Ask Claude about our sales orders, SKUs, inventory, wholesale customers, invoices, payments, POs, and shipments — straight from our system of record. No ApparelMagic login, no exports. Just ask in plain English.
Status: Live ✓Version: 0.1.0Updated: June 25, 2026Access: read-only — write-capable ERP, gated to read-only by usAPI limit: ~4 API requests/second (connector self-paces)Sign-in: your Google work accountQuestions: David
ApparelMagic is our ERP — the system of record that runs the business side of Melinda Maria: every sales order, every SKU and its inventory, every wholesale customer, every invoice, payment, purchase order, and shipment lives here. The ApparelMagic connector lets Claude read that system on your behalf, so instead of logging in and running a report you just ask a question and get the live answer.
📒 What it knows
Sales orders & order items, products/SKUs, inventory by warehouse, wholesale customers, invoices & payments, purchase orders, shipments, pick tickets, returns, credit memos — plus reference data like terms, ship methods, divisions, and the chart of accounts.
🔒 What it can't do
It is read-only — it can look at everything but cannot create, edit, cancel, or delete anything in ApparelMagic. Ask freely; you can't break a thing.
🧠 What makes it smart
About 45 read-only tools across 35 data areas. Beyond live lookups, it keeps a private history copy of orders, invoices, payments and fulfillment, so it can do real analysis — sales trends, run-rates, demand by SKU, customer account summaries — and answer fast.
Why it matters: ApparelMagic is the single source of truth for what we sold, to whom, for how much, and what we owe or are owed. This connector puts that truth one question away — for ops, finance, sales, and planning — without anyone learning the ERP's menus.
Connect it in about a minute
In Claude: Settings → Connectors → find it → click Connect → sign in. It’s already added for the team, so this is a one-time, ~1-minute step (see “Which login” below).
The ApparelMagic connector is already set up in Claude for the team — you just switch it on and sign in. Takes about 30 seconds.
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In Claude, open Settings → Connectors (or click the + in the message box → Connectors). Find ApparelMagic in the list — it's already there.
2
Click the + (or Connect) next to ApparelMagic.
3
When prompted, sign in with your Google work account (your @melindamaria.com email — the same one you use for Gmail & Drive). A personal Gmail won't work.
4
Approve the connection. It shows Connected — then type "Using ApparelMagic, run apparelmagic_health" — you should see ok: true.
🔑 Which login? You only ever sign in with your Melinda Maria Google work account. You never enter any ApparelMagic password or key — those are stored securely on our side.
Don't see it in your Connectors list? Ask David — it gets enabled once for the team, then appears for everyone to switch on.
How to ask — just say "use ApparelMagic…"
The connector is named ApparelMagic. The simplest way to make sure Claude uses it is to mention it in your request:
"Using ApparelMagic, <your question>."
You don't have to memorize tool names — plain English works. A few tips that get great results:
Be specific about the window
"…in the last 30 days", "…this quarter", "…for FY so far". Time frames make reports sharper.
"…as a table", "…make a PDF", "…give me the top 10", "…export to CSV". Claude will shape it.
Chain connectors in one ask
Combine tools: "match POs in ApparelMagic to receiving in ShipBob", "compare wholesale in ApparelMagic vs. NuORDER". See the multi-connector examples below.
Heads up on actions: the ApparelMagic connector itself only reads. But when you ask Claude to send an email, post to Slack, or create a task using our other connectors, it drafts it and asks you to confirm before anything goes out. Nothing is sent without your OK.
Example prompts — from quick lookups to full workflows
Copy these, tweak them, make them yours. They get more advanced as you go down. The label shows the level, and the line under each shows which connectors get involved.
Simple one quick answerAnalysis ApparelMagic does the mathMulti-connector combines toolsTakes action drafts an email / Slack / task (you confirm)
🧾
Sales orders & fulfillment
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, show me the full detail of sales order 48 — customer, line items, quantities, and status."
ApparelMagic
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, list all open sales orders that haven't shipped yet, sorted by oldest first."
ApparelMagic
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, which orders are on hold right now, and what's holding each one up?"
ApparelMagic
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, give me total bookings (order value) by week for the last 8 weeks, and tell me if the trend is up or down."
ApparelMagic — sales analytics
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, what are our top 15 best-selling SKUs by units ordered this quarter?"
ApparelMagic — demand by SKU
Multi-connector
"For the open wholesale orders in ApparelMagic, check fulfillment status in ShipBob and tell me which ones are delayed or stuck at the warehouse."
