CommerceForAI

Terms of Service

Last updated: November 13, 2026

These Terms of Service ("Terms") are an agreement between you and Codehorts LLC, a California limited liability company ("CommerceForAI", "we", "us"). They govern your use of the CommerceForAI website at commerceforai.com, the dashboard, the API at api.commerceforai.com, the commerceforai software development kit (SDK) and its project templates, the @commerceforai/mcp server, our hosted MCP server at api.commerceforai.com/mcp, and related services (together, the "Service").

By creating an account, creating a store, using an API key, or otherwise using the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you use the Service on behalf of a business, you confirm that you have authority to bind that business, and "you" means that business.

1. Who can use the Service

You may use the Service only for business purposes, only if you are at least 18 years old, and only if you can form a binding contract. You may not use the Service if you are barred from doing so under the laws of the United States or any other applicable jurisdiction.

2. What the Service does

CommerceForAI is software that helps you sell products. It lets you manage products, inventory, checkout, shipping rates, orders, shipping labels, delivery tracking, returns, print-on-demand fulfillment, discounts, gift cards, draft orders and invoices, subscriptions, customer emails, product feeds, and event notifications; import products from other platforms; and lets software (including AI agents and AI apps you connect) do these things through an API.

We are not a payment processor, bank, or money transmitter. Payments are processed by Stripe (see section 4). CommerceForAI never holds your funds or your customers' card details.

Beta. The Service is currently offered as a beta. Features may change, be limited, or be removed, and the Service may be unavailable at times. We don't offer a service level commitment during the beta.

3. Your account and credentials

  • You sign in with a link sent to your email address. You are responsible for keeping access to that email account secure.
  • You can create API keys for each store. API keys act on your behalf with full access to that store. Keep them confidential and server-side, and revoke any key you believe is exposed.
  • You are responsible for all activity under your account and your API keys, including activity by people, software, or AI agents you allow to use them.
  • Your team. A store's owners can invite other people by email. Members can run the store (products, orders, settings, and API keys). Only owners can invite or remove people, change the store's Stripe account, or delete the store. Owners are responsible for who they invite and for their actions in the store.
  • AI apps you connect. You can connect AI apps (for example Claude or ChatGPT) to a store through our hosted MCP server. You choose the store and whether the app can make changes. The app then acts with the access you granted until you disconnect it in the dashboard. Connections are tied to the person who approved them and stop working if that person is removed from the store.
  • Links that grant access. "Go-live" links and claim links let the person who opens them take over a test store. Share them only with the intended person. Team invite links work only for the email address they were sent to.
  • Tell us promptly at lee@socialsforai.com if you believe your account, keys, or connected apps have been compromised.

4. Payments through Stripe

To accept payments you connect your store to Stripe through Stripe Connect. When you do:

Payment processing services for sellers on CommerceForAI are provided by Stripe and are subject to the Stripe Connected Account Agreement, which includes the Stripe Terms of Service (collectively, the "Stripe Services Agreement"). By agreeing to these Terms or continuing to operate as a seller on CommerceForAI, you agree to be bound by the Stripe Services Agreement, as the same might be modified by Stripe from time to time. As a condition of CommerceForAI enabling payment processing services through Stripe, you agree to provide CommerceForAI accurate and complete information about you and your business, and you authorize CommerceForAI to share it and transaction information related to your use of the payment processing services provided by Stripe.

In addition:

  • You are the merchant of record. Charges are made on your Stripe account. You are responsible for your sales, refunds, chargebacks, disputes, and Stripe's fees, which Stripe bills to you directly.
  • Verification and payouts. Stripe decides whether to approve your account, what information it needs, and when funds are paid out. We can't override Stripe's decisions.
  • New or existing Stripe accounts. You can have us create a new Stripe account for a store, or connect a Stripe account you already have. For an account we create, we set its public business name and card statement descriptor from your store's name; you can change them in Stripe. For an account you connect, your existing agreement with Stripe continues to apply, and only you can change its settings.
  • Disconnecting. When you delete a store, or disconnect Stripe before the store has taken a payment, we close any unused Stripe account we created for it, and we revoke our access to an account you connected. An account that has taken payments stays yours and is only disconnected.

5. Other services you connect

You can connect third-party services you have your own accounts with, such as Printful, Printify, EasyPost, Shippo, Resend, Shopify (to import products), and AI apps such as Claude or ChatGPT ("Third-Party Services"). When you do:

  • You authorize us to send them the data needed to do what you ask, for example sending an order and shipping address to Printify, buying a shipping label, or sending an order email.
  • Your use of each Third-Party Service is governed by your agreement with that provider, including its fees.
  • We are not responsible for Third-Party Services, their availability, their products, or their actions (for example, print quality, delivery times, or carrier losses).
  • You can disconnect a Third-Party Service at any time in the dashboard.
  • Importing from Shopify. If you give us a Shopify access token or product export, we use it only to import your products, and we don't keep the token.
  • ChatGPT shopping. We generate product feeds in OpenAI's format and show you the information OpenAI's merchant application asks for. Applying to OpenAI, and selling through ChatGPT, are between you and OpenAI and subject to OpenAI's terms. We don't submit applications for you.

