--- title: "Connect Communi App to Zoho Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Announcement\" fires in Communi App, your agent runs \"Add Invoice Attachment\" in Zoho Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/communi-app-to-zoho-inventory" --- # Connect Communi App to Zoho Inventory When **New Announcement** fires in [Communi App](https://apiant.ai/connections/communi-app), your agent runs **Add Invoice Attachment** in [Zoho Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Communi App **10** triggers Communi App **27** actions Zoho Inventory **64** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Communi App and Zoho Inventory to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Communi App can start in Zoho Inventory - When **New Announcement** in Communi App then **Add Invoice Attachment** in Zoho Inventory - When **New Event** in Communi App then **Add Invoice Comment** in Zoho Inventory 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 Communi App and Zoho Inventory ## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 91 actions - Trigger **New Announcement** Triggered when a new announcement is created in a group. - Trigger **New Event** Triggered when a new event is created in the selected group. - Trigger **New Job Ad** Triggered when a new job ad is created in a group. - Trigger **New message** Triggers when a new message is posted in a Communi App conversation, such as a group chat, event chat or direct message. - Trigger **New Offer** Triggered when a new offer is created. - Trigger **New poll** Triggers when a new poll is created in Communi App. - Trigger **New Quest** Triggered when a new quest is created. - Trigger **New Recommendation** Triggers when a new recommendation is created in a group, including derived kinds such as videos, prayers and parishes unless narrowed by type. - Trigger **New user** Triggers when a new user appears in your CommuniApp. - Trigger **New Video** Triggers when a new video is posted in a Communi App group. - Action **Add article** Creates a new article (such as a book or product recommendation) in your Communi App. Returns the created article. - Action **Add group** Creates a new group in your CommuniApp, such as a subgroup or badge group, and returns the created group. - Action **Add message** Sends a new message to a CommuniApp conversation, such as a group, event or direct user chat, and returns the created message. - Action **Add poll** Creates a poll with 2 to 12 answer options. To show it to members, embed the new poll in a chat message afterwards. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag in your CommuniApp and returns the created tag. - Action **Add user** Creates a new user in the CommuniApp community and returns the created user record. - Action **Create Announcement** Creates a new announcement in your Communi app and returns the created announcement. - Action **Create Event** Creates a new event in your CommuniApp community and returns the created event. - Action **Create Offer** Creates a new offer in your Communi app, such as an item or service offered to the community, and returns the created offer. - Action **Create Quest** Creates a new quest, a post where a community member asks for something, and returns the created quest. - Action **Create Recommendation** Creates a recommendation in the community app, such as a link or resource shared with members, and returns the new record. - Action **Delete event** Deletes an event by its ID. - Action **Delete offer** Deletes an offer by its ID. - Action **Delete user** Permanently deletes a user from the Communi App. This cannot be undone. - Action **Get event** Returns a single event by its ID, including its title, description, location, dates and publishing status. An error occurs if the event is not found. - Action **Get offer** Returns a single offer from your community by its ID, including its text, picture, status and publishing dates. - Action **Get poll** Returns a single poll by its ID, including its title, description, answer options and publishing status. An error occurs if the poll is not found. - Action **Get user** Returns a single user's profile by ID. The fields included depend on the chosen detail level and your role. - Action **List articles** Returns the articles on your CommuniApp book table, optionally narrowed to recommended or official articles, a group, a status or a search term. - Action **List events** Returns the events of a group, including announcements, job ads, workshops and info posts, with optional filters for status, type, text search, date and location. - Action **List groups** Returns the groups you can access in Communi App, including communities, subgroups, admin groups and badge groups. - Action **List messages** Returns the chat messages you have access to, optionally limited to one conversation such as a direct message, group chat or event chat. - Action **List offers** Returns the offers in your Communi App, optionally narrowed to one group, a status or a search text. - Action **List polls** Returns the polls you can access, optionally narrowed by group, status or search text. - Action **List users** Returns the users visible to the connected account, optionally narrowed by a text search and group. - Action **Update event** Updates an existing event's details, such as its title, description, time, location and publication status, and returns the updated event. - Action **Update offer** Updates an existing offer in your Communi App community and returns the updated offer. - Action **Add Credit Note Comment** Tool to add a comment to a credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to add notes or comments