--- title: "Connect Agile CRM and FreshBooks - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New contact\" fires in Agile CRM, your agent runs \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-freshbooks" --- # Connect Agile CRM and FreshBooks When **New contact** fires in [Agile CRM](https://apiant.ai/connections/agile-crm), your agent runs **Add Payment to Invoice** in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), or **New Bill** in FreshBooks to **Add contact to campaign** in Agile CRM. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Agile CRM **10** triggers Agile CRM **63** actions FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Agile CRM and FreshBooks to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser. ### Set it up in your client ### Claude Code Run this in the directory you want to work in. `claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai` Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens. [Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code) ### Claude, web and desktop Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Cursor Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Agile CRM and FreshBooks can do together ### From Agile CRM to FreshBooks - When **New contact** in Agile CRM then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New matching contact or company** in Agile CRM then **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks ### From FreshBooks to Agile CRM - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add contact to campaign** in Agile CRM - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Add lead score by email** in Agile CRM 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 Agile CRM and FreshBooks ## Triggers and actions 26 triggers ยท 92 actions - Trigger **List all tasks** list all tasks, surfacing new ones over time - Trigger **List contacts** list contacts, surfacing new ones over time - Trigger **List deals** list deals/opportunities, surfacing new ones over time - Trigger **List events** list events, surfacing new ones over time - Trigger **List pending tasks** list pending tasks within N days - Trigger **List tickets** list help desk tickets by filter, surfacing new ones - Trigger **List tracks** list deal tracks/pipelines - Trigger **New contact** Triggered when a new contact is added. Polls the contacts list and emits each new contact, deduplicated by contact id. - Trigger **New matching contact or company** Triggers when a new contact or company matches your search query. - Trigger **New matching task** Triggers when a new task matches your filter. - Action **Add contact to campaign** enroll a contact into a campaign by email - Action **Add lead score by email** add lead score to a contact by email - Action **Add note by contact email** add a note to a contact by email - Action **Add tags by contact email** add tags to a contact by email - Action **Add tags to contact** add multiple tags to a contact by ID - Action **Add tag to contact** Adds a tag to the specified contact. Spaces in the tag are replaced with underscores. - Action **Add ticket note** add a note to a ticket - Action **Change contact owner** change the owner of a contact - Action **Create company** /contacts (type=company) โ€” create a company record - Action **Create contact** create a full contact record - Action **Create deal** create a deal/opportunity - Action **Create deal by contact email** create a deal for a contact by email - Action **Create deal note** create a note on a deal - Action **Create document** create a document - Action **Create event** create an event - Action **Create new contact (just email)** Creates a new contact using just the email address, then returns the new Contact ID. - Action **Create note** create a note - Action **Create task** create a task - Action **Create task by email** create a task for a contact by email - Action **Create ticket** create a help desk ticket - Action **Delete company** Delete a company. - Action **Delete contact** delete a contact - Action **Delete contact note** delete a contact note - Action **Delete deal** delete a deal - Action **Delete event** delete an event - Action **Delete tags by contact email** remove tags from a contact by email - Action **Delete task** delete a task - Action **Delete ticket** delete a help desk ticket - Action **Find contact** Returns the Contact ID (and contact record) for the given email address. - Action **Get company by ID** Retrieve a company by ID. - Action **Get contact by ID** retrieve a contact by ID - Action **Get contact by phone** look up a contact by phone - Action **Get contact deals** list deals for a contact - Action **Get contact documents** list documents for a contact - Action **Get contact events** list events for a contact - Action **Get contact notes** list notes for a contact - Action **Get contact tasks** list tasks for a contact - Action **Get deal by ID** retrieve a deal by ID - Action **Get deal notes** list notes for a deal - Action **Get deals by pipeline** list deals grouped by pipeline - Action **Get deals from track** list deals filtered by track - Action **Get Deals Grouped by Milestone** Returns every deal in the account, grouped into one list per milestone (New, Won, Lost and any custom milestones). Takes no search criteria โ€” pick the milestone you want out of the returned groups. - Action **Get my deals** list deals owned by the current user - Action **Get task by ID** retrieve a task by ID - Action **Get ticket filters** list available ticket filters - Action **Get ticket messages** list notes/messages for a ticket - Action **List companies** list companies - Action **Remove contact from deal** remove a contact from a deal - Action **Remove tag from contact** Removes a tag from the specified contact. Spaces in the tag are replaced with underscores. - Action **Remove tags from contact** remove multiple tags from a contact by ID - Action **Search contact by email** look up a contact by email - Action **Search contact by email (POST)** look up a contact by email - Action **Search contacts by dynamic filter** search contacts by dynamic filter - Action **Update company** /contacts/edit-properties (company) โ€” update company properties - Action **Update contact** Updates the specified contact's first name, last name, and email properties. - Action **Update contact lead score** update a contact's lead score - Action **Update contact property** update contact properties - Action **Update contact star rating** update a contact's star rating - Action **Update deal** partially update a deal - Action **Update deal note** Update a note on a deal. Fetches the deal, finds the note, overlays ONLY the fields you supply (blank fields keep their current value), then saves. Non-destructive. - Action **Update event** Update an event. Fetches the existing event, overlays ONLY the fields you supply (blank fields are left untouched), and carries the attached contacts through, then saves. Non-destructive. - Action **Update task** partially update a task - Action **Update track** Update a track (milestone pipeline). Fetches the track, overlays ONLY the fields you supply (blank fields keep their current value, so the milestone list is never erased), then saves. Non-destructive. - Trigger **New Bill** Triggers when a new bill is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Client** Triggers when a new client is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggers when a new credit note is created in your FreshBooks account. