--- title: "Connect Credly and PaintScout - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New issued badge\" fires in Credly, your agent runs \"Add deal\" in PaintScout, or \"Contact Created\" in PaintScout to \"Issue Badge\" in Credly." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-paintscout" --- # Connect Credly and PaintScout When **New issued badge** fires in [Credly](https://apiant.ai/connections/credly), your agent runs **Add deal** in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), or **Contact Created** in PaintScout to **Issue Badge** in Credly. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Credly **1** trigger Credly **18** actions PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **25** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Credly and PaintScout 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 Credly and PaintScout can do together ### From Credly to PaintScout - When **New issued badge** in Credly then **Add deal** in PaintScout - When **New issued badge** in Credly then **Add invoice item** in PaintScout ### From PaintScout to Credly - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Issue Badge** in Credly - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Add badge template** in Credly 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 Credly and PaintScout ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 43 actions - Trigger **New issued badge** Triggers when a new badge is issued by your Credly organization. - Action **Add badge template** Creates a new badge template in your Credly organization and returns its id. - Action **Add employee** Adds an employee to your Credly Workforce organization and returns the new employee record. - Action **Delete badge template** Deletes a badge template from the Credly organization. - Action **Delete employee** Deletes an employee from your Credly Workforce organization. - Action **Get badge template** Returns a single badge template from your Credly organization, including its description, skills, criteria, state and visibility. - Action **Get employee** Returns a single employee in your Credly organization, looked up by email address, Credly id or your own external id. - Action **Get issued badge** Returns the details of a single issued badge, including its recipient, state, badge template and evidence. - Action **Get organization** Returns the details of the Credly organization this account is connected to. - Action **Issue Badge** Issues a new badge from one of your badge templates to a recipient by email. - Action **List badge templates** Returns the badge templates of your Credly organization, optionally filtered by name, state, skills, dates and more. - Action **List employees** Returns the employees in your Credly organization, optionally filtered by name or email, connection status or badge level. - Action **List endorsements** Returns the endorsements your organization holds on a badge template, including their competencies, credits and validity dates. - Action **List issued badges** Returns the badges your Credly organization has issued, with optional filters by recipient, badge template, state and dates, and a choice of sort order. - Action **List organizations** Returns the Credly organizations visible to the connected account. - Action **Replace issued badge** Replaces an issued badge with a new badge, optionally changing its template, recipient details, dates and evidence. Returns the new replacement badge. - Action **Revoke issued badge** Revokes an issued badge, removing it from the earner's wallet and public profile, and returns the updated badge. - Action **Update badge template** Updates an existing badge template in your Credly organization. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Update employee** Updates an existing employee in your Credly organization, identified by email or your own employee ID. Fields left blank are not changed. - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new contact is created in PaintScout. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent to a customer, including when an invoice is re-sent. - Trigger **Invoice Status Changed** Triggers when an invoice's status changes, delivering the invoice with its new status. - Trigger **Quote Status Changed** Triggers when a quote's status changes, for example when it is sent, accepted or declined. - Trigger **Quote Tag Added** Triggers when a tag is added to a quote, optionally only for one specific tag. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in PaintScout with its name, contact details, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Add deal** Creates a new deal in PaintScout, with its contact, job address, pipeline stage and value. - Action **Add event** Creates a scheduled event (such as a consultation or production job) on a PaintScout deal. - Action **Add invoice item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout invoice, with its name, price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add note** Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note. - Action **Add quote item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout quote, with its price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add task** Creates a task in PaintScout, optionally linked to a deal and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in PaintScout with names, email, phone numbers, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice in PaintScout, optionally with its contact, job address, line items, discount and tax, and returns the created invoice. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in PaintScout for a contact, with its job address, notes, pricing adjustments and tags. - Action **Find companies** Returns the companies that match a search filter, such as a name, email or city. - Action **Find Contact** Returns up to 100 contacts that match the search you specify, such as an email address, name or company. - Action **Find deals** Returns the deals that match a search filter, such as a deal name, pipeline, stage or lead source. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices that match a search, such as a status, invoice number, contact name or date range. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a search filter, such as a quote number, status or contact name. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single PaintScout contact by its ID, including name, company, email, phone, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single PaintScout deal by its ID, including its contact, job address, pipeline stage, value, tags, linked quotes and invoices, and job costing. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single PaintScout invoice with its contact, line items, payments, taxes, discounts and totals. Can optionally return the work-order view, which includes per-item material costs. - Action **Get quote** Returns a single PaintScout quote by its ID, including contact, job address, totals, tax, discount, payments, tags and customer-view links. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing PaintScout company's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner or tags. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing PaintScout contact's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in PaintScout — its name, contact, job address, pipeline and stage, lead source, owner, tags and job costing. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update invoice** Updates an existing PaintScout invoice — its status, contact, line items, notes, terms, discount, tax and other details. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Quote** Updates an existing PaintScout quote, such as its status, contact, job address, notes, discount or tags, and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status. ## Each app on its own - [ **Credly** Credly is the world's largest network of digital credentials.](https://apiant.ai/connections/credly) - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Credly - [ **Credly to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-hubspot) - [ **Credly to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-salesforce) - [ **Credly to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-slack) - [ **Credly to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-google-sheets) - [ **Credly to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-gmail) - [ **Credly to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/credly-to-google-calendar) ## More into PaintScout - [ **HubSpot to PaintScout** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-paintscout) - [ **Google Sheets to PaintScout** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-paintscout) - [ **Gmail to PaintScout** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-paintscout) - [ **Google Calendar to PaintScout** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-paintscout) - [ **Google Drive to PaintScout** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-paintscout) - [ **Mailchimp to PaintScout** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-paintscout) Questions ## Credly and PaintScout, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Credly? Any of Credly's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New issued badge. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in PaintScout when something happens in Credly? Any of PaintScout's 25 actions, including Create Contact, Create Invoice, Create Quote and Update company. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from PaintScout to Credly? Yes. When something happens in PaintScout, your agent can act in Credly too. This page covers both directions: PaintScout's triggers and Credly's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Credly or PaintScout? 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 Credly and PaintScout 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.