Capabilities

Everything ShopMCP
can do for your store

Once Claude is connected to your Shopify store, here's what you can ask it to do — in plain language, no coding required.

Theme & Design Pages AI Images Products Email Backup

Theme & Design

Edit your store's look and feel

Claude can read your live theme files — CSS, Liquid sections, JSON settings — and rewrite them based on what you describe. No Liquid knowledge needed. Changes go live immediately.

Change the header background to dark navy and make the logo bigger

Claude fetches your header section, rewrites the CSS, and publishes it

Switch the body font to something more elegant, like a serif

Updates the font import and CSS variables across base.css

Add a full-width announcement bar above the header with a summer sale message

Creates a new Liquid section and injects it into the layout

The product grid looks broken on mobile — fix the spacing

Reads the section file, identifies the responsive issue, patches the CSS

  • Edit CSS, Liquid sections, and JSON settings files
  • Works with any Shopify theme — Dawn, Prestige, custom, or any other
  • Changes are published immediately to your store
  • Can work on your live theme or a duplicate theme for safe testing
Safe to use. We recommend duplicating your theme before major edits — takes 10 seconds in Shopify admin. Claude can also work on the duplicate and copy files across when you're happy.

Pages

Create landing pages and store pages

Describe the page you want — its purpose, tone, and content — and Claude builds the Liquid template, writes the copy, and creates the page in your Shopify admin. It goes live at a URL on your store immediately.

Create a summer sale landing page with a hero, featured products section, and a countdown feel

Builds section + template + creates the page at /pages/summer-sale

We need an About Us page that tells our brand story and shows the team

Creates a custom page template with text sections and image placeholders

Build a FAQ page for our return policy, shipping times, and sizing questions

Writes the content and creates a clean accordion-style FAQ page

Make a page for our wholesale programme with an enquiry call-to-action

Builds the page with a contact link and publishes it to your store

  • Creates the Liquid section, JSON template, and Shopify page in one go
  • Page is live and accessible immediately after creation
  • Custom URL handle — e.g. yourstore.com/pages/summer-sale
  • Can edit or update existing pages in follow-up messages

AI Images

Generate images and upload them to your store

Describe the image you need and Claude generates it, uploads it directly to your Shopify file library, and gives you the CDN URL — ready to drop into any page, section, or CSS background.

Generate a moody hero background — dark forest with golden light filtering through, wide format, no text

Image generated, uploaded to Shopify Files, CDN URL returned for use in CSS

Create a clean product banner — white background, minimal lifestyle shot feel, 1200×400

Generated and uploaded — use the URL directly in your banner section

Make a subtle texture background — soft linen, off-white, seamlessly tileable

Uploaded and applied as CSS background-image on the selected section

  • Images uploaded directly to your Shopify file library
  • Returns a permanent Shopify CDN URL — no external hosting needed
  • Claude can immediately use the image in a section or page it just created
Requires an OpenRouter API key for image generation. Set it up once in your ShopMCP settings — takes about a minute.

Products

Edit and import products at scale

Whether you're migrating from another platform, working with supplier CSVs, or rewriting hundreds of product descriptions — Claude handles the bulk work while you describe what you want.

Rewrite all our product descriptions to be more conversational and highlight the key benefits

AI bulk editor processes your catalogue and updates descriptions in Shopify

Import products from this supplier CSV — map the columns and bring them into Shopify

CSV fields auto-mapped and products imported in bulk

Set up a Google Shopping feed for all our in-stock products

Auto-generates and maintains an XML feed for Google Merchant Center

  • AI bulk editor — rewrite thousands of product descriptions at scale
  • CSV import from any platform — WooCommerce, Magento, Wix, spreadsheets
  • Auto-generate Google Shopping and Facebook Catalog feeds
  • Blog post migration from any CSV

Email Campaigns

Send marketing emails via MailFella

Pair ShopMCP with MailFella and Claude can read your Shopify subscriber list and send email campaigns — all within the same conversation. Write the brief, Claude writes the email and dispatches it.

Send a summer sale announcement to all subscribers — friendly tone, mention free shipping

Email written, formatted, and sent via MailFella to your Shopify subscriber list

Write a new product launch email for our winter collection and send it today

Drafts the email, you approve, Claude sends it

Send a re-engagement email to subscribers who haven't opened anything in 3 months

Segments the list and sends a targeted win-back campaign

  • Reads your Shopify newsletter subscriber list directly
  • Claude writes the email copy based on your brief
  • Sends via MailFella — no separate email platform needed
  • Requires the MailFella MCP connector alongside ShopMCP

Backup & Restore

Copy files between themes safely

Made a mistake? Claude can copy any file from one theme to another — perfect for restoring from a backup theme or moving tested changes to your live store.

Something went wrong with the header — restore it from the backup theme

Fetches the file from your backup theme and publishes it to live instantly

I've been testing a new product section on the staging theme — copy it to live

Copies the section file from staging to your live theme and publishes

  • Copy any file between any two themes in your store
  • No file size limits — works for large CSS and Liquid files
  • Instant — no manual download/upload needed
Tip: Before any major editing session, duplicate your live theme in Shopify admin (Themes → ••• → Duplicate). It takes 10 seconds and gives you a full rollback option.

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