--- title: "Connect Docamatic to Surplus Lines Tax API - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Document\" fires in Docamatic, your agent runs \"Calculate Surplus Lines Tax\" in Surplus Lines Tax API." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/docamatic-to-surplus-lines-tax-api" --- # Connect Docamatic to Surplus Lines Tax API When **New Document** fires in [Docamatic](https://apiant.ai/connections/docamatic), your agent runs **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in [Surplus Lines Tax API](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Docamatic **1** trigger Docamatic **7** actions Surplus Lines Tax API **3** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Docamatic and Surplus Lines Tax API 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 Docamatic can start in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Document** in Docamatic then **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** in Surplus Lines Tax API - When **New Document** in Docamatic then **Get historical tax rate** in Surplus Lines Tax API 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 Docamatic and Surplus Lines Tax API ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 10 actions - Trigger **New Document** Triggers when a new document is created. - Action **Convert URL or HTML to Image** Renders a web page URL or raw HTML and returns it as an image (png, webp or jpg). Use it to capture screenshots of pages or HTML snippets, with optional sizing, full-page capture and grayscale. - Action **Convert URL or HTML to PDF** Renders a web page URL or raw HTML and returns it as a PDF document. Supports paper size, margins, orientation, headers and footers, page numbers, and extra CSS. - Action **Delete a Document** Deletes a generated document from Docamatic storage, identified by the transaction id returned when it was created. - Action **Generate a PDF From a Template** Fills one of Docamatic's ready-made templates (invoices, packing slips, shipping labels, badges, QR and barcode labels) with your data and returns the finished PDF or image. - Action **Merge PDFs** Joins several PDF documents into one, in the order given, and returns the combined PDF. - Action **Password Protect PDF** Adds a password to an existing PDF so it cannot be opened without it, and returns the protected copy. - Action **Write to an Existing PDF** Stamps text, text boxes, images, barcodes and QR codes onto an existing PDF at the positions you give, and returns the updated PDF. - Action **Calculate Surplus Lines Tax** Calculates the surplus lines tax, stamping fees and other statutory charges due on a policy premium for a given state. Returns the itemized breakdown, the total tax and the total amount due. - Action **Get historical tax rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges in force for a state on a given date. Leave the date empty for today's rates. - Action **Get Tax Rate** Returns the surplus lines tax rate, stamping fee and other statutory charges currently in force for a state. ## Each app on its own - [ **Docamatic** Docamatic allows you to generate PDF documents.](https://apiant.ai/connections/docamatic) - [ **Surplus Lines Tax API** Surplus Lines Tax API is a calculator for surplus lines taxes, stamping fees, and regulatory charges across...](https://apiant.ai/connections/surplus-lines-tax-api) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Docamatic - [ **Docamatic to Pixabay** Pixabay is a free image and video library. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Surplus Lines Tax API when something happens in Docamatic? Any of Surplus Lines Tax API's 3 actions, including Calculate Surplus Lines Tax, Get historical tax rate and Get Tax Rate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Surplus Lines Tax API to Docamatic? Surplus Lines Tax API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Docamatic. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Surplus Lines Tax API's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Docamatic or Surplus Lines Tax API? 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 Docamatic and Surplus Lines Tax API 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.