Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Your Fotify Account

You can connect an AI assistant — like Claude or ChatGPT — directly to your Fotify account. Once connected, you can plan your event by simply chatting with your assistant: "Set up my wedding for September 12th, add my guest list from this spreadsheet, build the day's schedule, seat everyone at tables of ten, and design a romantic invitation in blush tones." The assistant does the clicking; you stay in control of everything that matters.

The connection uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard supported by Claude, ChatGPT and a growing number of AI tools. You authorize the connection once, choose exactly what it's allowed to do, and can disconnect it at any moment.

What a Connected Assistant Can Do

Depending on the permissions you approve, your assistant can:

• Create and manage events — name, date, location, schedule and settings
• Set up the digital invitation — enable RSVP, set the deadline, build the multi-day itinerary and the RSVP form questions (dietary needs, song requests...)
• Manage your guest list — add guests one by one or import up to 100 at once (paste a spreadsheet straight into the chat), update RSVP statuses, and export the full list as a CSV file
• Design your invitation — iterate on drafts with the same engine as the AI Design Studio: templates, colors, sections, AI-generated artwork, and photos imported from a link. The assistant can then send you a shareable preview link to review the design on any device — no dashboard or early-access needed — and, once you approve, publish it to your live invitation.
• Segment guests with tags — create and manage guest tags, tag guests individually or in bulk, and use them everywhere tags work: sub-event access, VIP treatment assignment and registration links
• Manage registration links — create shareable self-registration links with custom codes, auto-applied tags and per-link plus-ones caps, and check each link's view and registration stats
• Plan the seating chart — create tables, see who's seated where, and assign every guest (plus-ones included) to tables and specific seats
• Rebuild your venue's floor plan — paste a photo of the venue map into the chat and the assistant recreates it in the seating chart: tables where they belong plus the stage, dance floor, bar and other fixtures, ready to fine-tune by dragging
• Manage the photo gallery — browse uploads, see stats, approve pending photos when moderation is on, reorder the gallery, organize photos into albums and manage album share links (deleting a photo always requires your confirmation)
• Run multi-part programs — create sub-events (rehearsal dinner, ceremony, brunch...) with their own RSVP rules, capacity and waitlist, control which guests can see each one, and track responses
• Offer VIP perks — set up special treatments (hotel deals, transport credit, discount codes...), assign them to guests and manage redemption code pools
• Manage the gift section — store registries, monetary gift options, charities and the reservable wishlist, plus see who reserved or contributed what
• Customize and schedule emails — edit each email template's subject, message, theme and auto-reminder, send a test to your own inbox, and schedule sends for later
• Handle branding and your custom domain — brand name, colors, share text, text watermark and social links; connect a custom domain (premium events) and walk you through the DNS setup
• Report on your event — how many photos guests have uploaded, who has answered, who's still pending, and email delivery stats
• Send email invitations — only after showing you exactly who will receive them and getting your explicit confirmation
• Share the right links — your invitation link, each guest's personal RSVP link, and the photo upload page your QR code points to

Step 1: Add Fotify as a Connector in Your Assistant

In your AI assistant, look for the connectors or integrations settings (in Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector; in ChatGPT the option lives in its connector settings — the exact menu may vary as these apps evolve).

When asked for the connector or server URL, enter:

https://server.fotify.app/mcp

Your assistant discovers Fotify automatically and starts the connection flow.

Step 2: Approve Access on Fotify

Your browser opens the Fotify dashboard (sign in if you aren't already — same magic link, Google, Microsoft or passkey as always). You'll see a consent screen listing exactly what the assistant is asking to do:

• View / manage your events and invitations
• View / manage your guest lists
• View / edit invitation designs

Click Allow access and you're sent back to your assistant, connected. Prefer to limit what it can do? Some assistants let you request fewer permissions — Fotify only ever grants what was approved on that screen.

Step 3: Start Chatting

That's it — just talk to your assistant about your event:

• "Create a birthday event for March 3rd at our garden and turn on RSVP with a Feb 20 deadline."
• "Here are my 60 guests — add them all." (paste the list)
• "Add a dietary restrictions question to the RSVP form."
• "Design the invitation: elegant, ivory and sage, use the photo at this link as the cover."
• "Create 8 tables of 10 and seat the confirmed guests, families together."
• "Here's a photo of the venue's floor plan — rebuild it in my seating chart." (paste the image)
• "Add a rehearsal dinner on Friday only my 'family' tag can see."
• "Make the invitation email warmer and schedule it for Monday 9am."
• "How many photos did guests upload last night? Approve the pending ones and put the ceremony shots in their own album."
• "Send the invitation email to everyone who hasn't answered."

