# Connect Bitly and Commerce Tools

When **New Bitlink in Group** fires in [Bitly](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly), your agent runs **Add customer** in [Commerce Tools](https://apiant.ai/connections/commerce-tools), or **New customer** in Commerce Tools 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 Commerce Tools **2** triggers Commerce Tools **21** 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 Commerce Tools to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

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 Commerce Tools can do together

### From Bitly to Commerce Tools

- When **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly then **Add customer** in Commerce Tools
- When **New Branded Short Domain** in Bitly then **Add order from cart** in Commerce Tools

### From Commerce Tools to Bitly

- When **New customer** in Commerce Tools then **Update a User** in Bitly
- When **New order** in Commerce Tools 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 Commerce Tools

## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 46 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 — 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 — 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 customer**

Triggers when a new customer is created in your commercetools project.

- Trigger

**New order**

Triggers when a new order is created in the commercetools project.

- Action

**Add cart**

Creates a new shopping cart in your commercetools project, optionally with line items, customer, addresses and discount codes.

- Action

**Add category**

Creates a category in your commercetools project for organizing products.

- Action

**Add customer**

Creates a customer in your commercetools project and returns the new customer record.

- Action

**Add order from cart**

Creates an order from an existing cart, optionally setting its order number and initial order, payment and shipment states.

- Action

**Add product**

Creates a product in your commercetools project with its product type, name, slug and optional variants, prices, categories and attributes.

- Action

**Delete customer**

Deletes a customer, optionally erasing all of their related personal data. Returns the deleted customer.

- Action

**Delete product**

Deletes a product from the catalog and returns the product as it was when deleted.

- Action

**Find categories**

Finds categories in your commercetools project that match a filter, such as a key, slug or name.

- Action

**Find customers**

Finds customers matching a filter condition, such as an email address or last name.

- Action

**Find inventory entries**

Returns the inventory entries (stock quantities per SKU and supply channel) that match a filter.

- Action

**Find orders**

Finds orders in the commercetools project that match a filter condition.

- Action

**Find products**

Finds products in your commercetools project that match a filter condition, such as a product key or name.

- Action

**Get cart**

Returns a cart by its id, including its line items, totals, addresses and state.

- Action

**Get customer**

Returns a single customer by its id, including addresses and custom fields.

- Action

**Get order**

Returns an order by its id, including line items, totals, state and custom fields.

- Action

**Get product**

Returns a product by its id, including its current and staged data, variants and prices.

- Action

**Update cart**

Updates a cart by applying one or more update actions, such as adding line items or setting the shipping address, and returns the updated cart.

- Action

**Update customer**

Applies one or more update actions to an existing customer, such as changing their email, name or addresses, and returns the updated customer.

- Action

**Update inventory entry**

Updates an inventory entry, for example adding, removing or setting its stock quantity, and returns the updated entry.

- Action

**Update order**

Updates an order by applying one or more update actions, such as changing its order, shipment or payment state.

- Action

**Update product**

Updates a product by applying one or more update actions, and returns the updated product.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Bitly** Bitly is a link-management platform for shortening, branding, and tracking URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly)
- [ **Commerce Tools** Headless commerce platform providing APIs for product catalog, cart, order, and inventory management across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/commerce-tools)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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- [ **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 — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-quickbooks-online)

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Questions

## Bitly and Commerce Tools, answered

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### 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.

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### What can your agent do in Commerce Tools when something happens in Bitly?

Any of Commerce Tools's 21 actions, including Update cart, Update customer, Update inventory entry and Update order. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

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### Can it also run from Commerce Tools to Bitly?

Yes. When something happens in Commerce Tools, your agent can act in Bitly too. This page covers both directions: Commerce Tools's triggers and Bitly's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Bitly or Commerce Tools?

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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