ApparelMagic + ShipBob
Takes action
"Using ApparelMagic, find sales orders open more than 30 days with nothing shipped, then draft a Slack message to the ops channel listing them so we can chase them down."
ApparelMagic + Slack — draft (you confirm)
💎
Products, SKUs & inventory
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, look up SKU N6428G — show me the style name, attributes, price, and current inventory across warehouses."
ApparelMagic — inventory lookup
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, how many units of our gold hoop earrings are available to promise right now?"
ApparelMagic — available-to-promise
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, list every SKU below 25 units on hand, grouped by warehouse, and flag anything that's been selling well lately."
ApparelMagic
Multi-connector
"Cross-check stock for our top 20 sellers: compare on-hand in ApparelMagic against ShipBob and flag any SKU where the two disagree by more than a few units."
ApparelMagic + ShipBob
Takes action
"Using ApparelMagic, find the SKUs most at risk of selling out based on recent demand, then draft a restock task list in Asana for the planning team — one task per SKU."
"Using ApparelMagic, pull the account summary for Nordstrom — orders, invoices, what they've paid, and any open balance."
ApparelMagic — customer account summary
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, who are our top 10 wholesale customers by revenue this year, and how does that compare to last year?"
ApparelMagic
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, which wholesale accounts haven't placed an order in the last 6 months but used to be regulars?"
ApparelMagic
Multi-connector
"Build a wholesale health snapshot for our top 25 accounts: ApparelMagic revenue and open balance, plus their open orders in NuORDER, in one table."
ApparelMagic + NuORDER
Takes action
"Using ApparelMagic, find our top wholesale accounts that have gone quiet for 90+ days, and draft a warm, on-brand check-in email to each buyer for me to review."
"Using ApparelMagic, show me all open invoices and total the outstanding balance."
ApparelMagic
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, which invoices are more than 60 days past due, and who owes them?"
ApparelMagic
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, give me an aging report — group open receivables into current, 30, 60, and 90+ days past due, with totals."
ApparelMagic
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, summarize payments received last month and compare the total to the month before."
ApparelMagic
Multi-connector
"Reconcile sales vs. fulfillment cost: pull invoiced revenue from ApparelMagic for last month and ShipBob fulfillment fees for the same period, and tell me our fulfillment cost as a percentage of sales."
ApparelMagic + ShipBob
Takes action
"Using ApparelMagic, build a weekly AR aging summary as a PDF and draft an email to finance flagging the largest past-due balances."
ApparelMagic + PDF + Gmail — drafts email (you confirm)
🏭
Purchase orders & incoming supply
Simple
"Using ApparelMagic, list all open purchase orders and the SKUs and quantities on each."
ApparelMagic
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, which open POs are past their expected receipt date and still haven't been received?"
ApparelMagic
Multi-connector
"Match our open purchase orders in ApparelMagic against incoming receiving orders in ShipBob, and tell me which POs haven't shown up at the warehouse yet."
ApparelMagic + ShipBob
Takes action
"Using ApparelMagic, find POs overdue by more than 2 weeks and draft an email to our supply-chain lead asking for an updated ETA on each."
ApparelMagic + Gmail — drafts email (you confirm)
📊
Dashboards & cross-functional reports
Analysis
"Using ApparelMagic, build me a sales dashboard: bookings this month vs. last, top SKUs, top customers, and open order value. Make it exportable to PDF."
ApparelMagic + PDF
Multi-connector
"Build a Monday wholesale brief: open orders and aging receivables from ApparelMagic, open B2B orders from NuORDER, and warehouse delays from ShipBob — one clean summary."
ApparelMagic + NuORDER + ShipBob
Multi-connector
"For our top 25 SKUs, combine ApparelMagic on-hand and recent demand with NuORDER open wholesale demand into one reorder-priority table."
ApparelMagic + NuORDER
Takes action
"Every Friday, compile a sales-and-AR scorecard from ApparelMagic (bookings, shipped, invoiced, collected, past-due) as a PDF and draft an email to leadership with a 3-bullet summary."
"Using ApparelMagic, detect anomalies: compare this week's bookings to the prior 4-week average and, if anything is off by more than 20%, post an alert to #sales in Slack as a draft."
ApparelMagic + Slack — draft alert (you confirm)
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Live artifacts, dashboards & spreadsheets
Analysis
“Create a live artifact: a wholesale money dashboard — this month's invoices, payments and credit memos, refreshed each open.”
ApparelMagic — live artifact
Analysis
“Build a live inventory board by warehouse with low-stock flags on our core styles.”
ApparelMagic — inventory
Analysis
“Make a spreadsheet (.xlsx) of open invoices with aging buckets, formatted for accounting.”
