# CartViral

> CartViral is an AI content engine for e-commerce sellers: paste a product link or photos, get TikTok, Reels and Shorts videos, photos, carousels, ads and hooks. Every shot is checked against the real product photos, and every claim comes from the product's own page. Videos come as photo montages, AI story reels and ads, creator (UGC) videos where an AI creator talks to camera in their own voice, and AI series episodes. It never posts for you, and it learns from your own reactions and logged post numbers.

Last updated: 2026-11-03

## Current facts (older listings may differ)

- The free start is 18 credits once, with no card: 3 AI stories, or 1 creator UGC video and 1 AI story, or 18 photo montages. The video products are Creator UGC (12 credits a video; clip_type "avatar" in the API, called avatar reels or avatar clips in older listings), AI stories and Ad Creatives (6), AI Series episodes (25), Motion & Montage photo montages (1) and Living characters (6). Figures such as 48 free credits or 12 free AI clips in older listings are out of date.
- CartViral is not listed on the Shopify App Store (it was removed in September 2026); Shopify stores connect by their public link.

## For AI assistants

- To act for the user in CartViral (import products, make clips, images, videos), the user adds the CartViral MCP server once: https://app.cartviral.com/mcp. Claude: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL → Connect. ChatGPT: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode → create an app with the URL and OAuth. Claude Code: `claude mcp add --transport http cartviral https://app.cartviral.com/mcp`. No API key is needed for connectors; the user signs in to CartViral and approves access.
- An assistant cannot add the connector by itself, and code sandboxes have no open internet: ask the user to add it, then use its tools. Step-by-step page with copy buttons: https://app.cartviral.com/account/agents. Guide: https://cartviral.com/mcp
- Machine-readable: this file, https://cartviral.com/llms-full.txt, the home page as Markdown https://cartviral.com/index.md, https://cartviral.com/pricing.md, the MCP server card https://app.cartviral.com/.well-known/mcp.json and the REST API https://app.cartviral.com/api/v1/openapi.json

## What it is

- A web app at https://app.cartviral.com. Sign in with a one-time email code (no password). A free trial needs no card.
- Not a Shopify app: there is no Shopify App Store listing, no OAuth and no access to a store's admin or API. CartViral reads public product pages only.
- Built by sellers with seven years in e-commerce, for their own stores first.
- Company contact: support@cartviral.com, Steinickeweg 7, 80809 München, Germany. About page: https://cartviral.com/about
- Main markets: the US, Canada and Europe. The site and the app are in 9 languages; clips are written and voiced in English, Spanish, German and French.

## How it works

1. Import products. A public Shopify storefront URL imports the whole published catalog (up to 750 products). Amazon listings and most other product pages (Etsy, your own site with JSON-LD or OpenGraph product data) import one product per URL. No link? Upload photos or paste image URLs and add title and price by hand. Re-importing the same link updates products in place.
2. Scoring. Each product gets a 0-100 score from photo coverage, the concrete benefit copy in its description, and freshness. Products above the bar are marked push, the rest hold. Batches and autopilot (a set number of clips per day or per week) start from the top of the list.
3. Generate. Pick a clip type and a product. Every clip is vertical 9:16 with captions and a voice (a voiceover, or in creator clips the creator's own voice, spoken in the video itself); hooks and on-screen benefits come from the merchant's own product copy, never invented claims. A montage renders in a few minutes, an AI clip in 10-15.
4. Post. Nothing is auto-posted and CartViral never logs in to social accounts. Each clip downloads as a pack: the video, a caption for TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, hashtags and a UTM link. The merchant posts it, then can mark it as posted and log its numbers.
5. Learn. The Signal Room turns likes, dislikes and logged post numbers (views, likes, comments, shares, watch time) into findings about hooks, story structures and clip styles, and the next wave leans on what won. A finding needs at least 5 reactions or tracked posts; about 20% of new clips keep testing alternatives. CartViral does not read sales or orders from any store.

