--- title: "Connect BigMailer and FreshBooks - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in BigMailer, your agent runs \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/bigmailer-to-freshbooks" --- # Connect BigMailer and FreshBooks When **New Contact** fires in [BigMailer](https://apiant.ai/connections/bigmailer), your agent runs **Add Payment to Invoice** in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), or **New Bill** in FreshBooks to **Add/Update Contact** in BigMailer. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. BigMailer **1** trigger BigMailer **35** actions FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want BigMailer and FreshBooks to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What BigMailer and FreshBooks can do together ### From BigMailer to FreshBooks - When **New Contact** in BigMailer then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New Contact** in BigMailer then **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks ### From FreshBooks to BigMailer - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add/Update Contact** in BigMailer - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create a bulk campaign** in BigMailer 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 BigMailer and FreshBooks ## Triggers and actions 17 triggers · 64 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Add/Update Contact** Creates a BigMailer contact, or updates the existing contact with that email address. Custom fields for the selected brand can be mapped alongside list membership and unsubscribe settings. - Action **Create a bulk campaign** Creates a bulk email campaign in a BigMailer brand — name, subject, sender, content, recipient lists, tracking and optional schedule. - Action **Create an RSS campaign** Creates an RSS-to-email campaign in a BigMailer brand: watches a feed URL and emails new items on the schedule you choose. - Action **Create a transactional campaign** Creates a transactional campaign in a BigMailer brand — the reusable email template and settings you later send one-off emails with. - Action **Create list** Creates a new contact list inside a BigMailer brand. - Action **Create segment** Creates a segment in a BigMailer brand: a saved set of conditions that picks out the contacts you want to target. - Action **Create template** Creates a reusable email or landing-page template in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact from a BigMailer brand, by contact ID or email address. - Action **Delete list** Deletes a contact list from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete segment** Deletes a segment from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Delete template** Deletes a template from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Get brand** Returns one BigMailer brand: its name, default sender, bounce settings, contact count and engagement stats. - Action **Get bulk campaign** Returns one bulk campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its content, recipients and send statistics. - Action **Get contact** Returns one BigMailer contact by ID or email address, including its custom field values. - Action **Get list** Returns one contact list from a BigMailer brand. - Action **Get RSS campaign** Returns one RSS campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its feed URL, schedule and content. - Action **Get segment** Returns one segment from a BigMailer brand, including the conditions that define it. - Action **Get template** Returns one template from a BigMailer brand, including its HTML. - Action **Get transactional campaign** Returns one transactional campaign from a BigMailer brand, including its content and send statistics. - Action **List brands** Lists the brands in your BigMailer account. - Action **List bulk campaigns** Lists the bulk campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List contacts** Lists the contacts in a BigMailer brand, optionally limited to one list. - Action **List lists** Lists the contact lists in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List RSS campaigns** Lists the RSS campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List segments** Lists the segments in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List senders** Lists the sending identities in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List templates** Lists the templates in a BigMailer brand. - Action **List transactional campaigns** Lists the transactional campaigns in a BigMailer brand. - Action **Update a bulk campaign** Updates an existing bulk campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update an RSS campaign** Updates an existing RSS campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a transactional campaign** Updates an existing transactional campaign in a BigMailer brand. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update brand** Updates an existing BigMailer brand — its name, default sender name and email, website URL, unsubscribe text, bounce thresholds, contact limit and logo. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update list** Renames an existing contact list inside a BigMailer brand. - Action **Update segment** Updates an existing BigMailer segment — its name, match operator (all/any) and its list of conditions. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update template** Updates an existing BigMailer template — its name, type, HTML content and account-wide sharing. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Trigger **New Bill** Triggers when a new bill is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Client** Triggers when a new client is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggers when a new credit note is created in your FreshBooks account. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a new estimate is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Filtered Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice matching your chosen filters (client, status, currency, amount, and more) is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice Payment** Triggers when a new invoice payment is created. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Staff Member** Triggers when a new staff member is added to your FreshBooks business. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggers when a new time entry is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Vendor** Triggers when a new bill vendor is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Bill** Triggers when a bill is updated in FreshBooks. Returns the id of the updated bill and the account, business and user it belongs to. - Trigger **Updated Estimate** Triggers when an estimate is updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggers when an invoice is updated in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Vendor** Triggers when a bill vendor is updated in FreshBooks. - Action **Add Payment to Invoice** Records a payment against a FreshBooks invoice and returns the created payment. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a bill in FreshBooks recording what your business owes a vendor, with its line items. - Action **Create Client** Creates a new client in your FreshBooks business, with contact details, billing and shipping addresses, and optional secondary contacts. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note or prepayment credit for a client in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate for a client in FreshBooks, optionally with line items. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in your FreshBooks business, with its amount, category, date and optional vendor, client, project and taxes. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client in FreshBooks, with optional line items, terms and notes. New invoices start as drafts unless a status is given. - Action **Create Invoice PDF** Returns the PDF of an existing FreshBooks invoice as a file you can attach or store. - Action **Create or Update Client** Updates an existing FreshBooks client (by Client ID, or by matching email) or creates a new client when none matches. - Action **Create or Update Invoice** Updates an existing FreshBooks invoice (by Invoice ID, or by matching Invoice Number), or creates a new invoice when none matches. - Action **Create Other Income** Records income received outside of an invoice, such as online store sales, rentals or advertising, in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in FreshBooks, optionally linked to a client, with a fixed price or hourly rate. - Action **Create Recurring Invoice** Creates a recurring invoice profile in FreshBooks that generates invoices for a client on a set schedule. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry recording time spent working for a client or project in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a bill vendor (a supplier you receive bills from) in your FreshBooks business. - Action **Find Bill** Finds bills in FreshBooks by id, vendor, status or currency and returns the matches. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients in your FreshBooks business by email, name, organization, phone or other details, and returns the matches. - Action **Find Credit Note** Finds a credit note in FreshBooks by its id and returns the credit note's details. - Action **Find Estimate** Finds estimates in FreshBooks matching an estimate number, client, status, notes, date or amount range, and other criteria. - Action **Find Invoice** Finds invoices in your FreshBooks account matching the criteria you give, such as invoice number, client, status, dates or amounts. - Action **Find Project** Finds FreshBooks projects whose title contains the given text, optionally limited to active or completed projects. - Action **Find Vendor** Finds bill vendors in your FreshBooks account whose business name matches the text you give. - Action **Send Estimate** Emails an existing estimate to the listed recipients and marks it as sent. - Action **Send Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you choose and marks it as sent. - Action **Update Bill** Updates an existing bill from a vendor, such as its dates, bill number, line items or status. - Action **Update Credit Note** Updates an existing credit note in FreshBooks, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Estimate** Updates an existing FreshBooks estimate's client, dates, address details, notes, terms or line items. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in FreshBooks, such as its duration, note, client or project. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing bill vendor's name, contact details, address and preferences. 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Any of BigMailer's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Contact. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in FreshBooks when something happens in BigMailer? Any of FreshBooks's 29 actions, including Create Bill, Create Client, Create Credit Note and Create Estimate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from FreshBooks to BigMailer? Yes. When something happens in FreshBooks, your agent can act in BigMailer too. This page covers both directions: FreshBooks's triggers and BigMailer's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for BigMailer or FreshBooks? 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 BigMailer and FreshBooks 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.