ApparelMagic — xlsx
Multi-connector
“Build one artifact that joins ApparelMagic invoices with NuORDER orders — wholesale booked vs billed, side by side.”
ApparelMagic + NuORDER
Analysis
“Create a PO tracker artifact: open purchase orders and receiver status, refreshed on open.”
ApparelMagic — purchasing
Limitations, caveats & risk (please read)
Topic
What to know
Status
Read-only
The connector cannot change anything in ApparelMagic — no creating, editing, or canceling orders, invoices, or inventory. It's safe to explore. (Verified live: read_only=true, writes off.)
Safe
Live now for orders & finance
Live, real-time lookups work for everything in ApparelMagic. The connector is in production across our 3 warehouses.
Live
History copy complete — but the ERP is young
The history copy is fully loaded and verified (all 33 data areas; checked live Aug 5, 2026, with deleted-record reconciliation running every 6 hours). One important thing to know: ApparelMagic itself only goes back to mid-June 2026 — that's when MM went live on it, and there is no older data in the ERP. So a “last quarter” question can only cover from June 18, 2026 onward, and Claude now says so in every analytics answer (a coverage note lists any requested months that have no ERP data). For older wholesale history ask NuORDER; for online-store history ask Shopify or ShipHero.
Working
Actions in other apps
When a prompt sends an email, posts to Slack, or makes a task, Claude drafts it and asks you to confirm first. Always review before approving.
You confirm
Confidential data
Real customer names, financials, and pricing flow through. Don't paste exports into outside tools, and share reports only with people who should see them.
Handle with care
Double-check big numbers
For anything high-stakes (a board number, a finance figure), sanity-check it or ask Claude to show its work. It's very good, not infallible.
Verify
Get help, request features, or report something odd
Something looks wrong?
If a number seems off, a prompt errors out, or the connector says it can't reach ApparelMagic — tell David. Include what you asked and what you got back (a screenshot helps). Anomalies are worth flagging early.
Want a new capability or report?
Need a recurring report, a tool that does something it can't yet, or a specific workflow? Send the idea to David. Many things are quick to add — the connector is built to grow.
A couple of handy built-ins you can always run: apparelmagic_health (is it working?) and apparelmagic_sync_status (how complete is the history copy?). If health ever comes back not-ok, that's the thing to send David.
What is a live artifact and how to share it
Short version: a live artifact is a page Claude builds once and then refreshes every single time you open it — so a dashboard you ask for today is still accurate next month. Here is what one is, and the three ways to get it in front of your team.
📊 NEW — build live artifacts, dashboards & spreadsheets with this connector
A live artifact is a small interactive page Claude builds and saves for you — a dashboard, tracker, or report that pulls fresh data from this connector every time you open it, instead of being a frozen snapshot. In a Cowork session, just ask: “create a live artifact that…” — it lands in your Artifacts list, reusable forever, and its charts and tables refresh themselves on open.
Sharing with the team: artifacts are saved to your Claude account. Three easy ways to share: (1) ask Claude to export a snapshot (PDF, image, or .xlsx) and drop it in Slack; (2) send a teammate the prompt that built it — their copy fills with live data through their own connector sign-in; (3) for a permanent all-team dashboard, that’s the MM Intelligence project on the AI roadmap.
How it works — architecture
Here's the actual build, for anyone curious how the numbers reach you. You don't need any of this to use the connector — it just shows what's running under the hood (and why it's safe with real financials).
Self-hosted on Melinda Maria’s own Cloudflare account at apparelmagic-mcp.melindamaria.ai/mcp — the same hosting + Google sign-in pattern as our other connectors. All traffic over HTTPS/TLS.
Why a history mirror?
ApparelMagic is our system of record for finance and inventory, but its API is paged and rate-limited. The D1 copy lets Claude do real analysis (trends, totals, run-rates) fast — while live lookups stay exact for "right now" questions.
Rate-limit-aware
ApparelMagic caps requests at roughly 4 per second. The connector deliberately paces itself under that ceiling, so it never gets throttled or disrupts the ERP that the finance and ops teams rely on.
Read-only & hosted like our others
It can't change anything in ApparelMagic (writes are off), runs on our own Cloudflare account behind the same Google sign-in as every MM connector, and keeps the ERP key server-side — never in Claude.
Melinda Maria · ApparelMagic Connector Team Guide · v0.1.0 · June 25, 2026 · read-only · ~45 tools · sign in with your Google work account.
Questions, anomalies, and feature requests → David. This guide is updated as the connector grows. · ← Back to all connectors
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