--- title: "Connect Buddy Punch to Drop Cowboy - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Employee Created\" fires in Buddy Punch, your agent runs \"Add note to contact\" in Drop Cowboy." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-drop-cowboy" --- # Connect Buddy Punch to Drop Cowboy When **Employee Created** fires in [Buddy Punch](https://apiant.ai/connections/buddy-punch), your agent runs **Add note to contact** in [Drop Cowboy](https://apiant.ai/connections/drop-cowboy). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Buddy Punch **4** triggers Buddy Punch **15** actions Drop Cowboy **24** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Buddy Punch and Drop Cowboy 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 Buddy Punch can start in Drop Cowboy - When **Employee Created** in Buddy Punch then **Add note to contact** in Drop Cowboy - When **Employee Updated** in Buddy Punch then **Add number to do-not-contact list** in Drop Cowboy 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 Buddy Punch and Drop Cowboy ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 39 actions - Trigger **Employee Created** Triggers when a new employee is added to your Buddy Punch account. - Trigger **Employee Punched In** Triggers when an employee punches in, returning the punch with the employee, punch-in time, approval status and hours. Watches the current pay period's time cards. - Trigger **Employee Updated** Triggers when an employee in your Buddy Punch account is added or any of their details change. - Trigger **Punch in Changed** Triggers when an employee's punch-in in the current pay period is recorded or changed (time, approval status or notes). - Action **Assign Employee to Department Code** Assigns one or more employees to a Buddy Punch department code. - Action **Assign Employee to Location** Assigns one or more employees to a Buddy Punch location and returns the location. - Action **Create Department Code** Creates a new department code in Buddy Punch. - Action **Create Employee** Creates a new employee in your Buddy Punch account. - Action **Create Location** Creates a new location in your Buddy Punch account. - Action **Create Position** Creates a new position in your Buddy Punch account. - Action **Find Employee** Finds employees in your Buddy Punch account whose email, username, employee ID or full name matches the value you search for. - Action **Get Department Code** Returns the details of a specific department code in your Buddy Punch account. - Action **Get Location** Returns the details of a specific Buddy Punch location. - Action **Get Position** Returns a single Buddy Punch position by its ID. - Action **List Department Code Employees** Returns the employees assigned to a Buddy Punch department code. - Action **List Location Employees** Returns the employees assigned to a Buddy Punch location. - Action **Punch In** Punches an employee in on Buddy Punch, either the connected user or a chosen employee. - Action **Punch Out** Punches an employee out in Buddy Punch. Defaults to the connected user when no employee is given. - Action **Update Employee** Updates an existing employee in Buddy Punch, such as their name, email, username or active status. - Action **Add list** Creates a new, empty contact list in your Drop Cowboy account. - Action **Add note to contact** Adds a note to a Drop Cowboy contact. The note can contain basic HTML. - Action **Add number to do-not-contact list** Adds a phone number (and optionally an email) to the Drop Cowboy do-not-contact list and flags matching contacts as do-not-contact. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in your Drop Cowboy account that you can then apply to contacts. - Action **Add tag to contact** Adds an existing tag to a contact and returns the contact's tags after the change. - Action **Add task** Opens a new task for a contact in the Drop Cowboy shared inbox. New tasks start open and unread. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact. Returns the deleted contact with its deletion time set. - Action **Delete number from do-not-contact list** Removes a phone number from the do-not-contact list, clears the do-not-contact flag on matching contacts, and returns the entry that was removed. - Action **Find contacts by phone or email** Finds contacts whose phone number or email exactly matches the value you provide. - Action **Find numbers on do-not-contact list** Checks phone numbers or email addresses against the do-not-contact list and returns which of them are listed, with the matching entries. - Action **Find or add contact** Finds a contact by phone number (then email), or creates it if none matches, and returns its contact ID. Optionally adds the contact to a list. - Action **Get balance** Returns your Drop Cowboy account balance in US dollars, including the amount reserved for sends in flight, the spendable amount, and your auto-recharge settings. - Action **Get campaign statistics** Returns delivery totals for one campaign: sent, delivered, failed, pending and billable counts with their rates, plus email engagement counts for email campaigns. - Action **Get contact** Returns one contact by id, including its field values, phone numbers, lists, tags, pinned notes, consent and do-not-contact flags. Fails if no contact has that id. - Action **List campaigns** Returns the campaigns on your Drop Cowboy account, optionally narrowed by name, status or type. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts on your account, optionally narrowed by list, search text, disposition, owner or brand. - Action **List lists** Returns the contact lists in your Drop Cowboy account, each with its name, brand, owner and contact count. You can filter by name or brand and choose the sort order. - Action **List media files** Returns the playable media files on your Drop Cowboy account, newest first, including whether each is approved for API sends. - Action **Send AI call** Places one outbound call handled by a published AI agent to a phone number or contact. The call is queued and its outcome is reported later by Drop Cowboy. - Action **Send email** Sends an email from one of your Drop Cowboy sending mailboxes to an email address or an existing contact. - Action **Send Mimic AI™ Voicemail** Sends a ringless voicemail spoken from your text in a Mimic AI™ (text-to-speech or cloned) voice, to a phone number or an existing contact. - Action **Send SMS** Sends a text message (SMS, MMS with media, or RCS with a template) to a phone number or an existing contact. The send is queued; its outcome arrives later on status webhooks. - Action **Send voice broadcast** Queues a Press-1 voice broadcast call to one phone number or contact, playing one message to a live person and another to an answering machine. The outcome arrives later on the status webhook. - Action **Send Voicemail** Queues a ringless voicemail to a phone number or contact, using an uploaded audio file or text to speech. Returns the queued message id; the delivery result arrives later on the status webhook. ## Each app on its own - [ **Buddy Punch** Buddy Punch is an employee time tracking and scheduling app that lets your employees track their hours and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/buddy-punch) - [ **Drop Cowboy** Drop Cowboy is a Ringless Voicemail and SMS Marketing platform built to automate communication processes for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/drop-cowboy) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Buddy Punch - [ **Buddy Punch to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-hubspot) - [ **Buddy Punch to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-salesforce) - [ **Buddy Punch to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-slack) - [ **Buddy Punch to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-google-sheets) - [ **Buddy Punch to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-gmail) - [ **Buddy Punch to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buddy-punch-to-google-calendar) ## More into Drop Cowboy - [ **HubSpot to Drop Cowboy** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Salesforce to Drop Cowboy** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Slack to Drop Cowboy** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Google Sheets to Drop Cowboy** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Gmail to Drop Cowboy** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-drop-cowboy) - [ **Google Calendar to Drop Cowboy** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-drop-cowboy) Questions ## Buddy Punch and Drop Cowboy, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Buddy Punch? Any of Buddy Punch's 4 triggers in the catalog, including Employee Created, Employee Updated, Punch in Changed and Employee Punched In. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Drop Cowboy when something happens in Buddy Punch? Any of Drop Cowboy's 24 actions, including Send AI call, Send email, Send Mimic AI™ Voicemail and Send SMS. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Drop Cowboy to Buddy Punch? Drop Cowboy has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Buddy Punch. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Drop Cowboy's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Buddy Punch or Drop Cowboy? 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 Buddy Punch and Drop Cowboy 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.