--- title: "Connect Busybusy and TidyCal - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Certifications: Certification Updated\" fires in Busybusy, your agent runs \"Add contact\" in TidyCal." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/busybusy-to-tidycal" --- # Connect Busybusy and TidyCal When **Certifications: Certification Updated** fires in [Busybusy](https://apiant.ai/connections/busybusy), your agent runs **Add contact** in [TidyCal](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal), or **New Team** in TidyCal to **Create Project** in Busybusy. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Busybusy **6** triggers Busybusy **27** actions TidyCal **1** trigger TidyCal **15** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Busybusy and TidyCal 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 Busybusy and TidyCal can do together ### From Busybusy to TidyCal - When **Certifications: Certification Updated** in Busybusy then **Add contact** in TidyCal - When **Certifications: New Certification Created** in Busybusy then **Update contact** in TidyCal ### From TidyCal to Busybusy - When **New Team** in TidyCal then **Create Project** in Busybusy - When **New Team** in TidyCal then **Create Break Entry** in Busybusy 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 Busybusy and TidyCal ## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **Certifications: Certification Updated** Triggers when a certification is created or updated in Busybusy. - Trigger **Certifications: New Certification Created** Triggers when a new certification type is created in Busybusy. - Trigger **Employee Created** Triggers when a new employee (member) is added to your busybusy organization. - Trigger **Employee Updated** Triggers when an employee in busybusy is created or changed. - Trigger **Project Created** Triggers when a new project is created in busybusy. - Trigger **Project Updated** Triggers when a project or subproject is created or changed in Busybusy, including when it is unarchived. - Action **Archive Employee** Archives an employee (member) in busybusy by setting their archived date. - Action **Archive Project** Archives a project in Busybusy by setting its archived date. - Action **Certifications: Create Certification** Creates a certification type in your Busybusy organization that employees can later be certified against. - Action **Certifications: Create Employee Certification** Records that an employee holds a certification, with its issue, renewal and expiry dates. - Action **Certifications: Delete Certification** Deletes a certification from your Busybusy organization by marking it deleted. - Action **Certifications: Renew Employee Certification** Renews an employee's certification record in busybusy by setting a new renewal date and, optionally, a new expiration date. - Action **Certifications: Search Certifications** Searches certifications in Busybusy by name, ID or date filters and returns the matching certifications. - Action **Certifications: Update Certification** Updates an existing certification's name, description, renewal period or documentation settings. - Action **Certifications: Update Employee Certification** Updates an employee's certification record in busybusy, such as its issue, renewal or expiration date or the employee it belongs to. - Action **Create Break Entry** Creates a break on an existing busybusy time entry, with its start time and optional end time. - Action **Create Budget** Creates a cost budget for a busybusy project, optionally scoped to a cost code or piece of equipment. - Action **Create Cost Code Group** Creates a cost code group in busybusy for organizing cost codes. - Action **Create Employee** Creates a new employee (member) in your busybusy organization. - Action **Create Equipment** Creates a piece of equipment in busybusy with its name, model, serial number and tracking options. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in busybusy. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry (clock-in record) for an employee in busybusy, optionally against a project, cost code and equipment. - Action **Search Break Entries** Returns the break entries that match the filters you supply, such as a time entry, start time or paid status. - Action **Search Employee (Single)** Finds a single employee by ID and returns the first matching employee record. - Action **Search Employees (Multiple)** Returns the employees that match the filters you supply, such as name, username, employee number or group. - Action **Search Projects (Multiple)** Returns all projects matching the given title, parent project, ID or dates. - Action **Unarchive Cost Code** Restores an archived cost code so it is active again. - Action **Unarchive Employee** Restores an archived employee in busybusy so they are active again. - Action **Unarchive Project** Restores an archived project in Busybusy so it is active again. - Action **Update Cost Code** Updates an existing cost code's title, code, unit, group, insurance classes or custom fields. - Action **Update Employee** Updates an existing busybusy employee's name, username, contact details, position, employee number or group. - Action **Update Equipment** Updates an existing piece of equipment in busybusy, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project's name, parent project, or archive date in busybusy. - Trigger **New Team** Triggers when a new team you have access to appears in your TidyCal account. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in your TidyCal account with a name, email and optional timezone. - Action **Add guest to booking** Adds a guest to an existing upcoming booking. The guest gets their own linked booking at the same time and location and receives a confirmation email. - Action **Cancel booking** Cancels a TidyCal booking, optionally with a reason and without notifying the booker and host. Returns the cancelled booking. - Action **Delete booking type** Deletes a booking type from your TidyCal account. Team-managed copies of a booking type cannot be deleted. - Action **Get booking** Returns a single TidyCal booking by its ID, including its contact, booking-question answers, payment, add-ons, refund status and hosts. - Action **Get booking type** Returns a single booking type, including its title, duration, price, booking URL and availability settings. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single TidyCal contact by its id, including name, email, phone number, timezone and timestamps. - Action **List available timeslots** Returns the open times a client can book for one of your booking types between two dates, with how many bookings each slot can still take. - Action **List bookings** Returns the bookings on your TidyCal account, optionally limited to a date range, to cancelled bookings only, or including team bookings. - Action **List booking types** Returns every booking type (event type) on the connected TidyCal account, including its title, duration, price and booking URL. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your TidyCal account, optionally only those whose name or email starts with given text. - Action **List teams** Returns the TidyCal teams the connected account has access to, with each team's id, name and created/updated times. - Action **Reschedule booking** Moves an existing TidyCal booking to a new start time, keeping the booking type's duration. Returns the updated booking. - Action **Update booking type** Updates an existing booking type in TidyCal. Only the details you fill in are changed; everything else keeps its current value. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing TidyCal contact's name, email, phone number or timezone. Only the fields you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Busybusy** Busybusy is the perfect time tracking & job costing app built BY construction companies FOR construction...](https://apiant.ai/connections/busybusy) - [ **TidyCal** TidyCal is simple and easy calendar management and booking tool.](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Busybusy - [ **Busybusy to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/busybusy-to-hubspot) - [ **Busybusy to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/busybusy-to-salesforce) - [ **Busybusy to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-tidycal) - [ **Google Sheets to TidyCal** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-tidycal) - [ **Gmail to TidyCal** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-tidycal) - [ **Google Calendar to TidyCal** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-tidycal) Questions ## Busybusy and TidyCal, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Busybusy? Any of Busybusy's 6 triggers in the catalog, including Certifications: Certification Updated, Certifications: New Certification Created, Employee Created and Employee Updated. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in TidyCal when something happens in Busybusy? Any of TidyCal's 15 actions, including Update booking type, Update contact, Add contact and Add guest to booking. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from TidyCal to Busybusy? Yes. When something happens in TidyCal, your agent can act in Busybusy too. This page covers both directions: TidyCal's triggers and Busybusy's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Busybusy or TidyCal? 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 Busybusy and TidyCal 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.