Move from Shopify with your AI assistant

If you already use Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, it can do the move for you. Connect it to your Shopify store and to Lanternbee, then ask it to recreate your books. You check each step in the chat, and you can tidy up as you go: fix a blurb, sort books into series, drop an old product.

Two ways to move

• With your AI assistant. Nothing to install in Shopify. Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini reads your Shopify store through Shopify’s own connection and recreates your books, formats, prices, series, descriptions and discount codes in Lanternbee. You check each step in the chat, and covers and files go through upload links. It can’t bring readers, their purchases, past orders or old links. This page shows how.
• With the Lanternbee importer. You approve read-only access in Shopify, and Shopify adds the Lanternbee app to your store so we can read it. You can remove the app from Shopify when the move is done. The importer brings everything at once, readers, purchases, orders, discount codes and old links included, and you check a preview first. See move from Shopify with the importer.

Have readers and past orders you want to keep? Use the importer. Just want your books over, without installing anything in Shopify? Use your assistant.

You can mix them: run the importer, then ask your assistant to tidy up the books it brought over.

What the assistant can copy

• Books and their formats (ebook, audiobook, paperback, hardback)
• Titles, descriptions and prices
• Series and reading order
• Discount codes, if Shopify lets your assistant read them

What it can’t

• Readers, past orders and old links. The assistant can’t add those to Lanternbee. Use the Shopify importer for them. It reads your Shopify store without changing anything there.
• Covers and book files. These don’t travel through the chat. For each one, the assistant gives you an upload link to a Lanternbee page where you drop the file. Shopify doesn’t hold your ebook and audio files anyway, so have them ready on your computer.

Step 1: connect Lanternbee

Follow use Lanternbee with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini. It takes a few minutes. While we review your account, the assistant can already add everything as drafts. Publishing waits until we approve it.

Step 2: connect Shopify

Shopify makes its own connection for Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini. Lanternbee adds nothing to your Shopify store on this route.

1. In your assistant, open the list of connectors (ChatGPT calls them plugins).
2. Look for Shopify, made by Shopify, and connect it.
3. Shopify opens. Sign in, pick your store, check what the assistant may see, and approve. Seeing is enough for the move, so if Shopify offers read-only access, choose it.

Shopify connects one store at a time. To take the assistant’s access away later, remove Shopify from your assistant’s connectors. Shopify’s help explains the details in connecting your Shopify store to AI tools.

Don’t want to connect Shopify? The assistant can still read your public shop pages if it can browse the web. Give it your shop address. That’s enough for titles, descriptions and prices, though it can’t see drafts, hidden products or discount codes.

Step 3: ask

Paste this into a new chat, with your own shop address:

Look at my Shopify store at yourshop.myshopify.com and list every book you find, with its formats, prices and description. Group the books that belong to a series, in reading order. Then add them to my Lanternbee store as drafts, with each series set up. Show me the list before you add anything, and don’t publish anything until I say so. When a book needs a cover or a file, give me the upload link.

The assistant shows you its list first. Fix anything it got wrong, in plain words: “The Salt Roads books are a series, the cookbook isn’t”, or “Leave out the tote bag”. Then say go.

Step 4: files, then publish

1. For each book, open the upload links the assistant gives you and add the cover and the ebook or audio files. See upload your files for the file types.
2. Ask: “What’s missing before my books can go live?”
3. When you’re happy, ask it to publish. It shows what will change and asks you first.

Every change shows in your History as “you, via Claude” (or ChatGPT, or Gemini).

When you’re ready to switch

Shopify keeps selling while you set up. When your Lanternbee store looks right, see after the Shopify import for pointing your shop address at Lanternbee and cancelling the apps you no longer need. If you moved by assistant only, your old Shopify product links don’t open the new book pages yet. Run the importer, or add them yourself under old links.