Connect your account to Claude or ChatGPT

Paste one address into your assistant, approve it once, and it reads your own products, sales, refund rates and payout dates — and, if you let it, writes your next product for you. It works from your account instead of guessing.

The address

The same address for everybody. It is not a password and there is nothing secret in it — it only tells your assistant where PayVenia is.

https://payvenia.com/api/mcp

Nothing is shared until you sign in and approve it. The approval screen is on PayVenia, it shows exactly what the assistant will be able to read, and you can cut it off again at any time from Connected apps.

In Claude

The easy one — it works on every Claude plan, free included.

1Open Customize → Connectors. On a Team or Enterprise account an owner does this under Organization settings → Connectors.
2Press + Add, then Add custom connector.
3Name it PayVenia, paste the address above as the remote MCP server URL, and press Continue.
4Leave the authentication settings alone and continue. There is no OAuth client id or secret for you to find — PayVenia hands those over on its own. Press Add.
5Connect it. Claude sends you to PayVenia to sign in. If you both sell and promote, pick which side of your account you are connecting; each is a separate approval. The same screen is where you choose whether it may only read or also change your products.
6Approve. Back in Claude, start a new chat and ask it something about your account.

On the free plan you can have one custom connector; the paid plans have no such limit. These are Claude’s own menus, not ours, and they move: what is written here was true in October 2026.

In ChatGPT

Harder than Claude, and worth knowing why before you start.

ChatGPT only accepts a connector like this one in developer mode, and developer mode is not on every plan. OpenAI’s own page lists it for Business, Enterprise and Edu, in a web browser — some write-ups add Pro. It is not on Free or Plus. If you are on Plus, there is nothing to find and nothing wrong with your account.

There is no way round it, either. Outside developer mode ChatGPT will only take a server that offers two particular tools called search and fetch, for its research mode. PayVenia offers neither — it answers questions about your account, it is not a search engine — so developer mode is the only door.

1In a browser, open Settings → Apps → Advanced settings and turn on Developer mode. On a Business workspace an owner or admin has to do this; on Enterprise or Edu an admin grants it under Permissions & Roles → Connected Data.
2Go to Apps → Create.
3Name it PayVenia and paste the address above as the MCP server URL.
4Set authentication to OAuth, and tick the box confirming you trust it. There is no client id or secret to find — PayVenia hands those over on its own.
5Press Scan Tools. ChatGPT sends you to PayVenia to sign in and approve — the same screen as in Claude, where you also choose whether it may change things. Then press Create.
6In a chat, pick PayVenia from the tools menu for that message. ChatGPT does not reach for it on its own, and asks you to confirm the first call.

OpenAI moves these menus around; what is written here was true in October 2026. If Apps is not where you expect it, look for Connectors instead — it is the same place under an older name.

Writing your next product

The part you choose on the approval screen. Say no and the connection only reads.

With it on, this works end to end: “Write me an ebook on marketing, make a sales page for it, then create it on PayVenia at $77, auto-accept affiliates at 50% commission, and put it in for review.”

Nothing it makes goes on sale by itself. A new product is a draft; handing it in puts it in the queue; a person at PayVenia is the only one who can approve it. Change the price or the description of something already selling and it goes back into that queue and stops selling until it is approved again — so an assistant having a bad day can make work for the reviewer and nothing worse.

You can read back everything it did. Connected apps lists every product it created or changed, which app did it and when.

The picture depends on the app you are in. A file never travels through the connection itself, but there are three ways round that, and your assistant will tell you which one applies rather than leave you waiting. In ChatGPT you can attach the picture to the chat and it goes on the product. If the image is already on the web, give any assistant the address. If it is on your phone and the app cannot take attachments — Claude cannot — ask for an upload link: you open it, pick the photo, and it lands on the product, once, within the hour. Either way PayVenia keeps its own copy, so your checkout page does not break when a temporary link expires. Up to five per product; the first is what buyers see.

Separately, an assistant that can drive your computer can open your dashboard and upload the picture the way you would. Claude’s desktop app does this on its paid plans; ChatGPT’s desktop app reads your apps but does not control them. The upload link works everywhere, on any plan, from a phone.

Discount codes work the same careful way. Ask for “a 20% code called LAUNCH20 until the end of the month” and it is made. A code made this way takes off at most 50%, has to end on a date or after a number of uses, and cannot be edited afterwards, only paused. Anything bigger or open-ended you make yourself under Promo codes, where you can see the number you are giving away.

It has to ask you before handing anything in. A product described in one sentence is mostly defaults, and a default is invisible — you see a product, not the ten choices nobody made. Two of them cost real money: the affiliate commission and the refund window. So PayVenia refuses to accept a product for review while anything is still on a default, and tells the assistant to put each open question to you first. Answer “leave it” and that is a decision; what it will not allow is nobody having asked.

What it can reach

This is the whole list. Nothing connected here can move money, issue a refund, change where your payouts go, touch a commission on a sale already made, or put a product on sale.

