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How to connect Claude to Shopify

Short answer: You need a Shopify store, an Acrium account (free for 14 days, no card) and Claude on any plan, including free. It takes about five minutes. Add Acrium as a custom connector in Claude, sign in, connect Shopify, then ask.

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Try free for 14 days. No card needed. Then Connect is $9.99/month; Connect + Voice, with phone calls, is $29.99/month. Cancel any time.

Step by step

Four steps, about five minutes.

  1. Add Acrium to Claude

    In Claude, go to Customize > Connectors, click + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Acrium, paste https://acriumautomated.com/mcp as the URL, click Continue, then Add. In a chat, switch Acrium on under + > Connectors. On a Team or Enterprise plan, an owner adds it once under Organization settings > Connectors, then you click Connect. The Claude setup guide shows each click.

  2. Sign in to Acrium

    Claude opens an Acrium sign-in. New here? Make an account in the same window: your first workspace gets Connect free for 14 days, no card. Then pick the workspace it may use and the permissions it gets. It never does more than you could.

  3. Connect Shopify in Acrium

    In the Acrium dashboard, sign in to your Shopify store. To attach photos, publish to sales channels or manage SKUs and orders, also tick More store & inventory tools in Settings.

  4. Try a first prompt

    Start with something small you can check. A few below.

Prompts to try first

  • “List my Shopify products that have no photo, then attach the ones in the Photos folder that match by name.”
  • “Make a 15 percent off code, SPRING15. I'll approve it in Acrium.”
  • “Which of this week's orders didn't match anything in inventory, and what's running low?”

What Claude can do in Shopify

  • Products: list them, add one with a SKU, change title, description and price, publish or unpublish, list it on the sales channel, delete.
  • Photos: attach photos from your Acrium media library, change alt text, delete images.
  • Discounts: create a percent-off code for every product (at most 25 percent off), change a price rule, delete codes.
  • Orders and reports: recent paid orders, and Shopify's saved reports where your Shopify plan allows them.
  • Inventory: Acrium keeps its own stock list matched to Shopify by SKU, with printable QR stock labels you scan with a phone camera. New orders and low stock land in the attention queue Claude reads.

What it can't do, or won't without you

  • It doesn't change Shopify's own stock count. Acrium's inventory is its own list, matched by SKU.
  • It doesn't reorder or restock anything.
  • Discounts are percent-off codes on every product. Anything fancier, set up in Shopify.
  • By default, new discounts and deletes wait for your approval in the Acrium dashboard. You can loosen that in the Approval Gate settings. Editing a title, description or price doesn't wait.

Which Claude plans work

  • Free: works. Anthropic allows one custom connector on the free plan, and Acrium only needs one. If you already use your one slot for something else, you'd have to swap.
  • Pro, Max: works. You add the connector yourself.
  • Team, Enterprise: works, but an owner (or, on Enterprise, someone with the right admin role) has to add the connector for the organization first. Each person then signs in on their own.

Straight answers.

Anything else? Email [email protected] and the founder answers.

Doesn't Shopify make its own Claude connector?

Yes. Shopify makes its own connector apps, and if the store is all you want Claude to touch, start there. Acrium is separate and not made by Shopify. It covers the store plus posting to nine social platforms, Google Ads and, on Connect + Voice, phone calls, under one sign-in.

Will Claude change my Shopify stock levels?

No. Acrium keeps its own inventory list, matched to Shopify products by SKU. It doesn't change Shopify's own stock count.

Can Claude make discounts without asking me?

Not by default. Creating a discount and deleting products, photos or codes wait for your approval in the Acrium dashboard unless you turn that off in the Approval Gate settings. Editing a product's title, description or price doesn't wait.

Do I need a paid Claude plan?

No. Anthropic allows one custom connector on Claude's free plan, and Acrium only needs one. Pro and Max work too. On Team and Enterprise, an owner adds the connector for the organization, then each person signs in.

What does it cost?

Try free for 14 days. No card needed, and nothing is charged when the trial ends. Then Connect is $9.99/month, which includes Shopify and inventory. Connect + Voice is $29.99/month and adds phone calls. Your Claude plan is separate.

Try it on your own Shopify.

Connect Claude, connect Shopify, and ask for something real. You have 14 days to see whether it earns its place.

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Try free for 14 days. No card needed. Then Connect is $9.99/month; Connect + Voice, with phone calls, is $29.99/month. Cancel any time.