Quickstart

Connect your AI assistant to AIOD so it can work with the discounts on your store.

What you need

A Shopify store with AIOD Discount & Gift installed.
A Shopify login for that store with access to the AIOD app. You approve the connection inside your Shopify admin, so you need to be able to sign in there.
An AI client that supports remote MCP servers — Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, and most others do.

You will need this once, in step 1:

https://aiod-automatic-discount.com/mcp

One connection covers one store. If you run several stores, connect each one separately.

Step 1 — Add the server to your AI client

Pick your client.

AIOD is in Claude’s connector directory, so there is nothing to paste.Open the AIOD Discounts & Free Gift listing and click Connect.Full walkthrough: AIOD connector for Claude.

ChatGPT needs developer mode switched on first, and it’s available on paid plans only.

Open Settings → Security and login and turn on Developer mode. On a Business or Enterprise workspace, an admin enables it under Workspace Settings → Permissions & Roles.
Use the + button to create a developer-mode app for a remote MCP server.
Give it a name, and paste the server URL — including the /mcp at the end.

You can then toggle individual tools on and off from the app’s settings page.

claude mcp add --transport http aiod https://aiod-automatic-discount.com/mcp

Then run /mcp and choose Authenticate for the aiod server.

Create or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json for all projects, or .cursor/mcp.json for just this one:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aiod": {
      "url": "https://aiod-automatic-discount.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Open Settings → MCP. Cursor will prompt you to sign in.

Create .vscode/mcp.json in your project:

{
  "servers": {
    "aiod": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://aiod-automatic-discount.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Start the server from the editor, sign in when prompted, then use AIOD from agent mode.

Any client that supports remote MCP servers with OAuth will work. Give it the server URL and let it discover the rest — it reads /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server automatically.You should not need to configure a client ID, a secret, or any endpoint by hand.

Your client opens a browser tab. Three quick screens:

Type your store domain

your-store.myshopify.com, or just the store handle.This only decides which Shopify admin you get sent to. It grants nothing by itself — anyone could type any store here and get no further.

Approve in your Shopify admin

Shopify signs you in and shows the AIOD approval screen. This is the step that actually connects your store.Before you click Connect, read the screen. It names the app that is asking, and the web address your access will be sent to. The name is chosen by whoever built the client and nobody verifies it. The address is checked against a registered list and cannot be faked.

If you did not just start this from your AI client, or you do not recognise the address, close the page. Nothing is granted until you click Connect.

Back to your client

Approving sends you straight back, connected. If your browser blocks the redirect, the screen gives you a link to click instead.

Step 3 — Check it works

Ask your assistant:

List the discounts on my store.

You should get back your actual AIOD discounts, each with its name, status, and type. If you do, you are done. Try a couple more:

How did my best discount perform last month?

Draft 15% off the Summer collection for July, but don't create anything yet.

What to do next

What you can build

Free gifts, BOGO, volume breaks, conditional offers — and how to ask for each.

Examples

Real requests and exactly what the assistant does with them.

If something goes wrong

The assistant can't see any discounts, but I have some

Two likely causes. Either you connected a different store than you expected — check which store the approval screen named — or your discounts were created directly in Shopify rather than in AIOD. The connector only sees AIOD’s own automatic discounts.

Tools return an error about the app session

This usually means AIOD was uninstalled from the store, or its Shopify session expired. Reinstall AIOD, then reconnect.

A request times out

A single tool call has to finish within 60 seconds. Try again, and if you asked for something broad (“check every discount”), narrow it down.

My client complains about GET requests or batching

Both are expected. The server accepts POST only and never opens an event stream, so GET returns 405. It also rejects JSON-RPC batched requests, which were removed from the spec. Any current MCP client handles this correctly.

Disconnecting

Remove the connector in your AI client and it stops being used. To revoke access on the AIOD side too, email [email protected] and your store’s access is cut off immediately. Uninstalling AIOD from Shopify also ends all access automatically.

AIOD

AI agents & MCP

Discount templates

Help & troubleshooting

What you need

Step 1 — Add the server to your AI client

Step 3 — Check it works

What to do next

What you can build

Examples

If something goes wrong

Disconnecting

​What you need

​Step 1 — Add the server to your AI client

​Step 2 — Sign in

​Step 3 — Check it works

​What to do next

What you can build

Examples

​If something goes wrong

​Disconnecting

What you need

Step 1 — Add the server to your AI client

Step 2 — Sign in

Step 3 — Check it works

What to do next

If something goes wrong

Disconnecting