Order Custom Printing with Your AI Assistant
Prefer to let ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or your AI agent handle the paperwork? The Office Annex is built for agentic ordering. Your assistant configures every print option, sets your custom template text or 300 DPI artwork, pulls live carrier shipping rates, and hands you a private /pay/{orderId} checkout link — so you never type a credit card number into a chat window.
How AI-Assisted Ordering Works
Four simple steps from prompt to press — with human confirmation and delegated payment built in.
Copy & Paste a Prompt
Pick one of the two copy-paste prompts below, drop it into ChatGPT, Claude, or your MCP agent, and fill in the bracketed [YOUR INFO] placeholders.
Live Spec & Shipping Lookup
Your AI assistant connects to our live catalog (/api/mcp) to verify sizes, paper stock, coating, template text or 300 DPI artwork, and live USPS/UPS/FedEx shipping for your ZIP code.
You Confirm the Details
Your assistant shows you the complete order summary — quantity tier, options, proof text or artwork URLs, 3–5 day production turnaround, and exact total — and waits for your go-ahead.
Pay via Your Personal Link
Your assistant returns a secure theofficeannex.com/pay/{orderId} link. Click to pay directly with Card, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, or Venmo.
Zero-Trust Payment Security: The Office Annex uses delegated human-in-the-loop payment links (/pay/{orderId}). Never paste credit card numbers, CVV codes, or banking credentials into an AI chat window.
Copy-Paste Prompts for Your AI Assistant
Click Copy Prompt on either template below, paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or your MCP agent, and replace the bracketed [...] fields with your info.
Order Your First 100 FREE $100 Drop Cards (Just Pay Live Shipping)
Uses our built-in $100 bill drop card template (slug: 100-drop-cards). No artwork upload required — just tell your AI assistant what Website URL or headline to print inside.
Order Custom 3.5" × 2" Business Cards (Upload 300 DPI Artwork or Design Your Own)
Works for both Upload-Your-Own print-ready artwork (slug: standard-bc) and Design-Your-Own template personalization (slug: standard-business-cards-design-your-own) on 14pt or 16pt cardstock.
Production, Guarantee & Promotional Terms
Every order placed through an AI assistant is governed by the exact same store policies as orders placed directly on our website:
Standard custom print orders are produced in 3 to 5 business days from proof approval and payment confirmation (2-business-day Rush Processing is available on eligible products, and 1–2 business day Next Day Express on #10 & 6"×9" envelopes). Live carrier shipping (USPS, UPS, FedEx) is calculated at checkout by exact package weight and destination ZIP code.
If your order arrives with a verified manufacturing defect, wrong paper stock, cut error, or carrier transit damage, notify theadmin@theofficeannex.com within 14 calendar days of delivery with photos for a 100% free expedited reprint or full refund ($0 restocking fee, free return shipping). Non-defective custom-printed items are final sale once active press production begins (100% full refund if cancelled before press).
The "100 - $100 Drop Cards (FREE with The Office Annex Tagline)" tier (and matching 100-count FREE tagline tiers on eligible Drop Cards) has a $0.00 product price — you pay only live carrier shipping calculated for your ZIP code. Free promotional tiers include The Office Annex promotional tagline printed on the card, ship flat, are final sale once printed, and are 100% covered by our 14-day print defect and transit damage guarantee.
Machine-Readable Endpoints & Protocol Specs
No API key is required for catalog discovery, live shipping quotes, cart creation, or delegated guest checkout.
https://www.theofficeannex.com/api/mcp
Supports initialize, tools/list, and tools/call (search_products, get_product, get_shipping_quote, create_cart, add_to_cart, get_cart, checkout_guest).
https://www.theofficeannex.com/.well-known/ucp
Machine-readable capability discovery, REST endpoint schemas, payment handler declarations, and fulfillment policies.
https://www.theofficeannex.com/llms.txt
Complete Markdown guide for LLM crawlers and chat assistants. Full product pricing & option matrices available at /llms-full.txt.
https://www.theofficeannex.com/api/catalog
Query GET /api/catalog or GET /api/catalog/{slug} for live quantity tiers, option groups, template fields, and questions_to_ask_customer.
MCP Client Configuration (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Custom Agents)
Add The Office Annex to your MCP client configuration to give your assistant native tool access:
{
"mcpServers": {
"the-office-annex": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://www.theofficeannex.com/api/mcp"
}
}
}Standard 6-Step Agent Ordering Flow
- Discover & Inspect: Call
get_productto inspect sizes, quantity tiers, requiredoptionGroups, andquestions_to_ask_customer. - Confirm with Customer: Ask the human customer for any missing option choices, template text fields, or 300 DPI artwork URLs.
- Quote Live Shipping: Call
get_shipping_quotewith the destination address. - Create Cart & Add Item: Call
create_cartandadd_to_cartwith exact option names and template/artwork data. - Create Order: Call
checkout_guestto lock in the order asPENDING_PAYMENT. - Return Payment Link: Share the
https://www.theofficeannex.com/pay/{orderId}URL with the customer.

