--- title: "Connect FreeAgent and inFlow Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bank Transaction\" fires in FreeAgent, your agent runs \"Create a Sales Order\" in inFlow Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-inflow-inventory" --- # Connect FreeAgent and inFlow Inventory When **New Bank Transaction** fires in [FreeAgent](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent), your agent runs **Create a Sales Order** in [inFlow Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/inflow-inventory), or **New or Updated Customer** in inFlow Inventory to **Create Contact** in FreeAgent. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreeAgent **6** triggers FreeAgent **50** actions inFlow Inventory **10** triggers inFlow Inventory **68** 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 inFlow Inventory 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 FreeAgent and inFlow Inventory can do together ### From FreeAgent to inFlow Inventory - When **New Bank Transaction** in FreeAgent then **Create a Sales Order** in inFlow Inventory - When **New Contact** in FreeAgent then **Create Customer** in inFlow Inventory ### From inFlow Inventory to FreeAgent - When **New or Updated Customer** in inFlow Inventory then **Create Contact** in FreeAgent - When **New or Updated Manufacturing Order** in inFlow Inventory then **Create Invoice** in FreeAgent 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 inFlow Inventory ## Triggers and actions 16 triggers · 118 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 — 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. - Trigger **New or Updated Customer** Triggers when a customer is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Manufacturing Order** Triggers when a manufacturing order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Purchase Order** Triggers when a purchase order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Purchase Quote** Triggers when a purchase quote is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Sales Order** Triggers when a sales order is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Sales Quote** Triggers when a sales quote is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Adjustment** Triggers when a stock adjustment is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Count** Triggers when a stock count is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Stock Transfer** Triggers when a stock transfer is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Vendor** Triggers when a vendor is created or updated. - Action **Approve Purchase Order** Approves an existing purchase order in inFlow, the same as clicking Approve in the inFlow app, and returns the updated purchase order. - Action **Convert Purchase Quote to Purchase Order** Converts a purchase quote into a purchase order, the same as the Convert to order action in inFlow. - Action **Convert Sales Quote to Sales Order** Converts an inFlow sales quote into a sales order, the same as the Convert to order action in inFlow. - Action **Create a Product** Creates a new product in inFlow Inventory. - Action **Create a Sales Order** Creates a new sales order (or sales quote) in inFlow for a customer, with optional product lines, addresses and custom fields. - Action **Create a Stock Adjustment** Creates a stock adjustment - Action **Create a Stock Count** Creates a stock count - Action **Create a Stock Count Sheet** Creates a new stock count sheet. - Action **Create a Stock Transfer** Creates a stock transfer - Action **Create a Vendor** Creates a vendor - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer - Action **Create Manufacturing Order** Creates a new manufacturing order - Action **Create Purchase Order** Creates a purchase order - Action **Find a Adjustment Reason** Finds adjustment reasons in inFlow Inventory by name. - Action **Find a Category** Finds categories whose name contains the text you enter and returns the first match plus every match. - Action **Find a Count Sheet** Looks up an inFlow count sheet by its ID. - Action **Find a Custom Document** Finds inFlow records of the document type you choose (customers, vendors, products, sales orders, purchase orders and more) whose chosen field matches a value. Returns the first match plus every match on the first page. - Action **Find a Customer** Returns the inFlow customers that match the given criteria (name, email, phone, address and more). - Action **Find a Location** Returns up to 100 inFlow locations whose name contains the given text. - Action **Find a Manufacturing Order** Finds manufacturing orders in inFlow by order number, status, dates, location or assignee. Returns every match plus the first matching order. - Action **Find a Payment Term** Finds payment terms in inFlow whose name contains the given text. - Action **Find a Pricing Scheme** Returns the pricing schemes whose name contains the specified text. - Action **Find a Product** Returns up to 100 inFlow products matching the name, barcode, description, smart search text or other filters supplied. - Action **Find a Purchase Order** Finds purchase orders by order number or other filters and returns the matches. - Action **Find a Sales Order** Search for the details of a sales order by a Sales Order ID or Sales Order Number. - Action **Find a Stock Adjustment** Search for the details of a Stock Adjustment by a Stock Adjustment ID or Stock Adjustment Number. - Action **Find a Stock Count** Search for the details of a Stock Count by a Stock Count ID or Stock Count Number. - Action **Find a Stockroom Scan** Finds stockroom scans by scan number. inFlow has deprecated this endpoint; newer scans are recorded as stock adjustments. - Action **Find a Stock Transfer** Search for the details of a Stock Transfer by a Stock Transfer ID or Stock Transfer Number. - Action **Find a Taxing Scheme** Search for the details of a taxing scheme by Name. - Action **Find a Vendor** Finds inFlow vendors matching name, contact, email, phone, address or other filters, returning the first match and the full list. - Action **Find or Create a Customer Document** Finds a customer whose name exactly matches the given name; if none exists, creates one with the supplied details. Returns the customer record either way. - Action **Find or Create a Manufacturing Order Document** Searches for a manufacturing order document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Product** Returns the product with exactly the given name, creating it first if no such product exists. - Action **Find or Create a Purchase Order Document** Searches for a purchase order document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Sales Order Document** Looks up a sales order by its order number and returns it; if no order has that number, creates a new sales order with it. