I talk to my store every morning. Sharing my routine.
Small confession. Of everything we've shipped in FluentCart, the feature I use the most myself is the MCP. Every morning, before email, before Slack, I open Claude and ask my store a few questions. Plain English in, real numbers out, straight from the live database.
The first question is always the same:
"How are sales doing over the last 30 days compared to the period before?"
Ten seconds later I have revenue, orders, and average order value side by side with the previous period. That used to be three report views and some mental math.
Then I poke around depending on what looks interesting:
"Break down last month's orders by traffic source with average order value." This one changed my ad budget. Newsletter buyers were worth around $250 an order, paid ads closer to $110 (example numbers, but the shape was real). I was about to increase ad spend that week. I went back to writing emails instead.
"How much subscription revenue is expected over the next three months, and how much is at risk?" A cash forecast built from real billing dates, in one question.
"Which coupons are used most?" This once caught an old code that had leaked to a deals site and was quietly eating my margin.
"Give me the full financial picture for FluentPlayer" Used this a several times a day in this week 🙈 it shows the full breakdown of the sales activity of a specific product.
Setup takes about five minutes: WordPress 6.9+, FluentCart 1.4.1 or later, enable the MCP module in settings, create an application password, and connect Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP client.
I wrote up the full routine, every question I ask and why: https://fluentcart.com/blog/what-i-ask-my-store-every-morning/
Now I'm curious. How are you using AI and MCPs? Which prompt or MCP you use that was taking hours or days before the AI era?
PS: Posting this in this community as it's a generic discussion and I want to know how you guys are using AI and MCP.
I'm still getting my head wrapped around MCPs and haven't used them much. When I tried it with FluentCRM, it showed as running, but never did anything. That was likely due to my error, and I still have to go back to fix it.
The only MCP I have working right now is for Rank Math Pro with Claude. Again, following their instructions, I had an error. So I showed the code to Claude and asked it to tell me how to install it. Claude found a minor error in their setup instructions, corrected it, and it works fine. I'll get around to doing the same thing with the FluentCRM MCP.
The part I'm not clear about is how I handle the MCP for FluentCRM (and their tools) for different sites on the same Claude account. I'm sure there is a way, but I'm not clear about it yet.
Most tools show instructions for adding only their own MCP code, as if it were the first and only tool to interact with the AI tool, but I'll end up with several tools from multiple sites.
Once I get it resolved, maybe that will be a good tutorial to share.
William Beem hit me up with the error you are getting. Would love to take a look and resolve. I use FluentCRM and FluentCart mcp extensively.
Shahjahan Jewel Thanks. I'll take a look when I get back to my system and share it.
I run a brand called Expat Expert, a coaching business for people relocating internationally, and I operate almost the whole thing on the Fluent stack: FluentCommunity for my member community, FluentCRM for email, FluentCart for the store.
I want to share how I run it, because I do not do it by hand anymore. I connected Claude directly into these systems through MCP, and it changed how much I can produce.
I manage my FluentCommunity spaces this way: publishing posts into member spaces, seeding discussions, and dropping curated news with commentary, all through the connection rather than a dashboard. The same line reaches the rest of the stack. It reads and corrects product data in FluentCart, builds and categorizes content in WordPress, and constructs campaigns in FluentCRM. I describe the outcome I want, it executes inside the real system, and I verify against the live tool before anything is called done.
For images, I generate social graphics, carousel slides, and thumbnails with fal.ai, wired into FlowMattic and running Google's Nano Banana Pro model. I describe the image in my brand's terms, dark photography, a gold headline, the look I want, and it drops into the pipeline beside the copy.
The clearest example is my welcome sequence.
It is 28 emails, from five minutes after signup out to day 70. I had the AI read the live sequence through the FluentCRM connection, map every step and delay, and rebuild the whole arc in my brand voice, with every statistic checked against a live source first. Work that would take a team weeks became an afternoon I directed. I run my monthly email campaigns the same way, building a full month in a single sitting.
The build is only half of it. I use the FluentCRM connection to watch who opens, who clicks, and which leads go quiet, then I follow up on a regular cadence guided by the data rather than by guesswork. The system tells me who is paying attention, and I answer accordingly.
Now I am building a tool that connects MCP to MCP through FlowMattic, so an agent can run the whole loop on its own: read the systems, produce the copy and the images, schedule them, watch the response, and follow up, without me directing each step.
If you run your business on this stack, MCP is worth your time. One person, wired into the systems the right way, does what used to take a team. I am happy to answer questions on how any piece of it is set up.
Christian Frank wow. Super nice 🤩
Christian Frank That sounds amazing. Thanks for sharing your set up.
I already installed the MCP for FCart and FCRM, but there's no MCP for FCommunity available yet. I'm wondering how did you manage to create the MCP connection to FCommunity and which abilities you have available? Thanks
JF I used Flowmattic. The tools list is pretty long: https://flowmattic.com/integration/fluentcommunity/
I also created a content creation workflow to create informative posts on the Group feeds.
Christian Frank thank you for sharing this and your workflow. I see, using an automation tool. I use Pabbly Connect and they also have Integration with FCommunity. I'll check out!
I use a custom AI operating system complete with multiple 3d fully animated with voice and lipsync agents built with tauri v2 and rust that I had Claude build along with a human like memory system and decision making system for each one of my 3d character agents that utilizes both local and Claude models to pull reports and systematically go through and parse and notify me how and why we are doing daily weekly and monthly every morning, so no need to ask any of the same questions over and over every morning I use to use openclaw then Hermes and then decided best to engineer and build my own
Honestly Hermes Agent on VPS is running everything on my Website + It connected my retainer web app I created to Fluent CRM. It helps me to check security, writing my newsletter or creating my Blog Post.
When I create a new campaign it gives me datas and performances
I can believe what we can achieve with Hermes Agent + MCP + FluentCRM and WordPress.
It also prepare my website to be well known by AI Search results in Google (for example) I got score from 21 to 43 just by letting my agent correcting my bots.txt and other parameters.
If you want to test your own website with Ai Crawler
https://isitagentready.com
Anybody get FluentCart MCP running with TypingMind? I tried to configure it but I got an error when I hit "connect": Failed to connect to the MCP server.
This is what my setup looks like. Any ideas? Shahjahan Jewel ?