--- title: "Connect Financial Cents and shipcloud - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Client\" fires in Financial Cents, your agent runs \"Add order\" in shipcloud." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-shipcloud" --- # Connect Financial Cents and shipcloud When **New Client** fires in [Financial Cents](https://apiant.ai/connections/financial-cents), your agent runs **Add order** in [shipcloud](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud), or **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud to **Create Contact** in Financial Cents. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Financial Cents **3** triggers Financial Cents **14** actions shipcloud **1** trigger shipcloud **16** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Financial Cents and shipcloud 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Financial Cents and shipcloud can do together ### From Financial Cents to shipcloud - When **New Client** in Financial Cents then **Add order** in shipcloud - When **New Contact** in Financial Cents then **Add address** in shipcloud ### From shipcloud to Financial Cents - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Create Contact** in Financial Cents - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Update Contact** in Financial Cents 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 Financial Cents and shipcloud ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 30 actions - Trigger **New Client** Triggers when a new client is added in Financial Cents. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is added to a client in Financial Cents. - Trigger **New project** Triggers when a new project is created in Financial Cents. - Action **Create Client** Creates a new client in Financial Cents, optionally with a primary contact person. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact person under a client in Financial Cents and returns the new contact. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Financial Cents from one of your project templates, optionally assigning it to a client, reviewer and team member. - Action **Delete client** Deletes a client from Financial Cents. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact from Financial Cents. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients whose name matches the text you supply, returning the matching clients with their contacts and groups. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts whose name or email matches the value you search for, returning the matching contacts with their client. - Action **Find projects** Finds projects whose title matches the search text, returning the matching projects and the first match's id. - Action **Find Template** Finds project templates whose title matches the text you give. - Action **Find users** Finds users on your Financial Cents team whose details match the search terms. - Action **Get client** Returns a single client by its id, including the client's contacts. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single contact by its id, including its name, email and associated clients. - Action **Update client** Renames an existing client in Financial Cents and returns the updated client record. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact's name, email, phone numbers, address or notes. Fields left blank are not changed. - Trigger **New Shipment Status** Triggers when a shipcloud shipment changes status (label created, picked up, in transit, delivered, deleted and more). - Action **Add address** Creates a new address in your shipcloud address book, ready to use as a shipment's sender or recipient. - Action **Add order** Creates an order in shipcloud with its delivery address and line items, so shipments can later be associated with it. - Action **Add pickup request** Requests a carrier pickup for your shipments, either all shipments not yet picked up or only the ones you list. - Action **Create Shipment** Creates a shipment in shipcloud and, optionally, books the shipping label with the carrier. - Action **Create Shipment Quote** Returns the price a carrier would charge for shipping a package between two addresses, without creating a shipment. - Action **Delete shipment** Deletes a shipment. Prepared shipments can be deleted any time; shipments with a label only before the carrier's cutoff time. - Action **Find Shipment** Finds shipments matching a reference number, tracking number, carrier, status or creation date range. - Action **Get address** Returns a saved address from your shipcloud address book by its id. - Action **Get order** Returns an order previously sent to shipcloud, including its delivery address and line items. - Action **Get pickup request** Returns a pickup request, including its carrier, pickup time window, pickup address and included shipments. - Action **Get shipment** Returns the details of a single shipment, including its carrier, tracking information, label and addresses. - Action **List addresses** Returns the addresses saved in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by name, company, street, city, postal code, country or phone. - Action **List carriers** Returns the carriers available to your shipcloud account, with their services, package types, additional services and label formats. - Action **List orders** Returns the orders previously created in your shipcloud account, including delivery address and line items. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by carrier, tracking number, reference number, service, type, source, tracking status or creation time. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment, such as its addresses, package, carrier or service, and can create its shipping label. ## Each app on its own - [ **Financial Cents** Financial Cents is a project and customer management software for bookkeepers and accountants](https://apiant.ai/connections/financial-cents) - [ **shipcloud** Shipcloud is a shipping service provider for creating shipping labels as well as tracking shipments.](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Financial Cents - [ **Financial Cents to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-hubspot) - [ **Financial Cents to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-salesforce) - [ **Financial Cents to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-slack) - [ **Financial Cents to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-google-sheets) - [ **Financial Cents to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-gmail) - [ **Financial Cents to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/financial-cents-to-google-calendar) ## More into shipcloud - [ **HubSpot to shipcloud** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shipcloud) - [ **Salesforce to shipcloud** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Sheets to shipcloud** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-shipcloud) - [ **Gmail to shipcloud** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Calendar to shipcloud** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shipcloud) - [ **Google Drive to shipcloud** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-shipcloud) Questions ## Financial Cents and shipcloud, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Financial Cents? Any of Financial Cents's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Client, New Contact and New project. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in shipcloud when something happens in Financial Cents? Any of shipcloud's 16 actions, including Create Shipment, Create Shipment Quote, Update shipment and Add address. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from shipcloud to Financial Cents? Yes. When something happens in shipcloud, your agent can act in Financial Cents too. This page covers both directions: shipcloud's triggers and Financial Cents's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Financial Cents or shipcloud? 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 Financial Cents and shipcloud 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.