Let an AI work your shop

Once connected, you talk to the AI in plain words, the way you would brief a helper: “Put the winter collection on 15% sale and show me how it looks.” It does the work in your shop and shows you the result.

Soon it will work on its own copy of your shop, called the sandbox. The copy will have your products, collections, discounts, pages and design, but not your real customers, orders or reviews, and your real shop will not change until you approve. Until approvals arrive, a connection set to Ask me before publishing can only look at your real shop, real orders and customers included, and cannot change anything.

• It can: add and edit products, prices, stock, photos, collections, tags, discounts and posts, then look at the shop the way a shopper sees it.
• It cannot: send SMS or email, book a courier or take a payment from the copy. And only what you allow when you connect it.
• Orders, customers, questions and newsletter subscribers come with customers' phone numbers, emails or addresses. If it should not see them, untick orders, customers, questions and newsletter when you connect it.

Open claude.ai on your computer. Go to Customize › Connectors, click “+”, then “Add custom connector”. Name it Sellvik and paste this address:

Click “Add”, then “Connect” beside Sellvik.

A Sellvik page opens. Sign in the way you sign in to your panel. Under “Shop”, pick your shop. Under “Connection”, choose “New connection” and give it a name you will recognise, like My Claude. Leave every permission ticked, or untick what it should not touch. Untick orders, customers, questions and newsletter if it should not see your customers' phone numbers, emails and addresses.

Under “Publishing”, leave “Ask me before publishing”. Then tap “Approve”. The page closes and Claude shows Sellvik as connected. Once approvals arrive, the AI will make changes on its copy and you approve them before they go live. Until then this connection can look at your shop and answer questions, but not change it.

Start a new chat in Claude and ask. For now it can look at your shop and answer: what sells best, what is running low, which products have no photo.

Asking for a change comes with approvals, soon. Claude will make the change on its copy, look at it as a shopper would, and tell you what it did, with the copy's address to open on your phone and a link to approve the changes.

When approvals arrive, open Claude's link, on your phone or your computer. Sellvik lists every change in plain words, which connection asked for it, and a link to the copy of your shop. Read it like a shopping list. If it is right, approve it, and the same changes go live on your real shop. If not, discard it and tell Claude what to change.

If something on your live shop changed in the meantime, like a product someone deleted, Sellvik stops at that change and tells you which ones went live. Claude starts again from a fresh copy for the rest.

Open Settings › API keys and choose the “AI connections” tab. Each connection shows how it publishes and when it was last used. Tap the bin beside one and confirm with “Revoke connection”, and the AI cannot do anything more in your shop from its next step. Changes you already approved stay.