--- title: "Connect folk and QuickBooks Online - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Company Added\" fires in folk, your agent runs \"Create customer\" in QuickBooks Online, or \"New bill\" in QuickBooks Online to \"Create Deal\" in folk." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/folk-to-quickbooks-online" --- # Connect folk and QuickBooks Online When **Company Added** fires in [folk](https://apiant.ai/connections/folk), your agent runs **Create customer** in [QuickBooks Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online), or **New bill** in QuickBooks Online to **Create Deal** in folk. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. folk **11** triggers folk **16** actions QuickBooks Online **11** triggers QuickBooks Online **43** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want folk and QuickBooks Online 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 folk and QuickBooks Online can do together ### From folk to QuickBooks Online - When **Company Added** in folk then **Create customer** in QuickBooks Online - When **Company Custom Field Updated** in folk then **Create item (product/service)** in QuickBooks Online ### From QuickBooks Online to folk - When **New bill** in QuickBooks Online then **Create Deal** in folk - When **New customer** in QuickBooks Online then **Create Note** in folk 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 folk and QuickBooks Online ## Triggers and actions 22 triggers · 59 actions - Trigger **Company Added** Triggers when a new company is created or added to a group. - Trigger **Company Custom Field Updated** Triggers when a company custom field (for example tag, status, text, assignee) is updated. - Trigger **Company Removed** Triggers when a company is deleted from the workspace or removed from a group. - Trigger **Company Updated** Triggers when a company basic field (like name, email or URL) in a group is updated. - Trigger **Deal Added** Fires when a new deal is created. - Trigger **Deal Removed** Fires when a deal is deleted from a pipeline. - Trigger **Deal Updated** Fires when a deal is updated (stage change, field update). - Trigger **Person Added** Triggers when a new person is created or added to a group. - Trigger **Person Custom Field Updated** Triggers when a person custom field (for example tag, status, text, assignee) is updated. - Trigger **Person Removed** Triggers when a person is deleted from the workspace or removed from a group. - Trigger **Person Updated** Triggers when a person basic field (like first name, job title, email or URL) in a group is updated. - Action **Create Company** Creates a company in folk, optionally adding it to a group and setting that group's custom fields. - Action **Create Deal** Creates a deal in a folk group, optionally linked to companies and people, and sets that deal type's custom fields. - Action **Create Group** Creates a group in folk. A default "All people" table view is added to the group automatically. - Action **Create Note** Creates a note on a folk person, company or deal. Optionally posts it as a reply to an existing note. - Action **Create Person** Creates a person in folk, optionally adding them to a group and setting that group's custom fields. - Action **Create Reminder** Creates a reminder on a folk person, company or deal, scheduled with an iCalendar recurrence rule. - Action **Delete Company** Deletes a company from folk by its id. - Action **Delete Person** Deletes a person from folk by their id. This also removes their custom fields, notes and associations. - Action **Find a Company** Searches folk companies by name, email or website and returns the matches, with the first one broken out for easy mapping. - Action **Find a Person** Searches folk people by email, full name or phone and returns the matches, with the first one broken out for easy mapping. - Action **Get a Company** Fetches one folk company by id, including its custom field values. - Action **Get a Note** Fetches one folk note by id, with its text, author and the record it is attached to. - Action **Get a Person** Fetches one folk person by id, including their custom field values. - Action **List Groups** Returns the groups in the folk workspace, with each group's id, name and visibility. - Action **Update Company** Updates a folk company. Only the fields you fill in are changed; list fields such as emails replace the whole list. - Action **Update Person** Updates a folk person. Only the fields you fill in are changed; list fields such as emails replace the whole list. - Trigger **New bill** Polls for newly created bills (accounts payable), most recent first. - Trigger **New customer** Polls for newly created customers, most recent first. - Trigger **New estimate** Fires when a new estimate is created in QuickBooks Online. - Trigger **New invoice** Polls for newly created invoices, most recent first. - Trigger **New or updated customer** Fires when a QuickBooks customer is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New or updated estimate** Fires when a QuickBooks estimate is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated invoice** Fires when a QuickBooks invoice is created or edited — line items, amounts, due date, or status. - Trigger **New or updated item** Fires when a QuickBooks product or service item is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated vendor** Fires when a QuickBooks vendor is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New paid invoice** Polls for invoices that are fully paid (Balance = 0), most recently updated first. - Trigger **New payment** Polls for newly created customer payments, most recent first. - Action **Create account** Create an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts — name, account type, and detail type. - Action **Create bill** Creates a new bill (accounts payable) for a vendor with a single account-based line item. - Action **Create credit memo** Creates a new credit memo for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create customer** Creates a new customer in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Create estimate** Create a QuickBooks Online estimate (quote) for a customer. - Action **Create expense (purchase)** Creates a new expense (Purchase) paid from a bank/credit-card account with one account-based line. - Action **Create item (product/service)** Creates a new product or service item. - Action **Create journal entry** Create a QuickBooks journal entry with balanced debit and credit lines against the chart of accounts. - Action **Create payment** Records a customer payment, optionally applied against a specific invoice. - Action **Create sales receipt** Creates a new sales receipt for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create vendor** Creates a new vendor in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Delete bill** Permanently delete a QuickBooks bill by Id. - Action **Delete credit memo** Permanently delete a QuickBooks credit memo by Id. - Action **Delete estimate** Permanently delete a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Delete invoice** Permanently delete a QuickBooks invoice by Id. Unlike voiding, this removes the transaction entirely. - Action **Delete sales receipt** Permanently delete a QuickBooks sales receipt by Id. - Action **Find account by name** Look up an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts by its name. - Action **Find customer by name** Searches for a customer by display name and returns its Id and SyncToken. - Action **Find invoice by number** Look up a QuickBooks invoice by its document number (the invoice number customers see) rather than its internal Id. - Action **Find item by name** Look up a QuickBooks product or service item by its name. - Action **Find vendor by name** Look up a QuickBooks Online vendor by display name. - Action **Get bill balance** Returns the outstanding balance for a bill by its Id. - Action **Get customer by ID** Retrieves a single customer by its Id. - Action **Get estimate by ID** Retrieve a QuickBooks Online estimate by its ID. - Action **Get estimate PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Get invoice by ID** Retrieves a single invoice by its Id, including its balance. - Action **Get invoice PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks invoice by Id, for emailing or archiving. - Action **List accounts** List the accounts in the QuickBooks chart of accounts, with their type, detail type, and current balance. - Action **List attachments** List the files attached to a QuickBooks transaction or record, with their download links. - Action **List employees** List employees recorded in QuickBooks Online. - Action **List items** List products and services (items) defined in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Pay bill** Records a bill payment against a vendor bill, paid from the specified bank/credit-card account. - Action **Run query** Runs an arbitrary read-only QuickBooks Online query (QBO SQL-like syntax) and returns the raw QueryResponse. - Action **Send estimate** Email a QuickBooks Online estimate to the customer. - Action **Send invoice** Emails an invoice to the supplied email address (or the invoice's billing email if omitted). - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer (sparse update). Requires the customer Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Update estimate** Update an existing QuickBooks estimate by Id, changing only the fields supplied. - Action **Update invoice** Update an existing QuickBooks invoice by Id — a sparse update that changes only the fields supplied and leaves the rest of the invoice intact. - Action **Update item** Update an existing QuickBooks product or service item by Id — name, description, price, income account, or active flag. - Action **Update vendor** Update an existing QuickBooks vendor by Id — contact details, billing address, terms, or active flag. - Action **Upload attachment** Upload a file to QuickBooks and attach it to a transaction or record — a receipt on an expense, a contract on an invoice. - Action **Void invoice** Voids an existing invoice. Requires the invoice Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Void payment** Voids an existing customer payment. Requires the payment Id and current SyncToken. ## Each app on its own - [ **folk** folk is the next generation CRM for teams](https://apiant.ai/connections/folk) - [ **QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from folk - [ **folk to OpenRouter** OpenRouter is a unified interface to AI models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/folk-to-openrouter) - [ **folk to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/folk-to-hubspot) - [ **folk to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/folk-to-salesforce) - [ **folk to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of folk's 11 triggers in the catalog, including Company Added, Company Custom Field Updated, Company Removed and Company Updated. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in QuickBooks Online when something happens in folk? Any of QuickBooks Online's 43 actions, including Create account, Create bill, Create credit memo and Create customer. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from QuickBooks Online to folk? Yes. When something happens in QuickBooks Online, your agent can act in folk too. This page covers both directions: QuickBooks Online's triggers and folk's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for folk or QuickBooks Online? 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 folk and QuickBooks Online 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.