## Clip types and credit cost

- Photo montage: 1 credit. A fast cut from product photos with hooks, captions and voiceover.
- AI story reel: 6 credits. AI scenes animated from the product photo: hook, story arc, native captions.
- Creator (UGC) clip: 12 credits. An AI creator says every word on camera in their own voice and shows the product: one person and one voice through the clip, captions timed to the spoken words.
- AI series episode: 25 credits. A longer AI story with a plot and a cliffhanger.

## Other products and credit cost

- Marketplace export: 1 credit. Any finished clip re-cut for Amazon (16:9), Etsy (15 s, silent), a Shopify product page loop or eBay.
- Photo sets, 4 photos each: model photoshoot 9 credits, product photos 8 credits, infographics 7 credits.
- Try-on: 13 credits a set. A garment from one flat-lay, hanger or mannequin photo on 3 body types (petite, plus-size, athletic), each in a studio shot and a shot in motion: 6 photos, each marked as an AI visual by default (EU AI Act).
- Result languages: clips are written and voiced natively in English, Spanish, German or French; photos, ads, carousels and texts also in Brazilian Portuguese; Russian for sellers using the Russian interface.
- Listing copy and SEO: 1 credit a set (title, bullets, description, tags, FAQ schema). Ad copy, social captions, a creator brief and a 30-day content plan: 1 credit each.
- Social carousels: 3 credits a set. Swipe-through story posts for Instagram (4:5) and TikTok photo mode (9:16) in the brand's colors and fonts.
- Static ads: 4 credits a set. Banners for Meta and TikTok in 6 layouts (offer, us vs them, benefits, problem and solution, sticky note, feature close-up), each in 1:1, 4:5 and 9:16.

## Pricing (USD, launch bonus included)

Plans are billed yearly by default (2 months free versus monthly, a 17% saving) or monthly at a higher rate. Credits arrive every 30 days either way.

- Trial: $0, no card. 18 credits one time = 3 AI story clips, or 1 creator clip and 1 AI story clip, or 18 montages, or any mix (creator clips included).
- Starter: $49/mo billed yearly ($588 total) or $59/mo billed monthly, 240 credits (base 200), about 40 AI story clips or 20 creator clips.
- Growth: $129/mo billed yearly ($1,548 total) or $155/mo billed monthly, 860 credits (base 650), about 143 AI story clips or 71 creator clips; 26% cheaper per clip than Starter.
- Scale: $290/mo billed yearly ($3,480 total) or $349/mo billed monthly, 2,320 credits (base 1,600), about 386 AI story clips or 193 creator clips; 39% cheaper per clip than Starter.
- AI clips rendering at the same time: Starter 3, Growth 5, Scale 8.
- Top-ups: 60 credits $16, 120 credits $29, 300 credits $65, 800 credits $155. Top-up credits never expire; plan credits reset every 30 days.
- Every plan, trial included, gets all four clip types, product scoring, the Signal Room and download packs. Autopilot (clips on a schedule, per format, per day or week) comes with Growth and Scale. Stores per account: 1 on Trial and Starter, up to 3 on Growth, up to 10 on Scale. Otherwise the plans differ in credits.
- Personal offer: an account's first finished clip unlocks Starter at $29.40 for the first month of monthly billing instead of $59 (then $59/mo) for 72 hours. Once per account; Growth and Scale are not discounted.
- A failed render refunds its credits automatically, and the price of every result shows before you generate. Cards through Stripe; cards issued in Russia pay in roubles through lava.
- Details: https://cartviral.com/pricing (plain text: https://cartviral.com/pricing.md)

