--- title: "Connect Avaza and Harpoon - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Company Updated\" fires in Avaza, your agent runs \"Add Invoice\" in Harpoon, or \"New Client\" in Harpoon to \"Create Contact\" in Avaza." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/avaza-to-harpoon" --- # Connect Avaza and Harpoon When **Company Updated** fires in [Avaza](https://apiant.ai/connections/avaza), your agent runs **Add Invoice** in [Harpoon](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon), or **New Client** in Harpoon 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 Harpoon **9** triggers Harpoon **46** 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 Harpoon 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Avaza and Harpoon can do together ### From Avaza to Harpoon - When **Company Updated** in Avaza then **Add Invoice** in Harpoon - When **Contact Updated** in Avaza then **Create Contact** in Harpoon ### From Harpoon to Avaza - When **New Client** in Harpoon then **Create Contact** in Avaza - When **New Contact** in Harpoon 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 Harpoon ## Triggers and actions 34 triggers · 93 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 **New Client** Triggered when a new client is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggered when a new expense is created in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Expense Category** Triggered when a new expense category is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggered when a new invoice is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Payment** Triggered when a new payment is recorded in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Task Category** Triggered when a new task category is added in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Harpoon. - Action **Add Credit Entry** Creates a new credit entry on a client's account in Harpoon, recording an amount, a date and an optional note or originating invoice. Returns the credit entry that was created. - Action **Add Invoice** Creates a new invoice in Harpoon for a client or project, with an invoice number, issue date, and optional line items. Returns the invoice that was created. - Action **Add Lead Source** Creates a new lead source in Harpoon, so new clients can be tagged with where they came from. Returns the lead source that was created. - Action **Add Note** Adds a note to a client, project or invoice in Harpoon. Returns the note that was created. - Action **Add Team** Creates a new team in your Harpoon account. Harpoon populates the new team from your account details; the API accepts no team attributes on creation. - Action **Clone Time Entry** Creates a copy of an existing time entry in Harpoon. The copy keeps the original's project, task and description, and starts with today's date and zero hours logged. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact person under a Harpoon client, with their name, email address, and phone number. Returns the contact that was created. - Action **Create Expense** Records a one-off expense in Harpoon with its date, amount, and vendor, optionally attributed to a client, project, or expense category. Returns the expense that was created. - Action **Create Expense Category** Creates a new expense category in your Harpoon account so expenses can be grouped under it. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project in Harpoon for a client, with its budget, rate, and start and end dates. Returns the project that was created. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs hours worked in Harpoon for a team member on a given date, optionally against a client or project. Returns the time entry that was created. - Action **Delete Client** Deletes a client from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Expense** Permanently deletes an expense from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Invoice** Permanently removes an invoice from Harpoon. Returns Harpoon's confirmation that the invoice was deleted. - Action **Delete Note** Deletes a note from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Recurring Expense** Deletes a recurring expense template from Harpoon by its id, so it stops generating new expenses. - Action **Delete Recurring Invoice** Stops and removes a recurring invoice schedule in Harpoon so it no longer generates invoices. Returns Harpoon's confirmation that it was deleted. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry from your Harpoon account. - Action **Get Client** Returns a single client from your Harpoon account, including its name, contact details and other stored attributes. - Action **Get Client Credits** Returns a client's credit entries in Harpoon, along with the credit still available on the account. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a single Harpoon contact, including their name, email address, phone number, and the client they belong to. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns a single estimate from your Harpoon account, including its client, line items, totals and status. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single expense from your Harpoon account, including its amount, date, vendor, category and the client or project it is attached to. - Action **Get Expense Category** Returns a single Harpoon expense category with every detail it carries, including its name and budget settings. - Action **Get Invoice** Fetches one invoice from Harpoon by its id, with its client, line items and payment totals. An error occurs if the invoice is not found. - Action **Get Lead Source** Returns a single lead source from your Harpoon account. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single project from your Harpoon account, including its client, budget and status. - Action **Get Recurring Expense** Fetches one recurring expense template from Harpoon by its id, with its vendor, amount, frequency and schedule. An error occurs if it is not found. - Action **Get Recurring Invoice** Returns a single recurring invoice schedule from Harpoon, including its client, frequency, dates, and line items. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single task category from your Harpoon account, including its name and hourly rate. - Action **Get Team** Returns a single team from your Harpoon account, including its name, email address, phone, address, owner and whether it is active. - Action **Get Time Entry** Returns a single tracked time entry from your Harpoon account, including its date, hours, client, project and notes. - Action **List Contacts** Returns the contacts in your Harpoon account, including each contact's name, email address and phone number. - Action **List Estimates** Returns the estimates in a Harpoon account, optionally narrowed to a year, client, project, status, or search text. - Action **List Expense Categories** Returns the expense categories set up in Harpoon, each with its budget settings. - Action **List Expenses** Returns the expenses in your Harpoon account, optionally narrowed by date range, client, project, category, billing status or search text. - Action **List Invoices** Returns the invoices in your Harpoon account, optionally narrowed by year, client, project, status or a search term. - Action **List Projects** Returns the projects in a Harpoon account, with their client, budget, rate, and dates. - Action **List Teams** Returns the teams in your Harpoon account, along with the total number of teams found. - Action **List Time Entries** Returns time entries from your Harpoon account — either the timers running now or logged history for a date range — optionally narrowed by client, project, task, team member or billing status. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing expense in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing invoice in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project in Harpoon — its name, client, billing type, status, dates, budget and task rates. Returns the updated project. - Action **Update Recurring Expense** Updates a recurring expense in Harpoon — its vendor, amount, frequency, category, dates, and status. Anything left blank keeps its current value. Returns the updated recurring expense. - Action **Update Recurring Invoice** Updates an existing recurring invoice template in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in Harpoon — its date, hours, description, project, task or billing state. ## Each app on its own - [ **Avaza** Avaza is a versatile software for client-focused businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connections/avaza) - [ **Harpoon** Harpoon is a financial planning, scheduling, time-tracking, invoicing, and budgeting platform for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon) 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 Harpoon's 46 actions, including Create Contact, Create Expense, Create Expense Category and Create Project. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Harpoon to Avaza? Yes. When something happens in Harpoon, your agent can act in Avaza too. This page covers both directions: Harpoon's triggers and Avaza's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Avaza or Harpoon? 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 Harpoon 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.