Review Cliento locations, staff, resources, services, products and stock. For salon and operations teams using Cliento. Hosted by usefulapi — connect from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"cliento": {
"url": "https://cliento.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"cliento": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://cliento.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Other MCP clients (Windsurf, Cline, Zed and more): add the URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser. Do not add an Authorization header: see Before you connect.
Review the service catalog and compare how different resources offer each service, including their duration and price overrides.
cliento_list_services cliento_list_resources cliento_list_resource_services
List products and inspect current balances for stock-tracked items. A missing balance is not treated as zero stock.
cliento_list_products cliento_get_product
Review stock movements for a product, following the recorded changes from oldest to newest. Newly created movements may take about ten seconds to appear.
cliento_list_stock_movements
Review resources, their display groups and online-booking settings when checking how the resource catalog is configured.
cliento_list_resources cliento_get_resource cliento_list_resource_groups
Inspect supplier ranges, shade items, barcodes and pack balances for a location’s colour bar catalog.
cliento_list_colour_bar_ranges cliento_list_colour_bar_items
The login page asks for your Cliento API key.
Create an API key on your Cliento account page with the read scopes you need: staff:read, resources:read, services:read, products:read and stock:read. Optional product cost fields also need stock:cost. Scopes are fixed when a key is created. The Cliento API is currently Preview and may change. Billing and usage are per API key; rotating the key creates a separate identity. No customer, booking, recipe or health-record tools are provided.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Cliento API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
Turn on the Cliento connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
cliento_list_locations | read | List locations Preview API: Locations accessible to this API key, with name, currency and time zone. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_location | read | Get location Preview API: One location, with name, currency and time zone. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_staff | read | List staff Preview API: Staff IDs, optional names and linked resource IDs. Omits PIN settings and secrets. Requires staff:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_resources | read | List resources Preview API: Bookable resource catalog and online-booking settings; no bookings or availability. Requires resources:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_resource | read | Get resource Preview API: One resource, including its status and online-booking settings. Requires resources:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_resource_groups | read | List resource groups Preview API: Resource headings in display order. Requires resources:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_services | read | List services Preview API: Service catalog, durations, prices, VAT and per-resource overrides. Omits free-text descriptions. Requires services:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_service | read | Get service Preview API: One service and its per-resource overrides, excluding free-text descriptions. Requires services:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_service_groups | read | List service groups Preview API: Service headings and their add-on marker. Requires services:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_resource_services | read | List resource services Preview API: Services as this resource offers them, including its duration, price and override settings. Requires services:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_products | read | List products Preview API: Product catalog and current stock balances. Cost fields appear only with stock:cost; omitted balances mean the product is not stock-tracked. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_product | read | Get product Preview API: One product and its current stock balance, when tracked. Cost fields need stock:cost. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_stock_movements | read | List stock movements Preview API: Stock changes, oldest first, omitting comments, visit/external references, colour-mix links and free-text reasons. Movements may appear about ten seconds after creation. Requires stock:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_merchants | read | List merchants Preview API: Legal sellers at the location, with optional company registration numbers. No payment or gift-card data. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_colour_bar_ranges | read | List colour bar ranges Preview API: Supplier range catalog and pack-size/list-price settings; no personal recipes or colour mixes. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_colour_bar_range | read | Get colour bar range Preview API: One supplier range and its catalog settings; no personal recipes or colour mixes. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_list_colour_bar_items | read | List colour bar items Preview API: Shade/item catalog, barcodes and pack balances. Choose at most one of rangeId, ean or articleNumber; no recipe or mix data. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_get_colour_bar_item | read | Get colour bar item Preview API: One colour-bar stock item and its pack balances; no personal recipes or mixes. Requires products:read. Read-only; this API may change without a version bump. |
cliento_usage_status | Usage status (free-tier meter) Report the caller's current usage: the plan, calls used this month, the limit of the plan (the free monthly cap or the Pro fair use limit), remaining, and whether the limit is reached. Read-only; does not count against the meter. | |
cliento_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Cliento tools cannot do yet (a missing tool, field or filter). Call it only when the user asks for something none of the tools can do, and tell the user that you send the request. Do not call it for errors or for normal requests. Do not include personal data, credentials or customer records. Stored with the product name and the client type (for example Claude or Cursor), without the user's account. At most 5 requests per day. Does not count against the meter. | |
cliento_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on Cliento (the free tier caps monthly usage). Plans: "monthly" — $9/month; "yearly" — $90/year (2 months free). Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period, so it also suits a one-time job. *A fair use limit applies. For heavy use (near Pro's limit): "plus" or "plus_yearly" — Pro+, $39/month or $390/year, unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 100,000 a month); an existing Pro subscription changes to Pro+ in place (needs confirm: true; the price difference for the rest of the period is charged at once). Otherwise returns a short link to open in your browser (it opens Stripe Checkout); after payment the account upgrades automatically. Does not count against the meter. | |
cliento_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's Cliento Pro subscription at the end of the paid period (no refund for the current period; Pro continues until then, then the free tier applies). Requires confirm: true. Run cliento_upgrade later to undo the cancel before the period ends. Does not count against the meter. |
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper API key | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this Cliento server only. Subscribe with cliento_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with cliento_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running cliento_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
Compare service prices and durations. Review tracked product stock. Trace recorded stock changes. Inspect resource configuration. Review colour bar inventory. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Cliento. The server calls the Cliento API with your own Cliento access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Cliento API key. See Before you connect for where to find it.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Cliento API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Cliento API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Cliento.
All 18 Cliento tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Cliento server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run cliento_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run cliento_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run cliento_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with cliento_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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