Fresha API and MCP server: connect Fresha to ChatGPT and Claude

Yes, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI agents can work in your Fresha account. That includes Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw and any MCP client, plus automations in n8n, Make and Zapier. Ask in plain words, and the AI reads your calendar and open slots, books and moves appointments, answers reviews and reports your sales. It shows you what it will do first and sends nothing to other people until you say so.

This repo is the missing piece: 17 Fresha tools for AI assistants and scripts.

What you can ask

Anna Smith emailed asking for a cut and colour with Sam on Friday afternoon. Find her, check the free times for both services and book the first one after my OK.

Sam is sick tomorrow. Block his day and show me which of his clients a colleague can take at the same time.

Yesterday's sales by sale type against the same day last week. Flag refunds over £50.

List the reviews without a reply and draft a short answer to each.

Two ways to get it

	Ready to use, at Cotlet	Run it yourself, this repo
For	salon, spa and wellness business owners	developers
Setup	sign in to Fresha once, about 5 minutes, nothing to install	Python and a terminal
Works in	ChatGPT and Claude apps, on your phone too, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, any MCP client, n8n, Make, Zapier, REST API	Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex on your computer
Runs	24/7, your computer can be off	while your computer is on
Price	7 days free, no card	free

Start free at cotlet.dev →

Run it yourself

A Fresha API and a Fresha MCP server you run on your own computer, in Python, on the session of your own Google Chrome. All 17 Fresha tools we run in production at Cotlet: appointments, free slots, booking, rescheduling and cancelling, blocked time, clients and client notes, services and team, the Sales summary and Sales list reports, and reviews with replies.

Fresha has no public API and no official MCP server. Its only data connection is the paid Data Connector add-on, which copies your data out to a Snowflake database and cannot book anything. This repo gives you:

• MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex and any MCP client, over stdio or HTTP. Setup
• REST API on http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha, with OpenAPI docs at /docs. Setup
• Python: call("list_appointments", {"from": "2026-10-27", "to": "2026-10-27"}), plus 9 ready scripts in examples/.

Free for your own use, your own business included (license).

uv tool install fresha-api-mcp                  # or: pip install fresha-api-mcp
fresha-mcp connect                                 # reads your Fresha session from Chrome
fresha-mcp call list_services
claude mcp add fresha -- uvx fresha-api-mcp mcp

Contents

• Questions from Fresha users
• How it works
• Requirements
• Install
• Connect your Chrome
• MCP server
• REST API
• Python and the example scripts
• All 17 tools
• Configuration
• Security and your Fresha account
• Errors
• Self-hosted or hosted
• FAQ
• License

Questions from Fresha users

Does Fresha have an API?
No public one. Fresha publishes no API and no developer docs (checked 11 Oct 2026). Its Data Connector add-on, paid per location, syncs your data out to reporting tools through a Snowflake connection, and it cannot book, move or cancel appointments. This repo and Cotlet give you 17 Fresha tools as a REST API and an MCP server.

Can I get a Fresha API key?
Not from Fresha for your own account. With Cotlet you get your own API key that works with your Fresha account, for scripts, n8n, Make, Zapier or any HTTP client. This repo needs no key: it runs on your computer, on your own Fresha session.

Is there an official ChatGPT integration for Fresha?
Fresha's ChatGPT and Claude apps are for clients: they find salons and book open slots. They do not run your business. Cotlet connects your Fresha partner account to ChatGPT, Claude and other AI agents: your calendar, clients, team and sales.

How do I connect Fresha to ChatGPT?
Sign up at cotlet.dev, sign in to Fresha once in your Cloud Browser there, and add Cotlet to ChatGPT, following the steps in your account. Then ask ChatGPT about your Fresha like you would ask an assistant. ChatGPT needs a server on the internet, so this repo alone, running on your computer, does not connect to ChatGPT.

Can ChatGPT manage my Fresha calendar?
Yes, with Cotlet. It lists the day's appointments and gaps, finds open slots, books and moves appointments and blocks time. It shows you each change first.

Fresha has an AI receptionist. What does this add?
Fresha's AI answers your clients. With Cotlet, your own AI works for you in the back office: the calendar, clients, team and sales reports.

Can I automate Fresha with Zapier, Make or n8n?
Fresha has no Zapier or Make app. With Cotlet, n8n, Make and Zapier can read and book appointments and add clients, for example from a web form.

Can I use it from my phone?
Yes, with Cotlet: once it is set up, the ChatGPT and Claude apps on your phone can use Fresha for you.

