--- title: "Connect Algolia and Kiwili - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Browse Records\" fires in Algolia, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in Kiwili." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/algolia-to-kiwili" --- # Connect Algolia and Kiwili When **Browse Records** fires in [Algolia](https://apiant.ai/connections/algolia), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [Kiwili](https://apiant.ai/connections/kiwili), or **Accounting Code Created** in Kiwili to **Add or Replace Record** in Algolia. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Algolia **1** trigger Algolia **28** actions Kiwili **42** triggers Kiwili **73** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Algolia and Kiwili 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. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Algolia and Kiwili can do together ### From Algolia to Kiwili - When **Browse Records** in Algolia then **Create Contact** in Kiwili - When **Browse Records** in Algolia then **Create Invoice** in Kiwili ### From Kiwili to Algolia - When **Accounting Code Created** in Kiwili then **Add or Replace Record** in Algolia - When **Accounting Code Updated** in Kiwili then **Check Task Status** in Algolia 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 Algolia and Kiwili ## Triggers and actions 43 triggers · 101 actions - Trigger **Browse Records** Triggers when a new record appears in an Algolia index, optionally limited to records matching a query or filter. - Action **Add or Replace Record** Adds a record to an Algolia index, or replaces the existing record with the same object ID. - Action **Batch Indexing** Adds, updates or deletes several records in one Algolia index with a single request. Returns the affected record IDs and the indexing task ID. - Action **Batch Multiple Indices** Adds, updates, or deletes records across multiple Algolia indices in a single request. - Action **Batch Save Query Rules** Creates or replaces several query rules on an Algolia index in one call, optionally clearing the existing rules first. - Action **Batch Save Synonyms** Creates or replaces a batch of synonyms on an Algolia index. - Action **Check Task Status** Returns whether an Algolia indexing task on an index has finished (published) or is still pending. - Action **Clear All Synonyms** Deletes all synonyms from an Algolia index. - Action **Clear Index (Delete All Records)** Deletes every record from an Algolia index while keeping its settings, synonyms and rules. - Action **Copy or Move Index** Copies or moves (renames) an Algolia index to a destination index within the same application. - Action **Delete Index** Deletes an Algolia index together with all its records and settings. - Action **Delete Query Rule** Deletes a query rule from an Algolia index by its ID. - Action **Delete Record** Deletes a single record from an Algolia index by its object ID. - Action **Delete Records by Query** Deletes every record in an Algolia index that matches a filter. The deletion is queued as a task; empty filters are refused. - Action **Delete Synonym** Deletes a synonym from an Algolia index by its ID. - Action **Find Query Rule** Returns a single query rule from an Algolia index by its rule ID, including its conditions and consequence. - Action **Find Record** Returns one record from an Algolia index by its object ID. - Action **Find Synonym** Finds a synonym in an Algolia index by its ID and returns its type, words and replacements. - Action **Get Index Settings** Returns the settings configured on an Algolia index, such as searchable attributes, ranking and faceting. - Action **Get Records (Batch)** Retrieves one or more records by object ID, potentially from different indices, in a single call. - Action **List Indices** Returns all indices in your Algolia application, with each index's name, record count, size and last-updated time. - Action **Partial Update Record** Adds new attributes to an Algolia record or updates existing ones, leaving the other attributes unchanged. - Action **Save Record (Auto Object ID)** Adds a record to an Algolia index with an auto-generated object ID, or replaces the record if the given object ID already exists. - Action **Save Synonym** Creates a synonym in an Algolia index, or replaces the existing synonym with the same ID. - Action **Search for Facet Values** Searches the values of a facet attribute in an index and returns the matching facet values with their record counts. - Action **Search Index** Searches one Algolia index and returns the matching records (hits) with result counts. - Action **Search Multiple Indices** Runs several search queries against one or more indices in a single request and returns each query's results in the same order. - Action **Search Synonyms** Searches the synonyms of an Algolia index by text and optional synonym type, returning the matching synonyms and the total match count. - Action **Update Index Settings** Updates the settings