--- title: "Connect Apaleo and BigMailer - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Booking\" fires in Apaleo, your agent runs \"Add/Update Contact\" in BigMailer, or \"New Contact\" in BigMailer to \"Add Allowance to Folio\" in Apaleo." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/apaleo-to-bigmailer" --- # Connect Apaleo and BigMailer When **New Booking** fires in [Apaleo](https://apiant.ai/connections/apaleo), your agent runs **Add/Update Contact** in [BigMailer](https://apiant.ai/connections/bigmailer), or **New Contact** in BigMailer to **Add Allowance to Folio** in Apaleo. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Apaleo **5** triggers Apaleo **66** actions BigMailer **1** trigger BigMailer **35** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Apaleo and BigMailer 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 Apaleo and BigMailer can do together ### From Apaleo to BigMailer - When **New Booking** in Apaleo then **Add/Update Contact** in BigMailer - When **New Company** in Apaleo then **Create a bulk campaign** in BigMailer ### From BigMailer to Apaleo - When **New Contact** in BigMailer then **Add Allowance to Folio** in Apaleo - When **New Contact** in BigMailer then **Add Charge to Folio** in Apaleo 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 Apaleo and BigMailer ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 101 actions - Trigger **New Booking** Triggers when a new booking is created in Apaleo, returning the booker details and its reservations. - Trigger **New Company** Triggers when a new company is created in Apaleo. - Trigger **New Folio** Triggers when a new folio is created in Apaleo, newest first. - Trigger **New Reservation** Triggers when a new reservation is created in Apaleo, optionally limited to certain properties, statuses or channels. - Trigger **Reservation Updated** Triggers when a reservation is created or changed, including status changes such as check-in, check-out or cancellation. - Action **Add Allowance to Folio** Posts an allowance (a discount or credit) to a folio in Apaleo. - Action **Add Charge to Folio** Adds a charge for a good or service to a folio and posts it immediately. Returns the new charge id and any fee charge ids. - Action **Add Reservations to Booking** Creates one or more new reservations and adds them to an existing booking. Returns the ids of the reservations that were created. - Action **Amend Reservation Stay** Changes the stay details of a reservation: arrival, departure, number of guests and the rate plan for each night. - Action **Assign Unit to Reservation** Assigns a specific unit (room) to a confirmed or in-house reservation, optionally for part of the stay and optionally locking it. - Action **Book Service for Reservation** Books a service (such as breakfast or spa) onto an existing reservation, for the whole stay or for specific dates. - Action **Cancel Block** Cancels a block that is Definite or Tentative, changing its status to Canceled. - Action **Cancel Invoice** Cancels an invoice in Apaleo, creating a cancellation invoice and reopening the folio where applicable. - Action **Cancel Reservation** Cancels a confirmed reservation whose arrival is still in the future, setting its status to Canceled. - Action **Change Unit Condition** Changes the housekeeping condition (Clean, Clean to be inspected, Dirty) of a unit in apaleo. - Action **Check In Reservation** Checks in a confirmed reservation that has a unit assigned, moving it to In House. - Action **Check Out Reservation** Checks out an in-house reservation, setting its status to Checked Out and posting all open folio charges. - Action **Close Folio** Closes a folio so no further charges or payments can be added. Only possible when the folio balance is 0; this cannot be undone. - Action **Confirm Block** Confirms a tentative block, changing its status to Definite. - Action **Create Block** Creates a block of inventory for a group booking at a given rate plan and date range, and returns the new block's id. - Action **Create Booking** Creates a booking in Apaleo containing one or more reservations for a booker. Returns the new booking id and the ids of its reservations. - Action **Create Company** Creates a company (corporate account) for a property in Apaleo, with its address, tax details and bookable rate plans. - Action **Create Folio** Creates an additional guest folio for a reservation, or a new external folio for a property, with the given debitor. - Action **Create Group** Creates a group booking in Apaleo for one or more properties, with the booker's details. Returns the new group's id. