How to Connect Gelato to Gemini — via MCP

💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Gelato, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no git clone, no local server.

Gelato + Gemini

Gelato print-on-demand: browse the product catalog, check prices, stock and shipping methods, quote, draft and track orders (including Etsy and Shopify orders), and manage products in connected stores. Gelato API with an 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:

GELATO_API_KEY

Step 1 — Get credentials

1. In the Gelato dashboard (dashboard.gelato.com), open Developer → API Keys and click Add API key. Only admins, or users given the permission, see this page.
2. Name the key, click Create key and copy it right away: Gelato does not show it again.
3. Paste it into GELATO_API_KEY and install the connector. The key is sent as the X-API-KEY header to each of Gelato's API hosts (product, order, shipment and ecommerce).
4. Start with gelato_list_catalogs and gelato_get_catalog, then use gelato_search_products to find the productUid that prices, quotes and orders need. gelato_quote_order gives the full price with shipping options for a real address.

gelato_create_order, gelato_confirm_draft_order and gelato_create_product_from_template are installed switched off: the first two charge your Gelato account, the third publishes a listing to the connected store (Etsy charges a listing fee). Enable them on the connector page only if you want them. gelato_create_draft_order is on, because a draft is neither produced nor charged. Orders from a connected Etsy or Shopify store reach Gelato on their own and show up in gelato_search_orders; do not create them again.

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 Gemini

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.

Gemini CLI reads MCP servers from ~/.gemini/settings.json (on Windows %USERPROFILE%\.gemini\settings.json). Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "httpUrl": "https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_MCP_API_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

1. Create an MCP API key in AnythingMCP under MCP Servers → your server → API keys, and paste it in place of YOUR_MCP_API_KEY.
2. Save the file and restart gemini.
3. Run /mcp inside Gemini CLI (or gemini mcp list in your shell) — anythingmcp should show as connected.
4. Start prompting — Gemini CLI can now call the Gelato tools.

Available tools

FAQ

Where does Gemini CLI look for MCP servers? In ~/.gemini/settings.json for your user, or in .gemini/settings.json inside a project. gemini mcp list shows each server and whether it connects.

Next steps

• Connector landing page
• Connect to Claude
• Connect to ChatGPT