You already built the site with AI. Add the store, don't rebuild it.

Search for "AI store builder" and you get tools that generate a complete Shopify-style store from a prompt, mostly aimed at dropshipping. If your site already exists, that is the wrong tool: it gives you a second site. What you want is the store part, added to the site you have.

What AI store builders do

They take a niche and a prompt and produce a storefront with theme, pages, sample products and a connected platform (often Shopify). Useful if you are starting from zero and want a store as the whole business.

What you probably need instead

You prompted a site into existence in Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Cursor. It looks like you. You want to sell your things on it. You need products, a cart and a checkout, placed into that site, and preferably installed by the same AI that built it.

Adding the store with a prompt

That is the whole install with AddTheShop:

> Add the shop from addtheshop.com to this site. Read https://addtheshop.com/docs/agent.md first. My store key is pk_ats_YOUR_STORE_KEY.

Then connect Stripe and add products, in the dashboard or by telling your AI through our MCP server.

Cost comparison

AI store builders usually put you on a platform with a monthly fee from day one. AddTheShop has no monthly fee and takes 2% per sale, so a shop with three products costs nothing until it sells.

When a builder is right

No site yet, a dropshipping catalogue of hundreds of items, or a plan to live in a platform admin. Then build the store. Otherwise, add the shop.