of an Algolia index, such as searchable attributes, faceting, ranking and typo tolerance. Settings you leave blank are not changed. - Trigger **Accounting Code Created** Triggers when a new Accounting Code is created. - Trigger **Accounting Code Deleted** Triggers when an Accounting Code is deleted. - Trigger **Accounting Code Updated** Triggers when an Accounting Code is updated. - Trigger **Bank Account Created** Triggers when a new Bank Account is created. - Trigger **Bank Account Deleted** Triggers when a Bank Account is deleted. - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new Contact is created. - Trigger **Contact Deleted** Triggers when a Contact is deleted. - Trigger **Contact Updated** Triggers when a Contact is updated. - Trigger **Enterprise Created** Triggers when an Enterprise is created. - Trigger **Enterprise Deleted** Triggers when an Enterprise is deleted. - Trigger **Enterprise Updated** Triggers when an Enterprise is updated. - Trigger **Expense Account Created** Triggers when an Expense Account is created. - Trigger **Expense Account Deleted** Triggers when an Expense Account is deleted. - Trigger **Expense Account Updated** Triggers when an Expense Account is updated. - Trigger **Invoice Created** Triggers when an Invoice is created. - Trigger **Invoice Deleted** Triggers when an Invoice is deleted. - Trigger **Invoice Payment Created** Triggers when an Invoice Payment is created. - Trigger **Invoice Payment Updated** Triggers when an Invoice Payment is updated. - Trigger **Invoice Updated** Triggers when an Invoice is updated. - Trigger **Payment Type Created** Triggers when a new Payment Type is created. - Trigger **Payment Type Deleted** Triggers when a Payment Type is deleted. - Trigger **Payment Type Updated** Triggers when a Payment Type is updated. - Trigger **Product Created** Triggers when an Product is created. - Trigger **Product Deleted** Triggers when an Product is deleted. - Trigger **Product Updated** Triggers when an Product is updated. - Trigger **Project Created** Triggers when a Project is created. - Trigger **Project Deleted** Triggers when a Project is deleted. - Trigger **Project Step Deleted** Triggers when a project step is deleted. - Trigger **Project Updated** Triggers when a Project is updated. - Trigger **Service Created** Triggers when a Service is created. - Trigger **Service Deleted** Triggers when a Service is deleted. - Trigger **Service Updated** Triggers when a Service is updated. - Trigger **Sprint Created** Triggers when a Sprint is created. - Trigger **Sprint Updated** Triggers when a Sprint is updated. - Trigger **Task Created** Triggers when a Task is created. - Trigger **Task Updated** Triggers when a Task is updated. - Trigger **Tax Profile Created** Triggers when an Tax Profile is created. - Trigger **Tax Profile Deleted** Triggers when an Tax Profile is deleted. - Trigger **Tax Profile Updated** Triggers when an Tax Profile is updated. - Trigger **Time Entry Created** Triggers when a Time Entry is created. - Trigger **Time Entry Deleted** Triggers when a Time Entry is deleted. - Trigger **Time Entry Updated** Triggers when a Time Entry is updated. - Action **Create Accounting Code** Creates a new accounting code in Kiwili's chart of accounts, with its code number, description, accounting class and tax reclaim percentage. - Action **Create Bank Account** Creates a new bank account in Kiwili with its name, currency and optional banking details. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact under an enterprise (client company) in Kiwili. - Action **Create Enterprise** Creates a new enterprise (client, prospect or provider company) in Kiwili and returns the created enterprise record. - Action **Create Expense Account** Creates a new expense account in Kiwili, used to categorize expenses with a default price, tax profile and accounting code. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client enterprise in Kiwili, with one or more product or service lines. - Action **Create Invoice Payment** Records a payment against an existing invoice in Kiwili, with its amount, date, payment type and bank account. - Action **Create Payment Type** Creates a new payment type in Kiwili. - Action **Create Product** Creates a new product in Kiwili, with its price, identifiers, tax profile, accounting code, inventory and resale settings. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Kiwili for an enterprise (client), with optional billing type, budget, rate, team and services. - Action **Create Project Step** Creates a new step (phase) within a Kiwili project, with optional budget, dates, administrator and team allocation. - Action **Create Service** Creates a new service in Kiwili, with its name, rate, category, tax profile and accounting code. - Action **Create Sprint** Creates a new sprint in Kiwili with its dates, administrator and optional resources. