Connect Shopify to Microsoft Copilot via MCP

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

Shopify + Microsoft Copilot

Connect your Shopify store: search products, orders and customers, check stock per location, change variant prices, adjust inventory and mark orders as shipped with tracking. Shopify GraphQL Admin API with a custom app from the Dev Dashboard.

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:

SHOPIFY_STORE, SHOPIFY_CLIENT_ID, SHOPIFY_CLIENT_SECRET

Step 1 — Get credentials

Setting up takes about 10 minutes and is done by the store owner (or a staff account with the App development → Develop permission). Since 1 January 2026 custom apps are no longer created in the store admin but in Shopify's Dev Dashboard; the connector gets its access token through the client credentials grant, so nothing is published to the Shopify App Store and no review is needed.

1. Open the Dev Dashboard with the account that owns the store. The store must belong to the same Shopify organization as the app.
2. Click Apps → Create app → Start from Dev Dashboard, name it (for example "AnythingMCP") and click Create.
3. Open Versions, fill in the App URL (any https address, for example your shop's; the connector does not use it), pick the newest webhooks API version and add the Admin API scopes below, then click Release.
4. On the app's overview, click Install app in the Installs card, pick your store and confirm. Until the app is installed, the connector cannot get a token.
5. Open App settings and copy the Client ID and Client secret into SHOPIFY_CLIENT_ID and SHOPIFY_CLIENT_SECRET.
6. Set SHOPIFY_STORE to the store's myshopify handle: for acme-shop.myshopify.com enter acme-shop. You find it in the admin URL (admin.shopify.com/store/<handle>). A custom domain such as acme.com does not work here.

Read-only setup: leave out the write_* scopes and switch off shopify_update_variant_price, shopify_adjust_inventory and shopify_create_fulfillment on the connector page. Orders older than 60 days also need the read_all_orders scope, which Shopify grants on request.

The connector exchanges the client ID and secret for an access token, which Shopify issues for 24 hours, and fetches a new one before it expires. Changing scopes means releasing a new app version; the next token carries the new scopes.

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 Microsoft Copilot

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.

Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.

1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
2. Enter a Server name (for example AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server.
3. Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to X-API-Key, then select Create.
4. In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
5. Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the Shopify tools you imported.
6. Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.

Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.

Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.

Available tools

FAQ

Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.

What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.

The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.

Next steps

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