Monetise your Model Context Protocol (MCP) app
Learn how to add a checkout flow to your MCP app.
Use MCP apps to expose new capabilities and workflows directly in MCP hosts such as ChatGPT and Claude. Let customers book hotels, order groceries, buy clothes, or complete business workflows without leaving chat. Add a checkout flow to accept payments for one-time purchases, subscriptions, tips, and donations.
Monetisation options
- Redirect: Redirect customers to a prebuilt checkout page in a new browser tab to complete checkout.
- Instant Checkout: Integrate ChatGPT Instant Checkout with Stripe to allow customers to complete checkout without leaving ChatGPT.
Compare features and availability
| REDIRECT | INSTANT CHECKOUT | |
|---|---|---|
| Integration effort | ||
| Recommended when | Use a prebuilt, customisable form to collect payments, and you’re comfortable with customers opening a new tab to pay. Offer promo codes, collect tax, localise prices, and create subscriptions with little to no additional code. Suited to common use cases. | Keep customers in the same chat and control the checkout flow. You have resources to build and maintain a custom integration. Suited to complex flows with custom business logic. |
| UI components | Integrated | Custom |
| Availability | Publicly available | Open AI private beta |
| PCI compliance | ||
| Payment methods | Dynamically display over 40 payment methods, and manage them in the Dashboard without code. | Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Link |
| Save payment methods for future use | ||
| 3DS | ||
| Subscriptions | ||
| Free trials | Integrated | Requires API integration |
| Promo codes & discounts | Integrated | Requires API integration |
| Tax | Integrated | Requires API integration |
| Upsells and cross-sells | Integrated | Requires API integration |
| Upsells and cross-sells | Integrated | Requires API integration |