# Connect Avaza and Google Docs When **Company Updated** fires in [Avaza](https://apiant.ai/connections/avaza), your agent runs **Create Document** in [Google Docs](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-docs), or **Document Structure Changed** in Google Docs to **Create Contact** in Avaza. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Avaza **25** triggers Avaza **47** actions Google Docs **10** triggers Google Docs **30** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Avaza and Google Docs 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 Avaza and Google Docs can do together ### From Avaza to Google Docs - When **Company Updated** in Avaza then **Create Document** in Google Docs - When **Contact Updated** in Avaza then **Create Document Markdown** in Google Docs ### From Google Docs to Avaza - When **Document Structure Changed** in Google Docs then **Create Contact** in Avaza - When **Document Updated** in Google Docs then **Create Invoice** in Avaza 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 Avaza and Google Docs ## Triggers and actions 35 triggers · 77 actions - Trigger **Company Updated** Triggers when a company is updated in Avaza, delivering a snapshot of the company. - Trigger **Contact Updated** Triggers when a contact is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Estimate Deleted** Triggers when an estimate (quote) is deleted in Avaza. - Trigger **Estimate Updated** Triggers when an estimate (quote) is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Expense Deleted** Triggers when an expense is deleted in Avaza. - Trigger **Expense Updated** Triggers when an expense is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent (or marked as sent) in Avaza. - Trigger **Invoice Update** Triggers when an invoice is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **New Bill Created** Triggers when a new supplier bill is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Company** Triggers when a new company is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Estimate Created** Triggers when a new estimate (quote) is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Expense Created** Triggers when a new expense is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Invoice Created** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Schedule Series Created** Triggers when a schedule series (a project booking or leave) is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Task Created** Triggers when a new task is created in Avaza. - Trigger **New Timesheet Entry** Triggers when a timesheet entry is created in Avaza. - Trigger **Project Updated** Triggers when a project is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Schedule Series Deleted** Triggers when a schedule booking or leave series is deleted in Avaza. - Trigger **Schedule Series Updated** Triggers when a schedule series (a project booking or leave) is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Task Deleted** Triggers when a task is deleted in Avaza. - Trigger **Task Updated** Triggers when a task is updated in Avaza. - Trigger **Timesheet Entry Deleted** Triggers when a timesheet entry is deleted in Avaza. - Trigger **Timesheet Entry Updated** Triggers when a timesheet entry is updated in Avaza. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a new draft supplier bill in Avaza, optionally creating the supplier company and contact if no match is found. - Action **Create Bill Payment** Records a payment made to a supplier, optionally allocating it against one or more bills. - Action **Create Company** Creates a new customer company in Avaza with billing address, contact details and custom field values. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in Avaza, optionally linked to an existing or new company. - Action **Create Estimate / Quote** Creates a new draft estimate (quote) for a customer, optionally creating the customer company and contact if no match is found. - Action **Create Expense** Creates a new expense entry in Avaza for a user, with a date, amount and expense category, optionally linked to a customer, project or task. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new draft invoice for a customer company, with line items. Can create the customer company and contact if no matching company is found. - Action **Create Invoice Payment** Records a customer payment in Avaza, optionally allocating it against one or more invoices. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Avaza under an existing customer company, or under a new company created from the name you give. - Action **Create Schedule Booking** Creates a project work schedule booking for a user over a date range, with hours per day or a total duration. - Action **Create Section** Creates a new section (task group) within an Avaza project. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task in an Avaza project section, optionally assigning users, dates, priority, effort, tags and custom field values. - Action **Create Timesheet Entry** Creates a timesheet entry in an Avaza project, or starts a timer when no duration is given. - Action **Delete Estimate** Deletes an estimate (quote) in Avaza. Estimates converted to an invoice cannot be deleted. - Action **Delete Schedule or Leave Series** Deletes a schedule booking or leave series, along with all of its daily schedule assignments. - Action **Delete Section** Deletes a section (task group) from a project. Sections that still contain tasks cannot be deleted. - Action **Delete Task** Deletes a task, along with its subtasks and comments, from an Avaza project. - Action **Delete Timesheet** Deletes a timesheet entry in Avaza by its Timesheet Entry ID. - Action **Get Bill** Returns a single supplier bill by its ID, including line items, supplier and recipient address details, amounts, status and web links. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a single external contact by its Contact ID, including company, contact details, roles and custom field values. