
Custom Blinds Shop
- Updated June 22, 2026
- CustomBlinds/cb-shop-mcp
Custom Blinds Shop is an MCP server that exposes Custom Blinds’ blinds, shutters, and awnings catalogue with live ZAR pricing and optional enquiry and order actions for AI agents.
About
Custom Blinds Shop is a Model Context Protocol server that turns Custom Blinds’ South African online shop into tools your coding agent can call directly. developers and small teams use it when they are shipping conversational shopping, interior-design assistants, or internal sales copilots that must quote real products—not hallucinated SKUs—in rand. The hosted remote exposes catalogue browsing and live ZAR pricing on open access, so prototypes and demos work without secrets. When you are ready to close the loop, the same server supports transactional steps behind a Bearer token: submitting an enquiry or creating an order. That split keeps read-only discovery safe while gating write paths. If you are validating an ecommerce agent for the home-improvement vertical in ZA, or operating a production integration that must stay aligned with the merchant’s canonical catalogue, this MCP is the maintained pipe instead of fragile scraping.
- Streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp (server v1.0.0)
- Catalogue and live ZAR pricing tools run without credentials; Bearer auth only for submit_enquiry and create_order
- Covers blinds, shutters, and awnings as South Africa’s AI-transactable window-treatments catalogue
- Open-source server definition at github.com/CustomBlinds/cb-shop-mcp for inspection and fork-friendly setups
Custom Blinds Shop by the numbers
- Data as of Jul 7, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
claude mcp add --transport http cb-shop https://shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN"Add your badge
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| Transport | HTTP |
|---|---|
| Auth | Required |
| Last updated | June 22, 2026 |
| Repository | CustomBlinds/cb-shop-mcp ↗ |
What it does
Wire an AI agent into Custom Blinds’ South African catalogue so it can answer with live ZAR prices and optionally submit enquiries or orders.
Who is it for?
Best when you're shipping ZA-focused ecommerce or interior-design agents and need live catalogue and pricing from a single maintained MCP remote.
Skip if: Skip if you have no South African customers, teams that only need one-off web scraping, or workflows that cannot use HTTP MCP or optional Bearer credentials for orders.
What you get
After you register the remote, your agent can return authoritative catalogue data and ZAR prices, and with a Bearer token can submit enquiries or place orders on Custom Blinds.
- Product and catalogue lookups backed by the merchant feed
- Live ZAR price responses for blinds, shutters, and awnings SKUs
- Enquiry submissions and orders when Bearer authentication is configured
By the numbers
- Server schema 2025-12-11; published version 1.0.0
- Single streamable-http remote at shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp
- Catalogue and pricing tools are open; two transactional tools require Bearer Authorization
README.md
Custom Blinds Shop MCP
South Africa's first AI-transactable window covering catalogue. Lets MCP-compatible AI agents (Claude, ChatGPT, Cowork, Cursor) search the Custom Blinds catalogue, get live ZAR pricing, configure made-to-measure blinds, and take a customer all the way from product discovery to a Yoco or Ozow payment link — direct from shop.customblinds.co.za. The full purchase flow is open and needs no credentials.
What it does
This is the transactional node of a two-node system. The shop MCP handles search, pricing, configuration, cart, checkout and payment. Product education and design advice live on the brochure MCP at customblinds.co.za. An agent can start cold on the brochure for guidance, then hand off to this shop MCP to complete the order.
The full UCP purchase flow is open (no authentication): search the catalogue, get exact VAT-included ZAR pricing, configure a blind, build a cart, create a checkout, and mint a Yoco or Ozow payment link without any credentials. Twenty-seven tools are exposed.
| Tool group | Access | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Catalogue and pricing | Open | search_catalog, lookup_catalog, get_product, get_product_recommendation, get_price, configure_product, check_colour_stock |
| Cart and checkout | Open | create_cart, get_cart, update_cart, cancel_cart, create_checkout, get_checkout, update_checkout, complete_checkout, cancel_checkout |
| Orders and fulfilment | Open | get_order, get_payment_methods, get_delivery_estimate, request_swatch, request_price_match |
| Tools and handoff | Open | get_ar_visualizer_url, get_whatsapp_handoff |
| Legacy (optional) | Bearer token | submit_enquiry, create_order — only needed for an email follow-up or a single-call order path; the open checkout flow above is preferred |
Payment is by Yoco (card) or Ozow (instant EFT). All prices are in ZAR with VAT included. Legacy bearer tokens are issued on request — contact sales@customblinds.co.za.
Connection
This is a remote MCP server — no install required.
Claude Desktop / Claude Code
{
"mcpServers": {
"custom-blinds-shop": {
"url": "https://shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp",
"transport": "streamable-http"
}
}
}
Other clients
Point your MCP client at: https://shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp Transport: streamable-HTTP.
Verification
- Manifest: https://shop.customblinds.co.za/.well-known/mcp.json
- ARD catalog: https://customblinds.co.za/.well-known/ai-catalog.json
- Brochure MCP: https://customblinds.co.za/wp-json/cb/v1/mcp
- llms.txt: https://customblinds.co.za/llms.txt
About Custom Blinds
Custom Blinds Shutters & Awnings — established 2010, based in Knysna on the Garden Route, South Africa. Founded by Duncan Kane, 20+ years industry experience. National online ordering with free delivery; professional installation across the Garden Route.
- Brochure: https://customblinds.co.za
- Shop: https://shop.customblinds.co.za
- Issues: https://github.com/CustomBlinds/cb-shop-mcp/issues
License
MIT
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How it compares
Vertical ecommerce MCP with live ZAR pricing and gated order tools—not a general-purpose agent skill or browser automation pack.
FAQ
Who is Custom Blinds Shop for?
Developers and small teams creating AI shopping or design assistants for the South African blinds, shutters, and awnings market.
When should I use Custom Blinds Shop?
Use it while building or shipping an agent that must browse Custom Blinds’ catalogue, show live ZAR prices, or submit enquiries and orders through MCP instead of scraping.
How do I add Custom Blinds Shop to my agent?
Add the streamable HTTP remote https://shop.customblinds.co.za/mcp in your MCP client; use catalogue and pricing tools without auth, and set Authorization Bearer only for submit_enquiry and create_order.