How do I use CartFlows's Create step ability with AI?

Install the Easy MCP AI WordPress plugin alongside CartFlows, connect your AI client, then ask in natural language — for example: "Add a checkout step called "Main Checkout" to funnel 42."

Create step is a WordPress ability from CartFlows — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.

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Create step

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CartFlows Ecommerce cartflows/create-step

Create a new step and attach it to an existing CartFlows funnel.

Requires the CartFlows plugin on WordPress 6.9+, since abilities only register when WordPress's Abilities API (wp_register_ability / WP_Ability) is available. Every ability additionally requires the current user to hold the 'cartflows_manage_flows_steps' capability. Flow and step lifecycle abilities (publish, unpublish, clone, trash, restore, update, reorder, clone-step, update-step-title) are further gated by the 'cartflows_abilities_api_edit' site option, while settings, checkout, thank-you, optin, email-report, product-mapping, creation, and template-import abilities are gated by the separate 'cartflows_abilities_api_write' option — both default to enabled but let site admins disable write access independently. WooCommerce must also be active for the analytics, checkout, thank-you, optin, and product-flow-mapping abilities, and for importing flow templates.

What it does

This ability creates a new step of a free type — landing, checkout, optin, or thankyou — and appends it to an existing funnel's step list; the step is published immediately. Upsell and downsell step types require CartFlows Pro and are not available through this ability.

See it in action

You ask your AI assistant

"Add a checkout step called "Main Checkout" to funnel 42."

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
flow_id	integer	Yes	The parent funnel ID.
title	string	Yes	The step title.
type	string	Yes	Step type. Free types: landing, checkout, optin, thankyou.

Returns

An object with the new step_id, flow_id, title, type, and an admin edit_url.

Permission

The current user must have the 'cartflows_manage_flows_steps' capability, and the 'cartflows_abilities_api_write' site option (enabled by default) must not be disabled.