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns a single estimate (quote) by its ID, including line items, status, amounts, issuer/recipient details and web links. - Action **Get Project** Returns a project's full details, including its sections, team members, tags and custom field values. - Action **Lookup Company** Finds companies in Avaza whose name matches the search text and returns their IDs and names. - Action **Lookup Expense Category** Finds an expense category in your Avaza account by its name and returns its id and unit price settings. - Action **Lookup Project** Finds active projects by title, project code, or customer company and returns their ids, codes and titles. - Action **Lookup Project Timesheet Category** Looks up the timesheet categories assigned to a project, optionally matching one by name. - Action **Lookup Task** Returns a task by its ID, including project, section, assignees, dates, status, priority, tags, time tracking and custom field values. - Action **Lookup User** Finds Avaza users (team members and customer contacts) by email address, with optional filters for role, tag and company. Returns the first match and the full list of matches. - Action **Mark Invoice as Sent** Flags a draft invoice as Sent without emailing it to the customer. - Action **Reterive Task Comments** Returns the comments and discussion messages on an Avaza task, including replies, attachments and system messages. - Action **Search Expenses** Returns expense entries matching a search on merchant or category name, with optional filters for date range, user, customer, project, chargeable/invoiced status and approval status. - Action **Search Invoice** Searches invoices by status, customer company, issue date, due date or last-updated date, and returns the matching invoices with their line items. - Action **Search Project** Searches projects by title, company, category, owner, status, billing or budget type, tags and dates, and returns the matching projects. - Action **Search Task** Searches tasks, filtering by project, section parent, status, priority, due date range, assigned user, completion state and last-updated date. - Action **Search Timesheets** Searches timesheet entries, filtered by date range, user, project, customer, task, category, billable/invoiced and approval status. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the running timer on an existing timesheet entry, adding the elapsed time to its duration. - Action **Update Company** Updates an existing Avaza company. Only the fields named in Fields To Update are changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing customer contact in Avaza — name, email, phone, mobile, position title, time zone, portal roles and custom field values. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Estimate** Updates an existing draft or sent estimate (quote) in Avaza, changing only the fields you list. Accepted, converted or void estimates cannot be updated. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing Avaza expense entry. Only the fields you list in Fields To Update are changed. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing draft invoice in Avaza. Only the fields you list in Fields To Update are changed. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing Avaza project. Only the fields named in Fields To Update are changed. - Action **Update Project Member** Updates a project member's rates, budget, or permissions on an Avaza project. Only the fields named in Fields To Update are changed. - Action **Update Project Timesheet Category** Updates a timesheet category's settings on a project, such as billable status, hourly rate, cost rate and budget hours. - Action **Update Schedule Booking** Updates an existing project work schedule booking in Avaza, such as its user, project, dates or hours. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing Avaza task. Only the fields you fill in are changed; blank fields keep their current values. - Action **Update Timesheet Entry** Updates an existing timesheet entry in Avaza, changing only the fields you list as fields to update. - Trigger **Document Deleted** Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed. - Trigger **Document Placeholder Filled** Triggers when a Google Doc's plain text changes such that a configured placeholder token/pattern is no longer present (i.e., the document has been filled in). This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when a placeholder pattern that was previously present is no longer found in the document's plain text. - Trigger **Document Search Update** Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents. - Trigger **Document Structure Changed** Triggers when a Google Doc's structure changes (headers/footers added/removed, tables/images count changes). This trigger monitors a specific document for structural changes like: - Headers added or removed - Footers added or removed - Tables added or removed - Images (inline objects) added or removed - Positioned objects added or removed - Footnotes added or removed - Trigger **Document Updated** Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated. - Trigger **Document Word Count Threshold** Triggers when a Google Doc's word/character count crosses a user-defined threshold. This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when its word or character count becomes greater than or equal to the configured threshold value. - Trigger **Keyword Detected in Document** Triggers when a specific keyword or phrase first appears in a Google Doc. This trigger monitors a Google Doc and fires once when the specified keyword is detected. After the keyword is found, the trigger will not fire again until reset. - Trigger **New Document Added** Triggers when a new Google Doc is added/created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. - Trigger **New Document Created** Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents. - Trigger **New Folder Created in Root** Triggers when a new folder is created in the root folder of Google Drive. This trigger monitors Google Drive and fires when new folders are detected in the root directory. - Action **Copy Document** Tool to create a copy of an existing google document. use this to duplicate a document, for example, when using an existing document as a template. the copied document will have a default title (e.g., 'copy of [original title]') if no new title is provided, and will be placed in the user's root google drive folder. