MCP: ask your AI assistant about your data

With MCP you ask your own AI assistant, such as Claude, ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot Studio, about your orders, shipments, invoices, payments, products and stock. The assistant looks up the answer in the applications you connected to APIcenter. Access is read-only: the assistant reads data, but never changes anything.

What you see

The introduction

Until you start, MCP shows an introduction:

• Just ask your AI assistant, with an example conversation and the assistants it Works with.
• See it in action: a short video.
• What you can ask, for example: example questions.
• Choose the package that suits you: the MCP packages. A package sets how many questions per month your AI assistants can ask.

Click Connect now, or the button to try it for free when that is offered, to go to the connect page.

The connect page

• At the top, the status of your package or free trial, with how many questions you have left.
• MCP URL with a Copy button.
• Where to add the URL: the steps for each assistant, with the plan of the assistant you need.
• Once an assistant is connected: Your connected AI assistants, with their access.

Connect an assistant

1. Click Copy next to the MCP URL. The URL never changes, so you only add it once.
2. Under Where to add the URL, choose your assistant and follow its steps to add APIcenter as a custom connector.
3. When the assistant asks you to, sign in to APIcenter and choose the connections and data it may read.
4. Ask a question, for example whether a certain order has been shipped.

While no assistant is connected yet, the page shows Waiting for your AI assistant and updates by itself.

Manage access

Under Your connected AI assistants you see each assistant with the date it was connected.

• Under Connections, choose All connections or select connections one by one. Click Choose data to choose what the assistant may read per connection, such as orders, invoices or stock levels.
• Under APIcenter data, allow Sync status and Flow activity if the assistant may see whether records were synced and what your flows did.
• Click Save. A change applies to the next question.
• Click Disconnect to take away access right away. To use the assistant again, connect it again from the assistant.

Personal data of your customers

By default AI assistants do not see the personal data of your customers, such as names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers and addresses: these are shown as [hidden]. The owner of the team can switch on Show the personal data of my customers to AI assistants, confirm the statement and click Save. This applies to every assistant connected to the account.

Team members and vendor MCP servers

• Team members: the owner chooses with MCP access who may connect AI assistants. Switching it off disconnects that person's assistants right away.
• Vendor MCP servers: when available, link the MCP server of a vendor to one of your connections with Connect.

Your package

With an active package, Manage package takes you to the MCP tab of the services page, where you choose, upgrade, downgrade or cancel it. Only the owner of your APIcenter team can change the package. See Support and professional services.

Tips

• MCP is about your business data. For questions about how your integrations are doing, use the AI assistant.
• Team members need the MCP permission to connect an assistant. See Team members and permissions.