--- title: "Connect Bitly and Clientary - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bitlink in Group\" fires in Bitly, your agent runs \"Add contact\" in Clientary, or \"New Expense\" in Clientary to \"Update a User\" in Bitly." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-clientary" --- # Connect Bitly and Clientary When **New Bitlink in Group** fires in [Bitly](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly), your agent runs **Add contact** in [Clientary](https://apiant.ai/connections/clientary), or **New Expense** in Clientary to **Update a User** in Bitly. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Bitly **8** triggers Bitly **25** actions Clientary **3** triggers Clientary **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Bitly and Clientary 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 Bitly and Clientary can do together ### From Bitly to Clientary - When **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly then **Add contact** in Clientary - When **New Branded Short Domain** in Bitly then **Create Invoice** in Clientary ### From Clientary to Bitly - When **New Expense** in Clientary then **Update a User** in Bitly - When **New Invoice** in Clientary then **Add Custom Bitlink** in Bitly 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 Bitly and Clientary ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers ยท 39 actions - Trigger **New Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group. - Trigger **New Branded Short Domain** Triggers when a new branded short domain is added. - Trigger **New Channel** Triggers when a new channel is created. - Trigger **New Group** Triggers when a new group is created. - Trigger **New Organization** Triggers when a new organization is created. - Trigger **New QR Code in Group** Triggers when a new QR code appears in the group. - Trigger **New Sorted Bitlink in Group** Triggers when a new Bitlink appears in the group's sorted ranking. - Trigger **New Tag in Group** Triggers when a new tag appears in the group. - Action **Add Custom Bitlink** create a custom (branded) Bitlink - Action **Bulk update bitlinks** bulk update Bitlinks in a group - Action **Create an inline CSV export for a group** create an inline CSV export for a group - Action **Create Bitlink** Shortens a long URL into a Bitlink. Optionally set a title and a branded custom domain. - Action **Delete a Bitlink** delete a Bitlink - Action **Expand Bitlink** Returns the long destination URL for a Bitlink ID. - Action **Generate a static QR Code image** generate a static QR code image - Action **Get Group Limit Usage** Returns a Bitly group's current feature limit usage, with the count used for each limit. - Action **Get Plan Limits** Returns all plan limits and their current usage counts for a Bitly organization. - Action **Get Platform Limits** Returns the organization's platform limits and current usage counts per API endpoint. - Action **Get QR Code Image** Fetches a QR code's rendered image by QR code ID. The image is saved to APIANT temporary storage and returned as a file reference, so it can be emailed, uploaded or attached in a later step. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Get Top Links and QR Codes by Engagement** Returns a group's top-performing bitlinks and decoupled QR codes ranked by engagement count over a chosen reporting window. - Action **Retrieve Bitlink** Fetches the details of a single Bitlink by its ID. - Action **Retrieve Custom Bitlink** Returns the Bitlink that a custom (branded) short link points to, along with that Bitlink's details โ€” destination URL, title, tags, and created timestamp. An error occurs if the custom Bitlink is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group** Fetches a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's name, organization, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Group Preferences** Fetches the preferences for a single Bitly group (workspace) by its GUID, returning the group's default short domain. An error occurs if the group is not found. - Action **Retrieve Organization** Fetches a single Bitly organization by its GUID, returning the organization's name, subscription tier, role, status, and branded short domains. An error occurs if the organization is not found. - Action **Retrieve QR Code** Returns the details of a single QR code by its ID โ€” title, the Bitlink and destination URLs it encodes, its type, tags, and created/updated timestamps. This returns the QR code's information only, not the scannable image file; use Get QR Code Image for that. An error occurs if the QR code is not found. - Action **Retrieve User** Returns the Bitly user account the connection is authenticated as, including its login, name, email addresses, activity flags and default group. - Action **Shorten a Link** shorten a long URL into a Bitlink - Action **Update a Group** update a group - Action **Update a QR Code** update a QR code - Action **Update a User** update the authenticated user - Action **Update Bitlink** Updates a Bitlink's title, tags, or archived state. - Action **Update Group Preferences** update group preferences - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in your Clientary account during the current fiscal year. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Clientary, optionally limited to invoices in a given status or matching a search. - Trigger **New Staff** Triggers when a new staff user is added to your Clientary account. - Action **Add comment** Posts a comment on an invoice, estimate, project, task, proposal or contract and notifies the people involved. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact (an individual person) under an existing Clientary client. - Action **Add contract** Creates a contract for a client in Clientary, optionally starting from a contract template, with its sections and signers. - Action **Add proposal** Creates a proposal for a client in Clientary, optionally starting from a proposal template, with its sections and signers. - Action **Add retainer** Creates a retainer for a client in Clientary: an up-front payment request kept apart from ordinary invoices. - Action **Client** Creates a new client in Clientary with its name, address, tax id, website and description. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates an estimate in Clientary, optionally for a client, with its dates, taxes, notes and line items. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice in Clientary, optionally for a client, with dates, currency, taxes, notes and line items. - Action **Create Lead** Creates a new lead (a prospective client) in Clientary. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task (a to-do item) in Clientary, optionally on a project and assigned to a staff member. - Action **Expense** Creates a new expense in Clientary, optionally assigned to a client or project. - Action **Get client** Returns a single Clientary client by its ID, including its contact and address details. - Action **List comments** Returns the comments on one Clientary invoice, estimate, project, task, proposal or contract, newest first. - Action **Update contract** Updates an existing Clientary contract: its subject, date, client, status, signers or sections. Only a draft contract can be changed; void and reopen a sent contract first. ## Each app on its own - [ **Bitly** Bitly is a link-management platform for shortening, branding, and tracking URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly) - [ **Clientary** Online invoicing and time tracking for small businesses and freelancers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/clientary) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Bitly - [ **Bitly to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-hubspot) - [ **Bitly to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-salesforce) - [ **Bitly to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-mailchimp) - [ **Bitly to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-stripe) - [ **Bitly to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-shopify) - [ **Bitly to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting โ€” manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into Clientary - [ **ActiveCampaign to Clientary** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-clientary) - [ **Airtable to Clientary** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/airtable-to-clientary) - [ **Asana to Clientary** Asana is a collaborative information manager for workspace.](https://apiant.ai/connect/asana-to-clientary) - [ **ClickUp to Clientary** ClickUp is an all-in-one app to plan, track, and manage your work in a beautifully intuitive environment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clickup-to-clientary) - [ **Brevo to Clientary** Brevo is the leading CRM suite designed to cultivate long-term customer relationships and help businesses...](https://apiant.ai/connect/brevo-to-clientary) - [ **Calendly to Clientary** Calendly is a scheduling automation platform for eliminating the back-and-forth emails to find the perfect...](https://apiant.ai/connect/calendly-to-clientary) Questions ## Bitly and Clientary, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Bitly? Any of Bitly's 8 triggers in the catalog, including New Bitlink in Group, New Branded Short Domain, New Channel and New Group. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Clientary when something happens in Bitly? Any of Clientary's 14 actions, including Create Estimate, Create Invoice, Create Lead and Create Task. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Clientary to Bitly? Yes. When something happens in Clientary, your agent can act in Bitly too. This page covers both directions: Clientary's triggers and Bitly's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Bitly or Clientary? 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 Bitly and Clientary 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.