MCP Merchant is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. 43 installs a week from npm.
Search-only commerce MCP server backed by Stripe (test)
MCP Merchant does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 0.0% 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 1 min ago.
claude mcp add mcp-merchant --transport http https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-merchant": {
"url": "https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse"
}
}
}[mcp_servers.mcp-merchant]
url = "https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse"{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-merchant": {
"url": "https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse"
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-merchant": {
"url": "https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse"
}
}
}This one needs environment variables set before it will start:
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY (Stripe secret key (test mode)), PRODUCT_LIMIT (Max products to cache), REFRESH_INTERVAL_SEC (Catalog refresh interval in seconds).
The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://mcp.shawndurrani.ai/sse | sse | answering | 596 ms | 1 min ago |
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