--- title: "Connect FreeAgent and Pennylane - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bank Transaction\" fires in FreeAgent, your agent runs \"Create Company Customer V2\" in Pennylane." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-pennylane" --- # Connect FreeAgent and Pennylane When **New Bank Transaction** fires in [FreeAgent](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent), your agent runs **Create Company Customer V2** in [Pennylane](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane), or **New Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane 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 Pennylane **5** triggers Pennylane **34** 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 Pennylane 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 Pennylane can do together ### From FreeAgent to Pennylane - When **New Bank Transaction** in FreeAgent then **Create Company Customer V2** in Pennylane - When **New Contact** in FreeAgent then **Create Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane ### From Pennylane to FreeAgent - When **New Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane then **Create Contact** in FreeAgent - When **New Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane 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 Pennylane ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 84 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 Billing Subscription V2** Triggers when a new billing subscription is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Customer Invoice V2** Triggers when a new customer invoice or credit note is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Customer V2** Triggers when a new customer (company or individual) is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Product V2** Triggers when a new product is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Quote V2** Triggers when a new quote is created in Pennylane. - Action **Add supplier** Creates a supplier in Pennylane and returns the new supplier record. - Action **Create Company Customer V2** Creates a company customer in Pennylane with its billing address, contact and invoicing details, and returns the new customer. - Action **Create Customer Invoice V2** Creates a draft or finalized customer invoice (or credit note) in Pennylane for an existing customer. - Action **Create Individual Customer V2** Creates an individual (person) customer in Pennylane with their name, billing address and invoicing preferences. - Action **Create Product V2** Creates a product in Pennylane with its label, price before tax and VAT rate, and returns the created product. - Action **Create Quote V2** Creates a quote for a customer in Pennylane, with its line items, dates and optional discount. - Action **Finalize customer invoice** Finalizes a draft customer invoice or credit note in Pennylane, assigning its number and locking it from further edits. - Action **Get Billing Subscription V2** Returns one billing subscription, including its schedule, status, customer and invoice settings. - Action **Get supplier** Returns a single supplier from Pennylane by its id, including contact, address, payment terms and ledger account. - Action **Get supplier invoice** Returns a single supplier invoice from Pennylane by its ID, including amounts, dates, supplier, and payment status. - Action **Get transaction** Returns a single bank transaction by its id, including amount, currency, date, bank account, categories and linked customer or supplier. - Action **List bank accounts** Returns the company's bank accounts with their currency, balance, journal and ledger account. - Action **List billing subscriptions** Returns the billing subscriptions in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by status, customer or start date. - Action **List categories** Returns the analytical categories defined in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by group, label or code. - Action **List customer invoices** Returns customer invoices and credit notes, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List customers** Returns a list of company and individual customers in Pennylane, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List ledger accounts** Returns the company's ledger accounts (chart of accounts), up to 1000 per call, optionally filtered by number, id or enabled status. - Action **List ledger entries** Returns the ledger entries of your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by id, date or journal and sorted by id or date. - Action **List products** Returns the products in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by label, reference or id. - Action **List quotes** Returns the quotes in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by customer or status. - Action **List supplier invoices** Returns the supplier invoices in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List suppliers** Returns the suppliers in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List transactions** Returns the bank transactions in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by bank account, journal, date or id. - Action **Retrieve Customer V2** Returns one customer (company or individual) by its Pennylane id, including contact details, addresses and billing settings. - Action **Retrieve Invoice V2** Returns one customer invoice or credit note, including its amounts, status, customer and links to its lines and payments. - Action **Retrieve Product V2** Returns one Pennylane product by its id, including price, VAT rate, unit, ledger account and custom field values. - Action **Retrieve Quote V2** Returns a single quote by its ID, including amounts, status, customer and dates. - Action **Update Billing Subscription V2** Updates a billing subscription in Pennylane: stop or resume it, change its invoicing mode, payment terms, schedule, customer or invoice content. - Action **Update Company Customer V2** Updates an existing company customer in Pennylane and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update customer invoice** Updates a customer invoice in Pennylane. Draft invoices accept all fields; finalized invoices accept only label, external reference, transaction reference, invoice line imputation/performance dates and installments. - Action **Update Individual Customer V2** Updates an individual (person) customer in Pennylane and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update Product V2** Updates an existing product in Pennylane, such as its label, price, VAT rate or custom fields. - Action **Update Quote V2** Updates an existing quote in Pennylane — its dates, customer, texts, discount, language and invoice lines — and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update supplier** Updates an existing supplier in Pennylane and returns the updated supplier. ## Each app on its own - [ **FreeAgent** FreeAgent is cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers — manage contacts, invoices...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent) - [ **Pennylane** Pennylane centralizes all your cash flows and connects with your financial tools to ease and automate...](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane) 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. 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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 Pennylane when something happens in FreeAgent? Any of Pennylane's 34 actions, including Create Company Customer V2, Create Customer Invoice V2, Create Individual Customer V2 and Create Product V2. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Pennylane to FreeAgent? Yes. When something happens in Pennylane, your agent can act in FreeAgent too. This page covers both directions: Pennylane's triggers and FreeAgent's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreeAgent or Pennylane? 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 Pennylane 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.