Xentral and AI: Is there an MCP server for Xentral?

Xentral is an ERP system from Augsburg for retail. If you want an AI assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT to work with the ERP data, the first question is: is there an MCP server for it?

In short

Yes. Xentral offers an official MCP server, at its own address for each instance. According to Xentral, it is in open beta and offers read-only ERP tools. According to the help article, writing records is not yet available. Xentral’s pages differ on the plan: the pricing page names Business and higher, the marketplace listings name all plans.

What Xentral offers itself

The MCP server. According to the help article, you connect ChatGPT, Claude Desktop or Claude Code to Xentral through the address https://<your-instance>.xentral.biz/mcp. On first connection, a sign-in dialog for the Xentral account opens. According to Xentral, access follows the permissions defined in Xentral. The product page names an open beta. The Agent Hub webinar says the MCP server has been usable for all Xentral customers since July 2026. It says “beta” is a legal notice and not an access restriction, and that the server has been enabled without a waiting list since July 15, 2026. The help article carries no beta label. According to the lexicon, access needs a Xentral account with administrator rights. Otherwise, views such as addresses, orders, delivery notes and products, plus the Analytics Platform, must be assigned.

Tools. According to the help article, there are two kinds: read-only ERP tools, for example for customers, orders, products, invoices, delivery notes and returns including analyses, and tools for the Agent Hub, for example to view the tasks of the AI agents, manage agents or maintain the knowledge base. “Create and update records” and “Set up automations” are marked in the article as “(not yet available)”. The product page says instead that during the beta, depending on function and permission, actions can be prepared or triggered. According to the lexicon, write access needs access to the Agent Hub. The pricing page says: through the MCP server the AI reads data, and writing in Xentral needs the Hub. We found no complete tool list.

Clients. According to the help article, the server supports Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT (Plus, Pro or Business) and Codex. In ChatGPT, the connection runs as a plugin and needs developer mode. According to Xentral, whether you can turn it on depends on the ChatGPT plan and the workspace settings. For Claude, the marketplace listing names a Claude subscription (Pro, Team or Enterprise). The listing for ChatGPT names a Plus, Pro or Business subscription.

Plans and costs. The pricing page lists the MCP server in the Business plan card under “Alles aus Starter und” (everything from Starter, and). Both comparison tables on the page show it for Business, Pro and Scale, not for Launch and Starter. The marketplace listings call the connection free and included in the Xentral plan, and list all five plans under “In welchen Xentral Plänen ist die Lösung verfügbar?” (in which Xentral plans is the solution available). According to the product page, there are no base costs during the open beta, and usage-based costs after it. According to the marketplace listings for Claude and ChatGPT, Xentral bills by usage from 2027. For the AI in Xentral, the pricing page names no cost until 12/31/2026 and credits by usage after that. According to the pricing page, there is no mandatory AI subscription.

The agent library. On GitHub, Xentral publishes xentral/agent-library, a plugin for Claude Code with a Xentral connector and skills for templates, workflows and dashboards. According to the README, sign-in runs in the browser with the Xentral account.

A REST API. Xentral’s developer portal documents the Xentral API with an OpenAPI specification. According to Xentral, the older Standard API and the V1 REST API are in maintenance only and get no new features.

AI in the product. According to the help, Xentral offers an AI chat (Co-Pilot), email agents for customer inquiries, custom agents and a knowledge base. According to Xentral, the agents carry out actions in Xentral, for example creating an order or sending a reply, only after your approval. According to the product page, Xentral does not use customer content processed in the AI agent to train AI models, under the Xentral AI Agent Beta Terms. For external AI applications that you connect, their terms apply.

Data location. According to Xentral, the cloud servers, except the US instances, are in Frankfurt am Main (help, AWS). The pricing page says, without that exception, that the data is in the AWS cloud in Frankfurt. According to the FAQ, all infrastructure and the AI infrastructure run on European servers. The same FAQ names models from Anthropic, Google and OpenAI for Xentral’s own AI, without naming the processing location. We found no description of how a US instance differs from an EU instance or where the MCP server runs. According to the product page, the data needed for a query leaves Xentral and goes to the connected AI application. Where it goes depends on that application.

What the community and third parties offer

There are servers that do not come from Xentral. kochfreiburg/xentral-mcp-server is licensed AGPL-3.0. According to its README, it offers seven read-only tools, runs on the AnythingMCP platform, uses the V1 REST API with user name and password, and is not yet verified against a live system. mjmirza/xentral-mcp works with a personal access token and is unofficial according to its README. According to the README, individuals may test it for free, and businesses need the author’s approval. The repository is archived. According to its README, matthiashuebner/xentral-mcp offers 339 tools for the documented endpoints of the Xentral API. We found no licence file there. The providers AnythingMCP (cloud with a 7-day trial) and innFactory AI describe connections as a service. Their pages do not prove what the servers may do in Xentral.

What this means for your company

• According to the pricing page, the MCP server belongs to Business, Pro and Scale. Ask Xentral whether your plan includes it. The marketplace listings say something else.
• Access follows the permissions of the signed-in Xentral user. Review roles before you release the server.
• An open beta can change. Xentral recommends testing new use cases in a test environment first.
• What reaches the AI assistant falls under its terms, no longer under Xentral’s.