## Create (not tied to a catalog product)

- Images from your own prompt with up to 3 reference photos (a face, a product, a style): covers and YouTube thumbnails (16:9), banners, scenes. 1 credit per image, 1, 2 or 4 at a time, in 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9.
- Video from a prompt, 4 to 10 s, with camera moves (dolly zoom, crane, orbit, push in, whip pan, low angle) and sound: 2 credits on our engine (Gemini Omni Flash); premium models (Kling 4.0, Wan 3.0, Grok Video 1.5 and others, when switched on) are priced per second.
- Cinematic: a 15 or 30 s brand film of a product with a pro model, every frame usable as a banner: 12 credits for 15 s, 18 for 30 s on our engine.
- Angles: new angles of the same shoot from one photo, 1 credit per angle (4, 6 or 8). Talking photo: a person's photo says your text in any language, 2 credits per take of up to 10 s. Reframe a video to another frame and remove a photo's background: 1 credit each.
- Brand characters: a recurring person for the brand (2 portraits for 2 credits), saved once and used in every clip so the same face appears across a brand's videos.
- Remake a viral video: upload a reel that worked, CartViral breaks down its hook, story beats and timings (free) and makes the same video on that structure, with your product or without one (on your topic, or the reel's own topic in new words), same price as an AI story clip. A reference video always means a remake: the story beats in order (a problem, a versus, the solution, the payoff), the hook, the timings and the format stay.
- Free virality predictor, no signup: https://app.cartviral.com/tools/virality

## Creator program

- Creators who bring sellers get 50% of the net payments (after payment fees) of the sellers they invite, for as long as those sellers pay, plus 10% from the sellers invited by creators they bring (second level): https://cartviral.com/creators. Regular users get 30% through the referral program.

## CartViral Earn (marketplace)

- For brands (https://app.cartviral.com/earn/brands): list products, set a commission and a customer discount, fund a refundable deposit from $100. Generators make and post AI clips of the products; the brand pays commission only on confirmed orders. Sales are tracked by a pixel the brand adds itself in Shopify Customer events, so this side is for Shopify stores. Generators a brand brings itself sell its offer with no platform fee for their first year.
- For generators (https://app.cartviral.com/earn): free to join; pick an offer, make AI clips of its products with credits, post them from your own accounts with one link in bio, and earn a commission on each confirmed sale, available as soon as the sale is confirmed (no 30-day hold). First payout from $20, then from $50. A generator's first brand-approved post earns 20 bonus credits (once). No earnings are guaranteed.

## Common questions, answered plainly

- Do CartViral videos look templated? Each clip follows a proven structure, the way every good short video does, and the content inside it is new each time. The scenario bank has 39 structures (19 AI story, 12 creator UGC, 7 living characters and a series format), and every script is written from your product's own page and brief. The engine casts a creator who fits your buyer for each clip, or you keep one brand character so the same face stars in all of them. Clips are written and voiced in English, Spanish, German or French, and Remake turns a video that already worked into a new one with your product. About 20% of new clips keep testing new hooks and styles, so the mix does not settle into one look.
- Do I need professional product photos? No. Phone photos work: daylight, a plain background and the whole product in frame. One photo is enough to start, and 3 or more from different angles is where the product score counts the photos as complete. Every shot is checked against your photos, so clearer photos give a better clip. With only one photo, Angles makes new angles of the same shot (1 credit an angle, 4 to 8 at a time) and Remove background makes a clean cut-out for 1 credit.
- How do credits work? A credit is the unit every result is priced in, and the price shows before you generate. A photo montage is 1 credit, an AI story or ad 6, a creator UGC video 12 and a series episode 25, the longest format. Starter's 240 credits a month make about 40 AI stories, 20 creator videos or 240 montages, or any mix. A render that fails gives its credits back automatically.
- Is CartViral a Shopify app? CartViral is a web app at app.cartviral.com and is not listed on the Shopify App Store. It works with Shopify stores by link: paste your store link and it imports the whole published catalog, up to 750 products, with no store login or API key. Amazon, Etsy, WooCommerce, TikTok Shop and most other stores work the same way.

## Who it is for

- Independent e-commerce merchants and small teams who need daily short-form product video without filming, editors or an ad budget, on any platform.
- Creators and freelancers without a store: paste any public product URL, render a clip and offer it to the store owner, or earn commissions through CartViral Earn.