Do I need to be technical?
For Cotlet, no: you sign in to Fresha and add Cotlet to ChatGPT or Claude, with step-by-step instructions in your account. This repo is for people who are fine with Python and a terminal.

Is my Fresha account safe?
Yes. Neither Cotlet nor this repo sees or stores your Fresha password. You sign in yourself, the way you always do, and the AI works on that signed-in session. Anything that reaches other people asks for your OK first: in Cotlet by default, here through your MCP client.

Is it free?
This repo is free, also in your own business. Cotlet is free for 7 days with no card, then one-time credit packs from $29, no subscription. Pricing.

I manage Fresha for several accounts or clients. Does that work?
Yes, with Cotlet. Each Fresha login gets its own connection. Write to [email protected] and tell us how many accounts you manage.

How it works

AI agent (MCP) / script (REST, Python) ──▶ fresha-mcp on your computer ──your cookies──▶ *.fresha.com
                                                  ▲
                         fresha-mcp connect ──────┘ reads them once from your Chrome (DevTools Protocol)

1. You sign in to Fresha for business in your own Chrome at partners.fresha.com, the way you always do: an email code, then a text message code. Tick Trust this device.
2. fresha-mcp connect attaches to that Chrome through the Chrome DevTools Protocol, reads the fresha.com cookies and saves them to ~/.config/fresha-api-mcp/session.json, readable by your user only. It never sees or stores your password or the codes.
3. Every tool call is a request to the APIs the Fresha partner panel itself calls (partners-api, the partners-api-gateway GraphQL, customers-api, reports.fresha.com and a few more *.fresha.com hosts) with those cookies, sent with curl_cffi, which copies Chrome's TLS fingerprint. No headless browser runs.

The session lives in one cookie, fresha_partners_session. Fresha keeps it for 25 days and renews it while you use the panel or the tools. When Fresha signs you out, the server reads the cookies from Chrome again, if Chrome is open with remote debugging on.

Requirements

• Python 3.11 or newer.
• Google Chrome 144 or newer, signed in to partners.fresha.com. Any Chrome or Chromium works with a debugging port.
• macOS, Linux or Windows.
• A Fresha for business account. We build and test with the workspace owner. A team member login sees what Fresha shows that team member, and the two sales tools need its reporting permissions.

Install

From PyPI:

uv tool install fresha-api-mcp       # or: pipx install fresha-api-mcp, or: pip install fresha-api-mcp
fresha-mcp --version

MCP clients can also run it with no install: uvx fresha-api-mcp mcp.

From source:

git clone https://github.com/cotletdev/fresha-api-mcp-server.git
cd fresha-api-mcp-server
python3 -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate              # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e .
fresha-mcp --version

With uv: uv venv && uv pip install -e ., then uv run fresha-mcp ....

Setting it up with an AI agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)? Open it in this folder and ask it to set up the repo: AGENTS.md tells it every step, and it asks you only for the steps in Chrome.

To update: uv tool upgrade fresha-api-mcp (or pip install -U fresha-api-mcp), from source git pull && pip install -e .. We copy every change of the hosted Fresha tools into this repo.

Connect your Chrome

Option A: your everyday Chrome (recommended)

1. Open chrome://inspect/#remote-debugging in Chrome and switch remote debugging on. Chrome then accepts DevTools connections from programs on this computer, and asks you before each one.

2. Make sure you are signed in at partners.fresha.com.

3. Run:

   fresha-mcp connect
   

4. Chrome asks whether to allow the connection. Click Allow.

Saved 24 Fresha cookies to /Users/you/.config/fresha-api-mcp/session.json
Signed in to Fresha as Daniel Hughes ([email protected])

You can switch remote debugging off again afterwards. Leave it on if you want the server to pick up a new session by itself after Fresha signs you out.

connect looks for Chrome's DevToolsActivePort file in the default profile folder. For Chrome Beta, Canary or a custom profile folder, pass --profile-dir "<folder>".

Option B: a Chrome with a debugging port

Chrome does not open a debugging port on your default profile, so start a separate one, sign in to Fresha there once, and connect to it:

# macOS
"/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome" --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="$HOME/.chrome-fresha"
# Linux
google-chrome --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="$HOME/.chrome-fresha"
# Windows
"C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --remote-debugging-port=9222 --user-data-dir="%USERPROFILE%\.chrome-fresha"

fresha-mcp connect --cdp http://127.0.0.1:9222

--cdp also takes a ws:// DevTools URL, for example of a Chrome on another machine reached over an SSH tunnel.

