Connect an AI assistant to Customei

You can connect an AI assistant that supports MCP connectors and ask it in plain words to do things like list my templates that aren't live yet or translate this option set into German.

1. Go to Preferences > AI access and click Copy next to MCP server URL.

2. Paste it into your AI app. In Claude: Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector. In Cursor: Settings > MCP.

3. Sign in to Customei when your browser asks, and approve the access level.

Choose the smallest access level that does the job

• Read: looks things up and changes nothing. It can find your templates, option sets and products, search your assets, make a preview picture, check an option set for mistakes, check that the Customei app embed is on in your theme, and look at a competitor's store.

• Write: can also make changes. It can create, copy and edit design templates (layers and mockup photos) and option sets, make an option set from a design template, save pictures to your store, add languages and translate, set words that must always be translated a certain way, change your custom code, and rebuild a competitor's product as a draft in your account. Customers see these changes once a product is published. Custom code is the exception: it reaches your product pages right away.

• Publish (shown as done in the activity log): can also put products live, publish every product still showing an old version, and take a product down.

Everything an assistant does is listed on the AI access tab, and you can cut off its access there at any time.

Shopify Sidekick

Shopify's own assistant, Sidekick, can also answer questions about Customei with nothing to set up. It explains how to do things, finds an option set or design template, tells you which option sets are on a product, whether an order's printing files are ready, and which print vendors you are connected to. It only looks and can't change anything.

Full guide: Let an AI assistant help you