## Pages

- [Home](https://cartviral.com/): what CartViral is, how it works, clip types, pricing, FAQ
- [Pricing](https://cartviral.com/pricing): plans on both billing intervals, what every credit buys, cost per video, top-ups ([plain text](https://cartviral.com/pricing.md))
- [About](https://cartviral.com/about): what CartViral is and does not do, how it works, company contact
- [Creator UGC](https://cartviral.com/products/creator-ugc): AI UGC videos where an AI creator talks about the product, 12 creator scenarios, 12 credits a video
- [Home page as Markdown](https://cartviral.com/index.md): the home page for agents, with its FAQ
- [Web app sign-in](https://app.cartviral.com/web/login): start the free trial
- [Earn for brands](https://app.cartviral.com/earn/brands): commission-only affiliate marketplace for Shopify brands
- [Earn for generators](https://app.cartviral.com/earn): post AI clips of brands' products for a commission
- [All guides](https://cartviral.com/guides): comparisons, pricing breakdowns, how-tos and creator guides
- [Academy](https://cartviral.com/academy): free lessons, scenario bank, prompt bank, hook library and tools for product videos
- [Which product for which goal](https://cartviral.com/academy/which-product): a goal-by-goal guide to every CartViral product (creator UGC, ad creatives, product stories, AI series, montage, marketplace export, photo sets, listing copy, ad copy, creator briefs, social carousels, static ads) with prices per result
- [Carousels that get saved and sell](https://cartviral.com/academy/carousels-that-sell): How to post product carousels on Instagram and TikTok photo mode in 2026: add music, a first-slide hook, 3 to 5 hashtags, a keyword-first caption, native product tags and the first-hour routine.
- [Listing photos and infographics that convert](https://cartviral.com/academy/listing-photos-that-convert): Amazon main image rules, Etsy and Shopify photo specs, the gallery order that sells, model photos for apparel, one-feature infographics and how to test images with Manage Your Experiments.
- [Testing static ads on Meta and TikTok](https://cartviral.com/academy/static-ads-testing): A practical creative testing routine for static image ads: one angle at a time, 2 to 5 variants, Meta's Creative Testing tool, sizes and safe zones, when to kill or scale, weekly refresh and compliance.
- [Listing copy and SEO for Amazon, Etsy and Shopify](https://cartviral.com/academy/listing-copy-seo): Amazon's shorter titles and Item Highlights, bullets and backend search terms, Etsy's 13 tags, Shopify title tags and meta descriptions, and product data for AI shopping answers.
- [Ad copy and captions that get read](https://cartviral.com/academy/ad-copy-and-captions): Fit the hook into Meta's first 125 characters, size headlines per placement, test one element at a time week by week, and write keyword-first captions that TikTok and Instagram search can find.
- [Creator briefs and a 30-day content plan](https://cartviral.com/academy/creator-brief-and-content-plan): What a good UGC creator brief contains, typical 2026 rates, feedback in 24 hours with up to 3 changes, usage rights, and how to turn 4 to 6 shoots into 20 to 30 posts a month.
- [Video for Amazon, Etsy, Shopify and eBay listings](https://cartviral.com/academy/marketplace-video-slots): Where each marketplace shows listing video, the specs that get it accepted (Etsy 5 to 15 s, eBay one MP4 up to 150 MB, Shopify up to 10 minutes) and the mistakes that get it rejected.
- [Earn with carousels and photo posts (creators)](https://cartviral.com/academy/earn-with-photo-posts): How affiliate creators turn carousels and photo posts into commission: TikTok Shop posting caps, daily volume, disclosure that meets FTC rules, branded content toggles and account rules that avoid bans.
- [Scenario bank](https://cartviral.com/academy/scenarios): 39 short-form product video structures from the CartViral engine with beat timing, hooks, shots and mistakes to avoid (creator UGC, AI story, AI series, living characters)
- [Prompt bank](https://cartviral.com/academy/prompts): 32 copy-ready prompts for AI product videos and photos (Veo, Kling, Seedance, Nano Banana) that keep the product exactly as photographed
- [Integrations](https://cartviral.com/integrations): import products by link from Shopify (whole catalog, up to 750), WooCommerce (whole catalog, up to 300), Amazon, TikTok Shop and most stores, or by CSV (Etsy listings export works)
- [Community](https://cartviral.com/community): clips made with CartViral, Earn, referral, contact on Telegram
- [Help center](https://cartviral.com/help): getting started, credits and plans, formats, refunds, Earn
- [Referral program](https://cartviral.com/referral): 30% of referred stores' payments for as long as they stay, plus 30% of our platform fee on every sale made by generators you invite (out of our fee, not their commission) One-time $300 when a brand you brought passes $25,000 in sales.
- [Privacy policy](https://app.cartviral.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://app.cartviral.com/terms)