Which account it is reading
Your name, your business name and which side of the account was connected. It asks this first so it never answers about the wrong one.
Your products
Selling only
Names, prices, the affiliate commission you offer, and whether each one is live, in review or paused. It can search by name, so “where is my ebook” finds it.
One product in full
Selling only
Everything on one product: its description, its versions and their prices, and the net you keep on each sale.
What a period came to
Gross, fees, commissions and what you actually kept, over any window up to a year. The numbers that would otherwise be a spreadsheet.
Recent sales
The last sales with their amounts, dates and statuses — refunded ones included. No buyer email addresses, ever.
Refund rate per product
Selling only
Which products buyers keep and which they send back, side by side. The fastest way to find the one quietly costing you money.
Balance and next payout
What is available, what is still clearing, what is held in reserve, and the date the next payout runs.
Your partnerships
Selling only
The affiliates promoting your products, their commission and what each of them has sold.
One order in full
Selling only
Everything about a single sale by its invoice number: what was charged, any discount code, how the money splits between you, the affiliate and PayVenia, whether it was refunded, and whether the buyer ever opened what they paid for. Without buyer details switched on it says what happened but not who it was.
Your customers
Selling only
Who has bought from you, how many times and how much they spent, and a search by name, email or country. Only appears if you tick “See who your buyers are” on the approval screen — it is off unless you turn it on.
Your discount codes
Selling only
Each code, what it takes off, what it applies to, how often it has been used, its dates, and whether it is live, paused, used up or expired.
Create a product
Changes thingsSelling only
Makes a new product from what you describe — name, an internal name, category and subcategory (which you confirm), price, commission, sales page. It is created as a draft, or put in the review queue if you say so. It can never be put on sale from here.
Categories and subcategories
Selling only
The list of categories and subcategories a product can be filed under. The subcategory decides how sales tax is worked out later, so your assistant proposes the closest one and asks you to confirm — it never picks silently.
Change a product
Changes thingsSelling only
Edits one of your products. Only what you mention changes. If the product is already selling and you change its name, description, price, category, sales page or billing, it goes back for review and stops selling until PayVenia approves it again.
What nobody has decided yet
Selling only
Lists everything on a product that is still on a default — subcategory, internal name, commission, refund window, picture, what the buyer receives — with the question to ask you about each. Your assistant has to walk you through these before it can hand the product in.
Get a link to upload a picture
Changes thingsSelling only
For a picture on your phone that the app cannot take as an attachment (Claude cannot). Your assistant gives you a link, you open it, pick the photo, and it goes on the product. One use, one hour.
Add a picture to a product
Changes thingsSelling only
Puts a picture on one of your products, from a link — or, in ChatGPT, from a picture you attach to the chat. PayVenia fetches it and keeps its own copy, so your checkout page does not break when the original link expires. Up to five per product; the first is the one buyers see.
Hand a product in for review
Changes thingsSelling only
Puts one of your drafts into the queue. A person at PayVenia reads it before it can take money, and you are emailed the answer either way.
Create a discount code
Changes thingsSelling only
Makes a percentage-off code, for everything you sell or one product. It takes off at most 50%, and it has to stop — on a date, after a number of uses, or both. It works the moment it is made, so your assistant is told to confirm the name, the percentage and the end with you first. It cannot be rewritten afterwards, only paused.
Pause or resume a discount code
Changes thingsSelling only
Switches a code off so nobody can use it, or back on. It never changes what the code takes off. A code over 50%, made in your dashboard, can be paused from here but only you can switch it back on.

Who your buyers are is off unless you turn it on. The approval screen has a separate box, “See who your buyers are”, and it starts unticked. Without it a list of sales comes back with amounts, dates and statuses and an order comes back without a name or email — so a connected assistant is never the thing that leaks your customers unless you chose that. Even with it on, a buyer’s phone number and address are never sent.

Things worth asking it

It can only answer these because it is reading your account, not because it is clever.

Which of my products has the worst refund rate, and by how much?
How much did I actually keep last month, after fees and commissions?
When does my next payout land, and how much of my balance is still clearing?
Which of my affiliates sold anything in the last 30 days?
Is anything selling worse this month than last?
What happened with order 1043 — was it refunded, and did the buyer ever open it?
Which discount codes are still live, and how often has each been used?
Make me a 20% code called LAUNCH20 that ends on the last day of the month.
Who are my five biggest customers? (needs “See who your buyers are”)

Who pays for it

You do, and only for your own use.

The connection runs on your Claude or ChatGPT subscription. You are talking to your assistant; it reads your PayVenia account to answer you. PayVenia charges nothing for the connection and is not billed for your conversations, and we never see them.

This is also why there are no “write it with AI” buttons scattered through the dashboard. If you want a product description, a sales page or an ebook written, ask your own assistant — which you are already paying for — rather than a button whose bill lands somewhere else and gets added to everyone’s fees.

Turning it off

Yours to revoke, without asking anybody.

Connected apps lists everything that can currently read your account, when it was connected and when it last looked. Removing one takes effect at once — the assistant’s next question gets nothing back and it will ask you to connect again.

Each approval covers one side of your account. Connecting as a vendor never lets an assistant read your affiliate earnings, and the other way round.