Option C: paste the cookie by hand

For a server with no Chrome: in Chrome open DevTools on partners.fresha.com, Application > Cookies > https://partners.fresha.com, copy the value of fresha_partners_session, then:

fresha-mcp connect --token          # paste it, input is hidden
# or, without a session file:
export FRESHA_AUTH_TOKEN=...

A pasted cookie is not read again from Chrome. Paste a new one when Fresha signs you out.

Check the session at any time:

fresha-mcp status

MCP server

The MCP server lists every tool with its input schema, a description written for agents, and hints. Read tools are marked read-only, and the tools that can reach clients (booking, rescheduling, cancelling, review replies) are marked so your client asks before running them.

Claude Code

claude mcp add fresha -- uvx fresha-api-mcp mcp
# read only:
claude mcp add fresha -- uvx fresha-api-mcp mcp --read-only

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "fresha": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["fresha-api-mcp", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json, the same block as Claude Desktop. A ready copy is in mcp.json.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.fresha]
command = "uvx"
args = ["fresha-api-mcp", "mcp"]

Over HTTP

fresha-mcp serve also serves MCP over streamable HTTP at http://127.0.0.1:8787/mcp, for clients that take a URL:

fresha-mcp serve
claude mcp add --transport http fresha http://127.0.0.1:8787/mcp

Then ask your agent things like:

Anna Smith emailed asking for a cut and colour with Sam on Friday afternoon. Find her, check the free times for both services and book the first one after my OK.

Sam is sick tomorrow. Block his day and show me which of his clients a colleague can take at the same time.

Yesterday's sales by sale type against the same day last week. Flag refunds over £50.

List the reviews without a reply and draft a short answer to each.

REST API

fresha-mcp serve                   # http://127.0.0.1:8787, MCP at /mcp, docs at /docs

Each tool has its own route under /api/v1/fresha, the same paths as the hosted API at cotlet.dev, so code written against one works with the other. Path parts and the query string are arguments, and a JSON body adds the rest.

curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha/services'
curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha/appointments?from=2026-10-27&to=2026-10-31'
curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha/sales-summary?from=2026-10-01&to=2026-10-31'
curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha/blocked-times \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"team_member_id": "5652945", "start_at": "2026-11-03T13:00", "end_at": "2026-11-03T14:00", "title": "Lunch"}'

Any tool by name, body as its arguments:

curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8787/api/v1/fresha/tools/list_clients -d '{"search": "smith"}'

• GET /api/v1/fresha/tools: every tool with its route, input schema and an example answer.
• GET /docs: interactive OpenAPI docs, GET /openapi.json the schema, for n8n, Postman or a generated client.
• Answers are JSON. List tools return next_cursor; pass it back as cursor for the next page.

The server listens on 127.0.0.1 only. To reach it from another device of yours, set a token, and every request then needs Authorization: Bearer <token>:

FRESHA_MCP_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 24) fresha-mcp serve --host 0.0.0.0

Python and the example scripts

Straight from Python, no server needed:

from fresha_api_mcp import call
from fresha_api_mcp.scripting import paginate, write_rows

services = call("list_services")["services"]
day = call("list_appointments", {"from": "2026-10-27", "to": "2026-10-27"})["appointments"]
clients = list(paginate("list_clients", {"sort": "name"}, "clients"))
write_rows(clients, "clients.csv")
call("add_blocked_time", team_member_id="5652945", start_at="2026-11-03T13:00", end_at="2026-11-03T14:00")

Or one tool from the shell: fresha-mcp call find_available_slots service_ids='["25979401"]' date=2026-10-27 days=3, or with a JSON object. An ID stays text where the tool takes text.

Times are wall clock in the business's time zone. 2026-11-03T14:30 means 14:30 at the salon. A time with an offset is converted to it, and answers carry time_zone.

Ready scripts in examples/. Each prints JSON or a short list, takes --out file.csv or --out file.json where it makes sense, and --help:

Script	What it does
tomorrows_appointments.py	Tomorrow's appointments grouped by team member. --date, --all for cancelled ones too.
book_from_message.py	Matches a client by name, email or phone, finds free starts for several services in a time window, and with --book books the first after you confirm.
team_member_out.py	A team member is out: blocks their hours and moves each client to a colleague free at the same time. Prints the plan; --apply asks before each change.
cancel_day.py	Cancels a team member's appointments on a day with your cancellation reason. Lists them; --apply asks before each one.
daily_sales.py	One day's Sales summary by sale type against the same weekday a week earlier, refunds over a limit flagged.
lapsed_clients.py	Clients with no appointment for N days and nothing booked, with their marketing consent. --email-consent-only.
export_clients.py	Every client to CSV or JSON. --search, --sort.
export_sales.py	The Sales list for a date range to CSV or JSON.
unanswered_reviews.py	Reviews without a reply, lowest rating first; --reply-to posts a reply.

python examples/tomorrows_appointments.py
python examples/team_member_out.py --team-member-id 5652945 --date 2026-10-30 --block 09:00-18:00
python examples/lapsed_clients.py --days 90 --out lapsed.csv

On a schedule, cron on your own computer works while it is on: 0 8 * * * cd ~/fresha-api-mcp-server && .venv/bin/python examples/daily_sales.py.