In Claude you'll also find ready-made prompts (like Plan my event) in the connector's prompt menu to kick things off with a guided flow.

Built-In Guardrails

The connection is designed so an assistant can be genuinely useful without being able to surprise you:

• Designs are drafts first. Design changes go to a draft with full version history — exactly like the AI Design Studio. Your guests see nothing until a version is applied. You can review any draft through the assistant's shareable preview link (or in the dashboard), and applying it to your live invitation always takes your go-ahead.
• Emails require your confirmation. Before any send — immediate or scheduled — the assistant must show you a preview: how many guests will receive the email, who is skipped and why, and your remaining email credits. Only your explicit go-ahead (valid for 10 minutes) lets it send. It can never email guests on its own. Test emails go exclusively to your own inbox.
• Destructive actions are confirmation-gated. Deleting a guest photo, a sub-event, a VIP treatment or a registration link, or disconnecting a custom domain, is refused by the server until the assistant confirms you explicitly agreed.
• Redemption codes stay secret. The assistant can create discount/voucher code pools and see counts, but the code values themselves are never shared with it — you manage those in the dashboard.
• Your login is never shared. The assistant receives a secure, revocable token through the same authorization standard (OAuth) used by major platforms — it never sees your sign-in credentials, and the token only works for what you approved.
• Your quotas still apply. AI image generations, email credits and premium template access work exactly as they do in the dashboard — a connected assistant can't bypass any limit or entitlement.
• Everything is scoped to your account. The assistant can only touch events you own or collaborate on, like the dashboard itself.

Managing and Disconnecting Assistants

Open the user menu in the top-right corner of the dashboard and select AI assistants. You'll see every connected assistant with when it was connected and last used. From there you can:

• Disconnect a single assistant — it's signed out immediately
• Disconnect all — revokes every connection at once

Disconnecting never touches your events or designs; it only removes the assistant's access. You can reconnect any time by repeating the steps above.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Which AI assistants work with Fotify? A: Any assistant that supports remote MCP connectors — including Claude (claude.ai) and ChatGPT. The connector URL is the same for all of them: https://server.fotify.app/mcp.

Q: Can the assistant send emails or publish designs without asking me? A: No. Email sends require a preview plus your explicit confirmation, and design changes stay in drafts until a version is applied. Both safeguards are enforced by Fotify's servers, not just by the assistant's good manners.

Q: Does connecting an assistant cost anything? A: The connection itself is free. Anything the assistant does uses your normal Fotify plan — the same email credits, AI image generation quota and premium template entitlements as the dashboard.

Q: Can the assistant design my invitation, and how do I see it? A: Yes. It uses the same design engine as the AI Design Studio — templates, palettes, sections and AI-generated artwork — and you don't need AI Design Studio access in your dashboard to use it through the assistant. When it has a design ready, it sends you a shareable preview link that opens the invitation read-only on any device (no login). Once you like it, the assistant publishes it to your live invitation on your say-so; nothing goes live before that.

Q: Can the assistant set up my custom domain? A: Yes, on premium events. It connects the domain and gives you the exact CNAME record to create with your domain provider; verification then completes automatically. Removing a connected domain always requires your explicit confirmation, since links on it stop working.

Q: How does rebuilding my venue's floor plan from a photo work? A: Paste the floor-plan image directly into the chat — Claude and ChatGPT can see images natively, so the picture never leaves your conversation. The assistant reads the layout (tables, stage, dance floor, bar...) and recreates it in your seating chart with everything positioned proportionally. You then fine-tune by dragging in the dashboard's venue map.

Q: Can I upload photos through the assistant? A: The assistant can generate AI artwork and import photos from a public link (e.g. a shared album or your website). To upload files from your device, use the Asset Library in the dashboard — everything there is instantly available to the assistant.

Q: Is this safe for my guests' data? A: The assistant only accesses your data with the permissions you approved, over an encrypted connection, and you can revoke access at any time from AI assistants in your account menu.