Supercharge your AI with Afosto. Manage orders, stock levels, and product data automatically.
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Afosto is your dedicated retail and e-commerce engine, giving you natural language control over your entire online operation. Manage orders, monitor inventory across multiple warehouses, audit product catalogs, and access centralized customer profiles—all through simple conversations with your AI agent.
What your AI can do
List orders
Retrieves a list of recent multi-channel orders that have been placed through the platform.
List inventory
Shows current stock counts for products, broken down by every warehouse location.
List products
Gives you the entire product catalog, including all active variants and their assigned prices.
The agent can list and check the current status of recent multi-channel e-commerce orders.
It retrieves real-time inventory levels, aggregating stock counts from various warehouses and distribution hubs.
You can get full profiles on customers, including their lifetime purchase records and interaction history.
The MCP provides the complete catalog, showing active variants and current retail pricing for any item.
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Afosto: 4 Tools for Retail Data Management
These four tools let you retrieve everything from specific customer profiles to real-time stock levels and complete product catalogs.
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Retrieves a list of recent multi-channel orders that have been placed through the platform.
List Inventory
Shows current stock counts for products, broken down by every warehouse location.
List Products
Gives you the entire product catalog, including all active variants and their...
List Customers
Pulls a customer's full profile and their complete history of buying from the store.
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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and more
The Model Context Protocol standardizes how applications expose capabilities to LLMs. Instead of operating in isolation, your AI gains direct access to external platforms, live data, and real-world actions through secure, standardized connections.
This connection provides 4 powerful capabilities that interface natively with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and other compatible AI platforms. No middleware. No custom integration required.
Dealing with scattered e-commerce information takes forever.
Today, checking order fulfillment means jumping between the web store dashboard for basic status, then logging into the WMS portal to check physical stock levels, and finally opening a separate CRM to see if the customer has complained before. You spend 20 minutes just compiling data that should take thirty seconds.
With this MCP, you ask your agent one question—like 'Can we ship these three items?'—and it checks fulfillment status via `list_orders`, verifies stock with `list_inventory`, and pulls the customer's profile from `list_customers`. You get an answer in real-time without leaving your chat window.
Getting a full picture of product data using `list_products`.
Manually, updating a price change requires opening the catalog management system, finding every variant for that item (SKU A-1, SKU A-2, etc.), and changing the field individually. It’s tedious and easy to miss one or two.
Now, you simply ask your agent to use `list_products`. It retrieves the entire current catalog structure, showing all variants and prices in one clean output. You know exactly what the system sees.
What your AI can actually do with this
This MCP connects your AI client directly to the core systems that run your retail business. It lets you manage everything from checking out a new order to auditing which products need price changes. Instead of logging into multiple dashboards or running complex database queries, you just talk to your agent and get answers instantly.
Need to know if an item is in stock before confirming an order? Ask it. Want to see all the details on a customer's purchase history for support? It finds that data. The system pulls together records of multi-channel orders, real-time warehouse stock levels, product variants, and centralized buyer profiles.
If you use Vinkius as your central catalog, this MCP gives you the hands-on control needed to keep your entire retail stack running smoothly.
019d7548-f442-71ba-baf0-8150493ecde3 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is that you talk to your agent, and it executes complex queries against all your retail backend systems.
Subscribe to this MCP and provide your Afosto Client ID and Secret.
Connect your preferred AI client (like Claude or Cursor) through Vinkius.
Use natural conversation to ask the agent for specific data, such as checking inventory levels or listing orders.
Who is this actually for?
E-commerce Operations Managers who hate jumping between fulfillment portals. Support Leads who need a single source of truth for customer data. Business Analysts needing rapid access to structured sales and inventory metrics.
Checks real-time stock levels across multiple warehouses and audits the status of large batches of incoming orders.
Looks up a customer's full profile, checks their order history, and verifies product details to resolve support tickets quickly.
Retrieves granular data on sales trends or inventory movements across different channels for quarterly reports.
What Changes When You Connect
Stop manually checking multiple dashboards. With the list_inventory tool, you get a single view of stock across every warehouse location, identifying exactly where replenishment is needed.
Customer support gets answers fast. Instead of asking another agent to check, your AI client uses list_customers and list_orders to pull up full profiles and order history immediately.
Keep your storefront accurate. Use list_products to ensure every variant and price listed in the catalog is correct before a sale goes live.
