--- title: "Connect Clientary and shipcloud - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Expense\" fires in Clientary, your agent runs \"Add order\" in shipcloud, or \"New Shipment Status\" in shipcloud to \"Add contact\" in Clientary." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-shipcloud" --- # Connect Clientary and shipcloud When **New Expense** fires in [Clientary](https://apiant.ai/connections/clientary), your agent runs **Add order** in [shipcloud](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud), or **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud to **Add contact** in Clientary. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Clientary **3** triggers Clientary **14** actions shipcloud **1** trigger shipcloud **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 Clientary and shipcloud 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 Clientary and shipcloud can do together ### From Clientary to shipcloud - When **New Expense** in Clientary then **Add order** in shipcloud - When **New Invoice** in Clientary then **Add address** in shipcloud ### From shipcloud to Clientary - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Add contact** in Clientary - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Create Invoice** in Clientary 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 Clientary and shipcloud ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in your Clientary account during the current fiscal year. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Clientary, optionally limited to invoices in a given status or matching a search. - Trigger **New Staff** Triggers when a new staff user is added to your Clientary account. - Action **Add comment** Posts a comment on an invoice, estimate, project, task, proposal or contract and notifies the people involved. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact (an individual person) under an existing Clientary client. - Action **Add contract** Creates a contract for a client in Clientary, optionally starting from a contract template, with its sections and signers. - Action **Add proposal** Creates a proposal for a client in Clientary, optionally starting from a proposal template, with its sections and signers. - Action **Add retainer** Creates a retainer for a client in Clientary: an up-front payment request kept apart from ordinary invoices. - Action **Client** Creates a new client in Clientary with its name, address, tax id, website and description. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates an estimate in Clientary, optionally for a client, with its dates, taxes, notes and line items. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates an invoice in Clientary, optionally for a client, with dates, currency, taxes, notes and line items. - Action **Create Lead** Creates a new lead (a prospective client) in Clientary. - Action **Create Task** Creates a new task (a to-do item) in Clientary, optionally on a project and assigned to a staff member. - Action **Expense** Creates a new expense in Clientary, optionally assigned to a client or project. - Action **Get client** Returns a single Clientary client by its ID, including its contact and address details. - Action **List comments** Returns the comments on one Clientary invoice, estimate, project, task, proposal or contract, newest first. - Action **Update contract** Updates an existing Clientary contract: its subject, date, client, status, signers or sections. Only a draft contract can be changed; void and reopen a sent contract first. - Trigger **New Shipment Status** Triggers when a shipcloud shipment changes status (label created, picked up, in transit, delivered, deleted and more). - Action **Add address** Creates a new address in your shipcloud address book, ready to use as a shipment's sender or recipient. - Action **Add order** Creates an order in shipcloud with its delivery address and line items, so shipments can later be associated with it. - Action **Add pickup request** Requests a carrier pickup for your shipments, either all shipments not yet picked up or only the ones you list. - Action **Create Shipment** Creates a shipment in shipcloud and, optionally, books the shipping label with the carrier. - Action **Create Shipment Quote** Returns the price a carrier would charge for shipping a package between two addresses, without creating a shipment. - Action **Delete shipment** Deletes a shipment. Prepared shipments can be deleted any time; shipments with a label only before the carrier's cutoff time. - Action **Find Shipment** Finds shipments matching a reference number, tracking number, carrier, status or creation date range. - Action **Get address** Returns a saved address from your shipcloud address book by its id. - Action **Get order** Returns an order previously sent to shipcloud, including its delivery address and line items. - Action **Get pickup request** Returns a pickup request, including its carrier, pickup time window, pickup address and included shipments. - Action **Get shipment** Returns the details of a single shipment, including its carrier, tracking information, label and addresses. - Action **List addresses** Returns the addresses saved in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by name, company, street, city, postal code, country or phone. - Action **List carriers** Returns the carriers available to your shipcloud account, with their services, package types, additional services and label formats. - Action **List orders** Returns the orders previously created in your shipcloud account, including delivery address and line items. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by carrier, tracking number, reference number, service, type, source, tracking status or creation time. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment, such as its addresses, package, carrier or service, and can create its shipping label. ## Each app on its own - [ **Clientary** Online invoicing and time tracking for small businesses and freelancers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/clientary) - [ **shipcloud** Shipcloud is a shipping service provider for creating shipping labels as well as tracking shipments.](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Clientary - [ **Clientary to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-hubspot) - [ **Clientary to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-salesforce) - [ **Clientary to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-slack) - [ **Clientary to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-google-sheets) - [ **Clientary to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-gmail) - [ **Clientary to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/clientary-to-google-calendar) ## More into shipcloud - [ **HubSpot to shipcloud** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shipcloud) - [ **Salesforce to shipcloud** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Sheets to shipcloud** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-shipcloud) - [ **Gmail to shipcloud** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Calendar to shipcloud** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Drive to shipcloud** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-shipcloud) Questions ## Clientary and shipcloud, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Clientary? Any of Clientary's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Expense, New Invoice and New Staff. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in shipcloud when something happens in Clientary? Any of shipcloud's 16 actions, including Create Shipment, Create Shipment Quote, Update shipment and Add address. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from shipcloud to Clientary? Yes. When something happens in shipcloud, your agent can act in Clientary too. This page covers both directions: shipcloud's triggers and Clientary's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Clientary or shipcloud? 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 Clientary and shipcloud 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.