Connect ABOUT YOU to Claude via MCP

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ABOUT YOU + Claude

ABOUT YOU Seller Center API for marketplace partners: orders, shipping with tracking, invoices and packing slips, products with approval status, stock, prices, categories and attributes, brands and reports. API key.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

ABOUT_YOU_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setting up takes about 2 minutes.

1. Sign in to the ABOUT YOU Seller Center as an Admin user. Member users cannot create API keys.
2. Open Settings, then API Keys, and click + Add.
3. Enter a label, optionally an expiry date, and click Add Key.
4. Copy the key at once into ABOUT_YOU_API_KEY: Seller Center shows it only this one time.

The key is sent in the X-API-Key header. For test data, create a sandbox under Settings, Sandbox, Create Sandbox: it has its own API key on the same address, products go live there without approval, and test orders come from the Receive Orders button on the Orders page.

Where to start: about_you_list_orders with order_status open shows what is waiting to be shipped. about_you_list_products shows your catalogue with stock and prices. about_you_list_countries is the cheap call that proves the key works.

Orders and shipping: about_you_list_orders returns the items of each order with their id; the ship, cancel and return tools take these item ids, never SKUs. Ship with about_you_ship_order_items (carrier key from about_you_list_carriers, shipment tracking key and return tracking key are all required). about_you_get_delivery_document returns the packing slip of a dropshipping order and about_you_get_order_invoices the customer invoices, both as files. about_you_cancel_order_items and about_you_return_order_items are installed switched off: a cancelled item cannot be shipped later, and marking an item returned makes ABOUT YOU refund the customer automatically. Check a return within 24 hours of receipt; do not register one you reject.

Asynchronous writes: every write answers at once with a batchRequestId and is processed in the background. Read the outcome with about_you_get_batch_result (pick the matching result_type) until status is completed or failed; each item carries success and errors. Results are kept 7 days. The same payload sent twice within a short time returns the same batch id and is not processed again.

Products: one row is one SKU (a size of a colour of a style). Create or change them with about_you_upsert_products using ids from about_you_list_categories, about_you_list_category_attribute_groups and about_you_list_brands, then send the style to approval with about_you_publish_product. Statuses: draft, pending_approval (locked while ABOUT YOU reviews), rejected (reasons in about_you_list_rejected_products), pending_active, active, inactive and problem (an active product that became invalid; it returns to active once fixed). about_you_update_product_status (also draft and inactive) and about_you_delete_product are installed switched off.

Stock and prices: about_you_update_stock and about_you_update_prices take up to 1000 rows per call and are always applied, unlike stock or prices sent through the product upsert. Product prices are decimal numbers in the currency of the country (49.99), while order amounts are integers in the smallest unit (4999 = 49.99 EUR). Send currency with every price.

Reports and webhooks: about_you_list_reports and about_you_download_report (stock and movement reports for goods in ABOUT YOU warehouses, DAC7), about_you_list_webhooks (read only).

Paging: lists return items and pagination. Orders and products should be paged with cursor = pagination.next_cursor; the page parameter still works there but is deprecated. Smaller lists use page and per_page (max 100).

Fulfilment types: dropshipping means you ship; fulfillment_by_marketplace means ABOUT YOU ships from its own warehouse (FbAY), so there is nothing to ship and no delivery document for those orders.

Rate limits (per endpoint and per key): orders 100 per minute, ship 200, cancel and return 50, stock 1000, prices 200, product list 1000, product upsert and status 100, batch results 200, invoices and reports 10. The headers X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining show the budget; a 429 means wait for the next minute.

Errors: 400 and 401 answer with a JSON message. A 404 on a document means the order has no such file. This API has no payout or payment call; the only action that leads to a refund is registering a return, which is switched off.

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Claude

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Recommended path: works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.

1. In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
2. Click +, then Add custom connector.
3. Enter a name, e.g. ABOUT YOU, and the remote MCP server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add.
4. Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.

All tools below appear in your chat: start typing prompts.

Available tools

Example prompts

• "Which ABOUT YOU orders are open and waiting to be shipped?"
• "Which of my products were rejected by ABOUT YOU, and why?"
• "Set the stock of SKU AY-TSHIRT-WHT-M to 50."
• "Ship the items of order 123456789 with DHL, tracking 003404341612345678 and return tracking 003404341698765432."
• "Download last month's sales report."

FAQ

Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes, point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Where do I get the API key? In the ABOUT YOU Seller Center, signed in as an Admin user: Settings, API Keys, + Add. The key is shown only once. A sandbox under Settings has its own key for test orders.

What does it cover? Orders and their items, shipping with tracking, customer invoices and packing slips, products with their approval status, stock, prices, categories, attributes, brands, batch results, reports and webhooks.

Which tools install switched off? about_you_cancel_order_items, about_you_return_order_items, about_you_update_product_status and about_you_delete_product, because a cancelled item cannot be shipped later and marking an item returned makes ABOUT YOU refund the customer automatically. Switch them on on the connector page only if the AI should use them.

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