to a specific credit note for record-keeping or audit purposes. - Action **Add Invoice Attachment** Tool to upload an attachment to a specific invoice. Use when you need to add a file attachment to an invoice. - Action **Add Invoice Comment** Tool to add a comment to a specific invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add notes, updates, or internal/client-visible comments to an invoice. - Action **Apply Credits To Invoices** Tool to apply credits from a credit note to one or more invoices. Use when you need to apply available credits from a credit note to settle invoice balances. - Action **Bulk Delete Sales Orders** Tool to bulk delete sales orders. Use this to remove multiple sales orders at once. - Action **Bulk Email Invoices** Sends multiple invoices by email to a contact in a single API call. Use this tool when you need to email up to 10 invoices at once to a customer. The invoices will be scheduled for delivery and the contact will receive individual emails for each invoice. If contact_id is not provided, the action will automatically fetch the customer_id from the first invoice and use that as the contact. - Action **Bulk Export Invoices** Tool to bulk export invoices as a single PDF. Use when you need to download multiple invoices in a single file for archiving or sharing. - Action **Bulk Print Invoices** Generate a consolidated PDF containing multiple invoices for printing or archiving. Use this tool to download one or more invoices as a single PDF document. The PDF can contain up to 25 invoices and is useful for bulk printing, record keeping, or sharing with customers. - Action **Bulk Print Packages** Tool to bulk print package slips as a consolidated PDF. Use when you need a PDF file of multiple package slips for printing or archiving. - Action **Create Bill** Tool to create a bill in Zoho Inventory. Use when a vendor supplies goods/services on credit and you need to track the amount owed. - Action **Create Contact** Tool to create a new contact (customer or vendor) in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new business relationship to your organization. - Action **Create Contact Person** Tool to create a contact person. Use when you need to add a new contact person to an existing contact in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Create Credit Note** Tool to create a new credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to issue a credit note to a customer for returns, refunds, or adjustments. - Action **Create Customer Payment** Tool to create a customer payment in Zoho Inventory. Use when recording a payment received from a customer against one or more invoices. - Action **Create Invoice** Tool to create a new invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to invoice a customer for products or services sold. - Action **Create Item** Tool to create a new item in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new product or service to your inventory catalog. - Action **Create Item Group** Tool to create an item group in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to create a new item group with multiple items that share common attributes like size or color variations. - Action **Create Package** Tool to create a package for a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to prepare items from a sales order for shipping. - Action **Create Purchase Order** Tool to create a purchase order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to order goods or services from a vendor. - Action **Create Sales Order** Tool to create a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when a customer places an order for products and you need to track the sale before invoicing. - Action **Deactivate Contact** Tool to mark a contact as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate a contact without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item** Tool to mark an item as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item Group** Tool to mark an item group as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item group and all its items without permanently deleting them. - Action **Delete Contact** Tool to delete a contact. Use when you need to remove an existing contact from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Contact Person** Tool to delete a contact person. Use when you need to remove a contact person from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Invoice** Tool to delete an invoice. Use when you need to remove an existing invoice that has no payments or credits applied. - Action **Delete Invoice Attachment** Tool to delete an invoice attachment. Use when you need to remove a file attached to an invoice. - Action **Delete Invoice Comment** Delete a specific comment from an invoice in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Delete Item** Tool to delete an item. Use when you need to remove an existing inventory item after confirming it is not referenced in any transactions. - Action **Delete Item Group** Tool to delete an item group. Use to remove an existing item group that is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Item Image** Tool to delete an image associated with an item. Use when you need to remove an item's image after ensuring it's no longer required. - Action **Delete Package** Tool to delete a package. Use when you need to remove an existing package created for a sales order. - Action **Delete Sales Order** Tool to delete a sales order. Use when you need to remove an existing sales order. - Action **Disable Payment Reminder** Tool to disable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to stop automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Email