Read items, stock, customers and sales orders; create and update customers in Heartland Retail. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Heartland Retail connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For store managers and retail staff who look up stock, customers and orders in Heartland Retail.
List the store's locations to find their ids. Then list the inventory values, grouped by location, to read the stock quantities and values the tool returns.
Search the customers by email and open the match to read its details and loyalty points. Then search the sales orders for that customer's name.
List the sales orders filtered by status, such as pending. Open one order to read its lines with the items, quantities and prices.
Read the value and status of a gift card by its card number. Search the point-of-sale tickets for a till sale.
Create a customer with a first name or a last name. Or update the name or email of an existing customer. Only the fields you give change.
Changes dataThe login page asks for your Store subdomain and Heartland Retail API token.
The subdomain is the part before .retail.heartland.us in your store address. To create the token, click your name in the top right of Heartland Retail, then my account → API → Generate new token. The token is used only to call your store's API.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"heartland-retail": {
"url": "https://heartland-retail.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"heartland-retail": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://heartland-retail.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
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 Store subdomain and Heartland Retail API token. 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.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | 10,000 tool calls / month |
| Pro+per user | $39/mo · $390/yr | 100,000 tool calls / month |
Each paid plan covers this Heartland Retail server only. Ask your AI to run heartlandretail_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with heartlandretail_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with heartlandretail_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
heartlandretail_whoamiheartlandretail_list_itemsheartlandretail_get_itemheartlandretail_list_inventory_valuesheartlandretail_list_locationsheartlandretail_list_customersheartlandretail_get_customerheartlandretail_list_sales_ordersheartlandretail_get_sales_orderheartlandretail_list_sales_order_linesheartlandretail_list_sales_invoicesheartlandretail_list_sales_ticketsheartlandretail_list_vendorsheartlandretail_get_gift_cardheartlandretail_create_customerheartlandretail_update_customerheartlandretail_usage_statusheartlandretail_request_featureheartlandretail_upgradeheartlandretail_cancel_subscriptionCheck stock quantities by location. Find a customer by email and review their orders. Review pending sales orders and their lines. Check a gift card or a POS sale. Create a customer or change a customer's email. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Heartland Retail. The server calls the Heartland Retail API with your own Heartland Retail 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 Store subdomain and Heartland Retail API token. See Before you connect for where to find them.
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 Store subdomain and Heartland Retail API token. 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 Heartland Retail 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 Heartland Retail.
Yes, if you approve it. 2 of the 16 Heartland Retail tools can create or change data. The other 14 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Heartland Retail server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run heartlandretail_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run heartlandretail_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run heartlandretail_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with heartlandretail_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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