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice for one folio. The folio's debitor must have a name, city, postal code and country. - Action **Create Maintenance** Creates a maintenance window (out of service, out of order or out of inventory) for a unit. - Action **Create Payment** Records a custom payment (cash, cheque, voucher or externally processed) on an Apaleo folio. - Action **Create Payment Link** Creates a link to a payment form where a guest can pay an amount toward a folio. Returns the id of the pending payment. - Action **Create Refund** Creates a refund on an Apaleo folio for the given amount and payment method. The refund is processed asynchronously. - Action **Create Unit** Creates a new unit (room) in an Apaleo property. - Action **Delete Block** Deletes a block, as long as no reservations have been picked up from it. - Action **Delete Company** Deletes a company and removes it from any rate plans that have not used it yet. - Action **Delete Folio** Deletes an empty, non-main folio. This cannot be undone. - Action **Delete Group** Deletes a group booking in Apaleo. Only possible while no blocks are linked to the group. - Action **Delete Maintenance** Deletes a maintenance window from a unit. Maintenances that started yesterday or earlier cannot be deleted. - Action **Get Block** Returns a specific Apaleo block (inventory held for a group booking) by its ID. - Action **Get Booking** Returns a booking with its booker details, reservations and property totals. - Action **Get Company** Returns a company (corporate account) by its ID, including its address, tax details and bookable rate plans. - Action **Get Folio** Returns one folio by ID, including its charges, allowances, payments, balance and debitor details. - Action **Get Group** Returns a specific group booking, optionally including its blocks and available actions. - Action **Get Invoice** Returns an invoice's details, including recipient, line items, payments, tax details and totals. - Action **Get Invoice PDF** Downloads the PDF file of an existing invoice. - Action **Get Maintenance** Returns a scheduled unit maintenance (out of service, out of order or out of inventory) by its ID, including its unit and time window. - Action **Get Payment** Returns a single payment on a folio, including its amount, method, status and dates. - Action **Get Property** Returns a property (hotel) by its id, including its name, address, company details, time zone and currency. - Action **Get Rate Plan** Returns a single rate plan by its ID, including its pricing, policies, restrictions and channels. - Action **Get Reservation** Returns a single reservation, including its guest, stay dates, rate plan, unit and amounts. - Action **Get Service** Returns a specific service (such as breakfast) with its price, availability and accounting settings. - Action **Get Stay Offers** Returns the available room offers (unit groups with rate plans and prices) for a property, arrival and departure date and number of guests. - Action **Get Unit** Returns a single unit (room or space) with its property, unit group, status, and attributes. - Action **Get Unit Group** Returns a unit group (room type) with its property, names, descriptions, capacity and unit count. - Action **List Bookings** Returns the bookings in your Apaleo account, optionally filtered by reservation, group, channel, external code or booker details. - Action **List Folios** Returns the folios in your Apaleo account, optionally filtered by property, reservation, booking, company, status, type, dates or balance. - Action **List Payments** Returns the payments recorded on a folio, newest first, optionally filtered by payment status. - Action **List Properties** Returns the list of properties (hotels) in the Apaleo account, optionally filtered by status or country. - Action **List Rate Plans** Returns the rate plans in your Apaleo account, optionally filtered by property, codes, channels, unit groups and other criteria. - Action **List Rates** Returns the prices and restrictions of a rate plan for each time slice in a date range. - Action **List Reservations** Returns the reservations in your Apaleo account, optionally filtered by booking, property, status, dates, guest text and more. - Action **List Services** Returns the services (extras such as breakfast or parking) set up for your properties, optionally filtered by property, name, channel or type. - Action **List Unit Groups** Returns the unit groups (room types, meeting rooms, parking and similar) defined in Apaleo, optionally for one property. - Action **List Units** Returns the units (rooms) of your Apaleo account, optionally filtered by property, unit group, condition, occupancy or name. - Action **Mark Invoice Paid** Marks an Apaleo invoice as paid, recording the payment method and receipt reference. - Action **Reopen Folio** Reopens a closed folio so charges and payments can be posted again. Only works when no invoice has been created for the folio. - Action **Update Booking** Updates a booking's comment, booker comment, booker or payment account. - Action **Update Company** Updates an existing company's name, contact details, tax IDs, address, invoicing options or rate plans. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Folio** Updates a folio's debitor or company in Apaleo. - Action **Update Group** Updates a group booking's name, comments, properties, booker or payment account. - Action **Update Maintenance** Updates the start, end or description of an existing maintenance window for a unit. - Action **Update Rates** Creates or overwrites the prices and restrictions of a rate plan for the given time slices. - Action **Update Reservation** Updates a reservation's comments, travel purpose, market segment, company, charge and pre-check-in flags, or applies other allowed changes such as the primary guest. - Action **Update Unit** Updates a unit's name, description, condition, unit group or maximum occupancy in Apaleo. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Add/Update Contact** Creates a BigMailer contact, or updates the existing contact with that email address. Custom fields for the selected brand can be mapped alongside list membership and unsubscribe settings. - Action **Create a bulk campaign** Creates a bulk email campaign in a BigMailer brand — name, subject, sender, content, recipient lists, tracking and optional schedule. - Action **Create an RSS campaign** Creates an RSS-to-email campaign in a BigMailer brand: watches a feed URL and emails new items on the schedule you choose. - Action **Create a transactional campaign** Creates a transactional campaign in a BigMailer brand — the reusable email template and settings you later send one-off emails with. - Action **Create list** Creates a new contact list inside a BigMailer brand. - Action **Create segment** Creates a segment in a BigMailer brand: a saved set of conditions that picks out the contacts you want to target. - Action **Create template** Creates a reusable email or landing-page template in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact from a BigMailer brand, by contact ID or email address. - Action **Delete list** Deletes a contact list from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete segment** Deletes a segment from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete template** Deletes a template from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Get brand** Returns one BigMailer brand: its name, default sender, bounce settings, contact count and engagement stats. - Action **Get bulk campaign** Returns one bulk campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its content, recipients and send statistics. - Action **Get contact** Returns one BigMailer contact by ID or email address, including its custom field values. - Action **Get list** Returns one contact list from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Get RSS campaign** Returns one RSS campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its feed URL, schedule and content. - Action **Get segment** Returns one segment from a BigMailer brand, including the conditions that define it. - Action **Get template** Returns one template from a BigMailer brand, including its HTML. - Action **Get transactional campaign** Returns one transactional campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its content and send statistics. - Action **List brands** Lists the brands in your BigMailer account. - Action **List bulk campaigns** Lists the bulk campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List contacts** Lists the contacts in a BigMailer brand, optionally limited to one list. - Action **List lists** Lists the contact lists in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List RSS campaigns** Lists the RSS campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List segments** Lists the segments in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List senders** Lists the sending identities in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List templates** Lists the templates in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List transactional campaigns** Lists the transactional campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Update a bulk campaign** Updates an existing bulk campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update an RSS campaign** Updates an existing RSS campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a transactional campaign** Updates an existing transactional campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update brand** Updates an existing BigMailer brand — its name, default sender name and email, website URL, unsubscribe text, bounce thresholds, contact limit and logo. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update list** Renames an existing contact list inside a BigMailer brand. - Action **Update segment** Updates an existing BigMailer segment — its name, match operator (all/any) and its list of conditions. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update template** Updates an existing BigMailer template — its name, type, HTML content and account-wide sharing. Only the fields you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Apaleo** Cloud-native, API-first property management system for hotels, apartments, and hospitality operators.](https://apiant.ai/connections/apaleo) - [ **BigMailer** BigMailer is email marketing software for agencies and developers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bigmailer) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Apaleo - [ **Apaleo to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/apaleo-to-hubspot) - [ **Apaleo to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/apaleo-to-salesforce) - [ **Apaleo to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Apaleo's 5 triggers in the catalog, including New Booking, New Company, New Folio and New Reservation. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in BigMailer when something happens in Apaleo? Any of BigMailer's 35 actions, including Create a bulk campaign, Create an RSS campaign, Create a transactional campaign and Create list. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from BigMailer to Apaleo? Yes. When something happens in BigMailer, your agent can act in Apaleo too. This page covers both directions: BigMailer's triggers and Apaleo's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Apaleo or BigMailer? 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 Apaleo and BigMailer 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.