--- title: "Connect Commerce Tools and Teachworks - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New customer\" fires in Commerce Tools, your agent runs \"Add payment allocation\" in Teachworks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-teachworks" --- # Connect Commerce Tools and Teachworks When **New customer** fires in [Commerce Tools](https://apiant.ai/connections/commerce-tools), your agent runs **Add payment allocation** in [Teachworks](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks), or **Lesson Completed** in Teachworks 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 Teachworks **17** triggers Teachworks **28** 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 Teachworks 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Commerce Tools and Teachworks can do together ### From Commerce Tools to Teachworks - When **New customer** in Commerce Tools then **Add payment allocation** in Teachworks - When **New order** in Commerce Tools then **Add profile note** in Teachworks ### From Teachworks to Commerce Tools - When **Lesson Completed** in Teachworks then **Add customer** in Commerce Tools - When **New Availability** in Teachworks 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 Teachworks ## Triggers and actions 19 triggers · 49 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 **Lesson Completed** Triggers when a lesson is marked completed in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Availability** Triggers when a new availability block is added for a teacher or employee. - Trigger **New Cost Premium** Triggers when a new cost premium is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Employee** Triggers when a new employee (teacher or staff member) is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Lesson** Triggers when a new lesson is scheduled in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Lesson Participant** Triggers when a student is added to a lesson as a new lesson participant. - Trigger **New Location** Triggers when a new location (or sub-location) is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Other Event** Triggers when a new other event (such as an open house or staff meeting) is added to the Teachworks calendar. - Trigger **New Package Balance Alert** Triggers when a customer's package balance is created or recalculated in Teachworks (for example after lessons use package units). - Trigger **New Payment** Triggers when a new payment is recorded in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Refund** Triggers when a new refund is recorded against a customer's payment in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Service** Triggers when a new service is created in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Student** Triggers when a new student is added in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Unavailability** Triggers when a new unavailability (time off) is added for an employee in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Wage Payment** Triggers when a new wage payment to an employee is recorded in Teachworks. - Trigger **New Wage Tier** Triggers when a new wage tier is created in Teachworks. - Action **Add location** Creates a new location in your Teachworks account. - Action **Add payment allocation** Allocates part or all of a payment to an invoice. - Action **Add profile note** Creates a profile note on a customer (family) or student. - Action **Add student to lesson** Adds a student to an existing scheduled lesson and returns the updated lesson with its participants. - Action **Add wage payment** Creates a wage payment for an employee in Teachworks. - Action **Complete lesson** Completes a Teachworks lesson: sets attendance status for the lesson or each participant, and records charges and lesson notes. - Action **Create Child Student** Creates a child student who belongs to a family, with their fees billed to that family. - Action **Create Employee** Creates a new employee (teacher or staff member) in Teachworks. - Action **Create Family** Creates a family customer in Teachworks. Families are billed for the lessons of their child students. - Action **Create Independent Student** Creates an independent student in Teachworks: a directly billed customer together with its associated student record. - Action **Create Lesson** Creates a single lesson in Teachworks with a teacher, service, students, location and start/end date and time. - Action **Create Payment** Creates a payment received from a customer (family or independent student). - Action **Find Child Student** Finds child students (students belonging to a family) matching the name, email, phone or other details you supply. - Action **Find Customer** Finds customers (families and independent students) matching name, email, phone, address, type or status, and returns the first match plus all matches. - Action **Find Employee** Finds employees (teachers and staff) matching the name, email, location, status or subject you give, and returns the first match plus the full list. - Action **Find Family** Finds family customers in Teachworks matching the name, email, phone, address or status you supply, returning the first match and the full list. - Action **Find Independent Student (Full Details)** Finds independent-student customers matching the search criteria and returns their full customer profile, including the student details and custom fields. - Action **Find Independent Student (Student Details)** Finds independent students matching name, email, phone, school, status or other criteria and returns their student details. - Action **Find Payment** Finds payments by customer and/or payment date, returning the first match and the full list of matching payments. - Action **Get lesson** Returns a single lesson, including its time, teacher, service, location and participants. - Action **List lessons** Returns lessons in your Teachworks account, optionally filtered by teacher, student, location, service, status or date range. - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer in Teachworks — a family or an independent student — including contact details, status, notification preferences and invoice schedules. - Action **Update Customer Custom Field Values** Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks customer. - Action **Update employee** Updates an existing employee's profile, wage settings and user permissions in Teachworks. - Action **Update lesson** Updates an existing lesson's details, schedule, cost override and participants, and returns the updated lesson. - Action **Update payment** Updates an existing payment's customer, date, amount, description, payment method or Stripe transaction ID. - Action **Update student** Updates an existing child student in Teachworks, such as their name, contact details, status, billing and default teachers. - Action **Update Student Custom Field Values** Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks student. ## 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) - [ **Teachworks** Teachworks is a simple, easy-to-use system that education companies use for managing teachers, students...](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks) 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. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-slack) - [ **Commerce Tools to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-google-sheets) - [ **Commerce Tools to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-gmail) - [ **Commerce Tools to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/commerce-tools-to-google-calendar) ## More into Teachworks - [ **HubSpot to Teachworks** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-teachworks) - [ **Salesforce to Teachworks** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-teachworks) - [ **Slack to Teachworks** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-teachworks) - [ **Google Sheets to Teachworks** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-teachworks) - [ **Gmail to Teachworks** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-teachworks) - [ **Google Calendar to Teachworks** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-teachworks) Questions ## Commerce Tools and Teachworks, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Commerce Tools? 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 Teachworks when something happens in Commerce Tools? Any of Teachworks's 28 actions, including Create Child Student, Create Employee, Create Family and Create Independent Student. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Teachworks to Commerce Tools? Yes. When something happens in Teachworks, your agent can act in Commerce Tools too. This page covers both directions: Teachworks's triggers and Commerce Tools's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Commerce Tools or Teachworks? 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 Commerce Tools and Teachworks 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.