Read shops, catalog blueprints, print providers, products and orders; create and publish products. For print-on-demand sellers who make and sell custom products with Printify. 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": {
"printify": {
"url": "https://printify.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
}Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"printify": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://printify.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.
The AI lists orders in a shop, filtered by status or SKU, and reads each order's shipments with carrier and tracking numbers. You see what is in production and what shipped.
printify_list_orders printify_get_order
The AI lists products in a shop and reads one with its variants, images, print areas and publish status. You can find products that are not published yet.
printify_list_products printify_get_product
The AI lists catalog blueprints (such as a unisex t-shirt), the print providers that make a blueprint, and the sizes and colors each offers. It helps you choose a provider.
printify_list_catalog_blueprints printify_get_print_providers printify_get_variants
The AI prices shipping for line items to a destination address. It only quotes the price and does not place an order.
printify_calculate_shipping
The AI publishes a product to the shop's connected sales channel, such as Shopify or Etsy. It locks the product and pushes the fields you choose to the store.
Changes data · printify_publish_product printify_get_product
The login page asks for your Printify API token.
Create one in Printify → My profile → Connections → API tokens. For product copying, grant shops.read, products.read and products.write. Copies remain drafts until you separately publish them. Your API token is used only to call the API on your behalf and to derive a private account id; it is never shown to anyone.
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 Printify 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.
Turn on the Printify connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
| Tool | Type | What it does |
|---|---|---|
printify_copy_products | write | Copy products between shops Preview or copy selected products or a complete catalog between two Printify shops in the same account. Preserves title, description, blueprint/provider, variant IDs/prices/enabled flags, artwork IDs and print-area transforms. Preserves canvas side printing and image pattern rotation. This initial workflow does not copy tags, SKUs, channel IDs, publication state or generated mockups. Products with text/personalization layers are explicitly refused because their creation fields are read-only. Preview by default. confirm:true starts/resumes a durable bounded job; save job_id and keep calling with that job_id and confirm:true until complete. Duplicate prevention remembers copies made by this connector, including across restarts/jobs; pre-existing copies made elsewhere are not detected. An uncertain create is never automatically retried: inspect the target and use printify_resolve_copy. Do not change the source catalog during an all-products run. Requires shops.read/products.read/products.write. Confirmed copying requires the hosted connector's durable coordinator. |
printify_copy_status | read | Check product copy progress Read a durable product-copy job's progress, target mappings, failures and uncertain writes. Verifies that the current token can access both shops. Does not create or retry products. |
printify_resolve_copy | write | Resolve an uncertain product copy Resolve one failed or uncertain source product in a durable copy job. Provide an existing target_product_id to verify the exact supported fields against the checkpoint and record it as copied. Or set verified_not_created:true only after checking the target shop manually; this allows one future retry through printify_copy_products. Requires confirm:true, never creates/publishes/deletes anything itself. An ambiguous write must never be blindly retried. |
printify_list_shops | read | List shops List all shops connected to the Printify account. This is the entry point — each shop's `id` is required by the product, order and webhook tools. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops.json. |
printify_list_products | read | List products List products in a shop (paginated). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products.json. |
printify_get_product | read | Get product Get a single product's full details (variants, images, print areas, publish status). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products/{product_id}.json. |
printify_list_orders | read | List orders List orders in a shop (paginated), optionally filtered by status or SKU. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders.json. |
printify_get_order | read | Get order Get a single order's full details, including `shipments` (carrier + tracking numbers). Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders/{order_id}.json. |
printify_calculate_shipping | read | Calculate shipping Get a shipping price quote for a set of line items to a destination address. Non-destructive — it only prices, it does NOT place an order. `line_items` is an array where each item is one of {product_id, variant_id, quantity}, {print_provider_id, blueprint_id, variant_id, quantity}, or {sku, quantity}. `address_to` is the destination (first_name, last_name, email, phone, country, region, address1, address2, city, zip, company). Printify REST: POST /v1/shops/{shop_id}/orders/shipping.json. |
printify_list_catalog_blueprints | read | List catalog blueprints List all blueprints (product types, e.g. 'Unisex T-Shirt') available in the Printify catalog. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints.json. |
printify_get_blueprint | read | Get blueprint Get a single catalog blueprint's details. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}.json. |
printify_get_print_providers | read | Get blueprint print providers List the print providers that can produce a given blueprint. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/print_providers.json. |
printify_get_variants | read | Get variants List the variants (sizes, colors) a print provider offers for a blueprint. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/blueprints/{blueprint_id}/print_providers/{print_provider_id}/variants.json. |
printify_list_print_providers | read | List print providers List all print providers in the Printify catalog. Printify REST: GET /v1/catalog/print_providers.json. |
printify_list_webhooks | read | List webhooks List the webhooks configured for a shop. Printify REST: GET /v1/shops/{shop_id}/webhooks.json. |
printify_list_uploads | read | List uploads List images uploaded to the account's media library (paginated). Printify REST: GET /v1/uploads.json. |
printify_publish_product | write | Publish product Publish a product to the shop's connected sales channel (e.g. Shopify, Etsy). STATE-CHANGING: this locks the product and pushes the selected fields to the external store. The body is an object of booleans controlling which fields are published; all default to true. Printify REST: POST /v1/shops/{shop_id}/products/{product_id}/publish.json. |
printify_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. | |
printify_request_feature | Request a missing feature Tell usefulapi that the user needs something the Printify 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. | |
printify_upgrade | Upgrade to Pro (unlimited*) Get Pro: unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 a month) on Printify (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. | |
printify_cancel_subscription | Cancel the Pro subscription Cancel the caller's Printify 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 printify_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 |
| Pro | $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 Printify server only. Subscribe with printify_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with printify_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running printify_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
Check order status and tracking numbers. Review your products and their publish status. Compare print providers and options for a product type. Get a shipping quote for items to an address. Publish a product to your sales channel. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Printify. The server calls the Printify API with your own Printify 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 Printify API token. 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 Printify 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 Printify 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 Printify.
Yes, if you approve it. 3 of the 17 Printify 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 unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Printify server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run printify_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run printify_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run printify_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 printify_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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