Integration
Connect Direct Mail to Shift4
When New Contact fires in Direct Mail, your agent runs Add customer in Shift4. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.
What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.
Build solutions, not workarounds.
What do you want Direct Mail and Shift4 to do together?
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https://mcp.apiant.aiOne 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.aiStart Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.
Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Zed
Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.
Setup guide (opens in a new tab)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)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)Example flows
What Direct Mail can start in Shift4
When New Contact in Direct Mail
then Add customer in Shift4
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 Direct Mail and Shift4
Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 30 actions
- New Contact
Triggers when a new contact is added to a Direct Mail address group.
- Sent Campaign
Triggers when an email campaign is sent from a Direct Mail project (a new campaign report appears).
- Updated Contact
Triggers when a contact in a Direct Mail address group is added or changes, including being unsubscribed or hard bounced.
- Add or Update Contact
Adds a contact to a Direct Mail address group; Direct Mail merges it with an existing contact that has the same email address.
- Delete Contact
Removes the contact with the given email address from a Direct Mail address group.
- Find Contact
Finds a contact in a Direct Mail address group by email address.
- Get report
Returns a campaign report from a Direct Mail project, including its delivery statistics and links to recipients, opens and clicks.
- List address groups
Returns every address group (mailing list) in a Direct Mail project, with its name, UUID, blacklist flag and address count.
- List projects
Returns every Direct Mail project your API key has been granted access to.
- List reports
Returns the campaign reports in a Direct Mail project, with send date, status and open, click, bounce and unsubscribe counts.
- Unsubscribe Contact
Marks the contact with the given email address as unsubscribed in a Direct Mail address group.
- Update Contact
Updates the contact with the given email address in a Direct Mail address group.
- Add card
Saves a credit or debit card to an existing Shift4 customer, either from a card token / successful charge, or from full card details.
- Add charge
Creates a new charge to a customer or card.
- Add customer
Creates a new customer in Shift4, optionally saving a card to them as their default card.
- Add plan
Creates a new subscription plan that customers can be subscribed to.
- Add refund
Refunds an existing charge in full or in part, returning the funds to the card that was charged.
- Add subscription
Creates a subscription that bills a customer automatically according to a plan.
- Delete card
Deletes a saved card from a Shift4 customer. If the deleted card was the customer's default, the most recently added card becomes the new default.
- Delete customer
Deletes an existing Shift4 customer.
- Delete plan
Deletes a plan by ID.
- Delete subscription
Cancels/deletes an existing subscription by ID.
- Get charge
Fetches a charge by ID.
- Get customer
Fetches a customer by ID.
- Get dispute
Fetches a dispute by ID.
- Get plan
Fetches a plan by ID.
- Get refund
Retrieves an existing Shift4 refund by its id.
- Get subscription
Fetches a subscription by ID.
- List cards
Lists the saved cards of a Shift4 customer, most recently created first.
- List refunds
Returns all refunds.
- Update charge
Updates an existing Shift4 charge's customer, description, shipping, billing, fraud status or metadata. Fields left blank are unchanged.
- Update customer
Updates an existing Shift4 customer. Any field left blank is left unchanged.
- Update subscription
Updates an existing subscription. Any field left blank is left unchanged.
No trigger or action matches that. Ask your agent to add it: it reads the API documentation and builds what you describe.
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Questions
Direct Mail and Shift4, answered
What can start an automation from Direct Mail?
Any of Direct Mail's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, Updated Contact and Sent Campaign. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.
What can your agent do in Shift4 when something happens in Direct Mail?
Any of Shift4's 21 actions, including Update charge, Update customer, Update subscription and Add card. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.
Can it also run from Shift4 to Direct Mail?
Shift4 has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Direct Mail. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Shift4's API documentation and adds it.
Do I have to build a connector for Direct Mail or Shift4?
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 Direct Mail and Shift4 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.