## MCP server (for AI agents)

- Endpoint: https://app.cartviral.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, MCP 2025-11-25 down to 2024-11-05). Auth: OAuth 2.1 with PKCE, dynamic client registration or a Client ID Metadata Document (add it as a custom connector in Claude or ChatGPT and approve access), or `Authorization: Bearer <API key>` with keys at https://app.cartviral.com/account/agents. Server card: https://app.cartviral.com/.well-known/mcp.json. Official MCP Registry name: com.cartviral/cartviral. First agent connection to an account after its first purchase: 20 bonus credits (once).
- Every product of the cabinet works through it. Products: get_account, import_products, list_products, generate_clips (montage 1 credit, AI story 6, creator clip 12: clip_type "avatar"; optional exact format id and character_id), list_clips (download links), remake_from_reference (a reference video's structure and story, with your product or without one: product_id optional, optional topic and character_id), generate_photos and list_photo_sets, generate_carousel and list_carousels, generate_static_ads and list_static_ads, get_listing_copy and get_copy, list_offers, join_offer, bring_a_brand, list_pitches.
- Create, not tied to a product: create_image (own prompt plus up to 3 reference photos), create_video, make_cinematic, make_angles, make_talking_photo, reframe_video, remove_background, copy_motion, breakdown_video, then list_creations for result links; get_create_options lists models and prices; upload_media stores a file. Image and video arguments take any public https file link.
- Brand characters: create_character, save_character, list_characters.
- Setup for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop: https://cartviral.com/mcp

## Guides

- How CartViral works, from the founder (YouTube, 38 min): the whole model - who pays, where the money comes from, how generators and brands earn: https://youtu.be/GQaGYP3maqE
- The Faceless Product Video Playbook (free, 2026): how to post AI product videos that sell without showing your face - account setup for the buyer's country, TikTok warm-up, posting rhythm, unique clips, post anatomy, ad and AI labels, what gets accounts banned, views-to-commission scenarios, 12 myths, sources. Web: https://cartviral.com/playbook · PDF: https://cartviral.com/playbook.pdf
- Best AI product video generators for Shopify (2026), 7 tools compared with prices: https://cartviral.com/best-ai-product-video-generators-shopify
- Creatify alternatives for e-commerce: https://cartviral.com/creatify-alternatives
- Arcads pricing (no public price list; credits per video; trial terms): https://cartviral.com/arcads-pricing
- Creatify pricing explained (plans, credits, cost per 15s and 30s video): https://cartviral.com/creatify-pricing
- Creatify vs Arcads for product videos: https://cartviral.com/creatify-vs-arcads
- Higgsfield alternatives for e-commerce product videos: https://cartviral.com/higgsfield-alternatives
- Content Rewards alternative for e-commerce (pay per sale, not per view): https://cartviral.com/content-rewards-alternative
- Trybe alternatives (2026): Trybe (creator videos run as the brand's Meta ads, fee at most 1.5%) vs CartViral Earn, TikTok Shop affiliate and per-view clipping, with a side-by-side table: https://cartviral.com/trybe-alternatives
- Topview alternatives (2026): Topview Basic is $18/mo billed annually for 50 credits (about 33 s of Seedance 2.5 720p a month), compared with CartViral, Creatify, Pippit, Revid, Higgsfield and Arcads: https://cartviral.com/topview-alternatives
- Revid AI alternatives (2026): Revid Growth is $39/mo for 2,000 AI credits; alternatives for product videos and for faceless creators who want to be paid per sale: https://cartviral.com/revid-alternatives
- Faceless product video niches ranked (2026): seven niches by the share of formats you can make from product photos or AI without filming, with the median affiliate commission and number of brand programs per niche: https://cartviral.com/faceless-product-videos
- How to turn a Shopify product link into TikTok videos with AI: https://cartviral.com/shopify-product-link-to-tiktok-video
- How to make product videos from photos, with official video specs for Etsy, Shopify, TikTok Shop, eBay, Amazon, TikTok, Reels and Shorts: https://cartviral.com/product-videos-from-photos
- Etsy listing videos (3-15 s, up to 2, 100 MB, no sound): https://cartviral.com/etsy-product-videos
- Adding a product video to a Shopify product page (specs, placement): https://cartviral.com/shopify-product-page-video
- TikTok Shop product videos: listing specs and AI rules: https://cartviral.com/tiktok-shop-product-videos
- How to earn with AI product videos (pay per sale): https://cartviral.com/earn-with-ai-product-videos
- Connect CartViral to Claude, Codex and Cursor (MCP): https://cartviral.com/mcp
- AI video tool affiliate programs compared (commission, duration, cookie, rules; checked 24 Sep 2026): https://cartviral.com/ai-video-affiliate-programs
- Faceless affiliate marketing with AI product videos: TikTok Shop AI rules vs brand programs: https://cartviral.com/faceless-affiliate-marketing-ai-videos
- Clipping jobs: per-view vs per-sale pay, with the math (Content Rewards, Whop Clips, TikTok Shop, CartViral Earn): https://cartviral.com/clipping-jobs-per-view-vs-per-sale
- TikTok Shop affiliate without followers (US rule: 1,000 followers, 18+, ID; 4 ways to start below it): https://cartviral.com/tiktok-shop-affiliate-without-followers
- Get paid to post product videos: per-view campaigns vs per-sale programs, rates from each platform: https://cartviral.com/get-paid-to-post-product-videos
- How to find clipping jobs (campaign boards, Discord, red flags): https://cartviral.com/how-to-find-clipping-jobs
- Faceless product videos by niche: which formats can be made from product photos or AI vs which need real footage (skincare, gadgets, home decor, pets, fitness): https://cartviral.com/faceless-product-videos/skincare

