Integration
Connect Avalara and Nutshell
When New Transaction fires in Avalara, your agent runs Create Lead in Nutshell, or New Activity in Nutshell to Create Customer in Avalara. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
Build solutions, not workarounds.
What do you want Avalara and Nutshell to do together?
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Connect your AI client
Give your AI client this address.
https://mcp.apiant.aiOne 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.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Example flows
What Avalara and Nutshell can do together
From Avalara to Nutshell
When New Transaction in Avalara
then Create Lead in Nutshell
From Nutshell to Avalara
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 Avalara and Nutshell
Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 28 actions
- New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is recorded for a company.
- Commit Transaction
Commits a transaction so it is included in tax filings.
- Create Customer
Creates a customer in a company, used for exemption certificate tracking.
- Delete Customer
Deletes a customer record from an AvaTax company, identified by its customer code.
- Get Company
Returns one company in your Avalara account.
- Get Customer
Returns a single customer record from an AvaTax company, looked up by its customer code.
- Get Tax Rates by Address
Returns the combined and per-jurisdiction sales tax rates for a street address.
- Get Transaction
Returns one transaction with its calculated tax.
- List Companies
Returns the companies in your Avalara account.
- List Customers
Returns the customers of one company.
- List items
Returns the items (products and their tax codes) defined for an AvaTax company, up to 1,000 records.
- List nexus
Returns the nexus declarations (jurisdictions where the company collects tax) for an AvaTax company.
- List Transactions
Returns the transactions recorded for one company.
- Refund Transaction
Creates a refund (return invoice) for a committed AvaTax sales transaction, fully, partially, tax-only or by percentage.
- Resolve Address
Validates an address and returns its normalized form with coordinates.
- Update Transaction
Adjusts an existing AvaTax transaction, replacing it with new document details and recalculating tax while keeping an audit record of the adjustment reason.
- Void Transaction
Voids a transaction so it no longer counts toward tax liability.
- Activity Logged
Triggers when an Activity is logged.
- Lead Won
Triggers when a lead is won.
- New Activity
Triggers when new Activity is created.
- New Company
Triggers when new Company is created.
- New Lead
Triggers when a new Lead is created.
- New Person
Triggers when new Person is created.
- Create Company
Creates a new Company.
- Create Lead
Creates a new Lead.
- Create Person
Creates a new Person.
- Find Company
Finds an existing company.
- Find Lead
Finds an existing lead by a particular field. Defaults to searching open leads, falls back to all leads.
- Find Person
Finds an existing person.
- Find User
Finds an existing User.
- Log Activity
Creates and logs a new Activity.
- Update Company
Updates an existing Company.
- Update Lead
Updates an existing Lead.
- Update Lead Outcome
Updates a Lead Outcome.
- Update Person
Updates an existing Person.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Avalara and Nutshell, answered
What can start an automation from Avalara?
Any of Avalara'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 Nutshell when something happens in Avalara?
Any of Nutshell's 12 actions, including Create Company, Create Lead, Create Person and Log Activity. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from Nutshell to Avalara?
Yes. When something happens in Nutshell, your agent can act in Avalara too. This page covers both directions: Nutshell's triggers and Avalara's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Avalara or Nutshell?
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 Avalara and Nutshell 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.