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title: "Connect Authorize.net and Zoho Books - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Transaction\" fires in Authorize.net, your agent runs \"Add customer payment\" in Zoho Books."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/authorize-net-to-zoho-books"
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# Connect Authorize.net and Zoho Books

When **New Transaction** fires in [Authorize.net](https://apiant.ai/connections/authorize-net), your agent runs **Add customer payment** in [Zoho Books](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books), or **New bill** in Zoho Books to **Create a Subscription from a Customer Profile** in Authorize.net. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Authorize.net **1** trigger Authorize.net **27** actions Zoho Books **6** triggers Zoho Books **18** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Authorize.net and Zoho Books to do together?

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### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

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Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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### 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.

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### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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### 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.

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### 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.

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Example flows

## What Authorize.net and Zoho Books can do together

### From Authorize.net to Zoho Books

- When **New Transaction** in Authorize.net then **Add customer payment** in Zoho Books
- When **New Transaction** in Authorize.net then **Create Customer** in Zoho Books

### From Zoho Books to Authorize.net

- When **New bill** in Zoho Books then **Create a Subscription from a Customer Profile** in Authorize.net
- When **New Customer** in Zoho Books then **Create Customer Profile** in Authorize.net

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 Authorize.net and Zoho Books

## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 45 actions

- Trigger

**New Transaction**

Triggers when a new transaction (charge, authorization, refund or void) is submitted.

- Action

**Cancel a Subscription**

Cancels a subscription. No further payments are charged.

- Action

**Capture a Previously Authorized Amount**

Captures funds from a transaction that was authorized earlier.

- Action

**Charge a Customer Profile**

Charges a saved customer payment profile.

- Action

**Create a Subscription**

Creates a recurring-billing subscription charged to a credit card.

- Action

**Create a Subscription from a Customer Profile**

Creates a recurring-billing subscription charged to a saved customer payment profile.

- Action

**Create Customer Payment Profile**

Saves a credit card on an existing customer profile.

- Action

**Create Customer Profile**

Creates a customer profile, optionally with a saved card and billing address.

- Action

**Create Customer Profile from a Transaction**

Saves the customer, card and addresses from an existing transaction as a new customer profile.

- Action

**Create Customer Shipping Address**

Adds a shipping address to a customer profile.

- Action

**Credit a Bank Account**

Sends money to a bank account by eCheck (ACH), as a refund of an earlier bank debit or as a standalone credit.

- Action

**Debit a Bank Account**

Charges a bank account by eCheck (ACH).

- Action

**Delete Customer Payment Profile**

Deletes a saved payment profile.

- Action

**Delete Customer Profile**

Deletes a customer profile and everything saved on it.

- Action

**Delete Customer Shipping Address**

Deletes a shipping address from a customer profile.

- Action

**Get Customer Payment Profile**

Returns one saved payment profile.

- Action

**Get Customer Profile**

Returns a customer profile with its payment profiles and shipping addresses. Look it up by profile ID, your customer ID, or email.

- Action

**Get Customer Shipping Address**

Returns one shipping address from a customer profile.

- Action

**Get Subscription**

Returns a subscription's details, including its status.

- Action

**Get Transaction Details**

Returns the full details of one transaction by its transaction ID.

- Action

**List Settled Batches**

Returns settlement batches within a date range (up to 31 days).

- Action

**List Subscriptions**

Returns subscriptions by status: active, expiring this month, card expiring this month, or past due (cardExpiringThisMonth, subscriptionActive, subscriptionInactive, subscriptionExpiringThisMonth).

- Action

**List Transactions in a Settled Batch**

Returns the transactions in one settlement batch.

- Action

**Refund a Transaction**

Refunds a settled credit card transaction, in full or in part.

- Action

**Update Customer Payment Profile**

Replaces a saved payment profile's card and billing address. Fields left blank are cleared.

- Action

**Update Customer Profile**

Updates a customer profile's ID, description or email. Fields left blank are cleared.

- Action

**Update Customer Shipping Address**

Replaces a shipping address on a customer profile. Fields left blank are cleared.

- Action

**Void a Transaction**

Cancels an unsettled transaction so it is never submitted for settlement.

- Trigger

**New bill**

Triggered when a new bill is created

- Trigger

**New Customer**

Triggers when a new customer is created.

- Trigger

**New Estimate**

Triggers when a new estimate is created.

- Trigger

**New Expense**

Triggers when an expense is created.

- Trigger

**New Item**

Triggers when a new item is created.

- Trigger

**New Sales Invoice**

Triggers when a new sales invoice is created.

- Action

**Add bill**

Creates a bill received from a vendor in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Add customer payment**

Record a customer payment.

- Action

**Add expense**

Create an expense.

- Action

**Create Customer**

Creates a new customer contact in a Zoho Books organization.

- Action

**Create Estimate**

Creates a new estimate.

- Action

**Create Item**

Creates a new item.

- Action

**Create Sales Invoice**

Creates a new sales invoice.

- Action

**Find customers by criteria**

Returns the customers in a Zoho Books organization that match the specified criteria (name, company, contact person, address, email, phone, status or free text).

- Action

**Find Invoice**

Returns up to 200 invoices that match the specified criteria, such as invoice number, customer, status or date range.

- Action

**Get Bill**

Returns one vendor bill from Zoho Books, including its number, vendor, status and total.

- Action

**Get customer**

Get a contact by id.

- Action

**Get Estimate**

Returns one estimate (quote) from Zoho Books, including its number, customer, status and total.

- Action

**Get Expense**

Returns one expense recorded in Zoho Books, including its amount, date and accounts.

- Action

**Get Item**

Returns one item from your Zoho Books item list, including its name, rate and description.

- Action

**Get sales invoice**

Retrieves the details of an existing invoice in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates an existing customer in Zoho Books. Only the fields you fill in are changed.

- Action

**Update item**

Update an item.

- Action

**Update sales invoice**

Updates an existing sales invoice in Zoho Books. The line items you send replace the invoice's line items.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Authorize.net** Authorize.net is a world leading payment system.](https://apiant.ai/connections/authorize-net)
- [ **Zoho Books** Zoho Books is cloud-based accounting software in which you can record, audit and analyze all financial...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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Questions

## Authorize.net and Zoho Books, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Authorize.net?

Any of Authorize.net's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Zoho Books when something happens in Authorize.net?

Any of Zoho Books's 18 actions, including Create Customer, Create Estimate, Create Item and Create Sales Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Zoho Books to Authorize.net?

Yes. When something happens in Zoho Books, your agent can act in Authorize.net too. This page covers both directions: Zoho Books's triggers and Authorize.net's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Authorize.net or Zoho Books?

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 Authorize.net and Zoho Books 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.