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task in Kiwili, optionally linked to a project, client, sprint or service and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Tax Profile** Creates a new tax profile in Kiwili, with up to two tax rates, their labels and registration numbers. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry in Kiwili, logging hours worked by a user on a project step and service. - Action **Delete Accounting Code** Deletes an accounting code from your Kiwili account. Only accounting codes that are not in use can be deleted. - Action **Delete Bank Account** Deletes a bank account from Kiwili. Only bank accounts that are not used anywhere can be deleted. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a contact from your Kiwili account. - Action **Delete Enterprise** Deletes an enterprise (company client) from Kiwili. Only enterprises that are not in use can be deleted. - Action **Delete ExpenseAccount** Deletes an unused expense account in Kiwili. - Action **Delete Invoice** Deletes an invoice in Kiwili. Only invoices still in Draft status can be deleted. - Action **Delete Payment Type** Deletes a payment type from your Kiwili account. Only payment types not used by any payment can be deleted. - Action **Delete Product** Deletes a product from your Kiwili account. Only products that are not used on any document can be deleted. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project in Kiwili. Only projects that are not in use can be deleted. - Action **Delete Project Step** Deletes a project step in Kiwili. Only steps that are not in use can be deleted. - Action **Delete Service** Deletes a service from your Kiwili account. Only services not used on any document can be deleted. - Action **Delete Tax Profile** Deletes a tax profile from your Kiwili account. Only tax profiles that are not in use can be deleted. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry from your Kiwili account. - Action **Find Accounting Code** Returns the accounting codes that match the search text or filters you specify, such as code, description or accounting class. - Action **Find Bank Account** Returns the Kiwili bank accounts that match the search text or the filters you supply, such as name, currency, account number or accounting code. - Action **Find Enterprise** Searches the enterprises (companies and clients) in your Kiwili account by name, email, code or any other property and returns the ones that match. - Action **Find ExpenseAccount** Searches the expense accounts in your Kiwili account by text, name, category, tax profile, price or other criteria and returns the matching expense accounts. - Action **Find Payment Type** Returns the payment types in your Kiwili account that match a name, search text or id range. - Action **Find Product** Returns the products in your Kiwili account that match the search text or filters you supply, such as name, SKU, UPC, category or price range. - Action **Find Project** Searches Kiwili projects by name, code, client, contact or other project details and returns the matching projects. - Action **Find Project Step** Searches the project steps in your Kiwili account by text, project, name, dates, budget or completion, and returns the matching steps. - Action **Find Service** Searches the services in your Kiwili account by text, name, number, category, rate and other criteria, and returns the matching services. - Action **Find Sprint** Searches the sprints in your Kiwili account by text, name, dates, administrator or other criteria and returns the matching sprints. - Action **Find Task** Returns the tasks that match the search text or the filters you choose, such as summary, project, assignee, status or due date. - Action **Find TaxProfile** Finds tax profiles in Kiwili by search text, description, tax labels, numbers or rates, and returns the matching tax profiles. - Action **Get Accounting Code** Returns one accounting code from your Kiwili chart of accounts by its id, including its code number, description, accounting class and tax reclaim percentage. - Action **Get Bank Account** Returns a single bank account from your Kiwili account by its ID, including its name, currency, account numbers and accounting code. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a single Kiwili contact by its ID, including name, email, phone numbers, address and the enterprise it belongs to. - Action **Get Enterprise** Returns a Kiwili enterprise (client, prospect or provider company) by its id, with its address, contact details and billing settings. - Action **Get ExpenseAccount** Returns a single expense account from Kiwili, including its name, description, default price, category, tax profile and accounting code. - Action **Get Invoice** Returns a single Kiwili invoice by its id, including its lines, totals, balance, status and payment details. - Action **Get InvoicePayment** Returns a single invoice payment from Kiwili by its id, including the amount, payment date, invoice and bank account it belongs to. - Action **Get Payment Type** Returns a single payment type (such as cash, cheque or credit card) by its id. - Action **Get Product** Returns a single product from Kiwili by its id, including its price, SKU, category, tax profile and inventory settings. