--- title: "Connect Bitly and Teachworks - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bitlink in Group\" fires in Bitly, your agent runs \"Add payment allocation\" in Teachworks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-teachworks" --- # Connect Bitly and Teachworks When **New Bitlink in Group** fires in [Bitly](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly), your agent runs **Add payment allocation** in [Teachworks](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks), or **Lesson Completed** in Teachworks 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 Teachworks **17** triggers Teachworks **28** 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 Teachworks 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 Bitly and Teachworks can do together ### From Bitly to Teachworks - When **New Bitlink in Group** in Bitly then **Add payment allocation** in Teachworks - When **New Branded Short Domain** in Bitly then **Add profile note** in Teachworks ### From Teachworks to Bitly - When **Lesson Completed** in Teachworks then **Update a User** in Bitly - When **New Availability** in Teachworks 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 Teachworks ## Triggers and actions 25 triggers · 53 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 **Lesson Completed** Triggers when a lesson is marked completed in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Availability** Triggers when a new availability block is added for a teacher or employee. - Trigger **New Cost Premium** Triggers when a new cost premium is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Employee** Triggers when a new employee (teacher or staff member) is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Lesson** Triggers when a new lesson is scheduled in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Lesson Participant** Triggers when a student is added to a lesson as a new lesson participant. - Trigger **New Location** Triggers when a new location (or sub-location) is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Other Event** Triggers when a new other event (such as an open house or staff meeting) is added to the Teachworks calendar. - Trigger **New Package Balance Alert** Triggers when a customer's package balance is created or recalculated in Teachworks (for example after lessons use package units). - Trigger **New Payment** Triggers when a new payment is recorded in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Refund** Triggers when a new refund is recorded against a customer's payment in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Service** Triggers when a new service is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Student** Triggers when a new student is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Unavailability** Triggers when a new unavailability (time off) is added for an employee in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Wage Payment** Triggers when a new wage payment to an employee is recorded in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Wage Tier** Triggers when a new wage tier is created in Teachworks. - Action **Add location** Creates a new location in your Teachworks account. - Action **Add payment allocation** Allocates part or all of a payment to an invoice. - Action **Add profile note** Creates a profile note on a customer (family) or student. - Action **Add student to lesson** Adds a student to an existing scheduled lesson and returns the updated lesson with its participants. - Action **Add wage payment** Creates a wage payment for an employee in Teachworks. - Action **Complete lesson** Completes a Teachworks lesson: sets attendance status for the lesson or each participant, and records charges and lesson notes. - Action **Create Child Student** Creates a child student who belongs to a family, with their fees billed to that family. - Action **Create Employee** Creates a new employee (teacher or staff member) in Teachworks. - Action **Create Family** Creates a family customer in Teachworks. Families are billed for the lessons of their child students. - Action **Create Independent Student** Creates an independent student in Teachworks: a directly billed customer together with its associated student record. - Action **Create Lesson** Creates a single lesson in Teachworks with a teacher, service, students, location and start/end date and time. - Action **Create Payment** Creates a payment received from a customer (family or independent student). - Action **Find Child Student** Finds child students (students belonging to a family) matching the name, email, phone or other details you supply. - Action **Find Customer** Finds customers (families and independent students) matching name, email, phone, address, type or status, and returns the first match plus all matches. - Action **Find Employee** Finds employees (teachers and staff) matching the name, email, location, status or subject you give, and returns the first match plus the full list. - Action **Find Family** Finds family customers in Teachworks matching the name, email, phone, address or status you supply, returning the first match and the full list. - Action **Find Independent Student (Full Details)** Finds independent-student customers matching the search criteria and returns their full customer profile, including the student details and custom fields. - Action **Find Independent Student (Student Details)** Finds independent students matching name, email, phone, school, status or other criteria and returns their student details. - Action **Find Payment** Finds payments by customer and/or payment date, returning the first match and the full list of matching payments. - Action **Get lesson** Returns a single lesson, including its time, teacher, service, location and participants. - Action **List lessons** Returns lessons in your Teachworks account, optionally filtered by teacher, student, location, service, status or date range. - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer in Teachworks — a family or an independent student — including contact details, status, notification preferences and invoice schedules. - Action **Update Customer Custom Field Values** Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks customer. - Action **Update employee** Updates an existing employee's profile, wage settings and user permissions in Teachworks. - Action **Update lesson** Updates an existing lesson's details, schedule, cost override and participants, and returns the updated lesson. - Action **Update payment** Updates an existing payment's customer, date, amount, description, payment method or Stripe transaction ID. - Action **Update student** Updates an existing child student in Teachworks, such as their name, contact details, status, billing and default teachers. - Action **Update Student Custom Field Values** Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks student. ## Each app on its own - [ **Bitly** Bitly is a link-management platform for shortening, branding, and tracking URLs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/bitly) - [ **Teachworks** Teachworks is a simple, easy-to-use system that education companies use for managing teachers, students...](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks) 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 — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/bitly-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into Teachworks - [ **HubSpot to Teachworks** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-teachworks) - [ **Salesforce to Teachworks** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-teachworks) - [ **Slack to Teachworks** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Teachworks when something happens in Bitly? Any of Teachworks's 28 actions, including Create Child Student, Create Employee, Create Family and Create Independent Student. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Teachworks to Bitly? Yes. When something happens in Teachworks, your agent can act in Bitly too. This page covers both directions: Teachworks's triggers and Bitly's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Bitly or Teachworks? 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 Teachworks 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.