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Shift4 integrations

Connect Shift4 to any other app, or use it from your AI client over MCP. Payment processing platform with a REST API for card and alternative payment transactions across e-commerce and hospitality.

Connects with an API keyshift4.com
21 actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

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What do you want to automate with Shift4?

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Give your AI client this address.

https://mcp.apiant.ai

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

Set it up in your client
Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

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Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

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Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

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What your agent can do with Shift4

Triggers and actions 21 actions

  • Action
    Add card

    Saves a credit or debit card to an existing Shift4 customer, either from a card token / successful charge, or from full card details.

  • Action
    Add charge

    Creates a new charge to a customer or card.

  • Action
    Add customer

    Creates a new customer in Shift4, optionally saving a card to them as their default card.

  • Action
    Add plan

    Creates a new subscription plan that customers can be subscribed to.

  • Action
    Add refund

    Refunds an existing charge in full or in part, returning the funds to the card that was charged.

  • Action
    Add subscription

    Creates a subscription that bills a customer automatically according to a plan.

  • Action
    Delete card

    Deletes a saved card from a Shift4 customer. If the deleted card was the customer's default, the most recently added card becomes the new default.

  • Action
    Delete customer

    Deletes an existing Shift4 customer.

  • Action
    Delete plan

    Deletes a plan by ID.

  • Action
    Delete subscription

    Cancels/deletes an existing subscription by ID.

  • Action
    Get charge

    Fetches a charge by ID.

  • Action
    Get customer

    Fetches a customer by ID.

  • Action
    Get dispute

    Fetches a dispute by ID.

  • Action
    Get plan

    Fetches a plan by ID.

  • Action
    Get refund

    Retrieves an existing Shift4 refund by its id.

  • Action
    Get subscription

    Fetches a subscription by ID.

  • Action
    List cards

    Lists the saved cards of a Shift4 customer, most recently created first.

  • Action
    List refunds

    Returns all refunds.

  • Action
    Update charge

    Updates an existing Shift4 charge's customer, description, shipping, billing, fraud status or metadata. Fields left blank are unchanged.

  • Action
    Update customer

    Updates an existing Shift4 customer. Any field left blank is left unchanged.

  • Action
    Update subscription

    Updates an existing subscription. Any field left blank is left unchanged.

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Shift4, answered

Is there a Shift4 MCP server?

APIANT's MCP server at https://mcp.apiant.ai works with Shift4. Add that address to any AI client that takes a remote MCP server and sign in once in your browser. Your client can then run Shift4 actions on demand, or have APIANT build, test and run automations that use Shift4. Nothing to install.

What can your agent do in Shift4?

Any of Shift4's 21 actions, including Update charge, Update customer, Update subscription and Add card. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

Can I use Shift4 directly from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?

Yes. Connect your AI client to APIANT once and it works with Shift4 two ways. Ask it to do something in Shift4 once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running on its own. A one-off action uses your plan's tasks the same way an automation step does.

Do I need to write code against the Shift4 API?

No. APIANT connects to the Shift4 API for you, with your Shift4 API key. Describe what you want in plain language and your agent builds it on the Shift4 triggers and actions in the catalog. If you need an endpoint that is not there yet, your agent reads the Shift4 API documentation and adds it.

Which apps can Shift4 connect to?

Any app in the catalog; the list on this page pairs Shift4 with each of them. If the other app is missing, point your agent at its API documentation and it builds the connector.

What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.