# Connect Commerce Tools and Google Docs When **New customer** fires in [Commerce Tools](https://apiant.ai/connections/commerce-tools), your agent runs **Create Document** in [Google Docs](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-docs), or **Document Structure Changed** in Google Docs to **Add customer** in Commerce Tools. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Commerce Tools **2** triggers Commerce Tools **21** actions Google Docs **10** triggers Google Docs **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 Commerce Tools and Google Docs to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` 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 Commerce Tools and Google Docs can do together ### From Commerce Tools to Google Docs - When **New customer** in Commerce Tools then **Create Document** in Google Docs - When **New order** in Commerce Tools then **Create Document Markdown** in Google Docs ### From Google Docs to Commerce Tools - When **Document Structure Changed** in Google Docs then **Add customer** in Commerce Tools - When **Document Updated** in Google Docs then **Add order from cart** in Commerce Tools 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 Commerce Tools and Google Docs ## Triggers and actions 12 triggers · 51 actions - Trigger **New customer** Triggers when a new customer is created in your commercetools project. - Trigger **New order** Triggers when a new order is created in the commercetools project. - Action **Add cart** Creates a new shopping cart in your commercetools project, optionally with line items, customer, addresses and discount codes. - Action **Add category** Creates a category in your commercetools project for organizing products. - Action **Add customer** Creates a customer in your commercetools project and returns the new customer record. - Action **Add order from cart** Creates an order from an existing cart, optionally setting its order number and initial order, payment and shipment states. - Action **Add product** Creates a product in your commercetools project with its product type, name, slug and optional variants, prices, categories and attributes. - Action **Delete customer** Deletes a customer, optionally erasing all of their related personal data. Returns the deleted customer. - Action **Delete product** Deletes a product from the catalog and returns the product as it was when deleted. - Action **Find categories** Finds categories in your commercetools project that match a filter, such as a key, slug or name. - Action **Find customers** Finds customers matching a filter condition, such as an email address or last name. - Action **Find inventory entries** Returns the inventory entries (stock quantities per SKU and supply channel) that match a filter. - Action **Find orders** Finds orders in the commercetools project that match a filter condition. - Action **Find products** Finds products in your commercetools project that match a filter condition, such as a product key or name. - Action **Get cart** Returns a cart by its id, including its line items, totals, addresses and state. - Action **Get customer** Returns a single customer by its id, including addresses and custom fields. - Action **Get order** Returns an order by its id, including line items, totals, state and custom fields. - Action **Get product** Returns a product by its id, including its current and staged data, variants and prices. - Action **Update cart** Updates a cart by applying one or more update actions, such as adding line items or setting the shipping address, and returns the updated cart. - Action **Update customer** Applies one or more update actions to an existing customer, such as changing their email, name or addresses, and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update inventory entry** Updates an inventory entry, for example adding, removing or setting its stock quantity, and returns the updated entry. - Action **Update order** Updates an order by applying one or more update actions, such as changing its order, shipment or payment state. - Action **Update product** Updates a product by applying one or more update actions, and returns the updated product. - Trigger **Document Deleted** Triggers when an existing Google Doc is deleted (moved to trash). This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are trashed. - Trigger **Document Placeholder Filled** Triggers when a Google Doc's plain text changes such that a configured placeholder token/pattern is no longer present (i.e., the document has been filled in). This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when a placeholder pattern that was previously present is no longer found in the document's plain text. - Trigger **Document Search Update** Triggers when a Google Doc matching a user-defined search query is newly created or updated since the last poll. This trigger uses timestamp filtering to efficiently monitor documents. - Trigger **Document Structure Changed** Triggers when a Google Doc's structure changes (headers/footers added/removed, tables/images count changes). This trigger monitors a specific document for structural changes like: - Headers added or removed - Footers added or removed - Tables added or removed - Images (inline objects) added or removed - Positioned objects added or removed - Footnotes added or removed - Trigger **Document Updated** Triggers when an existing Google Doc is updated or modified. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when documents are updated. - Trigger **Document Word Count Threshold** Triggers when a Google Doc's word/character count crosses a user-defined threshold. This trigger monitors a specific Google Doc and fires when its word or character count becomes greater than or equal to the configured threshold value. - Trigger **Keyword Detected in Document** Triggers when a specific keyword or phrase first appears in a Google Doc. This trigger monitors a Google Doc and fires once when the specified keyword is detected. After the keyword is found, the trigger will not fire again until reset. - Trigger **New Document Added** Triggers when a new Google Doc is added/created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. - Trigger **New Document Created** Triggers when a new Google Doc is created. This trigger monitors Google Docs and fires when new documents are detected. Uses timestamp filtering to efficiently poll for new documents. - Trigger **New Folder Created in Root** Triggers when a new folder is created in the root folder of Google Drive. This trigger monitors Google Drive and fires when new folders are detected in the root directory. - Action **Copy Document** Tool to create a copy of an existing google document. use this to duplicate a document, for example, when using an existing document as a template. the copied document will have a default title (e.g., 'copy of [original title]') if no new title is provided, and will be placed in the user's root google drive folder. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new google docs document using the provided title as filename and inserts the initial text at the beginning if non-empty, returning the document's id and metadata (excluding body content). - Action **Create Document Markdown** Creates a new google docs document, optionally initializing it with a title and content provided as markdown text. - Action **Create Footer** Tool to create a new footer in a google document. use when you need to add a footer, optionally specifying its type and the section it applies to. - Action **Create Footnote** Tool to create a new footnote in a google document. use this when you need to add a footnote at a specific location or at the end of the document body. - Action **Create Header** Tool to create a new header in a google document. use this tool when you need to add a header to a document, optionally specifying the section it applies to. - Action **Create Named Range** Tool to create a new named range in a google document. use this to assign a name to a specific part of the document for easier reference or programmatic manipulation. - Action **Create Paragraph Bullets** Tool to add bullets to paragraphs within a specified range in a google document. use when you need to format a list or a set of paragraphs as bullet points. - Action **Delete Content Range** Tool to delete a range of content from a google document. use when you need to remove a specific portion of text or other structural elements within a document. - Action **Delete Footer** Tool to delete a footer from a google document. use when you need to remove a footer from a specific section or the default footer. - Action **Delete Header** Deletes the header from the specified section or the default header if no section is specified. use this tool to remove a header from a google document. - Action **Delete Named Range** Tool to delete a named range from a google document. use when you need to remove a previously defined named range by its id or name. - Action **Delete Paragraph Bullets** Tool to remove bullets from paragraphs within a specified range in a google document. use when you need to clear bullet formatting from a section of a document. - Action **Delete Table** Tool to delete an entire table from a google document. use when you have the document id and the specific start and end index of the table element to be removed. the table's range can be found by inspecting the document's content structure. - Action **Delete Table Column** Tool to delete a column from a table in a google document. use this tool when you need to remove a specific column from an existing table within a document. - Action **Delete Table Row** Tool to delete a row from a table in a google document. use when you need to remove a specific row from an existing table. - Action **Get Document By Id** Retrieves an existing google document by its id; will error if the document is not found. - Action **Insert Inline Image** Tool to insert an image from a given uri at a specified location in a google document as an inline image. use when you need to add an image to a document programmatically. - Action **Insert Page Break** Tool to insert a page break into a google document. use when you need to start new content on a fresh page, such as at the end of a chapter or section. - Action **Insert Table Action** Tool to insert a table into a google document. use when you need to add a new table at a specific location or at the end of a segment (like document body, header, or footer) in a document. - Action **Insert Table Column** Tool to insert a new column into a table in a google document. use this tool when you need to add a column to an existing table at a specific location. - Action **Insert Text Action** Tool to insert a string of text at a specified location within a google document. use when you need to add new text content to an existing document. - Action **Replace All Text** Tool to replace all occurrences of a specified text string with another text string throughout a google document. use when you need to perform a global find and replace operation within a document. - Action **Replace Image** Tool to replace a specific image in a document with a new image from a uri. use when you need to update an existing image within a google doc. - Action **Search Documents** Search for google documents using various filters including name, content, date ranges, and more. - Action **Unmerge Table Cells** Tool to unmerge previously merged cells in a table. use this when you need to revert merged cells in a google document table back to their individual cell states. - Action **Update Document Markdown** Replaces the entire content of an existing google docs document with new markdown text; requires edit permissions for the document. - Action **Update Document Style** Tool to update the overall document style, such as page size, margins, and default text direction. use when you need to modify the global style settings of a google document. - Action **Update Existing Document** Applies programmatic edits, such as text insertion, deletion, or formatting, to a specified google doc using the `batchupdate` api method. - Action **Update Table Row Style** Tool to update the style of a table row in a google document. use when you need to modify the appearance of specific rows within a table, such as setting minimum row height or marking rows as headers. ## Each app on its own - [ **Commerce Tools** Headless commerce platform providing APIs for product catalog, cart, order, and inventory management across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/commerce-tools) - [ **Google Docs** Google Docs is a cloud-based word processor with real-time collaboration, version history, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connections/google-docs) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Commerce Tools - [ **Commerce Tools to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-hubspot) - [ **Commerce Tools to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-salesforce) - [ **Commerce Tools to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Commerce Tools's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New customer and New order. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Google Docs when something happens in Commerce Tools? Any of Google Docs's 30 actions, including Create Document, Create Document Markdown, Create Footer and Create Footnote. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Google Docs to Commerce Tools? Yes. When something happens in Google Docs, your agent can act in Commerce Tools too. This page covers both directions: Google Docs's triggers and Commerce Tools's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Commerce Tools or Google Docs? 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. ### ### 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.