--- title: "Connect AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"List of Jobs by Milestone\" fires in AccuLynx, your agent runs \"Create customer\" in QuickBooks Online." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/acculynx-to-quickbooks-online" --- # Connect AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online When **List of Jobs by Milestone** fires in [AccuLynx](https://apiant.ai/connections/acculynx), your agent runs **Create customer** in [QuickBooks Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online), or **New bill** in QuickBooks Online to **Add contact note** in AccuLynx. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. AccuLynx **1** trigger AccuLynx **26** actions QuickBooks Online **11** triggers QuickBooks Online **45** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online can do together ### From AccuLynx to QuickBooks Online - When **List of Jobs by Milestone** in AccuLynx then **Create customer** in QuickBooks Online - When **List of Jobs by Milestone** in AccuLynx then **Create invoice** in QuickBooks Online ### From QuickBooks Online to AccuLynx - When **New bill** in QuickBooks Online then **Add contact note** in AccuLynx - When **New customer** in QuickBooks Online then **Add job message** in AccuLynx Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships. Everything your agent can do with AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online ## Triggers and actions 12 triggers · 71 actions - Trigger **List of Jobs by Milestone** Triggers when a job enters one of the chosen workflow milestones (for example Lead, Prospect or Approved), newest milestone change first. - Action **Add contact note** Adds a text note to an AccuLynx contact. - Action **Add job document** Uploads a document file to an AccuLynx job and saves it in the chosen document folder. - Action **Add job external reference** Creates an external reference linking an AccuLynx job to a project in another system. - Action **Add job message** Posts a comment to a job's message feed in AccuLynx, visible in the job's Messages section. - Action **Add job photo or video** Uploads a single photo or video to an AccuLynx job, with an optional description and tags. - Action **Add received payment** Records a payment received on an AccuLynx job, such as a customer deposit or check, and returns the new payment. - Action **Find Job** Returns the AccuLynx jobs that contain a search term (such as a name, address or job number) and/or lie near a map location. - Action **Find Job Category** Returns the active AccuLynx job category whose name matches the name you give, or nothing when no category has that name. - Action **Find Trade-Types** Finds an active trade type in your AccuLynx company settings by its name and returns its id. - Action **Find Work-Types** Finds an active AccuLynx work type (for example Insurance or Retail) by its name and returns its id. - Action **Get Contact** Returns the details of one AccuLynx contact by its ID, including name, company, mailing and billing addresses, and its phone numbers and email addresses. - Action **Get Contact Custom Fields** Returns every custom field value recorded on an AccuLynx contact, with each field's label, type and values. - Action **Get estimate** Returns one AccuLynx estimate by its id, including its title, number, primary flag, financial totals, linked job and section references. - Action **Get Job** Returns the details of one AccuLynx job, including its location address, contacts, trade types, category, work type, lead source, current milestone and priority. - Action **Get Job Custom Fields** Returns the custom field values recorded on a job, with each field's label, type, values and when it was last modified. - Action **Get job financials** Returns the financial summary for a job: approved job value, balance due, worksheet section totals, and links to (or full details of) the worksheet and amendments. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your AccuLynx account, with their names, company, mailing and billing addresses, and links to their phone numbers and email addresses. - Action **List estimates** Returns all estimates for the current AccuLynx location, with the job each one belongs to. - Action **List jobs** Returns the jobs in your AccuLynx account, optionally filtered by date range, milestone and assignment, and sorted by created, milestone or modified date. - Action **List users** Returns the users in your AccuLynx company, optionally filtered by status (active, inactive, archived or deleted). - Action **Set Initial Appointment** Adds or updates the initial appointment on an AccuLynx job, including its start and end times and notes. - Action **Update Contact Custom Field** Sets the value of one custom field on an AccuLynx contact. - Action **Update job address** Updates the location address of an existing AccuLynx job. Only the address parts you fill in are sent. - Action **Update Job Custom Field** Sets the value of one custom field on an AccuLynx job. - Action **Update job lead source** Changes the lead source recorded on an AccuLynx job. - Action **Update job priority** Sets the priority (Urgent, High or Normal) of an existing AccuLynx job. - Trigger **New bill** Polls for newly created bills (accounts payable), most recent first. - Trigger **New customer** Polls for newly created customers, most recent first. - Trigger **New estimate** Fires when a new estimate is created in QuickBooks Online. - Trigger **New invoice** Polls for newly created invoices, most recent first. - Trigger **New or updated customer** Fires when a QuickBooks customer is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New or updated estimate** Fires when a QuickBooks estimate is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated invoice** Fires when a QuickBooks invoice is created or edited — line items, amounts, due date, or status. - Trigger **New or updated item** Fires when a QuickBooks product or service item is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated vendor** Fires when a QuickBooks vendor is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New paid invoice** Polls for invoices that are fully paid (Balance = 0), most recently updated first. - Trigger **New payment** Polls for newly created customer payments, most recent first. - Action **Create account** Create