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User guide

Drive MailPanda from Claude

MailPanda ships a remote MCP server, so Claude can work your email program with you: run the account audit, check which flows are live, pull sales and send reports, search your catalog, and drop campaign ideas into your Campaigns queue. Ask Claude “audit my email program and draft three campaigns for the gaps you find” and it happens against your real store data.

The fast path — one command

If you use Claude Code, this installs the MailPanda skills, signs you in (or up) in the browser, and registers the MCP server — all at once:

npx mailpanda install --claude

No account yet? The browser step doubles as signup. Re-connect or switch brands any time with npx mailpanda login; check the connection with npx mailpanda status. Prefer to wire things up by hand, or using claude.ai? Steps 1–3 below.

What Claude can and can’t do

  • Read:account audit & gap analysis, flow status, product catalog, store sales insights, send performance reports.
  • Write: draft campaign ideas into your Campaigns queue — nothing else.
  • Never: send email, edit flows, touch contacts, or spend money. Design generation and every send stay behind your approval inside MailPanda.

1Create a connector key

In MailPanda, open Settings → MCP & API and hit Create connector key. The key is scoped to the brand you have active — one brand per key. Treat it like a password: anyone holding it can read that brand’s reports.

2Add MailPanda to claude.ai

In claude.ai go to Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and paste the Connector URL from the settings card (it embeds your key, so no extra auth setup is needed). Claude will list the MailPanda tools in its search-and-tools menu for any chat.

3Or add it to Claude Code

Use the header-auth endpoint with your key:

claude mcp add --transport http mailpanda \
  https://app.mailpanda.ai/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer mpk_…your-key…"

4Ask away

  • “Run my email audit — where am I leaking revenue?”
  • “Which flows are live, and what’s still in draft?”
  • “How did last month’s campaigns perform?”
  • “Draft a win-back campaign for two weeks out featuring our best seller.”

Campaign drafts land in Campaigns (left sidebar) as ideas — open MailPanda to generate the design and approve any send.

Security notes

  • Keys are signed, brand-scoped credentials. They stop working the moment the person who created them loses access to the brand.
  • The connector is read-mostly by design; the only write is a campaign draft, which is always editable and deletable in the app.
  • Questions? Reach us at support@mailpanda.ai. Our privacy policy is at mailpanda.ai/privacy.