--- title: "Connect Follow Up Boss to ShipEngine - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Deal Stage Updated\" fires in Follow Up Boss, your agent runs \"Add batch\" in ShipEngine." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/follow-up-boss-to-shipengine" --- # Connect Follow Up Boss to ShipEngine When **Deal Stage Updated** fires in [Follow Up Boss](https://apiant.ai/connections/follow-up-boss), your agent runs **Add batch** in [ShipEngine](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Follow Up Boss **8** triggers Follow Up Boss **29** actions ShipEngine **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Follow Up Boss and ShipEngine 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 Follow Up Boss can start in ShipEngine - When **Deal Stage Updated** in Follow Up Boss then **Add batch** in ShipEngine - When **New Appointment** in Follow Up Boss then **Add label** in ShipEngine 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 Follow Up Boss and ShipEngine ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 43 actions - Trigger **Deal Stage Updated** Triggers when a deal in Follow Up Boss is updated, including when it moves to a new pipeline stage. - Trigger **New Appointment** Triggers when a new appointment is created in Follow Up Boss. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is added in Follow Up Boss. - Trigger **New Deal** Triggers when a new deal is created in Follow Up Boss. - Trigger **New task** Triggers when a new task is created in Follow Up Boss, optionally limited to a person, assignee, type or due range. - Trigger **Person Stage Updated** Triggers when a contact (person) in Follow Up Boss moves to a different stage. - Trigger **Tag Added to Contact** Triggers when one or more tags are added to a contact in Follow Up Boss. - Trigger **Updated Contact** Triggers when a contact is added or updated in Follow Up Boss. - Action **Add appointment** Creates an appointment in Follow Up Boss, optionally inviting users and contacts. - Action **Add Collaborators** Sets the collaborating users on a Follow Up Boss contact. - Action **Add Tags to a Contact** Adds one or more tags to a Follow Up Boss contact, keeping the tags the contact already has. - Action **Apply an Action Plan to a Contact** Applies an existing action plan to a Follow Up Boss contact. - Action **Change Stage of a Contact** Moves a contact (person) in Follow Up Boss to a different stage. - Action **Create Contact Without Triggering Action Plans** Creates a contact (person) in Follow Up Boss directly, without running lead-flow automations, agent notifications or action plans. - Action **Create Deal** Creates a deal in Follow Up Boss in the chosen pipeline stage, optionally linked to contacts and agents. - Action **Create Note** Adds a note to a contact (person) in Follow Up Boss. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task on a Follow Up Boss contact, optionally assigned to an agent with a due date and reminder. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact (person) from Follow Up Boss by its id. - Action **Find a Contact** Searches Follow Up Boss contacts by email, phone, name, stage, tags and other criteria, and returns the matching people. - Action **Get Action Plan Assignment** Returns one action plan assignment — which action plan is applied to which contact, and its status. - Action **Get Appointment** Returns a single Follow Up Boss appointment by its ID. - Action **Get Call** Returns a single call logged in Follow Up Boss, looked up by its ID. - Action **Get contact** Returns a Follow Up Boss contact (person) by ID, including custom fields. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single deal by its id, including its pipeline, stage, price, linked people and users, and any deal custom fields. - Action **Get Note** Returns a single note by its id, including its subject, body and the contact it belongs to. - Action **List Action Plan Assignments** Returns the action plans applied to a contact, or the contacts on an action plan. - Action **List tasks** Returns a list of tasks in Follow Up Boss, optionally filtered by contact, assigned agent, name, type, completion status or due date. - Action **List users** Returns the users (agents, brokers, lenders) in the Follow Up Boss account, optionally filtered by role, name or email. - Action **Log Call** Logs a phone call on a Follow Up Boss contact, with its outcome, note and duration. - Action **Pause an Action Plan for a Contact** Pauses an action plan that is running for a contact, so its remaining steps stop until it is resumed. - Action **Reassign Agent** Reassigns a Follow Up Boss contact to a different agent, by user id or agent name. - Action **Send Inquiry or Website Event** Sends a lead inquiry or website activity event (registration, property inquiry, viewed page, etc.) to Follow Up Boss, creating or updating the matching contact. - Action **Update appointment** Updates an existing appointment in Follow Up Boss, such as its time, title, invitees, type or outcome. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact (person) in Follow Up Boss, including names, emails, phones, tags, stage, assignment and custom fields. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in Follow Up Boss, including its stage, people, agents, price, dates and custom field values. - Action **Update note** Edits an existing note's subject, content, or associated contact in Follow Up Boss. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in Follow Up Boss, such as its name, type, assignee, related contact or completion status. - Action **Add batch** Creates a new label batch in ShipEngine, optionally seeded with shipments or rates, so their labels can later be processed together. - Action **Add label** Purchases a shipping label from your chosen carrier and service for a shipment, returning the label's tracking number, cost and download links. - Action **Add shipment** Creates a shipment from a ship-to address, a ship-from address or warehouse, and its packages, returning the new shipment id for rating, labels and batches. - Action **Add warehouse** Creates a new warehouse location in ShipEngine with a ship-from address and an optional return address. - Action **Calculate rates** Returns shipping rate quotes from your connected carriers for a shipment, either from full shipment details or an existing shipment. - Action **Get batch** Returns a label batch by its id, including its status, shipment and error counts, and links to download the batch's labels and forms. - Action **Get label** Returns a shipping label by its id, including its status, tracking number, cost and links to download the label. - Action **Get manifest** Returns the details of an end-of-day manifest, including its ship date, the labels it covers and a link to download the manifest form. - Action **Get shipment** Returns a shipment by its id, including its status, carrier and service, addresses, packages and tags. - Action **List carriers** Returns all carrier accounts connected to your ShipEngine account, with each carrier's id, services, package types and options. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your ShipEngine account, optionally filtered by status, tag, batch or created/modified date range. - Action **List warehouses** Returns every warehouse in your ShipEngine account, with each warehouse's id, name, origin address and return address. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment's addresses, packages, carrier service and other details before it is shipped, and returns the updated shipment. - Action **Validate an Address** Checks a postal address against carrier and postal databases and returns its validation status, the corrected (matched) address, and any messages explaining problems found. ## Each app on its own - [ **Follow Up Boss** Simple lead management software for real estate agents and brokers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/follow-up-boss) - [ **ShipEngine** ShipEngine APIs empower ecommerce brands and platforms to shop rates, validate global addresses, print...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Follow Up Boss - [ **Follow Up Boss to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/follow-up-boss-to-hubspot) - 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in ShipEngine when something happens in Follow Up Boss? Any of ShipEngine's 14 actions, including Update shipment, Add batch, Add label and Add shipment. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ShipEngine to Follow Up Boss? ShipEngine has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Follow Up Boss. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ShipEngine's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Follow Up Boss or ShipEngine? 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 Follow Up Boss and ShipEngine 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.