Connect your AI assistant to Recart (MCP)

How to connect Claude, ChatGPT or your coding assistant to Recart so you can ask about your results in plain language.

Recart's MCP server lets an AI assistant like Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor read your Recart data, so you can ask about your popups, A/B tests, flows and subscriber sources in plain language instead of clicking through the dashboard. Before you start you'll need admin access to your Recart account to create an API key, and the assistant you want to connect installed and ready.

What your assistant can access

The Recart MCP server gives a connected assistant read-only access to your account. It can look up:

• Your opt-in tools (popups) and their statistics
• Your popup A/B tests and their results
• Your automated and campaign flows
• Where your subscribers came from

The assistant cannot create, edit, send or delete anything in Recart. Everything it reads comes from the account tied to the API key you give it, so it only ever sees your own store's data.

Step 1: Create an API key

Your assistant signs in to Recart with an API key.

1. In the Recart app, open Settings, then the API & MCP tab
2. In the API keys section, click Create new key
3. Name the key after the assistant you're connecting, for example "Claude" or "ChatGPT", so you can revoke that one key later without affecting your other integrations
4. Copy the key and keep it somewhere safe — you'll paste it into the assistant in the next step

Keep the key private. Anyone holding it can read your Recart data.

Step 2: Add Recart to your assistant

Pick the assistant you use below and follow its steps. In every snippet, replace YOUR_API_KEY with the key you created in step 1.

You'll find the same snippets on the API & MCP tab in the app, each with a copy button.

Claude Desktop

1. Install Node.js if you don't have it yet — the connection runs through a small bridge that needs it
2. In Claude Desktop, open Settings, then Developer, then Edit Config. This opens claude_desktop_config.json
3. Add the entry below inside mcpServers, replace the placeholder with your API key, and save
4. Quit Claude Desktop fully and reopen it. Recart appears under Developer once it connects

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recart": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://mcp.recart.com/mcp",
        "--header",
        "X-Recart-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

The Claude web app only accepts OAuth connectors today, so use Claude Desktop instead.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT needs a Business or Enterprise workspace, and a workspace admin has to create the app once before anyone can connect.

1. Workspace admin, one time: in ChatGPT, open Settings, then Apps, then Create
2. Workspace admin: enter the settings below. ChatGPT asks only for the header name here, not for the key. Accept the notice, create the app and publish it
3. Each user: open Settings, then Plugins, pick Recart and click Connect. Paste your own API key
4. Until someone has connected, the app shows "No actions are available". That is expected

Name: Recart
MCP server URL: https://mcp.recart.com/mcp
Authentication: Access token / API key
Header scheme: Custom Header
Header name: X-Recart-API-Key

The key is entered when you connect, never in the app settings.

Claude Code

1. Run the command below in your terminal, replacing the placeholder with your API key
2. Start Claude Code and ask it about your Recart data

claude mcp add --scope user --transport http recart https://mcp.recart.com/mcp --header "X-Recart-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Codex

1. Open ~/.codex/config.toml, or create it if it doesn't exist
2. Add the block below, replacing the placeholder with your API key, and save
3. Start Codex and ask it about your Recart data

[mcp_servers.recart]
url = "https://mcp.recart.com/mcp"
http_headers = { "X-Recart-API-Key" = "YOUR_API_KEY" }

Cursor

1. Open ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or .cursor/mcp.json inside a project to limit it to that project. Create the file if it doesn't exist
2. Add the entry below, replacing the placeholder with your API key, and save
3. Cursor picks the server up on its own. If it doesn't, reload the window

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recart": {
      "url": "https://mcp.recart.com/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "X-Recart-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 3: Ask away

Once the assistant is connected, ask it about your store in your own words. For example:

• How did my popups perform last month?
• Which variant is winning my welcome popup A/B test?
• Where did my new SMS subscribers come from this month?

If your assistant is connected to more than one store, say which one you mean — by store name or domain — and it will use that account.

Good to know

• The connection is read-only. Your assistant can look at your data but can't change anything in Recart
• One key per assistant. Naming each key after the assistant it belongs to means you can revoke a single connection later without breaking your other integrations
• Revoking a key cuts the connection immediately. Delete the key in the API keys section of the API & MCP tab, then remove the entry from the assistant's config
• Numbers come straight from Recart. Opt-in rates count unique sessions rather than subscribers, the same way they do in your dashboard, so an assistant's summary matches what you see in the app

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact the Recart Support team. We'd be happy to help!