explicit refund and restock choices.

• Manage discounts. List existing discounts or create a basic code discount.

• Use the escape hatch. Run an arbitrary Admin GraphQL document for capabilities that do not have a dedicated tool.

What can change in Shopify

This server does not provide dedicated tools for creating orders, fulfillment, customer writes, variant creation, media, targeted discounts, or publishing products to sales channels. Use graphql_request only when you understand the document and its userErrors response.

The AI client may ask for confirmation before a write, but confirmation behavior belongs to that client. A clear request to create, update, set, or cancel authorizes the corresponding server operation.

Getting access

This server currently takes a ready-to-use Admin API access token. It does not accept a client ID and secret, and it does not refresh expiring tokens.

Existing admin-created custom apps

Existing admin-created custom apps continue to work, but Shopify no longer allows new admin-created custom apps to be created in the Shopify admin. If you already maintain one:

1. Open the app in the Shopify admin.

2. Confirm the required Admin API access scopes, such as read_products, write_products, read_orders, read_customers, read_locations, write_inventory, read_discounts, and write_discounts.

3. Install or reinstall the app if Shopify asks you to generate credentials.

4. Use the issued Admin API access token as SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN.

See Shopify's legacy admin-created custom app documentation.

New apps

For a new integration, use the Shopify Dev Dashboard or Shopify CLI. Dev Dashboard apps use an OAuth-based flow; for stores in your own Shopify organization, the client credentials grant exchanges a client ID and secret for an access token that expires after 24 hours. Token acquisition and refresh are outside this MCP server, so renew the token externally before restarting the server.

Treat every token as a password and never commit it to Git. For safe testing, use a Shopify development store.

Configuration

* SHOPIFY_API_BASE can replace the store domain for local tests, but a real Shopify request still needs SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN.

Data, limits, and background work

• GraphQL cost bucket. Every result exposes actualQueryCost, currentlyAvailable, maximumAvailable, and restoreRate when Shopify provides them. A page with first up to 250 is usually cheaper than many small pages.

• Retries are asymmetric. THROTTLED and HTTP 429 are retried with the wait Shopify reports. 5xx and network errors are retried only for reads; mutations are not replayed after those failures.

• Order history. Orders older than 60 days require the read_all_orders scope; without it, Shopify does not return them.

• No background monitoring. The server works when called. If your AI application supports scheduled tasks, it can periodically check orders or inventory.

• Anonymous telemetry. The server sends technical installation and tool-use events without secrets, store data, arguments, or prompts. Disable it for all Ask Ads MCP servers with ASKADS_TELEMETRY=0.

Technical documentation

• Capability catalog — one task-oriented page for each of the 16 tools.

• All tools and parameters

• Development guide

• Publishing guide

• Shopify Admin GraphQL API

Support

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