Integration
Connect Bento and YNAB
When New Tag fires in Bento, your agent runs Create Transaction in YNAB, or Goal Completed in YNAB to Update email template in Bento. 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.
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What do you want Bento and YNAB to do together?
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Claude Code
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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.
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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.
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What Bento and YNAB can do together
From Bento to YNAB
When New Tag in Bento
then Create Transaction in YNAB
From YNAB to Bento
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 Bento and YNAB
Triggers and actions 15 triggers · 27 actions
- New Tag
Triggers when a new tag is created on your Bento site.
- Add broadcast
Creates a broadcast email draft in Bento, optionally scheduled and approved for sending to tagged or segmented subscribers.
- Create Field
Creates a custom subscriber field on your Bento site.
- Create or Update User
Creates a Bento subscriber, or updates the name of an existing one, by email address.
- Create or Update User and Apply Tag
Creates or updates a Bento subscriber by email and applies one or more tags, without triggering Flows.
- Create or Update User and Apply Tag (Trigger Flows)
Applies a tag to a Bento subscriber (creating them if needed) through an event, so any Flows listening for that tag start.
- Create Tag
Creates a tag on your Bento site.
- Delete tag
Discards a tag in Bento by name (running it on an already-discarded tag restores it).
- Fetch Site Metrics
Returns your Bento site's user, subscriber and unsubscriber counts.
- Fetch Subscriber
Returns a Bento subscriber's details, tags and custom fields by email address.
- Get email template
Returns one email template, including its name, subject and HTML content.
- Get segment
Returns one segment, including its name, description and filter definition.
- Import subscribers
Queues up to 1,000 subscribers for import or update in Bento. Imports do not trigger automations.
- List Broadcasts
Returns one page of Bento broadcasts with the chosen status, including their send stats.
- List Fields
Returns every custom subscriber field on your Bento site.
- List segments
Returns all segments in your Bento site.
- List sequences
Returns the sequences on your Bento site, including each sequence's email templates.
- List Tags
Returns every tag on your Bento site.
- List workflows
Returns all workflows on the Bento site, with their name, status and email templates.
- Remove Tag from Subscriber
Removes a tag from a Bento subscriber by email.
- Track Subscribe Event
Subscribes or unsubscribes a Bento subscriber by email.
- Update email template
Updates the subject, HTML content, or editor type of a Bento email template.
- Update Subscriber Field
Sets one custom field value on a Bento subscriber.
- Validate Email
Checks whether an email address looks valid and deliverable.
- Category Overspent
Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.
- Goal Completed
Triggers when a goal is completed.
- Low Account Balance
Triggers when a Checking or Savings account balance drops below a certain amount during a month.
- Low Category Balance
Triggers when a category balance drops below a certain amount.
- New Account
Triggers when a new account is created.
- New Category
Triggers when a new category is created.
- New or Updated Account
Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated.
- New or Updated Category
Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated.
- New or Updated Scheduled Transaction
Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated.
- New or Updated Transaction
Triggers when a transaction is created or updated.
- New Payee
Triggers when a new payee is created.
- New Transaction
Triggers when a new transaction is created.
- Spending in Account
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is created in an account.
- Spending in Category
Triggers when a new outflow transaction is assigned to a category.
- Budget to a Category
Budgets to a category in the current month.
- Create Transaction
Creates a new transaction.
- Get Current Budget Month
Returns the current month of the last-used budget, including Age of Money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.
- Get Current Month Summary
Returns the current budget month's summary, including age of money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.
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
Bento and YNAB, answered
What can start an automation from Bento?
Any of Bento's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Tag. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in YNAB when something happens in Bento?
Any of YNAB's 4 actions, including Create Transaction, Budget to a Category, Get Current Budget Month and Get Current Month Summary. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from YNAB to Bento?
Yes. When something happens in YNAB, your agent can act in Bento too. This page covers both directions: YNAB's triggers and Bento's actions are listed here as well.
Do I have to build a connector for Bento or YNAB?
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 Bento and YNAB 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.