How to Connect Printify to Cursor — via MCP

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Printify + Cursor

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.

1. In Printify, open My Profile → Connections and click Generate under Personal Access Tokens.
2. 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 *.read scopes.
3. Copy the token into PRINTIFY_API_TOKEN. Printify shows it only once, and it expires after one year; generate a new one then.
4. Call printify_list_shops first. Each store has a numeric id, which is the shop_id of every product, order and webhook tool, and a sales_channel (etsy, shopify, custom_integration or disconnected).

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), then printify_publish_product pushes 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 with printify_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 Cursor

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.

Cursor reads MCP servers from ~/.cursor/mcp.json. Add this entry:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anythingmcp": {
      "url": "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 Cursor.
3. Open Cursor → Settings → MCP and check that anythingmcp is listed and connected.
4. Start chatting — the agent can now call the Printify tools.

Available tools

FAQ

Does Cursor support custom MCP servers on the free tier? Yes — MCP is available on Hobby, Pro and Business plans.

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