---
title: "Connect Buttondown and Wheelbase - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New Draft\" fires in Buttondown, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in Wheelbase, or \"New Customer\" in Wheelbase to \"Create Email\" in Buttondown."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-wheelbase"
---

# Connect Buttondown and Wheelbase

When **New Draft** fires in [Buttondown](https://apiant.ai/connections/buttondown), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [Wheelbase](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase), or **New Customer** in Wheelbase to **Create Email** in Buttondown. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Buttondown **4** triggers Buttondown **29** actions Wheelbase **4** triggers Wheelbase **16** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Buttondown and Wheelbase 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 Buttondown and Wheelbase can do together

### From Buttondown to Wheelbase

- When **New Draft** in Buttondown then **Create Customer** in Wheelbase
- When **New Scheduled Email** in Buttondown then **Update customer** in Wheelbase

### From Wheelbase to Buttondown

- When **New Customer** in Wheelbase then **Create Email** in Buttondown
- When **New Message** in Wheelbase then **Update Email** in Buttondown

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 Buttondown and Wheelbase

## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 45 actions

- Trigger

**New Draft**

Triggers when a new draft is created.

- Trigger

**New Scheduled Email**

Triggers when a new email is scheduled.

- Trigger

**Newsletters**

Triggers when a new newsletter is created.

- Trigger

**New Tag**

Triggers when a new tag is created.

- Action

**Add Segment**

Create a new subscriber segment.

- Action

**Add Survey**

Create a new survey.

- Action

**Create Draft**

Creates a draft.

- Action

**Create Email**

Creates an email.

- Action

**Create Subscriber**

Creates a subscriber.

- Action

**Delete Automation**

Delete an automation by id.

- Action

**Delete Email**

Delete an email by id.

- Action

**Delete Newsletter**

Delete a newsletter by id.

- Action

**Delete Segment**

Delete a subscriber segment by id.

- Action

**Delete Subscriber**

Remove a subscriber by id or email address.

- Action

**Delete Survey**

Delete a survey by id.

- Action

**Delete Tag**

Delete a tag by id.

- Action

**Find Tag**

Finds a tag given its name.

- Action

**Get Automation**

Retrieve a single automation by id.

- Action

**Get Email**

Retrieve a single email by id.

- Action

**Get Newsletter**

Retrieve a single newsletter by id.

- Action

**Get Segment**

Retrieve a single subscriber segment by id.

- Action

**Get Survey**

Retrieve a single survey by id.

- Action

**Get Tag**

Retrieve a single tag by id.

- Action

**List Automations**

List all automations configured on the account.

- Action

**List Segments**

List all subscriber segments.

- Action

**List Surveys**

List all surveys on the account.

- Action

**Publish Email**

Publish a drafted email so it is sent and made public.

- Action

**Update Automation**

Update an automation's configuration.

- Action

**Update Email**

Update an existing email's content or metadata.

- Action

**Update Newsletter**

Update a newsletter's settings.

- Action

**Update Segment**

Update a subscriber segment's definition.

- Action

**Update Survey**

Update a survey's configuration.

- Action

**Update Tag**

Update a tag's name or metadata.

- Trigger

**New Customer**

Triggered when a new customer is created or a marketplace guest books with the dealer.

- Trigger

**New Message**

Triggers when a new message appears in a renter message thread, from the renter, your team or the system. If several messages arrive between checks, it fires once for that thread with the latest message.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Reservation**

Triggers when a reservation is created or updated in Wheelbase.

- Trigger

**New Rental**

Triggers when a new rental vehicle is added to your Wheelbase fleet. Requires a dealer account.

- Action

**Approve booking**

Approves a booking from your side. Returns the updated booking; for a dealer-created booking this sends the customer their quote, and once both sides approve, payment is captured and the booking is confirmed.

- Action

**Cancel booking**

Cancels a confirmed booking and returns the booking after the cancellation. Cancelling may trigger a refund under the listing's cancel policy.

- Action

**Create Customer**

Creates a customer in your Wheelbase account. If a customer with the same email already exists, that customer is updated and returned instead of creating a duplicate.

- Action

**Create Reservation**

Creates a reservation on a listing for the given dates, in negotiating status, for an existing or new customer. Returns the reservation with its pricing, payment schedule and trip details.

- Action

**Decline booking**

Declines a booking that has not yet been confirmed and returns the booking after the action. A booking that is already confirmed cannot be declined and must be cancelled instead.

- Action

**Find a Customer**

Returns the customers that match a name, email, phone number or customer id, including dealer-managed customers and marketplace guests who have booked with the dealer.

- Action

**Find a Rental**

Returns the rental listings that match a location, travel dates, guest count, vehicle type or instant-book setting.

- Action

**Get booking**

Returns a single booking by its id, including the renter, listing, dates, line items, totals and payment status. An error occurs if the booking is not found.

- Action

**Get customer**

Returns a single customer by id, including contact details, address, archived status and booking stats. An error occurs if the customer is not found.

- Action

**Get listing**

Returns the full, up-to-date detail for a single Wheelbase listing, including pricing, location, delivery options, owner, vehicle details and images.

- Action

**List booking payments**

Returns a booking's itemized money movement: customer charges, refunds and scheduled future charges, plus payouts made to your account.

- Action

**List bookings**

Returns the bookings your Wheelbase account participates in as owner or renter, optionally narrowed by status, customer or start date.

- Action

**List locations**

Returns the dealer's pickup and drop-off locations, with each location's address, coordinates and weekly hours.

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates the details of a customer your account manages, such as their name, contact details and address, and returns the updated customer. Marketplace customers cannot be edited.

- Action

**Update listing**

Updates a listing's name, description, nightly price or instant-book setting, and returns the updated listing.

- Action

**Update Reservation**

Updates the dates, guest count, discount code, insurance, delivery or add-ons on a reservation that has not yet been confirmed, and returns the updated reservation with its recalculated pricing.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Buttondown** Buttondown is an easy way to start and grow your newsletter.](https://apiant.ai/connections/buttondown)
- [ **Wheelbase** All-in-one rentals suite that combines rental management software with $1M in insurance coverage.](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Buttondown

- [ **Buttondown to HelloSalut** HelloSalut returns the word for "hello" in a visitor's own language.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-hellosalut)
- [ **Buttondown to Zoho Campaigns** Zoho Campaigns lets you send email and social media campaigns to your subscribers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-zoho-campaigns)
- [ **Buttondown to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-hubspot)
- [ **Buttondown to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-salesforce)
- [ **Buttondown to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-slack)
- [ **Buttondown to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/buttondown-to-google-sheets)

## More into Wheelbase

- [ **HubSpot to Wheelbase** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-wheelbase)
- [ **Salesforce to Wheelbase** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-wheelbase)
- [ **Slack to Wheelbase** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-wheelbase)
- [ **Google Sheets to Wheelbase** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-wheelbase)
- [ **Gmail to Wheelbase** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-wheelbase)
- [ **Google Calendar to Wheelbase** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-wheelbase)

Questions

## Buttondown and Wheelbase, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Buttondown?

Any of Buttondown's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Draft, New Scheduled Email, New Tag and Newsletters. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Wheelbase when something happens in Buttondown?

Any of Wheelbase's 16 actions, including Create Customer, Create Reservation, Update customer and Update listing. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Wheelbase to Buttondown?

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

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Buttondown or Wheelbase?

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 Buttondown and Wheelbase 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.
