Connecting an AI assistant to Stockie
Available on: Pro Plus.
You can connect Claude or ChatGPT to Stockie and ask about your suppliers, stock and purchase orders in your own words. The assistant reads your Stockie data through Stockie's MCP server, and can draft purchase orders for you to check.
Who can use it
Connecting an assistant needs the Pro Plus plan. On a lower plan, signing in shows the upgrade page instead.
Any staff member who can open Stockie can connect an assistant.
It works with Claude (claude.ai, desktop and mobile), Claude Code and ChatGPT. Other AI apps are not supported yet, so let us know which one you use and we will look at adding it.
Connecting
The server URL is the same for every store:
https://stockie.vercel.app/mcp
Each assistant adds it in its own way. Whether you can add one at all depends on your Claude or ChatGPT plan rather than on Stockie, so start there.
Claude
Custom connectors work on every Claude plan, with Free limited to one. On Team and Enterprise an Owner adds the connector first, and everyone else then connects to it.
- In Claude, open Connectors under Customize in your settings.
- Select Add, then Add custom connector.
- Name it Stockie and paste the URL above.
- Select Add, then Connect on the new Stockie connector.
- Stockie opens in your browser to sign in.
Claude Code
- Run
claude mcp add --transport http stockie https://stockie.vercel.app/mcp. - Run
/mcp, choose stockie, then authenticate. - Stockie opens in your browser to sign in.
ChatGPT
- In ChatGPT, open Settings, then Plugins.
- Select Add, then Add MCP server.
- Name it Stockie and paste the URL above.
- Connect, and Stockie opens in your browser to sign in.
Claude and ChatGPT both move these screens around. If yours do not match, Anthropic and OpenAI keep their own instructions up to date.
Signing in
The assistant opens Stockie in the Shopify store you used most recently, and the page names it, so check that is the store you want. If it is not, Not this store? Choose another store lets you enter a different one.
Tick the permissions you want to give, then click Connect.
Things to ask
- "Which suppliers have products I'm out of?"
- "Draft a PO to Acme for 24 of each blue hoodie size."
- "Which purchase orders are still waiting to be received?"
- "Add invoice INV-1043 to PO #212."
- "What's on order from Acme, and when is it due?"
- "How many of SKU HOODIE-BLU-M do I have, and where?"
- "Which products does Acme supply, and what do they cost?"
- "What did we receive last week?"
What it can and cannot do
You choose from four permissions:
| Permission | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Read suppliers | Suppliers, their products and supplier SKUs |
| Read inventory | Stock per location, including incoming quantities |
| Read purchase orders | Purchase orders, line items, receipts, invoices and payments |
| Write purchase orders | Create draft purchase orders, update details such as tracking, and add invoices |
The assistant only sees what you ticked.
Purchase orders it creates are always drafts. Sending orders to suppliers and receiving stock stay in Stockie, where you can check the order first.
Forecasts, reorder suggestions, low stock and inventory value are not available to assistants yet.
Checking what the assistant did
Anything an assistant does shows on the purchase order's timeline, naming it: "Claude created this purchase order.", tagged AI assistant beside the time.
AI assistants can get things wrong, so it is worth reading a draft order through before you send it.
Privacy and data
The assistant can only reach what you ticked, and only for the store you connected.
It has no access to your customers: the tools cover suppliers, inventory and purchase orders, and nothing else.
Whatever you share in a conversation goes to Claude or ChatGPT under that provider's own terms. Stock figures are as of Stockie's last sync with Shopify.
Disconnecting
Go to Settings → Integrations and find the AI assistants card, which lists everything connected. Disconnecting takes effect on the assistant's next request.
Uninstalling Stockie ends every connection as well.
If something is not working
- "This app can't connect to Stockie" - that AI app is not supported yet.
- The upgrade page appears when you sign in - connecting needs Pro Plus.
- It connected to the wrong store - disconnect, then connect again and use Choose another store.
- A product search finds nothing - use a word of at least three letters from the product name, or its exact SKU or barcode.
- "That search took too long" - try a more specific word, or the SKU.
- Too many requests - wait a minute, then carry on.
- It stopped working - reconnect from the assistant.