--- title: "Connect Circle and Zoho Billing - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Access Group\" fires in Circle, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in Zoho Billing." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-zoho-billing" --- # Connect Circle and Zoho Billing When **New Access Group** fires in [Circle](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [Zoho Billing](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-billing), or **New Credit Note** in Zoho Billing to **Create Contact** in Circle. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Circle **15** triggers Circle **21** actions Zoho Billing **15** triggers Zoho Billing **30** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Circle and Zoho Billing 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 Circle and Zoho Billing can do together ### From Circle to Zoho Billing - When **New Access Group** in Circle then **Create Customer** in Zoho Billing - When **New Comment Posted** in Circle then **Create New Invoice** in Zoho Billing ### From Zoho Billing to Circle - When **New Credit Note** in Zoho Billing then **Create Contact** in Circle - When **New Customer** in Zoho Billing then **Send Direct Message** in Circle 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 Circle and Zoho Billing ## Triggers and actions 30 triggers · 51 actions - Trigger **Content Approved** Triggers when a moderator approves reported (flagged) content in your Circle community. - Trigger **Content Rejected** Triggers when a moderator rejects reported content (a post or comment) in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Access Group** Triggers when a new access group is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Comment Posted** Triggers when a new comment is posted in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or post. - Trigger **New Event Created** Triggers when a new event is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one event space. - Trigger **New Event RSVP** Triggers when a member RSVPs yes to the selected Circle event. - Trigger **New Member Active Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes active in Circle. - Trigger **New Member Added** Triggers when a new member joins the Circle community. Optionally includes invited members who have not finished setting up their profile, or only members with chosen tags. - Trigger **New Member Canceled Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription is canceled in Circle, returning the canceled subscription with its member and paywall details. - Trigger **New Member Paid Charge** Triggers when a community member is charged successfully (a new paid charge appears in Circle). - Trigger **New Member Past Due Subscription** Triggers when a community member's paid subscription becomes past due. - Trigger **New Member Refunded Charge** Triggers when a member's charge is refunded, fully or partially, in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Post** Triggers when a new basic post is published in your Circle community, optionally limited to one space or space group. - Trigger **New Space Created** Triggers when a new space is created in your Circle community. - Trigger **New Tagged Member** Triggers when a member tag is applied to a community member or contact in your Circle community. - Action **Add Member to Space Group** Adds an existing community member, by email, to a space group and to every space in that group. Does nothing if they are already in the group. - Action **Create Comment** Creates a comment on a Circle post, or a reply to an existing comment, optionally authored as another community member. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a non-member contact (lead) in your Circle community from an email address. The contact appears in your audience for email marketing but has no login or community access. - Action **Create Course Section** Creates a new section at the end of a course space. The section starts with no lessons. - Action **Find Member** Finds a community member by their exact email address, including invited members who have not finished setting up their profile. - Action **Has Member Tag** Checks whether the community member with a given email address has a given member tag, and returns true or false along with the member's id and tags. - Action **Invite Member** Invites a person to your Circle community by email, creating their Circle account if needed, and optionally adds them to spaces, space groups and member tags. Returns the new community member. - Action **Is Member of Space** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a chosen space and returns their space membership details. - Action **Is Member of Space Group** Checks whether a community member, identified by email, belongs to a space group, and returns their membership details when they do. - Action **Mark Course Lesson as Completed** Marks a course lesson as completed for a member of the course space, identified by their email address. - Action **Remove Member** Removes a member from your Circle community by deactivating their membership and canceling their running paid subscriptions. Their posts and comments are kept, and inviting the same email again restores the membership. - Action **Remove Member From Access Group** Removes a community member, identified by member ID or email, from an access group. - Action **Remove Member From Event** Removes a member's RSVP from a Circle event, identified by the member's email. The attendee record is kept with its RSVP set to no. - Action **Remove Member From Space** Removes a community member, identified by email, from a space. The person stays a member of the community. - Action **Remove Member From Space Group** Removes a member from a space group and from every space in that group. They stay a member of the community. - Action **RSVP Member to Event** Adds a community member, identified by email, to an event. The member is RSVPed directly when the event auto-RSVPs invited attendees; otherwise they are invited. - Action **Send Direct Message** Sends a direct chat message to a Circle community member, identified by email, optionally as a reply in a thread. - Action **Start a Group Chat** Sends a message to a group of community members in a group chat, starting the group chat if it does not exist yet. The message is sent as the community member the connection authenticates as. - Action **Tag Member** Applies a member tag to the community member with the given email. If the member already has the tag, it is kept. - Action **Untag Member** Removes a member tag from the community member with the given email. The tag itself stays in the community; only its assignment to that member is removed. - Action **Update Event** Updates an existing event in a Circle event space. Only the fields you fill in are changed; everything else on the event stays as it