6. Your responsibilities as a seller

You are solely responsible for your store and your business, including:

  • The products you sell, their descriptions, prices, and safety, and their compliance with law.
  • Not selling anything prohibited by law or by Stripe's restricted and prohibited business list, or by any Third-Party Service you use.
  • Owning or having the rights to all content you upload or link to, including product images and print artwork.
  • Your customer relationships: customer service, shipping, refunds, returns, warranties, and your own store policies.
  • Consumer protection, privacy, marketing, and email laws that apply to you, including obtaining any consent needed for the emails you send.
  • Your shipping rates, delivery estimates, and the countries you ship to.
  • Taxes. Determining, collecting, reporting, and paying all taxes on your sales. If you turn on tax collection, it uses Stripe Tax, which only collects tax where you have registered with Stripe Tax. Marking a customer tax-exempt is your decision, and you're responsible for keeping their exemption certificate. CommerceForAI does not give tax advice.
  • Gift cards. Gift cards are your obligation to your customers, including any laws on expiry dates, fees, and unclaimed balances. Because Stripe's checkout has no gift-card payment method, a gift card is applied as a discount on your Stripe account, so it comes off the price of products and, if tax collection is on, tax is worked out on the reduced amount. You're responsible for whether that is right for your taxes.
  • Subscriptions. If you sell subscriptions, you're responsible for clearly telling customers the price, how often they'll be charged, and how to cancel, and for any automatic-renewal laws that apply to you (California's, for example). Customers can cancel from the link in their order emails; cancellation takes effect at the end of the period they've paid for.
  • Prices in other currencies. If you turn on local currencies, Stripe shows shoppers abroad prices in their own currency and charges them its conversion fee. You're paid in your store's currency.

6A. Order emails we send for you

If a store hasn't connected its own email provider, we send its customer emails for it, from a CommerceForAI address under your store's name, with replies going to your store's owner. That means your customers see your owner's email address when they reply. You can turn this off, or connect your own email domain, at any time.

  • These are emails about a customer's own order or account with your store: order confirmations, shipping and delivery updates, refunds, approved returns, invoices you send, and gift cards.
  • If you turn on unfinished-checkout reminders, we send one reminder to a shopper who entered their email and didn't finish. Every reminder has an unsubscribe link, and we stop emailing anyone who unsubscribes. You're responsible for whether these reminders are allowed where your customers are.
  • Test stores only send these emails to members of the store.
  • We may limit how many emails a store can send (currently 500 a day) and may stop sending for a store whose emails generate complaints or bounces, or that breaches these Terms.
  • You're responsible for the accuracy of your store information that appears in these emails.

7. Automation and AI agents

The Service is designed to be used by software and AI agents, including through our MCP server.

  • You are responsible for any action taken through your API keys or by agents you configure, including creating products, changing prices or stock, issuing refunds, buying labels, and submitting orders to fulfillment providers.
  • Safeguards such as refund limits, label-cost limits, read-only mode, and tool allowlists are tools to help you limit risk. They are not a guarantee that an agent will act correctly.
  • AI agents can make mistakes. Review agent actions that matter to your business, especially refunds and anything that costs money.
  • Test tools. Simulated orders (test stores only) don't charge anyone, aren't sent to fulfillment providers, don't email customers, and don't count toward fees. They exist so you and your agents can check an integration.
  • Hosted connections. AI apps connected through our hosted MCP server use default limits (for example, refunds and shipping labels up to US $50 each), and read-only connections can't make changes.

8. Acceptable use

You will not, and will not let anyone else:

  • Use the Service for anything illegal, fraudulent, deceptive, or harmful.
  • Access or attempt to access another user's store or data.
  • Interfere with the Service, bypass rate limits or security controls, or probe, scan, or test its security without our written permission.
  • Send spam or unsolicited messages through the Service.
  • Resell or offer the Service as a standalone product to others without our written agreement.
  • Use the Service to build a competing product by copying it, except as the open-source licenses in section 10 allow.