Contact** Tool to email a contact in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to send an email to a specific contact with a custom subject and body. - Action **Email Contact Statement** Tool to email a statement of transactions to a contact. Use when you need to send account statements to customers or vendors. - Action **Email Credit Note** Tool to email a credit note to customers. Use when you need to send a credit note via email to recipients. - Action **Email Invoice** Tool to email a specific invoice to customers. Use when you need to send an invoice via email, with optional attachments. - Action **Enable Invoice Payment Reminder** Tool to enable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to activate automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Get Contact** Tool to retrieve a specific contact by ID from Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get detailed information about a customer or vendor contact. - Action **Get Contact Address** Tool to get contact address. Use when you need to retrieve address information for a specific contact. - Action **Get Credit Note** Tool to retrieve a credit note by ID. Use when you need to fetch detailed information about a specific credit note. - Action **Get Credit Note Email Content** Tool to get credit note email content including subject, body, recipients, and available templates. Use when you need to preview or retrieve the email content for a credit note before sending it. - Action **Get Current User** Tool to get details of the currently authenticated user in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve user profile information, permissions, or validate the authenticated user. - Action **Get Invoice** Retrieve the complete details of one existing invoice by invoice ID. - Action **Get Item** Retrieve the complete details of one existing inventory item by item ID. - Action **Get Package** Retrieve complete details for one existing package by ID. - Action **Get Purchase Order** Retrieve complete details for one existing purchase order by ID. - Action **Get Sales Order** Tool to retrieve the details of an existing sales order. Use when you need to get complete information about a sales order including line items, customer details, shipping information, and order status. - Action **Get Variant Opening Stock** Retrieve opening-stock configuration for one item variant. - Action **List Bills** Tool to list bills. Use when needing to fetch bills for an organization. - Action **List Contacts** Tool to list all contacts (customers and vendors) in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to fetch contacts for an organization. - Action **List Credit Notes** Tool to list all credit notes. Use when needing to fetch credit notes for an organization. Supports filtering by status, customer, date, and other criteria. - Action **List Currencies** Tool to list all currencies configured in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve available currencies, exchange rates, or identify the base currency for an organization. - Action **List Customer Payments** List customer payments for a Zoho Inventory organization. - Action **List Invoice Payments** Tool to list all payments received for a specific invoice. Use when you need to retrieve payment records for an invoice. - Action **List Invoices** Tool to list all invoices in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve invoices for an organization. - Action **List Items** Tool to list all items in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve inventory items for an organization. - Action **List Organizations** Tool to list all organizations the user has access to in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get organization IDs or view available organizations. This action does not require organization_id as a parameter. - Action **List Purchase Orders** Tool to list purchase orders. Use when needing to fetch purchase orders for an organization. - Action **List Sales Orders** Tool to list sales orders. Use when needing to fetch sales orders for an organization. - Action **Update Contact** Update editable details for one customer or vendor contact. - Action **Update Item** Update editable catalog details for one existing Zoho Inventory item. - Action **Update Variant Opening Stock** Update organization-level or location-level opening stock for one variant. ## Each app on its own - [ **Communi App** Communi is an app for all communities are looking for ways to better connect and integrate new people.](https://apiant.ai/connections/communi-app) - [ **Zoho Inventory** Zoho Inventory helps businesses track stock, manage orders, and sync inventory across multiple sales...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Communi App - [ **Communi App to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/communi-app-to-hubspot) - [ **Communi App to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/communi-app-to-salesforce) - [ **Communi App to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Zoho Inventory when something happens in Communi App? Any of Zoho Inventory's 64 actions, including Create Bill, Create Contact, Create Contact Person and Create Credit Note. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Inventory to Communi App? Zoho Inventory has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Communi App. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Zoho Inventory's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Communi App or Zoho Inventory? 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 Communi App and Zoho Inventory 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.