--- title: "Connect Aplos and Mailgun - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New contact\" fires in Aplos, your agent runs \"Send Email\" in Mailgun, or \"New List\" in Mailgun to \"Find contacts\" in Aplos." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-mailgun" --- # Connect Aplos and Mailgun When **New contact** fires in [Aplos](https://apiant.ai/connections/aplos), your agent runs **Send Email** in [Mailgun](https://apiant.ai/connections/mailgun), or **New List** in Mailgun to **Find contacts** in Aplos. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Aplos **3** triggers Aplos **13** actions Mailgun **2** triggers Mailgun **7** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Aplos and Mailgun 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 Aplos and Mailgun can do together ### From Aplos to Mailgun - When **New contact** in Aplos then **Send Email** in Mailgun - When **New contribution** in Aplos then **Find events** in Mailgun ### From Mailgun to Aplos - When **New List** in Mailgun then **Find contacts** in Aplos - When **New Log Data** in Mailgun then **Get contact** in Aplos 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 Aplos and Mailgun ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 20 actions - Trigger **New contact** Triggers when a new contact (a donor, individual or company) is added in Aplos. - Trigger **New contribution** Triggers when a new contribution (a donation batch) is recorded in Aplos. Use Get contribution with its ID to read the donors, purposes and amounts. - Trigger **New or updated contact** Triggers when a contact (a donor, individual or company) is added or changed in Aplos. - Action **Add contribution** Records a contribution (donation record) in Aplos, with one or more lines each crediting a contact and a purpose. - Action **Add payable** Creates an accounts payable bill in Aplos, split across one or more expense lines by account and fund. - Action **Add transaction** Creates an accounting transaction (journal entry) in Aplos. The transaction lines must balance by amount and fund. - Action **Find contacts** Returns the contacts that match the specified name, email, type or last-updated time. - Action **Find contributions** Returns contributions (donation records) that match the specified contact, name and date criteria. - Action **Find transactions** Returns accounting transactions that match the criteria you supply (contact, fund, account, amount, date range, memo, note, tags, reconciled status). - Action **Get contact** Retrieve a single Aplos contact (individual or company) by its ID, including emails, phones and addresses. - Action **Get contribution** Retrieve a single Aplos contribution record by its ID. - Action **Get payable** Retrieves a single payable (bill) by its id. - Action **Get transaction** Retrieves a single accounting transaction, including its lines (account, fund, amount) and contact. - Action **List accounts** Lists the accounts in the organization's chart of accounts, optionally filtered by enabled status, name or account type. - Action **List funds** Lists the funds in the Aplos organization, optionally narrowed by name or fund balance account number. - Action **List purposes** Lists the donation purposes in the Aplos organization, optionally filtered by name or enabled status. - Trigger **New List** Triggers when a new mailing list is created in your Mailgun account. - Trigger **New Log Data** Triggers when a new entry appears in your Mailgun account's event logs (accepted, delivered, failed, opened, clicked and other message events). - Action **Add route** Creates an inbound email route in Mailgun that matches incoming messages by a filter expression and forwards, stores or stops them. - Action **Delete mailing list member** Removes a member from a Mailgun mailing list by their email address. - Action **Find events** Returns Mailgun events (accepted, delivered, failed, opened, clicked, and more) for a sending domain that match the filters you supply, such as recipient, message id, event type or time range. - Action **List domains** Returns the sending domains on your Mailgun account, optionally filtered by state, authority or a name search. - Action **List mailing list members** Returns the members of a Mailgun mailing list, with each member's email address, name, custom variables and subscription status. Optionally returns only subscribed or only unsubscribed members. - Action **Send Email** Sends an email from one of your Mailgun sending domains, with plain-text, HTML or stored-template content, optional attachments, tags and delivery options. - Action **Send test alert webhook** Asks Mailgun to send a sample alert notification with dummy data to a webhook address. ## Each app on its own - [ **Aplos** Aplos is fund accounting and donor management software for churches and nonprofits: contacts and donors...](https://apiant.ai/connections/aplos) - [ **Mailgun** Mailgun is a tool with powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly...](https://apiant.ai/connections/mailgun) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Aplos - [ **Aplos to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-salesforce) - [ **Aplos to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-stripe) - [ **Aplos to JotForm** JotForm is a web-based WYSIWYG form builder. Create forms, integrate them into your site, and collect...](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-jotform) - [ **Aplos to OpenAI** OpenAI's platform for text generation (Responses + Chat Completions), image generation (gpt-image-1 /...](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-openai) - [ **Aplos to Ontraport** Ontraport is an all-in-one CRM, marketing automation, and e-commerce platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-ontraport) - [ **Aplos to Freshworks CRM** Freshworks CRM (Freshsales Suite) — manage contacts, sales accounts, deals, notes, tasks, and appointments.](https://apiant.ai/connect/aplos-to-freshworks-crm) ## More into Mailgun - [ **HubSpot to Mailgun** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-mailgun) - [ **Google Sheets to Mailgun** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-mailgun) - [ **Gmail to Mailgun** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-mailgun) - [ **Google Calendar to Mailgun** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-mailgun) - [ **Google Drive to Mailgun** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-mailgun) - [ **Mailchimp to Mailgun** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-mailgun) Questions ## Aplos and Mailgun, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Aplos? Any of Aplos's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New contact, New contribution and New or updated contact. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Mailgun when something happens in Aplos? Any of Mailgun's 7 actions, including Send Email, Send test alert webhook, Add route and Find events. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Mailgun to Aplos? Yes. When something happens in Mailgun, your agent can act in Aplos too. This page covers both directions: Mailgun's triggers and Aplos's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Aplos or Mailgun? 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 Aplos and Mailgun 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.