LIVE & CONSOLIDATED. Fulfillment moved from ShipBob to ShipHero — cutover July 21, 2026 (ShipBob's last orders shipped July 17). One connector now answers every order in company history: live ShipHero, its growing archive, and ShipBob's frozen history bound right in. Verified live Jul 22, 2026.
ShipHero (2026) — Team Guide
READ-ONLY · write-gated by us
ShipHero is our warehouse & fulfillment system (3PL) — it knows every order, shipment, product, and stock level. This connector lets you ask about all of it in plain English, and it also holds ShipBob's complete history so you can ask about any order we've ever shipped, in one place. It can read everything and change nothing.
Status: live & consolidatedAccess: read-only (write-gated by us)Tools: 34 (25 ShipHero + 9 ShipBob & cross-era)Connect URL:shiphero26-mcp.melindamaria.ai/mcpSign-in: Google work accountAPI limit: credit-metered (4,004-credit pool)
256,212
orders in company history (both eras)
30,827
ShipHero-era orders (May 31 '26 →)
225,385
ShipBob-era orders (archived, frozen)
$4.79M
ShipHero revenue, Jun–Jul 2026
59,192
ShipHero records mirrored (12 objects)
34
read-only tools
~800/day
new orders flowing in
0
persistent sync errors
Pulled live from shiphero26_health, shiphero26_sync_status & shiphero26_orders_summary on Jul 22, 2026. Numbers grow every day as orders ship.
ShipHero is the system that runs our warehouse: it records every order that comes in, picks and packs it, ships it, and tracks stock on the shelf. The ShipHero (2026) connector — internally shiphero26 — is a small, secure service on Melinda Maria's own Cloudflare account that lets Claude ask ShipHero questions for you and read the answer back in plain English.
It does three things at once, which is what makes it the single source of truth for fulfillment:
① Live reads
Asks the real ShipHero system, right now, for anything current — today's orders, what's on the shelf, a shipment's status.
② Its own archive
Keeps a permanent private copy (a database on our Cloudflare) of ShipHero's history, refreshed on a schedule — so history is instant and never depends on ShipHero staying up.
③ ShipBob history, folded in
ShipBob's complete frozen history is bound right into this connector as a read-only second database — so one connector answers every order we've ever shipped.
Read-only, twice over. The connector ships zero write code (a built-in test fails if any write command ever appears), and it reports read_only: true. It can look at everything and change nothing — no order, no stock count, no address can be altered through Claude.
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).
If it's already in your list
Open Claude → Settings → Connectors. Find ShipHero (2026) / shiphero26 and click + / Connect. Sign in with your Melinda Maria Google work account (@melindamaria.com or @7ate9.com). Done — no URLs, no passwords to paste.
If you need to add it
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste https://shiphero26-mcp.melindamaria.ai/mcp → Add, then click Connect and do the Google sign-in.
One-time step to unlock ShipBob history: after connecting, toggle shiphero26 off then on once (Settings → Connectors) so Claude re-reads the full tool list and the 9 ShipBob & cross-era tools appear. You only do this once.
🔑 Which login? Always your Melinda Maria Google work account — the same one you use for Gmail/Drive. There is no separate “ShipHero password” to enter; the connector holds its own ShipHero credentials securely on the server.
What changed — the ShipBob → ShipHero migration
Melinda Maria moved fulfillment from ShipBob to ShipHero. The switchover (“cutover”) happened July 21, 2026; ShipBob's last orders shipped July 17, 2026. Rather than run two separate connectors forever, we folded ShipBob's history into the new ShipHero connector, so nothing was lost and there's only one place to ask.
Coverage guarantee (verified with data). Shopify = every DTC order ever · ShipBob archive = fulfillment Oct 15 '25 → Jul 17 '26 · ShipHero = May 31 '26 → forever. The seams overlap (late-May to mid-July exists in both archives), so there are no gaps anywhere in the timeline.
Two older connectors are retired. The standalone ShipBob connector (52 tools) and an earlier live-only ShipHero connector (31 tools, no archive, from June) are both superseded by this one. If you still see either in your connector list, you can ignore it — everything now lives in shiphero26.
The ShipBob era — 225,385 orders, kept & searchable
When a company changes warehouse systems, the old data usually gets stranded. That didn't happen here. ShipBob's entire history was captured into our own database before ShipBob's access shut off, then bound directly into this connector as a read-only second source. You ask about it exactly the same way — Claude knows which era an order belongs to.
