--- title: "Connect FreeAgent to GeoNames - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in FreeAgent, your agent runs \"Get Country Info\" in GeoNames." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-geonames" --- # Connect FreeAgent to GeoNames When **New Contact** fires in [FreeAgent](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent), your agent runs **Get Country Info** in [GeoNames](https://apiant.ai/connections/geonames). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreeAgent **6** triggers FreeAgent **50** actions GeoNames **42** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want FreeAgent and GeoNames 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) FreeAgent holds your contacts, invoices and projects, but it doesn't know where those addresses sit on a map. GeoNames can turn an address into coordinates, name the region behind a postal code, return a country's currency and languages, or give the local timezone. Joined up, new records in FreeAgent get location details filled in as they arrive. Example flows ## What FreeAgent can start in GeoNames - When **New Contact** in FreeAgent then **Get Country Info** in GeoNames - When **New Invoice** in FreeAgent then **Lookup Location From Postal Code** in GeoNames 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 FreeAgent and GeoNames ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers ยท 92 actions - Trigger **New Bank Transaction** Triggers when a new transaction appears in a FreeAgent bank account. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created. - Trigger **New or Updated Contact** Triggers when a contact is created or changed in FreeAgent. - Trigger **New or Updated Timeslip** Triggers when a timeslip (time entry) is created or edited in FreeAgent. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created. - Action **Convert Estimate to Invoice** Converts an estimate into an invoice, marking the estimate as Invoiced and returning the URL of the new invoice. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a bill from a supplier contact in FreeAgent, with its line items, and returns the new bill. - Action **Create Contact** Create a new contact. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a draft credit note for a FreeAgent contact, with optional line items. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate, quote or proposal in FreeAgent for a contact or project, optionally with line items. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense claim in FreeAgent for a user, with its category, date, amount and sales tax details. - Action **Create Invoice** Create an invoice for a contact. - Action **Create Mileage Claim** Creates a mileage claim (a mileage expense) for a user in FreeAgent and returns the new claim. - Action **Create Note** Adds a note to a FreeAgent contact or project. - Action **Create Price List Item** Creates a price list item in FreeAgent that can be added to invoices and estimates. - Action **Create Project** Create a project for a contact. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task under a FreeAgent project. - Action **Create Timeslip** Create a timeslip (time tracking entry). - Action **Delete Contact** Delete a contact by id. - Action **Delete Invoice** Deletes an invoice from FreeAgent. - Action **Delete Timeslip** Deletes a timeslip from FreeAgent. - Action **Explain Bank Transaction** Explains a bank transaction in FreeAgent by creating a bank transaction explanation (categorising it, or matching it to an invoice, bill, transfer or user payment). Returns the created explanation. - Action **Find Contact by Email** Finds FreeAgent contacts whose email or billing email matches the given address. - Action **Get Bill** Returns a single bill, including its line items, by its ID. - Action **Get Contact** Get a single contact by id. - Action **Get Credit Note** Returns a single FreeAgent credit note, including its line items, status and totals. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns a single FreeAgent estimate with its line items. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single FreeAgent expense by its ID, including amounts, category, claimant and attachment details. - Action **Get Invoice** Get a single invoice by id. - Action **Get Note** Returns a single note attached to a FreeAgent contact or project, including its text, author and timestamps. - Action **Get Price List Item** Returns a single price list item from FreeAgent by its ID. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single FreeAgent project by its ID, including its contact, status, budget and billing details. - Action **Get Timeslip** Returns a single FreeAgent timeslip, including its hours, date, user, project and task. - Action **List Bank Accounts** Returns the bank accounts in your FreeAgent company, optionally filtered to standard, credit card or PayPal accounts. - Action **List Bank Transactions** Returns the bank transactions in a FreeAgent bank account, optionally filtered by date range, last update time, or explanation status. - Action **List Bills** List bills. - Action **List Categories** Returns all accounting categories for the company, grouped into admin expenses, cost of sales, income and general categories, optionally including sub accounts. - Action **List Contacts** List contacts in FreeAgent. - Action **List Corporation Tax Returns** Returns the company's Corporation Tax Returns, including amount due, payment and filing deadlines, and filing/payment status. - Action **List Estimates** List estimates. - Action **List Expenses** List expenses. - Action **List Invoices** List invoices. - Action **List Projects** List projects. - Action **List Self Assessment Returns** Returns the Self Assessment (income tax) returns for a FreeAgent user, including payments due and filing status. - Action **List Tasks** Returns the tasks in your FreeAgent account, optionally filtered by status, project or last-updated date. - Action **List Timeslips** List timeslips (time tracking entries). - Action **List Users** Returns the users on the FreeAgent account, optionally filtered to staff or advisors. - Action **Mark Invoice as Cancelled** Marks a FreeAgent invoice as cancelled, writing it off as unpaid. The invoice must be sent and past its due date. - Action **Mark Invoice as Sent** Marks a FreeAgent invoice as sent without emailing it. Can also re-open a cancelled invoice. - Action **Update Bill** Updates an existing bill in FreeAgent โ€” its supplier, reference, dates, rebilling, recurrence and bill items. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Contact** Update an existing contact. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing expense in FreeAgent, changing only the details you supply. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing FreeAgent invoice's details, such as dates, contact, payment terms, comments and line items. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing FreeAgent project's name, client, status, budget, billing rate and dates. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Timeslip** Updates an existing timeslip in FreeAgent, changing its task, user, project, date, hours or comment. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Address reverse geocoding** reverse geocode coordinates to a street address - Action **Contains** get places contained within a place - Action **Country code from coordinates** get the country code for coordinates - Action **Country subdivision** get the admin subdivision for coordinates - Action **Earthquakes** get recent earthquakes within a bounding box - Action **Elevation ASTER GDEM** get ASTER GDEM elevation for coordinates - Action **Elevation GTOPO30** get GTOPO30 elevation for coordinates - Action **Elevation SRTM1** get 30m SRTM1 elevation for coordinates - Action **Extended find nearby** rich reverse geocoding to multiple entity types - Action **Find Nearby Place Name** Return the closest populated place to a latitude/longitude coordinate, with distance. - Action **Find nearby POIs (OSM)** find OSM points of interest near coordinates - Action **Find Nearby Postal Codes** Return postal codes near a latitude/longitude coordinate within an optional radius. - Action **Find nearby streets (OSM)** find OSM streets near coordinates - Action **Find nearby streets (US)** find US streets near coordinates - Action **Find nearby toponym** find the nearest toponym to coordinates - Action **Find nearby Wikipedia** find Wikipedia articles near coordinates - Action **Find nearest address (US)** find the nearest US street address to coordinates - Action **Find nearest intersection (OSM)** find the nearest OSM intersection to coordinates - Action **Find nearest intersection (US)** find the nearest US street intersection to coordinates - Action **Geocode address** forward geocode a street address to coordinates - Action **Get Children** Return the administrative children (e.g. states of a country, counties of a state) for a GeoNames feature ID. - Action **Get Country Info** Return country information (capital, population, area, bounding box, currency, languages) for one or all countries. - Action **Get Elevation (SRTM3)** Return the SRTM3 elevation in meters for a latitude/longitude coordinate. - Action **Get Geo Details** Return full record details (name, coordinates, population, admin hierarchy, timezone) for a GeoNames feature ID. - Action **Get place by ID** get a place (toponym) by geonameId - Action **Lookup Location From Postal Code** Look up location information (place name, latitude, longitude, admin areas) for a given postal code and country. - Action **Lookup Timezone From Geo** Return the timezone, current local time, and GMT/DST offsets for a latitude/longitude coordinate. - Action **Nearby weather** get the nearest weather station observation to coordinates - Action **Neighbourhood** get the US neighbourhood for coordinates - Action **Neighbours** get neighbouring countries/places of a place - Action **Ocean** get the ocean/sea name for coordinates - Action **Place hierarchy** get the administrative hierarchy for a place - Action **Postal code country info** list countries with postal code coverage - Action **RSS to GeoRSS** geo-tag an RSS feed into GeoRSS - Action **Search Places** Full-text search of the GeoNames database for places by name or query string. - Action **Search Postal Codes** Search postal codes by code or place name, returning matching postal-code records with coordinates. - Action **Siblings** get sibling places of a place - Action **Street name lookup** autocomplete street names - Action **Weather by ICAO** get weather observation by airport ICAO code - Action **Weather in bounding box** get weather stations within a bounding box - Action **Wikipedia bounding box** get Wikipedia articles within a bounding box - Action **Wikipedia search** full-text search of geo-tagged Wikipedia articles ## Each app on its own - [ **FreeAgent** FreeAgent is cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers โ€” manage contacts, invoices...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent) - [ **GeoNames** GeoNames geographical database: search places, postal code lookup, timezone, country info, nearby places...](https://apiant.ai/connections/geonames) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from FreeAgent - [ **FreeAgent to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-salesforce) - [ **FreeAgent to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-slack) - [ **FreeAgent to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-stripe) - [ **FreeAgent to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-shopify) - [ **FreeAgent to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting โ€” manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **FreeAgent to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-trello) ## More into GeoNames - [ **HubSpot to GeoNames** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-geonames) - [ **Salesforce to GeoNames** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-geonames) - [ **Slack to GeoNames** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-geonames) - [ **Mailchimp to GeoNames** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-geonames) - [ **Stripe to GeoNames** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stripe-to-geonames) - [ **Shopify to GeoNames** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-geonames) Questions ## FreeAgent and GeoNames, answered ### ### Can location details be written back into FreeAgent? Yes, the Update Contact action in FreeAgent can store what GeoNames returns, such as a timezone or a corrected town from a postal code lookup. The agent tests every scenario, including contacts that arrive with no address at all. ### ### What can start one of these runs? FreeAgent offers three triggers: a new contact, a new invoice or a new project. GeoNames has no triggers, so it always sits on the action side, doing lookups like Geocode address, Search Places or Get Country Info. ### ### What can start an automation from FreeAgent? Any of FreeAgent's 6 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New Invoice, New Project and New Bank Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in GeoNames when something happens in FreeAgent? Any of GeoNames's 42 actions, including Get Country Info, Lookup Location From Postal Code, Postal code country info and Search Places. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from GeoNames to FreeAgent? GeoNames has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in FreeAgent. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads GeoNames's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreeAgent or GeoNames? 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 FreeAgent and GeoNames 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.