is. - Trigger **Cancel Subscription** Triggered when a subscription is cancelled - Trigger **Invoice Paid** Fires once for each invoice that reaches Paid status in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggered when a new credit note is created - Trigger **New Customer** Triggered when a new customer is created - Trigger **New Invoice** Fires once for each new invoice created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Item** Fires when a new item is added in Zoho Billing. - Trigger **New Quote** Fires once for each new quote created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Subscription** Fires once for each new subscription created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **Payment Failure** Fires when an online payment attempt fails in Zoho Billing (for example a declined card charge). - Trigger **Payment Success** Fires when a new successful customer payment is recorded in Zoho Billing. - Trigger **Subscription About to Renew** Fires once per billing term for each live subscription that is scheduled to renew, carrying the date of its upcoming renewal. - Trigger **Subscription Activation** Fires when a subscription is activated (becomes live) in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **Updated Customer** Triggered when a customer is created or updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggered when an invoice is created or updated. - Trigger **Void Invoice** Fires once for each invoice that is voided in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Action **Add Charge** Charge a one-time amount against a Zoho Billing subscription. Creates an invoice for the charge, or adds it to the subscription's unbilled charges. - Action **Associate Coupon** Applies a coupon to an existing subscription in Zoho Billing. - Action **Cancel Invoice WriteOff** Cancels the write-off on an invoice in Zoho Billing, restoring its unpaid balance. - Action **Cancel Subcription** Cancels a Zoho Billing subscription, either immediately or at the end of the current term. - Action **Create a New Quote** Create a New Quote for a Customer - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note for a customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer. - Action **Create New Invoice** Creates an invoice for a customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Create New Item** Create New Item for One time Invoices - Action **Create Subscription** Creates a new subscription in Zoho Billing, either for an existing customer or for a new customer created in the same call. - Action **Disassociate Coupon** Removes the coupon currently applied to a Zoho Billing subscription. - Action **Email an Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you specify, with your own subject and message. - Action **Fetch Customer** Retrieve the details of an existing customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Fetch Invoice** Retrieve the details of a single invoice by its id. - Action **Fetch Subscription** Retrieve the details of a subscription by its id. - Action **Find Customer** Finds Zoho Billing customers whose email address matches the one supplied, returning the first match and the full list of matches. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices whose invoice number matches the one you supply. - Action **Find Subscription** Finds subscriptions by subscription number, customer, or reference, optionally narrowed by status. - Action **Get Item** Retrieves one item by item_id, returning its name, rate, product type, status and custom fields. - Action **Get Payment** Retrieve a payment by id; returns the payment including amount, mode and applied invoices. - Action **Invoice WriteOff** Writes off the unpaid balance of a Zoho Billing invoice. - Action **Mark Invoice as Sent** Marks a draft invoice as sent by changing its status to open, without emailing it to the customer. - Action **Postpone Renewal** Postpones a subscription's next renewal (billing) date to a later date. No prorated charges are applied. - Action **Reactivate Subscription** Reactivates a non-renewing Zoho Billing subscription so it keeps renewing for the given number of billing cycles. - Action **Record Payment** Records a payment received from a customer in Zoho Billing, optionally applying it to one or more invoices. - Action **Update Customer** Update an existing customer. - Action **Update Customer Status** Marks a Zoho Billing customer as active or inactive. - Action **Update Invoice** Update an existing invoice - Action **Update Subscription** Updates the existing subscription - Action **Void Invoice** Marks an invoice as void in Zoho Billing. ## Each app on its own - [ **Circle** A modern community platform for creators.](https://apiant.ai/connections/circle) - [ **Zoho Billing** Zoho Billing is a recurring billing and subscription management app that helps manage the entire life cycle...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-billing) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Circle - [ **Circle to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-hubspot) - [ **Circle to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-salesforce) - [ **Circle to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-slack) - [ **Circle to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-sheets) - [ **Circle to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-gmail) - [ **Circle to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/circle-to-google-calendar) ## More into Zoho Billing - [ **HubSpot to Zoho Billing** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Salesforce to Zoho Billing** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Slack to Zoho Billing** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Google Sheets to Zoho Billing** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Gmail to Zoho Billing** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Google Calendar to Zoho Billing** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-zoho-billing) Questions ## Circle and Zoho Billing, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Circle? Any of Circle's 15 triggers in the catalog, including New Access Group, New Comment Posted, New Event Created and New Event RSVP. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Zoho Billing when something happens in Circle? Any of Zoho Billing's 30 actions, including Create a New Quote, Create Credit Note, Create Customer and Create New Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Billing to Circle? Yes. When something happens in Zoho Billing, your agent can act in Circle too. This page covers both directions: Zoho Billing's triggers and Circle's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Circle or Zoho Billing? 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 Circle and Zoho Billing 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.