Ship a self‑serve commerce MCP without the sales call: the four anti‑patterns we removed

说明与用途

开发者可以在不需要销售介入的情况下，立即注册并通过 BuyWhere MCP 访问商家数据，享受 1000 次/天的透明免费额度。

问题

Enterprise merchants struggled with opaque, sales‑gated APIs that required manual onboarding, unclear tier limits, and undocumented endpoints, hindering rapid integration.

结果

Developers can register and access real merchant data in under a minute, with 386M products and 895K merchants across SG/MY/PH/AU, and a generous free tier of 1,000 requests/day.

工作流

• 1. Send POST to https://api.buywhere.ai/v1/auth/register to receive an api_key.
• 2. Use the key in the 401 body or in the config to authenticate subsequent requests.
• 3. Call GET https://api.buywhere.ai/mcp to discover tools (search_catalog, lookup_merchant, normalize_product).
• 4. Integrate the MCP tools into your application or Claude Desktop via the provided JSON snippet.

证据

First 1,000 requests/day are free; above that, transparent per‑tier pricing — no opaque 401s.

来源

We register programmatically; the key is live in the response.

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