Audit fulfillment risk instantly. The agent handles complex queries on recent orders using list_orders, letting you track status across web stores and third-party channels.
Streamline reporting. Instead of exporting four different CSV files, your AI client aggregates data from all tools to give quick insights into sales trends or inventory bottlenecks.
See it in action
Handling a complex support ticket
A customer calls asking why their order is delayed. The agent first uses list_customers to verify the account, then runs list_orders to confirm the item details and current fulfillment status across channels.
Preparing for a flash sale
The ops manager needs to know if they can promise 100 units of a specific item. They use list_inventory first, checking all warehouse locations, before approving the marketing campaign that relies on accurate stock counts.
Reviewing product data consistency
Before launching a new line, the analyst uses list_products to verify every variant and its corresponding pricing structure. This prevents errors where old prices might accidentally appear online.
Identifying sales gaps for reporting
The business team needs to know if recent orders are coming from the right sources. They combine data from list_orders with list_customers to quickly identify which customer segments are driving volume.
The honest tradeoffs
Treating it like a database query
A user writes: 'Give me all the data for John Doe, including his orders and stock levels.' This is too vague and forces the AI to guess which data points are related.
Break it down. First, ask the agent to use list_customers with the email. Then, follow up by asking it to use list_orders using the customer ID provided in the first step.
Ignoring multi-channel data
A user only asks about their web store orders and misses fulfillment status from Amazon or eBay. They get an incomplete picture.
When checking recent sales, always explicitly mention the need for 'multi-channel' visibility. The agent handles this automatically when running list_orders.
Assuming single inventory location
The user asks: 'What is the stock of Widget X?' without specifying where they are looking. They only get a partial count.
Always verify locations by asking the agent to run list_inventory and specify 'across all warehouses' or name the specific distribution center.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if your workflow requires connecting discrete, operational data points—like customer records, live inventory counts, and order status—into a single conversation. You need to know what happened (orders), who bought it (customers), and if you can fulfill it (inventory). Don't use this if you only need to read one type of report; for instance, if you just want a simple list of all products, the list_products tool handles that. However, don't try to process payments or modify stock levels; this MCP is strictly for data retrieval and auditing. For deep financial reporting that requires joining customer spending patterns with product margins, you might need an external BI tool connected via a different type of gateway.
Questions you might have
How do I check stock using list_inventory? +
You ask your agent to use list_inventory. It aggregates real-time counts for any product across every warehouse, letting you know exactly where the available units are located.
Can I find a customer's history using list_customers? +
Yes. Running list_customers pulls up a centralized profile containing all of their historic e-commerce activity and interaction data, helping support teams resolve issues faster.
What does list_orders retrieve? +
list_orders fetches recent multi-channel orders. This includes key fulfillment statuses so you know if an order is stuck in processing or ready to ship.
Does Afosto MCP help with product pricing? Use list_products. +
The list_products tool gives you the complete, current view of your catalog. You can verify that all variants and their correct pricing are listed in one go.
When setting up access for list_customers, what credentials are required? +
You'll need your Afosto Client ID and Secret Key. These credentials securely authenticate your AI client against the retail engine’s API endpoints, allowing your agent to retrieve centralized profiles.
When running list_products, can I filter by active variants or specific categories? +
Yes, you can specify filters like category IDs or variant SKUs. This lets your agent pull only the precise data set you need from the complete product catalog.
If I run list_inventory frequently, how does Afosto handle rate limiting? +
The MCP handles standard API rate limits automatically. Your AI client will receive clear error messages if you exceed the allowed call volume within a given timeframe, preventing service disruptions.
After using list_orders, how do I get corresponding inventory details? +
You pass key identifiers, like order numbers or SKUs, to other tools. Your agent orchestrates the necessary calls across multiple MCP functions for a complete fulfillment picture.
How do I find my Afosto API credentials? +
Log in to the Afosto Admin App, navigate to Company > API Settings. You can create a new integration there to generate your Client ID and Client Secret.
Can I check stock levels across multiple warehouses? +
Yes! Use the list_inventory tool. It provides real-time stock data aggregated by location, helping you manage omnichannel fulfillment.
Does this support multi-channel orders? +
Absolutely. The list_orders tool retrieves orders from all connected sales channels, including B2B, B2C, and integrated marketplaces.
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