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single Kiwili project by its ID, including its client, billing type, budget, team and services. - Action **Get Project Step** Returns a single project step (phase) of a Kiwili project by its ID, including its dates, budget, completion and team. - Action **Get Service** Returns a single Kiwili service by its id, including its name, number, rate, category, tax profile and accounting code. - Action **Get Sprint** Returns a single Kiwili sprint by its id, including its dates, administrator and assigned resources. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single Kiwili task by its id, including its summary, status, priority, dates, assignee and linked project, sprint and enterprise. - Action **Get TaxProfile** Returns a single Kiwili tax profile by its id, including its tax rates, labels and tax numbers. - Action **Get Time Entry** Returns a single time entry by its id, including date, hours, start and end times, user, project, service and billing status. - Action **Update Accounting Code** Updates an existing accounting code in Kiwili, changing its code number, description, accounting class or tax reclaim percentage. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update Bank Account** Updates an existing bank account in Kiwili, such as its name, description, currency, account numbers, credit limit or active status. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact in Kiwili, such as their name, email, phone, address or enterprise. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Enterprise** Updates an existing enterprise (client, prospect or provider company) in Kiwili. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update ExpenseAccount** Updates an existing expense account in Kiwili, such as its name, description, default price, category, tax profile or accounting code. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing invoice in Kiwili, including its client, dates, lines, taxes and status. Returns the updated invoice. - Action **Update InvoicePayment** Updates an existing invoice payment in Kiwili, such as its amount, date, payment type or bank account. - Action **Update Payment Type** Updates the name of an existing payment type in Kiwili. - Action **Update Product** Updates an existing product in Kiwili, changing only the details you provide, and returns the updated product. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project in Kiwili, such as its name, client, billing type, budget, rate or team, and returns the updated project. - Action **Update Project Step** Updates an existing project step in Kiwili, such as its name, dates, budget, progress or assigned team, and returns the updated step. - Action **Update Service** Updates an existing service in Kiwili, such as its name, rate, category, tax profile or billable status. - Action **Update Sprint** Updates an existing sprint in Kiwili, including its name, dates, administrator, status and assigned resources. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing task in Kiwili, such as its summary, assignee, dates, priority or status. - Action **Update TaxProfile** Updates an existing tax profile in Kiwili, such as its description, tax rates, labels and registration numbers. Kiwili only allows the rates of tax profiles that are not yet in use to be changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in Kiwili, such as its date, hours, project, service or billing status. ## Each app on its own - [ **Algolia** Algolia is a search and discovery platform for fast, relevant search and AI-powered recommendations across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/algolia) - [ **Kiwili** ERP & online account management software for your small business](https://apiant.ai/connections/kiwili) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Algolia - [ **Algolia to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/algolia-to-hubspot) - [ **Algolia to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/algolia-to-salesforce) - [ **Algolia to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Algolia's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Browse Records. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Kiwili when something happens in Algolia? Any of Kiwili's 73 actions, including Create Accounting Code, Create Bank Account, Create Contact and Create Enterprise. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Kiwili to Algolia? Yes. When something happens in Kiwili, your agent can act in Algolia too. This page covers both directions: Kiwili's triggers and Algolia's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Algolia or Kiwili? 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 Algolia and Kiwili 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.