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Summary
Printify print-on-demand: shops, products, the blueprint catalog with print providers, variants and shipping, the image library, orders and webhooks. Printify REST API v1 with a personal access token.
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Printify + Claude
Printify print-on-demand: shops, products, the blueprint catalog with print providers, variants and shipping, the image library, orders and webhooks. Printify REST API v1 with a personal access token.
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:
PRINTIFY_API_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
The connector uses the Printify REST API v1 with a personal access token. One token covers every store in the Printify account.
- In Printify, open My Profile → Connections and click Generate under Personal Access Tokens.
- Pick the access scopes. For every tool:
shops.read,catalog.read,print_providers.read,products.read,products.write,orders.read,orders.write,uploads.read,uploads.write,webhooks.read. For a read-only setup, tick only the*.readscopes. - Copy the token into
PRINTIFY_API_TOKEN. Printify shows it only once, and it expires after one year; generate a new one then. - Call
printify_list_shopsfirst. Each store has a numericid, which is theshop_idof every product, order and webhook tool, and asales_channel(etsy,shopify,custom_integrationordisconnected).
With an Etsy shop
Connect the Etsy shop in Printify first: open the store menu, then Manage my stores → Connect → Etsy, sign in to Etsy and grant access. Printify's help center also asks you to add Printify as a production partner in Etsy under Shop Manager → Settings → Production partners. The shop then appears in printify_list_shops with sales_channel etsy.
- Products live in Printify. Create or edit them there (
printify_create_product,printify_update_product), thenprintify_publish_productpushes title, description, images, variants, tags and the shipping profile to the Etsy listing. Do not edit the listing in Etsy afterwards, or the two drift apart: change the product in Printify and publish again. - Etsy orders for Printify products are imported automatically and appear in
printify_list_orders. Do not create them again withprintify_create_order. Whether they go to production on their own or wait depends on the order approval settings in Printify. - Pair it with the Etsy connector on the same AnythingMCP server: Etsy for listing statistics, reviews and buyer messages, Printify for production costs, shipping and fulfillment status.
Limits and costs: 600 requests per minute per account, 100 per minute on catalog endpoints, and 200 publish calls per 30 minutes. Prices and costs are integers in cents (2499 = 24.99). printify_send_order_to_production charges your Printify balance or card, and printify_cancel_order only works while an order is on-hold or payment-not-received.
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 showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
Recommended path — works on claude.ai web without editing any config file.
- In Claude, open Customize → Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Enter a name, e.g.
Printify, and the remote MCP server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID, then click Add. - Click Connect and sign in to AnythingMCP (OAuth) to allow access.
All tools below appear in your chat — start typing prompts.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
printify_list_shops | List the shops in the Printify account with their id, title and sales channel (etsy, shopify, custom_integration, disconnected) |
printify_list_blueprints | List every blueprint in the Printify catalog: the base products (t-shirts, mugs, posters...) with id, title, brand, model and images |
printify_get_blueprint | Get one catalog blueprint by id: title, description, brand, model and product images |
printify_list_blueprint_print_providers | List the print providers that can produce a blueprint, with their id, name and decoration methods (dtg, embroidery...) |
printify_list_variants | List the variants (size, colour) of a blueprint at one print provider, with variant ids and the print area placeholders and their dimensions |
printify_get_shipping | Get the shipping profiles of a blueprint at one print provider: handling time and first-item and additional-item costs in cents per variant… |
printify_list_print_providers | List all Printify print providers with their id, title and location |
printify_get_print_provider | Get one print provider by id: name, location and the blueprints it produces |
printify_list_products | List the products of a shop, newest first, with title, variants and prices, images, print areas, visibility and the sales channel listing… |
printify_get_product | Get one product of a shop with all details: variants with price, cost and SKU, print areas and images, mockups, tags, publishing state and… |
printify_create_product | Create a product in a shop from a blueprint and print provider: title, description, variants with prices in cents and print areas placing… |
printify_update_product | Update a product: title, description, tags, variant prices and enabled flags, or print areas |
printify_delete_product | Delete a product from a Printify shop |
printify_publish_product | Publish a product to the shop's sales channel (for example the Etsy listing) |
printify_list_uploads | List the images in the account's media library with id, file name, size, dimensions and preview URL |
printify_get_upload | Get one uploaded image by id: file name, dimensions, size, MIME type, preview URL and upload time |
printify_upload_image | Upload an image to the media library from a public URL (preferred) or base64 contents |
printify_list_orders | List the orders of a shop, newest first, with status, line items and costs, shipping address, shipments and tracking |
printify_get_order | Get one order with status, line items with production cost and shipping cost in cents, the address, shipments with carrier and tracking… |
printify_calculate_shipping | Calculate the shipping cost of a would-be order for an address without creating it |
printify_create_order | Create an order in a shop for existing products (product_id + variant_id), SKUs, or catalog items with print areas |
printify_send_order_to_production | Send an on-hold order to production |
printify_cancel_order | Cancel an order |
printify_list_webhooks | List the webhooks installed on a shop with id, topic (order:created, product:publish:started...) and target URL |
FAQ
Does it work with Claude Code as well as Claude Desktop? Yes — point both at https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID.
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