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new google docs document using the provided title as filename and inserts the initial text at the beginning if non-empty, returning the document's id and metadata (excluding body content). - Action **Create Document Markdown** Creates a new google docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as markdown text. - Action **Create Footer** Tool to create a new footer in a google document. use when you need to add a footer, optionally specifying its type and the section it applies to. - Action **Create Footnote** Tool to create a new footnote in a google document. use this when you need to add a footnote at a specific location or at the end of the document body. - Action **Create Header** Tool to create a new header in a google document. use this tool when you need to add a header to a document, optionally specifying the section it applies to. - Action **Create Named Range** Tool to create a new named range in a google document. use this to assign a name to a specific part of the document for easier reference or programmatic manipulation. - Action **Create Paragraph Bullets** Tool to add bullets to paragraphs within a specified range in a google document. use when you need to format a list or a set of paragraphs as bullet points. - Action **Delete Content Range** Tool to delete a range of content from a google document. use when you need to remove a specific portion of text or other structural elements within a document. - Action **Delete Footer** Tool to delete a footer from a google document. use when you need to remove a footer from a specific section or the default footer. - Action **Delete Header** Deletes the header from the specified section or the default header if no section is specified. use this tool to remove a header from a google document. - Action **Delete Named Range** Tool to delete a named range from a google document. use when you need to remove a previously defined named range by its id or name. - Action **Delete Paragraph Bullets** Tool to remove bullets from paragraphs within a specified range in a google document. use when you need to clear bullet formatting from a section of a document. - Action **Delete Table** Tool to delete an entire table from a google document. use when you have the document id and the specific start and end index of the table element to be removed. the table's range can be found by inspecting the document's content structure. - Action **Delete Table Column** Tool to delete a column from a table in a google document. use this tool when you need to remove a specific column from an existing table within a document. - Action **Delete Table Row** Tool to delete a row from a table in a google document. use when you need to remove a specific row from an existing table. - Action **Get Document By Id** Retrieves an existing google document by its id; will error if the document is not found. - Action **Insert Inline Image** Tool to insert an image from a given uri at a specified location in a google document as an inline image. use when you need to add an image to a document programmatically. - Action **Insert Page Break** Tool to insert a page break into a google document. use when you need to start new content on a fresh page, such as at the end of a chapter or section. - Action **Insert Table Action** Tool to insert a table into a google document. use when you need to add a new table at a specific location or at the end of a segment (like document body, header, or footer) in a document. - Action **Insert Table Column** Tool to insert a new column into a table in a google document. use this tool when you need to add a column to an existing table at a specific location. - Action **Insert Text Action** Tool to insert a string of text at a specified location within a google document. use when you need to add new text content to an existing document. - Action **Replace All Text** Tool to replace all occurrences of a specified text string with another text string throughout a google document. use when you need to perform a global find and replace operation within a document. - Action **Replace Image** Tool to replace a specific image in a document with a new image from a uri. use when you need to update an existing image within a google doc. - Action **Search Documents** Search for google documents using various filters including name, content, date ranges, and more. - Action **Unmerge Table Cells** Tool to unmerge previously merged cells in a table. use this when you need to revert merged cells in a google document table back to their individual cell states. - Action **Update Document Markdown** Replaces the entire content of an existing google docs document with new markdown text; requires edit permissions for the document. - Action **Update Document Style** Tool to update the overall document style, such as page size, margins, and default text direction. use when you need to modify the global style settings of a google document. - Action **Update Existing Document** Applies programmatic edits, such as text insertion, deletion, or formatting, to a specified google doc using the `batchupdate` api method. - Action **Update Table Row Style** Tool to update the style of a table row in a google document. use when you need to modify the appearance of specific rows within a table, such as setting minimum row height or marking rows as headers. ## Each app on its own - [ **Avaza** Avaza is a versatile software for client-focused businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connections/avaza) - [ **Google Docs** Google Docs is a cloud-based word processor with real-time collaboration, version history, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-docs) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Avaza - [ **Avaza to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/avaza-to-hubspot) - [ **Avaza to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/avaza-to-salesforce) - [ **Avaza to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Avaza's 25 triggers in the catalog, including Company Updated, Contact Updated, Estimate Updated and Expense Updated. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Google Docs when something happens in Avaza? Any of Google Docs's 30 actions, including Create Document, Create Document Markdown, Create Footer and Create Footnote. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Google Docs to Avaza? Yes. When something happens in Google Docs, your agent can act in Avaza too. This page covers both directions: Google Docs's triggers and Avaza's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Avaza or Google Docs? 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 Avaza and Google Docs 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.