Shipday MCP: delivery orders and drivers in your AI app

Set up Shipday in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor

1. 1Click Connect Shipday free and sign in with your Shipday account.
2. 2Dispatchers may want lookups only. Switch off the tools that create or edit orders, add drivers, unassign orders or mark them ready, and keep the order and driver lookups.
3. 3Add ContextGate to your AI app as a connector or MCP server. The steps for each app are on the Works with page.
4. 4Ask your AI app which delivery orders are still active and which drivers have them, then open Activity to see the call.

Delivery tasks from chat

• List active orders, or query orders over a time range.
• Get an order's full details by order number.
• Create or edit a delivery order and mark it ready for pickup.
• Check third-party on-demand delivery availability and get estimates for an order.
• See your drivers' profiles and status, and report on driver earnings.

Keep dispatch decisions with your team

• Switch off order edits and driver unassignment; they're hidden from your AI app and refused if called.
• Policies check every call and can hide customers' personal data.
• Activity records every order your AI app creates or changes.

What you get with Shipday and ContextGate

• Your AI apps can use ShipdayClaude, Cursor, ChatGPT and other AI apps reach Shipday through the one ContextGate connection you add to them.
• You choose which tools they can useSwitch off any Shipday tool you don't want used. It's hidden from your AI apps and refused if called.
• Every call is checked and recordedYour policies check each call (for example, personal data is hidden and secrets are blocked), and Activity keeps a record of it.

ContextGate sees only the tool calls that go through it, not your AI app's built-in tools or your chats.

Shipday tools

Examples of what your AI apps can do in Shipday. You'll see the exact list of tools after you connect it.

• Add a CarrierTool to add a new carrier/driver to the Shipday system with credentials. Use when you need to create a new carrier account with name, email, and phone number.
• Check On-Demand Delivery AvailabilityTool to check on-demand delivery availability from third-party service providers. Use when you need to verify service availability, pricing estimates, and delivery times for a route without creating a
• Edit Delivery OrderTool to edit an existing delivery order in Shipday. Use when you need to update order details such as customer information, restaurant details, order items, delivery fees, or tips.
• Get On-Demand Delivery EstimateTool to get on-demand delivery estimates from third-party service providers for a specific order. Use when you need to retrieve pricing, pickup/delivery times, and durations for a delivery order.
• Insert OrderTool to create a new delivery order in Shipday. Use when you need to insert a delivery order with customer details, restaurant information, order items, and delivery schedule.
• Orders QueryTool to query delivery orders with filters and pagination. Use when you need to retrieve multiple orders within a specific time range or paginate through order results. ACTIVE orders are those which a
• Query Delivery OrdersTool to query delivery orders with time-based filters and cursor pagination. Use when you need to retrieve multiple orders within a specific time range or paginate through order results.
• Retrieve Active OrdersTool to retrieve all active delivery orders from Shipday system. Use when you need to get currently active orders (excludes ALREADY_DELIVERED, FAILED_DELIVERY, and INCOMPLETE orders). Returns at most
• Retrieve CarriersTool to retrieve all carriers/drivers with profile and status details. Use when you need to get a list of all carriers in the system.
• Retrieve Order DetailsTool to retrieve detailed information for a specific delivery order by order number. Use when you need to get comprehensive order details including customer info, restaurant info, carrier assignment,
• Get On-Demand Delivery ServicesTool to retrieve available third-party on-demand delivery service providers. Use when you need to check which delivery services are available or enabled for the account.
• Order Ready to PickupTool to mark a delivery order as ready for pickup. Use when you need to notify Shipday that an order is prepared and ready for driver pickup at a specific time.
• Unassign Order from DriverTool to remove driver assignment from a delivery order. Use when you need to unassign a driver from an order to make it available for reassignment to a different driver.