☒ Retired · Jul 21 2026
ShipBob (previous 3PL)
225,385 orders · Oct 15 '25 → Jul 17 '26 (frozen)
12,434 returns · 6,632 products archived
Complete history mirrored to our Cloudflare + a cold backup in Google Drive
Ask via shiphero26_shipbob_orders, …_returns, …_summary
● Live & active
ShipHero (current 3PL)
30,827 orders and counting · May 31 '26 → forever
Live reads + a permanent, auto-refreshing archive
Products, inventory, shipments, POs, locations — all readable
Ask via shiphero26_orders, …_products, …_inventory_lookup
Ask across both eras in one question. Two special tools search the whole timeline at once: shiphero26_all_orders (every order ever, newest first, each tagged shipbob or shiphero) and shiphero26_all_orders_summary (totals by month, both eras side by side). Heads-up: the 9 ShipBob & cross-era tools appear in Claude only after the connector is reconnected once (Settings → Connectors → toggle shiphero26 off and on) so Claude re-reads its tool list.
What's inside right now (pulled live)
These are real figures from the connector on Jul 22, 2026 — a good sense of what you can ask about.
ShipHero-era orders by status
Status
Orders
Revenue
Fulfilled
21,236
$3.17M
Pending
9,097
$1.50M
Item Personalization
252
$50.8K
Expedited / Next-Day / Intl
118
$27.5K
Wholesale
28
$14.9K
Canceled
93
$14.0K
Ten statuses in all; top rows shown.
ShipHero-era orders by month
Month
Orders
Revenue
July 2026
17,769
$2.66M
June 2026
13,057
$2.12M
May 2026 (first)
1
$113
~800 orders/day at current pace. July still in progress.
Catalog
3,673 products — with dimensions, kit/bundle components, per-warehouse stock, Shopify tags, images, and linked vendors.
About returns: the ShipHero returns object currently shows 0 — that's expected. Exchanges come through as EXC- orders (809 captured), and formal RMAs/returns are handled in Loop (a separate system). The ShipBob era's 12,434 returns remain fully searchable in the archive.
How to ask — just say “use ShipHero…”
You don't need tool names. Mention ShipHero (or say “the warehouse”) and ask in normal words — Claude picks the right tool. To search the full history including the ShipBob era, say “across our whole order history” or “both ShipBob and ShipHero.”
Tip: add a date range, a SKU, or an order number to narrow things. Big historical questions can take a few seconds because the connector paces itself against ShipHero's credit limit (see below) — that's normal.
54 example prompts — quick lookups to full-company workflows
Quick lookups
“Using ShipHero, what's the status of order #[number]?”
“Using ShipHero, how many orders shipped yesterday, and what was the total revenue?”
“Look up SKU [sku] in ShipHero — how many on hand and how many reserved?”
“Using ShipHero, show me today's pending orders that haven't shipped yet.”
“Using ShipHero, what's the tracking number and carrier for order #[number]?”
“Is the connector healthy right now? Run the ShipHero health check.”
Orders & revenue
“Break down this month's ShipHero orders by status and revenue.”
“Using ShipHero, compare June vs July order volume and revenue.”
“Using ShipHero, how many orders are stuck in Pending, and what's the oldest one?”
“Using ShipHero, what share of orders used expedited or next-day shipping this month?”
“List our wholesale orders in ShipHero with their values.”
“Using ShipHero, how many Item Personalization orders have we had, and total revenue?”
“What's our average order value in ShipHero so far?”
Inventory, products & the shelf
“Using ShipHero, which SKUs are at or below their reorder level right now?”
“Using ShipHero, show me every product that's a kit or bundle, and its components.”
“Using ShipHero, what's on hand vs reserved for our top 20 best-selling SKUs?”
“Using ShipHero, which bins hold SKU [sku] in the Primary warehouse?”
“Using ShipHero, list products with zero on-hand but open orders waiting on them.”
“Using ShipHero, show recent inventory changes for SKU [sku] and why they happened.”
“Using ShipHero, which of our 4 vendors supply the SKUs we're lowest on?”
History & cross-era (both ShipBob + ShipHero)
“Using ShipHero, across our whole order history, how many orders have we ever shipped?”
Uses shiphero26_all_orders — spans both eras.
“Find order #[number] anywhere in our history — ShipBob or ShipHero.”
“Using ShipHero, give me monthly order totals from Oct 2025 to now, both eras side by side.”
Uses shiphero26_all_orders_summary.
“Using ShipHero, how many returns did we process in the ShipBob era, by month?”
“Did we ship more in July 2026 (ShipHero) than July 2025-equivalent volume in ShipBob?”
“Pull the full record for a ShipBob-era order: shiphero26_shipbob_order_get [id].”
“Using ShipHero, what were our best-selling products in the ShipBob era vs now?”
Operations & reporting workflows
“Using ShipHero, build me a daily fulfillment snapshot: shipped, pending, backordered, and revenue.”
“Cross-check ShipHero shipped orders against Shopify orders for yesterday and flag mismatches.”