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a new estimate is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Filtered Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice matching your chosen filters (client, status, currency, amount, and more) is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice Payment** Triggers when a new invoice payment is created. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Staff Member** Triggers when a new staff member is added to your FreshBooks business. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggers when a new time entry is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Vendor** Triggers when a new bill vendor is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Bill** Triggers when a bill is updated in FreshBooks. Returns the id of the updated bill and the account, business and user it belongs to. - Trigger **Updated Estimate** Triggers when an estimate is updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggers when an invoice is updated in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Vendor** Triggers when a bill vendor is updated in FreshBooks. - Action **Add Payment to Invoice** Records a payment against a FreshBooks invoice and returns the created payment. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a bill in FreshBooks recording what your business owes a vendor, with its line items. - Action **Create Client** Creates a new client in your FreshBooks business, with contact details, billing and shipping addresses, and optional secondary contacts. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note or prepayment credit for a client in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate for a client in FreshBooks, optionally with line items. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in your FreshBooks business, with its amount, category, date and optional vendor, client, project and taxes. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client in FreshBooks, with optional line items, terms and notes. New invoices start as drafts unless a status is given. - Action **Create Invoice PDF** Returns the PDF of an existing FreshBooks invoice as a file you can attach or store. - Action **Create or Update Client** Updates an existing FreshBooks client (by Client ID, or by matching email) or creates a new client when none matches. - Action **Create or Update Invoice** Updates an existing FreshBooks invoice (by Invoice ID, or by matching Invoice Number), or creates a new invoice when none matches. - Action **Create Other Income** Records income received outside of an invoice, such as online store sales, rentals or advertising, in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in FreshBooks, optionally linked to a client, with a fixed price or hourly rate. - Action **Create Recurring Invoice** Creates a recurring invoice profile in FreshBooks that generates invoices for a client on a set schedule. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry recording time spent working for a client or project in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a bill vendor (a supplier you receive bills from) in your FreshBooks business. - Action **Find Bill** Finds bills in FreshBooks by id, vendor, status or currency and returns the matches. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients in your FreshBooks business by email, name, organization, phone or other details, and returns the matches. - Action **Find Credit Note** Finds a credit note in FreshBooks by its id and returns the credit note's details. - Action **Find Estimate** Finds estimates in FreshBooks matching an estimate number, client, status, notes, date or amount range, and other criteria. - Action **Find Invoice** Finds invoices in your FreshBooks account matching the criteria you give, such as invoice number, client, status, dates or amounts. - Action **Find Project** Finds FreshBooks projects whose title contains the given text, optionally limited to active or completed projects. - Action **Find Vendor** Finds bill vendors in your FreshBooks account whose business name matches the text you give. - Action **Send Estimate** Emails an existing estimate to the listed recipients and marks it as sent. - Action **Send Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you choose and marks it as sent. - Action **Update Bill** Updates an existing bill from a vendor, such as its dates, bill number, line items or status. - Action **Update Credit Note** Updates an existing credit note in FreshBooks, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Estimate** Updates an existing FreshBooks estimate's client, dates, address details, notes, terms or line items. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in FreshBooks, such as its duration, note, client or project. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing bill vendor's name, contact details, address and preferences. Fields left blank are not changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Agile CRM** Agile CRM is an all-in-one CRM with sales, marketing, and service automation.](https://apiant.ai/connections/agile-crm) - [ **FreshBooks** FreshBooks is a cloud accounting software designed exclusively for self-employed professionals and their...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Agile CRM - [ **Agile CRM to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-salesforce) - [ **Agile CRM to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-mailchimp) - [ **Agile CRM to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-stripe) - [ **Agile CRM to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-shopify) - [ **Agile CRM to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-pipedrive) - [ **Agile CRM to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/agile-crm-to-trello) ## More into FreshBooks - [ **ActiveCampaign to FreshBooks** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-freshbooks) - [ **Airtable to FreshBooks** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airtable-to-freshbooks) - [ **Asana to FreshBooks** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-freshbooks) - [ **ClickUp to FreshBooks** ClickUp is an all-in-one app to plan, track, and manage your work in a beautifully intuitive environment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clickup-to-freshbooks) - [ **Discord to FreshBooks** Discord is an all-in-one voice and text chat for gamers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/discord-to-freshbooks) - [ **Brevo to FreshBooks** Brevo is the leading CRM suite designed to cultivate long-term customer relationships and help businesses...](https://apiant.ai/connect/brevo-to-freshbooks) Questions ## Agile CRM and FreshBooks, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Agile CRM? Any of Agile CRM's 10 triggers in the catalog, including New contact, New matching contact or company, New matching task and List all tasks. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in FreshBooks when something happens in Agile CRM? Any of FreshBooks's 29 actions, including Create Bill, Create Client, Create Credit Note and Create Estimate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from FreshBooks to Agile CRM? Yes. When something happens in FreshBooks, your agent can act in Agile CRM too. This page covers both directions: FreshBooks's triggers and Agile CRM's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Agile CRM or FreshBooks? 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 Agile CRM and FreshBooks 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.