Store Starter Tools for Shopify MCP Server

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Store Starter Tools for Shopify is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Shopify store starter tools: store names, niche ideas, launch checklist and profit calculator.

Uptime history 9 days of history · worst day 2%

9 days agonow

6.6%

Uptime 24h

6 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

971 ms

Response time

average over 24h

open, no key

Access

streamable-http

Store Starter Tools for Shopify does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 5.8% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 11 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add store-starter-tools --transport http https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.store-starter-tools]
url = "https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "store-starter-tools": {
      "url": "https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "store-starter-tools": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

calculate

calculate_profit

Calculate profit per sale, margin, break-even price and maximum ad cost per sale for a product. Any fee value not supplied uses an EXAMPLE default that the user must verify for their plan and country.

generate

generate_store_names

Generate brandable online store name ideas from 1-5 keywords and a style. Names are NOT checked for domain or trademark availability; tell the user to check.

launch

get_launch_checklist

Return a step-by-step checklist for launching an online store (plan, setup, products, legal, launch, growth).

niches

find_niches

Suggest online store niches from a hand-curated list, matched to the user's interests and starting budget. Qualitative reasoning only, not market data.

shopify

get_shopify_signup_link

Get the link the user can use to start a Shopify store.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://store-starter-tools.vercel.app/api/mcp	streamable-http	answering	73 ms	11 min ago

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Store Starter Tools for Shopify — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Store Starter Tools for Shopify do?

It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate_profit, find_niches, generate_store_names, get_launch_checklist, get_shopify_signup_link. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Store Starter Tools for Shopify working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 91 checks got a reply (6.6%), average response time 971 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

The registry lists Store Starter Tools for Shopify as active — why does it not respond?

The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.

How do I connect Store Starter Tools for Shopify?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Store Starter Tools for Shopify need an API key?

No. Store Starter Tools for Shopify completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Store Starter Tools for Shopify?

It answers our handshake in 971 ms on average, which is faster than 5% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.