Combines ShipHero + Shopify connectors.
“Using ShipHero, which open purchase orders are we still waiting on from vendors?”
“Using ShipHero, draft a restock list for SKUs under reorder level, grouped by vendor, and export it.”
Uses shiphero26_export.
“Using ShipHero, summarize this week's shipping methods mix for a leadership update.”
“Using ShipHero, flag any orders pending more than 3 days and group them by likely cause.”
“Export July's ShipHero orders to a spreadsheet with SKU-level line items.”
🔗 20 multi-connector power workflows — the whole stack working together
These chain ShipHero with our other connectors and Claude’s analysis skills into real cross-company workflows. They’re ambitious on purpose — start with one, then let Claude break it into steps. Anything that sends, schedules, or spends is always confirmed with you first.
“For our next collection launch, confirm every SKU is launch-ready: approved imagery in Canto, inventory staged in ShipHero, a live product page + price in Shopify, and a Klaviyo flow built — then give me a go/no-go checklist and Slack the gaps to each owner.”
“Build a 60-day demand forecast by SKU: blend 90-day DTC sell-through (Shopify) and wholesale velocity (NuOrder) with on-hand + open POs (ShipHero), rank a reorder plan, save it to a Google Sheet, and post the top-20 urgent buys to #ops.”
“Find the products our ShopMy and LoudCrowd creators are driving hardest this month, cross-check on-hand and reserve in ShipHero, and flag any creator-favorite under 10 days of cover so we never run out mid-campaign — email me the list and open Asana reorder tasks.”
“Rank our top 50 products by TRUE margin — ShipHero units shipped × Shopify price, minus ApparelMagic product cost and ShipHero fulfillment cost — and surface the ‘hidden losers’ that sell well but barely profit.”
“Pull the most-returned SKUs across BOTH eras (ShipBob archive + ShipHero), cross-reference Gorgias ticket themes and Shopify reviews, and tell me which products have a real quality problem versus a sizing/expectation gap — draft a product-team summary.”
“Cross-check Meta Ads spend by product against ShipHero on-hand: flag any SKU we’re actively advertising with under two weeks of stock, and any we’re overstocked on but not promoting — then recommend budget shifts and draft the changes.”
“Reconcile wholesale end-to-end: match NuOrder orders against ShipHero shipments and ApparelMagic invoices, flag anything shipped-but-not-invoiced or invoiced-but-not-shipped, and total the at-risk dollars for finance.”
“Every morning at 7am, compile a one-page fulfillment brief — shipped vs pending (ShipHero), DTC revenue (Shopify), wholesale backlog (NuOrder), open tickets (Gorgias), site conversion (Edgemesh) — email leadership and post highlights to #leadership.”
“When a customer emails about an order, look it up in ShipHero (either era), check live tracking, pull their Shopify history, and draft an on-brand Gorgias reply with the real status — escalate to #support only if it’s lost or late.”
“Compare last year’s ShipBob holiday peak (Oct–Dec) against this year’s ShipHero run-rate, factor in Shopify traffic growth from Edgemesh, and project the units/day the warehouse must handle in Q4 — then build a staffing + stock plan.”
“Cross-reference best-sellers in ShipHero against the Canto library, flag top products missing approved imagery, build a prioritized shoot list in Asana, and mock up on-brand concept tiles in Canva for the ones we need fastest.”
“Every night, scan ShipHero inventory-change events for anomalies — sudden shrink, negative on-hand, stuck reserves — correlate against orders and returns, and alert #ops with the affected SKUs and the most likely cause.”
“For each ShopMy ambassador, compute revenue driven (ShopMy) minus product + fulfillment cost (ShipHero + ApparelMagic), rank by true ROI, tell me which creators to reinvest in, and draft the outreach emails.”
“Stand up a live channel-reconciliation dashboard: order counts and revenue across Shopify (DTC), NuOrder (wholesale), ShipHero (fulfilled), and ApparelMagic (invoiced), with mismatches highlighted so finance can trust one number.”
“Find SKUs on backorder in ShipHero with orders waiting, check incoming PO ETAs (ShipHero + ApparelMagic), then draft a Klaviyo ‘back in stock soon’ email and a Gorgias macro for the affected customers.”
“When Sprout Social shows a post taking off, identify the featured product, check ShipHero stock and live Shopify demand, and if we’re low, alert #marketing to pace the boost and #ops to expedite a reorder before it sells out.”
“Every Friday, total ShipHero + Loop returns and refunds, reconcile against Shopify refunds and QuickBooks, and produce a returns P&L-impact summary for accounting.”