## Contact

- support@cartviral.com

## Affiliate program directory

- 400+ Shopify brand affiliate programs with commission, cookie length and official signup links, checked from each brand's public signup page: https://cartviral.com/affiliate-programs

## Free tools

- Product video score (free, no signup): paste a product link, get a video-readiness score, the formats that work in its niche and 5 hooks: https://app.cartviral.com/tools/video-score
- TikTok hook generator (free, no signup): 10 hooks for any product: https://app.cartviral.com/tools/hook-generator
- TikTok hook analyzer (free, no signup): paste an opening line, get a 0-100 checklist score (length, opening, call to action, specificity, hook pattern), policy warnings and 3 rewrites: https://app.cartviral.com/tools/hook-analyzer
- TikTok / UGC script generator (free, no signup): second-by-second product video script with shots, on-screen text and voiceover: https://app.cartviral.com/tools/script-generator

## REST API

- REST API for the same operations as the MCP server: https://app.cartviral.com/api/v1 (OpenAPI 3.1: https://app.cartviral.com/api/v1/openapi.json). Docs: https://cartviral.com/api

## TikTok playbooks by product category

- Hook templates with first frames, formats, second-by-second structures, what to film and mistakes to avoid, for skincare, fashion, home decor, kitchen, gadgets, pets, fitness and supplements: https://cartviral.com/tiktok-playbooks

## Hook library and video templates

- 89 TikTok hook templates for products, universal and by category, with first frames: https://cartviral.com/tiktok-hooks
- TikTok hooks by niche (skincare, makeup, haircare, fashion, jewelry, gadgets, home decor, kitchen, cleaning, pets, fitness, supplements, food, baby, candles and gifts), grouped by pattern with first frames and why each works: https://cartviral.com/tiktok-hooks/skincare (and /tiktok-hooks/<niche>)
- 11 product video templates with second-by-second beats: https://cartviral.com/video-templates
- Calculators: creator affiliate earnings https://cartviral.com/creator-earnings-calculator ; pay-per-sale vs UGC for brands https://cartviral.com/pay-per-sale-vs-ugc-calculator

## Data

- Shopify affiliate commission benchmarks (400 brand programs, median commission 10%, IQR 10-15%, 30-day cookie standard), by niche, with methodology: https://cartviral.com/shopify-affiliate-commission-benchmarks