Running a Shopify store means repeating the same tasks hundreds of times a week: checking order status, updating inventory, drafting customer replies, pulling sales reports.
None of it requires judgment. All of it takes time.
Companion connects directly to your Shopify store and handles the mechanical work so you can focus on growing the business.
What you need
- Companion installed (download here)
- An OpenRouter API key (free, pay per use)
- A Shopify store (any plan, including free trial)
Step 1: Connect Shopify
Open Settings → Integrations in Companion's sidebar. Find Shopify and click Connect.
Enter your store's domain (e.g., your-store.myshopify.com) and authorize the connection via Shopify's standard OAuth flow. Companion gets read and write access to orders, products, and customers — only the scopes required for the automations you set up.
Step 2: Your first automation
Start with the most useful one — the daily order summary:
Check my Shopify store for any orders from today. Summarize them: how many, total revenue, any orders that are unfulfilled or flagged.
Companion pulls the data, summarizes it clearly, and highlights anything that needs attention. No logging into Shopify admin, no clicking through dashboards.
Or for customer support:
Find the order for customer [name or email]. Check the status and draft a reply email letting them know where it is.
Companion finds the order, reads the fulfillment status, and writes a professional customer service reply. You review it, send it.
What it costs
A Shopify query typically uses 500–2,000 tokens. At Claude Haiku rates via OpenRouter, that's under $0.001 per query. A full day of order management and customer replies would cost less than $0.05 total. Compare that to hiring a VA for store operations.
More workflows
Inventory check: "Which products in my store have fewer than 10 units in stock? List them with current inventory levels."
Sales report: "Summarize my Shopify sales for the last 7 days: total orders, total revenue, top 3 selling products, and average order value"
Customer lookup: "Find all orders from customers in Germany from this month and export a summary with names, emails, and order totals"
Product update: "Update the description for the product 'Classic Tote Bag' to include a note that it's available in two new colors: sage green and dusty rose"
Refund drafts: "Find orders with a 'Refund Requested' tag and draft a polite response to each customer with our return process and timeline"
Combining Shopify with Gmail MCP means you can close the loop entirely: Companion finds the order, reads the status, drafts the email, and sends it — without you touching Shopify admin or your inbox manually.
Achmad Bifari is Creative Designer and Social Manager at Companion. He writes the tutorials and runs @companionbyaios.