All 17 tools

IDs come from the list tools: service_id from list_services, team_member_id from list_team_members, client_id from list_clients, appointment_id from list_appointments, review_id from list_reviews. fresha-mcp tools prints this list, fresha-mcp tools --json adds the input schemas.

Appointments

Tool	Access	REST route	What it does
list_appointments	read	GET /appointments	Appointments in a date range, with client, service, team member, price and status.
get_appointment	read	GET /appointments/{appointment_id}	One appointment: client, services, team member, times, status, price and notes.
find_available_slots	read	GET /available-slots	Free start times for one or more services with a team member, day by day.
create_appointment	write	POST /appointments	Book an appointment for a client: services, team member and start time.
reschedule_appointment	write	POST /appointments/{appointment_id}/reschedule	Move an appointment to a new start time, optionally to another team member.
cancel_appointment	write	POST /appointments/{appointment_id}/cancel	Cancel an appointment without a charge, optionally telling the client.
add_blocked_time	write	POST /blocked-times	Block a time slot in a team member's calendar so nobody books it.

Clients

Tool	Access	REST route	What it does
list_clients	read	GET /clients	Clients of the business, searchable by name, email or phone.
get_client	read	GET /clients/{client_id}	One client: contact, notification settings, booking stats, upcoming appointments, notes.
add_client	write	POST /clients	Add a client to the business's client list.
add_client_note	write	POST /clients/{client_id}/notes	Add a note to a client's profile, seen by the team only.

Catalogue and team

Tool	Access	REST route	What it does
list_services	read	GET /services	Services of the business with category, duration and price.
list_team_members	read	GET /team-members	Team members with role, contact, services they do and whether they take bookings.

Sales

Tool	Access	REST route	What it does
get_sales_summary	read	GET /sales-summary	Sales summary for a period: sales, refunds, discounts, taxes and payments by type.
list_sales	read	GET /sales	Sales (invoices) in a date range: number, date, client, status and totals.

Reviews

Tool	Access	REST route	What it does
list_reviews	read	GET /reviews	Client reviews of the business with rating, text and replies.
reply_to_review	write	POST /reviews/{review_id}/replies	Post a public reply to a client's review.

create_appointment lets Fresha send its booking confirmation by the client's notification settings; the tool has no switch for it. reschedule_appointment and cancel_appointment tell the client unless you pass notify_client: false. A review reply is public and the reviewer is told. Adding a client, a note or blocked time sends nothing. In list_appointments the status, team member and client filters apply to the first 100 rows of the date range, so narrow the dates for a busy salon.

Not in this version: payouts and the wallet (Fresha Payments), checkout and refunds, products, gift cards, memberships, the waitlist, marketing campaigns and shifts. create_appointment takes no appointment note, add_blocked_time blocks one day with no repeats, and cancel_appointment refuses an appointment with a cancellation fee or a paid deposit.

Never built, on purpose: your Fresha sign-in, email, password and user account, and anything that moves money (subscription, billing, payouts, payment methods). Every request passes a guard that refuses any change to those Fresha paths.

Configuration

Variable	Default	What it does
FRESHA_MCP_HOME	~/.config/fresha-api-mcp	Folder of session.json.
FRESHA_AUTH_TOKEN		The fresha_partners_session cookie value, used instead of session.json.
FRESHA_PROXY		Proxy for every request to Fresha, e.g. http://user:pass@host:port.
FRESHA_MCP_READ_ONLY		1 hides and refuses every tool that changes Fresha (same as --read-only).
FRESHA_MCP_TOKEN		Bearer token required by serve; needed to listen beyond 127.0.0.1.
FRESHA_MCP_HOST, FRESHA_MCP_PORT	127.0.0.1, 8787	Address of serve.

