--- title: "Connect Flashquotes to FxRatesAPI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Updated Event Staff\" fires in Flashquotes, your agent runs \"Convert currency\" in FxRatesAPI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-fxratesapi" --- # Connect Flashquotes to FxRatesAPI When **Updated Event Staff** fires in [Flashquotes](https://apiant.ai/connections/flashquotes), your agent runs **Convert currency** in [FxRatesAPI](https://apiant.ai/connections/fxratesapi). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Flashquotes **2** triggers Flashquotes **9** actions FxRatesAPI **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 Flashquotes and FxRatesAPI 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 Flashquotes can start in FxRatesAPI - When **Updated Event Staff** in Flashquotes then **Convert currency** in FxRatesAPI - When **Updated Event Timeline** in Flashquotes then **Get historical exchange rates** in FxRatesAPI 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 Flashquotes and FxRatesAPI ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 12 actions - Trigger **Updated Event Staff** Triggers when the staff assigned to an event change. Returns the event and its current staff. - Trigger **Updated Event Timeline** Triggers when an event's timeline changes, including its service or shift times and its prep, travel, setup, cleanup or unload durations. - Action **Get Event** Returns a single Flashquotes event by its id, optionally including related details such as its location, staff, services, checklists and booking. - Action **Get Form Response** Returns the answers submitted on a Flashquotes form response, keyed by each question's title. - Action **Get Invoices** Returns all invoices for a booking, including each invoice's number, status, due date, amounts and viewing link. - Action **Get quote** Returns a quote by ID with its live total price, dates, status details and event information, plus any related records you ask to include. An error occurs if the quote is not found. - Action **Get resource** Returns a single Flashquotes resource, such as a piece of equipment or a bookable item, by its ID, including its name, category, status and location. - Action **Get staff member** Returns one staff member by ID, including their contact details, role and status. Inactive staff are returned too. - Action **List Events** Returns your company's Flashquotes events, newest first, optionally narrowed by service start time, creation date, location or booking. - Action **List quotes** Returns quote summaries for your company with live totals, newest first, optionally filtered by contact, location, booking, event type or date range. - Action **List resources** Returns the resources for your company, newest first, optionally only those at one location. - Action **Convert currency** Converts an amount from one currency to another using the current or a historical exchange rate, and returns the converted amount and the rate used. - Action **Get historical exchange rates** Returns the exchange rates for a chosen past date, quoted against a base currency. - Action **Get time series exchange rates** Returns exchange rates for a range of dates, at daily, hourly or minute-level intervals, quoted against a base currency. ## Each app on its own - [ **Flashquotes** Flashquotes is a quoting and booking platform for event businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connections/flashquotes) - [ **FxRatesAPI** Real-time exchange rates, historical rates and currency conversion](https://apiant.ai/connections/fxratesapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Flashquotes - [ **Flashquotes to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-hubspot) - [ **Flashquotes to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-salesforce) - [ **Flashquotes to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-slack) - [ **Flashquotes to Google Sheets** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-google-sheets) - [ **Flashquotes to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-gmail) - [ **Flashquotes to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/flashquotes-to-google-calendar) ## More into FxRatesAPI - [ **HubSpot to FxRatesAPI** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-fxratesapi) - [ **Salesforce to FxRatesAPI** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-fxratesapi) - [ **Slack to FxRatesAPI** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-fxratesapi) - [ **Google Sheets to FxRatesAPI** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-fxratesapi) - [ **Gmail to FxRatesAPI** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-fxratesapi) - [ **Google Calendar to FxRatesAPI** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-fxratesapi) Questions ## Flashquotes and FxRatesAPI, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Flashquotes? Any of Flashquotes's 2 triggers in the catalog, including Updated Event Staff and Updated Event Timeline. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in FxRatesAPI when something happens in Flashquotes? Any of FxRatesAPI's 3 actions, including Convert currency, Get historical exchange rates and Get time series exchange rates. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from FxRatesAPI to Flashquotes? FxRatesAPI has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Flashquotes. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads FxRatesAPI's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Flashquotes or FxRatesAPI? 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 Flashquotes and FxRatesAPI 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.