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Adjustment Document** Searches for a stock adjustment document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Count Document** Searches for a stock count document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Stock Transfer Document** Searches for a stock transfer document by document type. - Action **Find or Create a Vendor** Searches for a vendor by ID or name and creates a new vendor if it doesn't exist. - Action **Find or Create a Vendor Document** Searches for a vendor document by document type. - Action **Find or Create Customer** Finds a customer by exact name; if none exists, creates one with the supplied details. - Action **Find or Create Customer by Email** Looks up an inFlow customer by exact email address and returns it; if none exists, creates a new customer with that email. - Action **Find or Create Vendor by Email** Searches for a vendor by Email and/or name and creates a new vendor if it doesn't exist. - Action **Fulfill Purchase Order** Marks every line of a purchase order as received and adds the corresponding stock, the same as the Fulfill button in inFlow. - Action **Fulfill Sales Order** Quick-fulfills a sales order in one step. - Action **Invoice Sales Order** Quick-invoices a sales order. - Action **List Customers** Returns all customers in the inFlow account, with pagination. - Action **List Locations** Lists the locations (warehouses, stores) in your inFlow account. - Action **List Manufacturing Orders** Lists manufacturing orders in inFlow, optionally filtered by number, status, dates, location or assignee. Returns up to 100 orders. - Action **List Products** Lists products in inFlow, optionally filtered by name, description, barcode, type, category, lot tracking, modification date or a smart search. Returns up to 100 products. - Action **List Purchase Orders** Returns all purchase orders, with pagination. - Action **List Sales Orders** Returns all sales orders, with pagination. - Action **List Stock Counts** Returns all stock counts, with pagination. - Action **List Vendors** Returns all vendors in the inFlow account, with pagination. - Action **Pay Sales Order** Marks an inFlow sales order as paid, the same as the Mark paid button in inFlow. - Action **Ship Sales Order** Marks a sales order as quick-shipped (final fulfillment step). - Action **Update a Manufacturing Order** Updates an existing manufacturing order by ID. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a Product** Updates a product given their ID. - Action **Update a Purchase Order** Updates an existing purchase order in inFlow by ID. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update a Sales Order** Updates a sales order given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Adjustment** Updates a stock adjustment given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Count** Updates a stock count given their ID. - Action **Update a Stock Count Sheet** Updates a stock count sheet. - Action **Update a Stockroom Scan** Updates a stockroom scan in inFlow. inFlow marks this endpoint deprecated; new scans are stored as stock adjustments. - Action **Update a Stock Transfer** Updates a stock transfer given their ID. - Action **Update Customer** Updates a customer given their ID. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing vendor by ID. Fields left blank keep their current values. ## Each app on its own - [ **FreeAgent** FreeAgent is cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers — manage contacts, invoices...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent) - [ **inFlow Inventory** inFlow Inventory is an inventory and order management system for businesses that outgrow spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connections/inflow-inventory) 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 — 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 inFlow Inventory - [ **HubSpot to inFlow Inventory** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Sheets to inFlow Inventory** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Gmail to inFlow Inventory** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Calendar to inFlow Inventory** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **Google Drive to inFlow Inventory** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-inflow-inventory) - [ **ActiveCampaign to inFlow Inventory** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-inflow-inventory) Questions ## FreeAgent and inFlow Inventory, answered ### ### What can start an automation from FreeAgent? Any of FreeAgent's 6 triggers in the catalog, including New Bank Transaction, New Contact, New Invoice and New or Updated Contact. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in inFlow Inventory when something happens in FreeAgent? Any of inFlow Inventory's 68 actions, including Create a Product, Create a Sales Order, Create a Stock Adjustment and Create a Stock Count. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from inFlow Inventory to FreeAgent? Yes. When something happens in inFlow Inventory, your agent can act in FreeAgent too. This page covers both directions: inFlow Inventory's triggers and FreeAgent's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreeAgent or inFlow Inventory? 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 inFlow Inventory 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.