9. Data

  • Your data. You own the data you put into the Service, including your products, orders, and your customers' information ("Your Data"). You give us permission to host, process, transmit, and display Your Data as needed to provide and support the Service, keep it secure, and comply with law.
  • Your customers' personal information. For your customers' personal information, you are the party deciding how it is used, and we process it on your behalf to provide the Service. You are responsible for having a privacy policy for your store and a lawful basis for sharing your customers' information with us.
  • Our Privacy Policy at commerceforai.com/privacy explains how we handle personal information.
  • Public pages and feeds. If you turn on store pages or product feeds, product and store information (not customer information) is published publicly, including to AI shopping agents, which can search your products and start a checkout for a shopper. Customers' tracking, invoice, and subscription pages are reached only through private links in their emails, and don't show their full address or email.
  • Data you send to AI apps. When you connect an AI app, it can read (and, if you allow, change) your store's data, including orders and customer information, under that app provider's own terms. We don't control what the provider does with it.
  • Aggregated data. We may use aggregated, de-identified information about use of the Service to operate and improve it. It won't identify you or your customers.

10. Intellectual property and licenses

  • We own the Service, including its software, design, and documentation, except for open-source components.
  • The commerceforai SDK and @commerceforai/mcp server are licensed under the MIT License. That license governs your use of their source code.
  • Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the Service for your business during your subscription.
  • If you send us feedback or suggestions, we may use them without obligation to you.

11. Fees

The Service is free during the beta. Before we start charging, we'll give you at least 30 days' notice, and you can stop using the Service before fees apply.

After the beta, unless your plan says otherwise:

  • Test mode is free.
  • Each store's first 100 paid orders in a calendar month are free.
  • After that, the platform fee is 1% of each paid order's item subtotal (excluding shipping and taxes), up to US $2 per order, and never more than US $29 per store per calendar month (UTC). If concurrent orders would take a store over the monthly maximum, we automatically refund the difference.
  • How it's collected. The fee is collected as a Stripe application fee on each paid order and deducted from that payment by Stripe. You authorize us to collect it this way. We don't refund platform fees on orders you later refund, unless we decide otherwise.
  • Taxes. Fees are exclusive of taxes. You'll pay any taxes that apply to them.
  • Other fees. Stripe's fees and Third-Party Services' fees are separate and are charged by them.
  • Price changes. We may change these fees with at least 30 days' notice.

12. Confidentiality

Each party will protect the other's non-public information that it receives through the Service with reasonable care, and use it only to perform under these Terms. This doesn't apply to information that is public, already known, independently developed, or that must be disclosed by law.

13. Suspension and termination

  • You can stop using the Service and close your stores at any time.
  • We may suspend or terminate your access if you breach these Terms, if Stripe or a Third-Party Service requires it, if your use creates risk or harm for us, other users, or the public, or if required by law. When reasonable, we'll notify you first and give you a chance to fix the problem.
  • We may discontinue the beta or the Service with at least 30 days' notice.
  • After termination, you can export Your Data for 30 days, after which we may delete it, except where the law requires us to keep it. Your Stripe account is separate and stays with you.
  • Deleting a store stops it immediately: its API keys, integrations, connected apps and open checkouts stop working. We keep its order records for your records, refunds, and tax purposes until you ask us to delete them, except where the law requires us to keep them.

14. Disclaimers

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DON'T WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE, THAT INVENTORY COUNTS, TAXES, SHIPPING RATES, OR ORDER STATUSES WILL BE ACCURATE, OR THAT ANY AI AGENT WILL ACT CORRECTLY.

15. Limitation of liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW:

  • NEITHER PARTY IS LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, REVENUE, SALES, DATA, OR GOODWILL, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THEIR POSSIBILITY.
  • OUR TOTAL LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE SERVICE OR THESE TERMS IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE FEES YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENT GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM, AND (B) US $100.

These limits don't apply to your payment obligations, your indemnity obligations, or liability that can't be limited by law.

16. Indemnification

You will defend and indemnify CommerceForAI and its officers, employees, and agents against third-party claims, and related losses, costs, and reasonable legal fees, arising from: your products or content; your sales and your relationships with your customers; your use of Third-Party Services; actions taken through your account, API keys, or agents; or your breach of these Terms or of law.

17. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. For material changes we'll notify you by email or in the dashboard at least 15 days before they take effect. If you keep using the Service after changes take effect, you accept them. If you don't agree, stop using the Service.

18. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of California, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Disputes will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Humboldt County, California, and both parties consent to their jurisdiction.

19. General

These Terms, plus any documents they refer to, are the entire agreement between us about the Service. If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in effect. Not enforcing a provision isn't a waiver. You may not assign these Terms without our consent. We may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. Neither party is liable for delays caused by events beyond its reasonable control. We may send notices to the email address on your account. You can reach us at lee@socialsforai.com or Codehorts LLC, 1421 B St., Eureka, CA 95501.