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Can I use Claude or ChatGPT with Simple Affiliate?

Yes. Every Simple Affiliate plan, including the free Starter plan, lets you connect Claude or ChatGPT. You add the Simple Affiliate connector to your AI once, sign in with your store, and approve the connection in your Shopify Admin. The connection acts as you, on one store, so your plan limits and staff permissions still apply.

What you can ask your AI to do

  • Review affiliate results, sales, commissions, and the payouts that you owe.
  • Explain why an order has or doesn't have referral credit.
  • Approve or reject affiliate signups, and suspend or reactivate affiliates.
  • Check your setup, and read every settings tab, your groups, and their product commissions.
  • Change your signup, referral, email, dashboard, and translation settings, and your Klaviyo settings (Basic and above).
  • Edit your groups, create groups (Basic and above, because Starter has one group), set product and collection commissions (Pro and Premium), and change the group automation flow (Premium).

For example, ask "How did my affiliates do in the last 90 days?" or "Why was order #1001 not credited to an affiliate?"

You approve every change

Before a settings change, your AI shows a Confirm card with the current value and the new value. Simple Affiliate saves nothing until you click Confirm, and the AI can't confirm for you. If someone changes the same setting in the admin before you confirm, nothing is saved. An approval, rejection, suspension, or reactivation of affiliates also waits for your click on Confirm. For a new affiliate or a referral assignment, the AI gives you a filled-in page of the Simple Affiliate admin to review and save.

Your AI can't send payouts. You manage payouts, payment accounts, PayPal, store credit, and plan changes yourself in the Simple Affiliate admin. The AI never sees your Klaviyo key or the bank or payout account of an affiliate, and it can't find or recruit new affiliates for you.

Connect Claude

These steps work in Claude on the web and in the Claude desktop and mobile apps.

  1. Open Customize > Connectors in Claude.
  2. Click Add connector, then Add custom connector.
  3. Enter a name, such as Simple Affiliate, and the server URL https://mcp.simple-affiliate.com/mcp. Click Continue and finish the setup.
  4. Click Connect on the new connector.
  5. Enter your store address, for example your-store.myshopify.com, and click Continue.
  6. Click Allow in your Shopify Admin to approve the connection.
  7. Turn on the Simple Affiliate connector in a chat and ask your question.

On a Claude Team or Enterprise plan, an owner of the organization adds the custom connector first, and each member then connects with their own store login.

Connect ChatGPT

Until Simple Affiliate is in the ChatGPT plugin directory, you add it as a custom MCP server.

  1. Open Plugins in ChatGPT.
  2. Click Add, then Add custom MCP server. On some accounts, Add custom MCP server appears only after you turn on developer mode in the ChatGPT settings.
  3. Enter the name Simple Affiliate and, under Connection, the server URL https://mcp.simple-affiliate.com/mcp. Keep Authentication on OAuth.
  4. Read the risk warning, click I understand and want to continue, then click Create as a plugin.
  5. Install the plugin, enter your store address, click Continue, and click Allow in your Shopify Admin.
  6. Type @Simple Affiliate in a chat and ask your question.

ChatGPT shows a warning for every custom MCP server. Whether you can add one depends on your ChatGPT plan and workspace settings: in a Business or Enterprise workspace, an admin may need to allow custom MCP servers first.

The full guide, with Claude Code and the steps to disconnect, is How to Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Simple Affiliate.