#51 · ShipHero + Shopify + QuickBooks + internal-comms · scheduled finance close (QuickBooks needs first sign-in)
“When we sign a wholesale retailer in NuOrder, assemble their onboarding packet — line sheet from ApparelMagic, product imagery from Canto, live availability from ShipHero, and a branded welcome email — save it to Box and notify the sales lead.”
“Scrape competitor best-seller pages with Firecrawl, compare against our ShipHero sell-through and Shopify search trends, and tell me which jewelry categories we’re under-indexed on — with a stock + marketing recommendation.”
“Every Monday, compile the whole business into one narrated brief — DTC + wholesale sales (Shopify/NuOrder), fulfillment health (ShipHero, both eras), creator revenue (ShopMy/LoudCrowd), support load (Gorgias), ad ROAS (Meta Ads), site conversion (Edgemesh), cash position (ApparelMagic) — email leadership, post to #leadership, and generate an ElevenLabs audio version for the commute.”
“Create a live artifact: a fulfillment dashboard that pulls today's ShipHero orders, shipments and the pending queue every time I open it.”
ShipHero — live artifact
“Build a live 'stock watch' artifact — my 20 key SKUs with on-hand, reserved and days-of-cover, refreshed on every open.”
ShipHero — inventory
“Make a spreadsheet (.xlsx) of last month's ShipHero orders by day — revenue, order count, AOV — formatted for the Ops review.”
ShipHero — xlsx export
“Build a live artifact comparing ShipBob-era vs ShipHero-era monthly volumes side by side — our cross-era history page.”
ShipHero both eras — artifact
“Create an exceptions tracker artifact: EXC- orders and anything unshipped over 48 hours, with a red count up top.”
ShipHero — monitoring
Limitations, caveats & risk (please read)
It only reads — never writes
Nothing you ask can change the warehouse: no editing orders, stock, or addresses. Zero write code (test-enforced) and read_only: true. Warehouse changes still happen in ShipHero itself, by the ops team.
ShipHero's credit limit
ShipHero meters its API with a 4,004-credit pool that refills ~60/sec. A page of orders costs ~651 credits, so very large live pulls are paced at roughly ~135 orders/minute. Big historical questions read from our instant archive instead. If a huge live query pauses briefly, that's the connector waiting for credits — it self-heals.
Archive freshness
The archive refreshes on a schedule (incremental every ~15 min; some slow-changing objects every 6 h). For “right this second” accuracy on a single order, ask for a live read. Day-to-day totals are current within minutes.
Returns live in Loop
Formal returns/RMAs are managed in Loop, so the ShipHero returns count shows 0. Exchanges appear as EXC- orders. ShipBob-era returns (12,434) remain fully searchable in the archive.
Cross-era tools need one reconnect
The 9 ShipBob & cross-era tools appear only after you toggle the connector off/on once so Claude re-reads its tools. Until then you'll have the 25 ShipHero tools.
One warehouse today
We operate a single “Primary” warehouse in ShipHero, so per-location questions all resolve there. If we add locations later, the connector already supports multi-warehouse reads.
Worst realistic case: a signed-in MM teammate sees fulfillment data they didn't strictly need (a customer address, an order cost). Not possible: an outsider getting in (Google-gated), or the warehouse being changed (read-only by design).
Get help, request a feature, or report something odd
Something looks off?
If a number seems wrong, a prompt errors, or the connector says it can't reach ShipHero — tell David. Include what you asked and what came back (a screenshot helps). If reads stop entirely, the ShipHero token may have lapsed — a quick server-side re-issue fixes it and nothing changes for you.
Want a new report or capability?
Need a recurring fulfillment report, a new helper tool, or a long-range analytics view across both eras? Send the idea to David. This connector is built to grow.
Two handy built-ins you can always run: shiphero26_health (is it working? reports ok, read-only, whether ShipHero is reachable, and archive status) and shiphero26_sync_status (archive backfill progress per object). 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
Read-only · hybrid live + archive · Cloudflare Worker at shiphero26-mcp.melindamaria.ai/mcp · Google sign-in gated · two databases (ShipHero + ShipBob) bound in · 34 read-only tools.
Self-hosted on Melinda Maria's own Cloudflare account (the same account and Google sign-in pattern as our ApparelMagic and NuOrder connectors). The ShipHero access token lives only as an encrypted Cloudflare secret and the connector refreshes it itself. This is the same proven “live + private archive” design as the ShipBob connector it replaces — a twin, now serving both.
Melinda Maria · ShipHero (2026) Connector Team Guide · shiphero26 v0.1.0 · verified live Jul 22, 2026 · read-only · sign in with your Google work account.
Consolidated connector: live ShipHero GraphQL + our D1 archive + the ShipBob history archive bound in. Replaces the retired standalone ShipBob and June ShipHero connectors. Questions & feature requests → David. · ← Back to all connectors
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