an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts — name, account type, and detail type. - Action **Create bill** Creates a new bill (accounts payable) for a vendor with a single account-based line item. - Action **Create credit memo** Creates a new credit memo for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create customer** Creates a new customer in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Create estimate** Create a QuickBooks Online estimate (quote) for a customer. - Action **Create expense (purchase)** Creates a new expense (Purchase) paid from a bank/credit-card account with one account-based line. - Action **Create invoice** Creates a new invoice for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create item (product/service)** Creates a new product or service item. - Action **Create journal entry** Create a QuickBooks journal entry with balanced debit and credit lines against the chart of accounts. - Action **Create payment** Records a customer payment, optionally applied against a specific invoice. - Action **Create refund receipt** Creates a new refund receipt for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create sales receipt** Creates a new sales receipt for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create vendor** Creates a new vendor in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Delete bill** Permanently delete a QuickBooks bill by Id. - Action **Delete credit memo** Permanently delete a QuickBooks credit memo by Id. - Action **Delete estimate** Permanently delete a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Delete invoice** Permanently delete a QuickBooks invoice by Id. Unlike voiding, this removes the transaction entirely. - Action **Delete sales receipt** Permanently delete a QuickBooks sales receipt by Id. - Action **Find account by name** Look up an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts by its name. - Action **Find customer by name** Searches for a customer by display name and returns its Id and SyncToken. - Action **Find invoice by number** Look up a QuickBooks invoice by its document number (the invoice number customers see) rather than its internal Id. - Action **Find item by name** Look up a QuickBooks product or service item by its name. - Action **Find vendor by name** Look up a QuickBooks Online vendor by display name. - Action **Get bill balance** Returns the outstanding balance for a bill by its Id. - Action **Get customer by ID** Retrieves a single customer by its Id. - Action **Get estimate by ID** Retrieve a QuickBooks Online estimate by its ID. - Action **Get estimate PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Get invoice by ID** Retrieves a single invoice by its Id, including its balance. - Action **Get invoice PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks invoice by Id, for emailing or archiving. - Action **List accounts** List the accounts in the QuickBooks chart of accounts, with their type, detail type, and current balance. - Action **List attachments** List the files attached to a QuickBooks transaction or record, with their download links. - Action **List employees** List employees recorded in QuickBooks Online. - Action **List items** List products and services (items) defined in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Pay bill** Records a bill payment against a vendor bill, paid from the specified bank/credit-card account. - Action **Run query** Runs an arbitrary read-only QuickBooks Online query (QBO SQL-like syntax) and returns the raw QueryResponse. - Action **Send estimate** Email a QuickBooks Online estimate to the customer. - Action **Send invoice** Emails an invoice to the supplied email address (or the invoice's billing email if omitted). - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer (sparse update). Requires the customer Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Update estimate** Update an existing QuickBooks estimate by Id, changing only the fields supplied. - Action **Update invoice** Update an existing QuickBooks invoice by Id — a sparse update that changes only the fields supplied and leaves the rest of the invoice intact. - Action **Update item** Update an existing QuickBooks product or service item by Id — name, description, price, income account, or active flag. - Action **Update vendor** Update an existing QuickBooks vendor by Id — contact details, billing address, terms, or active flag. - Action **Upload attachment** Upload a file to QuickBooks and attach it to a transaction or record — a receipt on an expense, a contract on an invoice. - Action **Void invoice** Voids an existing invoice. Requires the invoice Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Void payment** Voids an existing customer payment. Requires the payment Id and current SyncToken. ## Each app on its own - [ **AccuLynx** AccuLynx is a cloud based roofing software application designed to help contractors manage and grow their...](https://apiant.ai/connections/acculynx) - [ **QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from AccuLynx - [ **AccuLynx to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/acculynx-to-hubspot) - [ **AccuLynx to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/acculynx-to-salesforce) - [ **AccuLynx to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of AccuLynx's 1 trigger in the catalog, including List of Jobs by Milestone. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in QuickBooks Online when something happens in AccuLynx? Any of QuickBooks Online's 45 actions, including Create account, Create bill, Create credit memo and Create customer. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from QuickBooks Online to AccuLynx? Yes. When something happens in QuickBooks Online, your agent can act in AccuLynx too. This page covers both directions: QuickBooks Online's triggers and AccuLynx's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for AccuLynx or QuickBooks Online? No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. ### ### Can my AI client use AccuLynx and QuickBooks Online without building an automation? Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both. ### ### What happens when something fails? Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Is there a free plan? Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.