How BasketBridge works
BasketBridge is an app for AI assistants such as Claude and ChatGPT. Ask your assistant to find something in an online store, and it can search the store's live catalog and give you a cart link. You open the link, check the cart and pay on the store's own website. BasketBridge never buys anything, never sees your payment details, and needs no account.
Adding it
Add BasketBridge from your assistant's app or connector directory. If your assistant lets you add a custom connector by URL, use https://basketbridge.io/mcp; there is no sign-in.
What you can ask
- "Find men's wool runners in size 10 on allbirds.com."
- "Compare merino socks under $20 from a few stores."
- "Put two pairs of the grey ones in a cart for delivery to the UK."
What it does, step by step
- Search products (
search_products): searches one store you name, or many stores through Shopify's Global Catalog. Results show live prices, stock and options, in the order the store returns them (how results are ordered). - Get product details (
get_product): fetches one product's current price, options and stock from its store. - Create cart link (
create_cart_link): puts the products you chose into a cart on the store's website and returns the link, the store's domain, the next steps and a note on whether the link earns BasketBridge anything (disclosure).
Which stores work
Online stores on Shopify that offer Shopify's catalog for AI agents. Many independent brands do. Other stores, and marketplaces such as Amazon, aren't supported yet: your assistant will say so. Stores can opt out at any time (retailer opt-out).
What BasketBridge won't link to
We never show, describe or add to a cart: adult products; tobacco or nicotine products; drugs or drug paraphernalia; weapons, ammunition, fireworks or self-defence sprays; prescription medicines; covert surveillance devices; counterfeit or replica goods. A search that asks for them is declined, and other searches leave them out and say how many were removed. We check the search words, the store's own product category, its tags and the product's name, so now and then a harmless product with a similar name may be left out too.
Troubleshooting
- "Store is not supported"
- The store isn't on Shopify's agent catalog, or it's a marketplace. Try a different store, or search without naming one.
- "Store has opted out"
- The retailer asked not to be included. Visit its website directly.
- Nothing found, or an item is missing
- Searches ask the store for items in stock, so sold-out items are often left out. Try other words, or ask for product details by pasting the product page link: that shows each option's stock.
- Some results were left out
- They fall into a category listed above.
- The cart looks different from what you expected
- Prices and stock can change between the search and opening the link, and opening a cart link replaces any cart you already had at that store. Always check the cart on the store's page before paying.
- The store asks you to sign in
- Some stores require an account before checkout. That's the store's own step; BasketBridge never asks for passwords.
- "Rate limit exceeded"
- We limit how often each store is asked, to be polite to it. Wait a minute and try again.
- The final price is higher
- Shipping and some taxes are added by the store at checkout. The price in the chat is an estimate.
Still stuck?
Email support@basketbridge.io (see Support for what to include).