Clover POS MCP Server

Clover POS for a single merchant: sales, inventory, orders, customers (reads + safe writes).

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What is the Clover POS MCP server?

Clover POS MCP server is a hosted integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. Clover POS for a single merchant: sales, inventory, orders, customers (reads + safe writes).

What you get

MCP server for the Clover POS REST API — gives AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc.) read and safe-write access to a Clover merchant's sales, inventory, orders, and customers.

What the assistant can call

Once Clover POS is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:

  • get_sales_summary — read
  • get_top_items — read
  • whoami — read
  • apply_order_discount — write

Setting it up

Being a remote server, there is no local install. You register the endpoint with your client, authorise it once, and the tools appear.

Configuration and credentials

You will need 8 environment variables: CLOVER_MERCHANT_ID, CLOVER_ACCESS_TOKEN, CLOVER_REGION, OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT, OTEL_SERVICE_NAME, CLOVER_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID, CLOVER_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET, CLOVER_REFRESH_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

Choosing this one

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Clover POS's toolset — get_sales_summary, get_top_items, whoami and 1 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by SBolivarLoL; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the clover pos mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
get_sales_summaryread
get_top_itemsread
whoamiread
apply_order_discountwrite

How to install the Clover POS MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clover": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["clover-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CLOVER_MERCHANT_ID": "your_merchant_id",
        "CLOVER_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your_token",
        "CLOVER_REGION": "na"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
CLOVER_MERCHANT_IDConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
CLOVER_ACCESS_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
CLOVER_REGIONConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINTConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
OTEL_SERVICE_NAMEConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
CLOVER_OAUTH_CLIENT_IDConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
CLOVER_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRETCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
CLOVER_REFRESH_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Clover POS to get sales summary.
  • Use Clover POS to get top items.
  • Use Clover POS to whoami.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Clover POS to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 4 tools (get_sales_summary, get_top_items, whoami, and more) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Clover POS directly.