Security and your Fresha account

• Your password never reaches this code. Only the cookies Chrome already holds are read, and only those of fresha.com.
• The session file is yours. session.json is created with mode 0600. Anyone who has it can act as you in Fresha for business, so keep it out of git and shared folders.
• Local by default. serve binds to 127.0.0.1 and refuses another address without FRESHA_MCP_TOKEN.
• fresha.com only. Requests and redirects outside fresha.com are refused.
• Read-only mode. --read-only or FRESHA_MCP_READ_ONLY=1 exposes the 10 read tools only.
• Actions reach real people. A booking, a move or a cancellation can message your client, and a review reply is public. MCP clients ask before running those tools; a script does not, so try it on a test client of your own first.

Errors

The REST API answers {"error": "<code>", "message": "..."}. The MCP server returns the same code and message as a tool error.

Status	Code	What to do
401	auth_required, auth_expired	No session, or Fresha signed you out. Sign in at partners.fresha.com in Chrome and run fresha-mcp connect.
403	app_permission_denied	Your Fresha role cannot do this, e.g. reports without the reporting permissions.
403	scope_denied	The server runs read-only, or the request would change your Fresha account itself.
403	target_blocked	Fresha refused the request or showed a bot check. Open the panel in Chrome once, then retry.
409	captcha_required	Fresha asks for a CAPTCHA. Solve it in Chrome.
422	invalid_input	An argument is missing or wrong; the message names it.
429	rate_limited	Fresha is limiting the account. Wait a few minutes.
502	target_error	Fresha answered with an error (its own message is in message), or changed its panel. git pull for the latest tools, or open an issue.

Self-hosted or hosted

	This repo	Cotlet, hosted
Tools	the same 17	the same 17
Runs	on your computer, while it is on	in the cloud, 24/7
Fresha session	your Chrome, saved in a local file	your own Cloud Browser in the EU, profile encrypted with AES-256-GCM
When Fresha changes its panel	git pull once we have fixed it	fixed for you, every tool tested daily
Approvals	your MCP client asks per call	bookings, moves, cancellations and review replies wait for your OK, switchable per tool
Works with	MCP clients on your machine, local scripts	Claude.ai and ChatGPT connectors, n8n, Make, Zapier, any HTTP client
Who may use it	you and your own business	you, teams, businesses, agencies
Price	free	free 7-day trial with 2,000 credits, no card; then one-time packs from $29 for 5,000 credits

On the hosted version a successful call uses 10 credits, failed calls are free, and the Cloud Browser uses 50 credits a day while it has an app enabled for agents. Full pricing.

FAQ

Is there a Fresha MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor?
Yes, this one runs on your machine: fresha-mcp mcp for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and Codex. ChatGPT and Claude.ai connectors need a public HTTPS URL, which the hosted Fresha MCP server gives you. A community server on GitHub reads Data Connector tables from Snowflake; it needs the add-on and does not write anything.

Do I need the Data Connector add-on?
No. The tools work on your own partners.fresha.com session, the same requests the panel sends.

Can it find free slots and book for me?
find_available_slots returns the free start times for one or more services done back to back, with one team member, for up to 14 days. create_appointment books one of them. Fresha books over other appointments if you ask it to, so check the slot first.

Can I export my Fresha clients or sales to CSV?
Yes: python examples/export_clients.py --out clients.csv and python examples/export_sales.py --from 2026-10-01 --to 2026-10-31 --out sales.csv.

Does it work outside the UK?
Yes. The tools read the time zone and currency of your workspace from Fresha. With several locations, the calendar tools use the first one.

Why does it need my Chrome?
To read your Fresha session without your password and the two sign-in codes. Chrome is used once per sign-in, not for each call.

What happens when Fresha signs me out?
Calls fail with auth_expired. With Chrome remote debugging on, the server reads the new session on the next call (click Allow when Chrome asks). Otherwise run fresha-mcp connect again.

Can it run on a VPS or in Docker?
Technically yes, with a pasted cookie or a session.json copied from your computer. Fresha then sees your session from a datacenter IP, which looks less like you. For an always-on setup the hosted version keeps your session in your own Cloud Browser on a fixed IP.

Will my Fresha account get banned?
Requests carry Chrome's fingerprint and go out one at a time, as you would click. Nobody can promise a platform never acts. Keep to your normal use.

Can I change the code or offer it to my clients?
You may change it and use it in your own business. You may not offer it to others as a hosted or managed service. For client work, use Cotlet or write to [email protected].

A tool broke or I need another one.
Open an issue with the tool name and the error message.

License

Elastic License 2.0. In short:

• Allowed: using it for yourself and in your own business, free. Changing the code and sharing it under the same license.
• Not allowed: offering it to others as a hosted or managed service, removing the license notices, getting around its limits.

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