--- title: "Connect DocuPipe and FreshBooks - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Document Processed\" fires in DocuPipe, your agent runs \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/docupipe-to-freshbooks" --- # Connect DocuPipe and FreshBooks When **Document Processed** fires in [DocuPipe](https://apiant.ai/connections/docupipe), your agent runs **Add Payment to Invoice** in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), or **New Bill** in FreshBooks to **Upload Document** in DocuPipe. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. DocuPipe **1** trigger DocuPipe **15** actions FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want DocuPipe and FreshBooks to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What DocuPipe and FreshBooks can do together ### From DocuPipe to FreshBooks - When **Document Processed** in DocuPipe then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **Document Processed** in DocuPipe then **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks ### From FreshBooks to DocuPipe - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Upload Document** in DocuPipe - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Analyze document** in DocuPipe 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 DocuPipe and FreshBooks ## Triggers and actions 17 triggers · 44 actions - Trigger **Document Processed** Triggers when a document finishes parsing and OCR is complete. - Action **Add schema** Creates a new extraction schema in DocuPipe from a JSON schema you supply, and returns its schema ID. - Action **Analyze document** Asks DocuPipe a list of plain-language questions about one document and starts the analysis, returning the analysis ID to fetch the answers with. - Action **Classify Document** Sends one or more documents to DocuPipe to be sorted into your classes, and returns the job that is doing the work. - Action **Delete document** Removes a document from your DocuPipe account. - Action **Delete schema** Removes an extraction schema from your DocuPipe account. - Action **Extract Data From Document** Pulls structured data out of a document using one of your schemas, and returns the extraction to fetch the results with. - Action **Find documents by criteria** Finds documents in your DocuPipe account whose file name or document ID matches what you search for. - Action **Get Document** Returns one document from your DocuPipe account, with its file details, processing status, parsed text and your own metadata. - Action **Get Extraction Result** Returns the data DocuPipe pulled out of a document, shaped by the schema that was used, along with per-field confidence details. - Action **Get schema** Returns one extraction schema from your DocuPipe account, including the JSON schema it applies and its guidelines. - Action **List documents** Returns the documents in your DocuPipe account, optionally narrowed to one dataset or a date range. - Action **List extractions** Returns the data extractions in your DocuPipe account, optionally narrowed to one schema, one document, or a specific set of extractions. - Action **List schemas** Returns the extraction schemas in your DocuPipe account. - Action **Upload and Extract Data** Sends a file to DocuPipe and immediately starts pulling structured data out of it, returning both the new document and the extraction. - Action **Upload Document** Sends a file to DocuPipe to be read and turned into a document you can extract data from. - Trigger **New Bill** Triggers when a new bill is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Client** Triggers when a new client is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggers when a new credit note is created in your FreshBooks account. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a new estimate is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Filtered Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice matching your chosen filters (client, status, currency, amount, and more) is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice Payment** Triggers when a new invoice payment is created. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Staff Member** Triggers when a new staff member is added to your FreshBooks business. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggers when a new time entry is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Vendor** Triggers when a new bill vendor is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Bill** Triggers when a bill is updated in FreshBooks. Returns the id of the updated bill and the account, business and user it belongs to. - Trigger **Updated Estimate** Triggers when an estimate is updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggers when an invoice is updated in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Vendor** Triggers when a bill vendor is updated in FreshBooks. - Action **Add Payment to Invoice** Records a payment against a FreshBooks invoice and returns the created payment. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a bill in FreshBooks recording what your business owes a vendor, with its line items. - Action **Create Client** Creates a new client in your FreshBooks business, with contact details, billing and shipping addresses, and optional secondary contacts. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note or prepayment credit for a client in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate for a client in FreshBooks, optionally with line items. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in your FreshBooks business, with its amount, category, date and optional vendor, client, project and taxes. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client in FreshBooks, with optional line items, terms and notes. New invoices start as drafts unless a status is given. - Action **Create Invoice PDF** Returns the PDF of an existing FreshBooks invoice as a file you can attach or store. - Action **Create or Update Client** Updates an existing FreshBooks client (by Client ID, or by matching email) or creates a new client when none matches. - Action **Create or Update Invoice** Updates an existing FreshBooks invoice (by Invoice ID, or by matching Invoice Number), or creates a new invoice when none matches. - Action **Create Other Income** Records income received outside of an invoice, such as online store sales, rentals or advertising, in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in FreshBooks, optionally linked to a client, with a fixed price or hourly rate. - Action **Create Recurring Invoice** Creates a recurring invoice profile in FreshBooks that generates invoices for a client on a set schedule. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry recording time spent working for a client or project in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a bill vendor (a supplier you receive bills from) in your FreshBooks business. - Action **Find Bill** Finds bills in FreshBooks by id, vendor, status or currency and returns the matches. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients in your FreshBooks business by email, name, organization, phone or other details, and returns the matches. - Action **Find Credit Note** Finds a credit note in FreshBooks by its id and returns the credit note's details. - Action **Find Estimate** Finds estimates in FreshBooks matching an estimate number, client, status, notes, date or amount range, and other criteria. - Action **Find Invoice** Finds invoices in your FreshBooks account matching the criteria you give, such as invoice number, client, status, dates or amounts. - Action **Find Project** Finds FreshBooks projects whose title contains the given text, optionally limited to active or completed projects. - Action **Find Vendor** Finds bill vendors in your FreshBooks account whose business name matches the text you give. - Action **Send Estimate** Emails an existing estimate to the listed recipients and marks it as sent. - Action **Send Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you choose and marks it as sent. - Action **Update Bill** Updates an existing bill from a vendor, such as its dates, bill number, line items or status. - Action **Update Credit Note** Updates an existing credit note in FreshBooks, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Estimate** Updates an existing FreshBooks estimate's client, dates, address details, notes, terms or line items. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in FreshBooks, such as its duration, note, client or project. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing bill vendor's name, contact details, address and preferences. Fields left blank are not changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **DocuPipe** DocuPipe is a service that turns PDFs, images, and scanned documents into structured JSON data.](https://apiant.ai/connections/docupipe) - [ **FreshBooks** FreshBooks is a cloud accounting software designed exclusively for self-employed professionals and their...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from DocuPipe - [ **DocuPipe to Publora** Publish and schedule posts to ten social networks from one endpoint](https://apiant.ai/connect/docupipe-to-publora) - [ **DocuPipe to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/docupipe-to-hubspot) - [ **DocuPipe to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/docupipe-to-salesforce) - [ **DocuPipe to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of DocuPipe's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Document Processed. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in FreshBooks when something happens in DocuPipe? Any of FreshBooks's 29 actions, including Create Bill, Create Client, Create Credit Note and Create Estimate. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from FreshBooks to DocuPipe? Yes. When something happens in FreshBooks, your agent can act in DocuPipe too. This page covers both directions: FreshBooks's triggers and DocuPipe's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for DocuPipe or FreshBooks? 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 DocuPipe and FreshBooks 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.