--- title: "Connect FreeAgent and SimplyPrint - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bank Transaction\" fires in FreeAgent, your agent runs \"Add Queue Item\" in SimplyPrint." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freeagent-to-simplyprint" --- # Connect FreeAgent and SimplyPrint When **New Bank Transaction** fires in [FreeAgent](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent), your agent runs **Add Queue Item** in [SimplyPrint](https://apiant.ai/connections/simplyprint), or **Filament Created** in SimplyPrint 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 SimplyPrint **56** triggers SimplyPrint **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 SimplyPrint 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 SimplyPrint can do together ### From FreeAgent to SimplyPrint - When **New Bank Transaction** in FreeAgent then **Add Queue Item** in SimplyPrint - When **New Contact** in FreeAgent then **Add Spare Part** in SimplyPrint ### From SimplyPrint to FreeAgent - When **Filament Created** in SimplyPrint then **Create Contact** in FreeAgent - When **Filament Updated** in SimplyPrint 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 SimplyPrint ## Triggers and actions 62 triggers · 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 — 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 **Balance Adjusted** Triggers when a user's balance is adjusted in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Balance Charged** Triggers when a user's SimplyPrint balance is charged, for example when a print's cost is deducted from their prepaid credit. - Trigger **Balance Refunded** Triggers when a user's SimplyPrint balance is refunded. - Trigger **Balance Topped Up** Triggers when a user's SimplyPrint balance is topped up. - Trigger **Bed Cleared** Triggers when a printer's bed is marked as cleared after a print in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Filament Assigned** Triggers when a filament spool is assigned to a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Filament Created** Triggers when a filament spool is created in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Filament Deleted** Triggers when a filament spool is deleted in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Filament Unassigned** Triggers when a filament spool is unassigned from a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Filament Updated** Triggers when a filament spool is updated in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Cancelled** Triggers when a maintenance job is cancelled in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Completed** Triggers when a maintenance job is completed in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Created** Triggers when a maintenance job is created in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Deleted** Triggers when a maintenance job is deleted in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Overdue** Triggers when a SimplyPrint maintenance job becomes overdue. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Reopened** Triggers when a maintenance job is reopened in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Started** Triggers when a maintenance job is started in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Job Updated** Triggers when a maintenance job is updated in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Problem Reported** Triggers when a maintenance problem is reported on a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Problem Resolved** Triggers when a maintenance problem reported on a printer is marked as resolved in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Schedule Created** Triggers when a maintenance schedule is created in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Schedule Deleted** Triggers when a maintenance schedule is deleted in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Schedule Updated** Triggers when a maintenance schedule is updated in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Maintenance Task Completed** Triggers when a task on a SimplyPrint maintenance job is marked completed. - Trigger **Maintenance Task Skipped** Triggers when a maintenance task on a SimplyPrint maintenance job is skipped. - Trigger **New Print Started** Triggers when a print job starts on one of your SimplyPrint printers. - Trigger **Printer AI Failure Detected** Triggers when SimplyPrint's AI failure detection spots a likely failed print on a printer. - Trigger **Printer AI Failure False Positive** Triggers when an AI failure detection on a SimplyPrint printer is marked as a false positive. - Trigger **Printer AI State Changed** Triggers when a printer's AI failure detection state changes in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Printer Autoprint Max Cycles Reached** Triggers when a printer's AutoPrint reaches its maximum number of print cycles and stops. - Trigger **Printer AutoPrint State Changed** Triggers when AutoPrint is turned on or off for a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Printer Custom Tag Assigned** Triggers when a custom tag is assigned to a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Printer Custom Tag Detached** Triggers when a custom tag is removed from a printer in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Printer Material Changed** Triggers when the material loaded on a SimplyPrint printer changes. - Trigger **Printer Nozzle Size Changed** Triggers when the nozzle size set on a SimplyPrint printer is changed. - Trigger **Printer Out of Order State Changed** Triggers when a SimplyPrint printer is marked out of order or brought back into service. - Trigger **Print Job Cancelled** Triggers when a print job is cancelled in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Print Job Completed** Triggers when a SimplyPrint print job finishes. - Trigger **Print Job Failed** Triggers when a print job fails in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Print Job Objects Skipped** Triggers when objects are skipped in an active SimplyPrint print job. - Trigger **Print Job Paused** Triggers when a print job is paused on one of your SimplyPrint printers. - Trigger **Queue Emptied** Triggers when the SimplyPrint print queue (or one of its queue groups) is emptied. - Trigger **Queue Item Added** Triggers when an item is added to the SimplyPrint print queue. - Trigger **Queue Item Deleted** Triggers when an item is deleted from the print queue. - Trigger **Queue Item Denied** Triggers when a queue item is denied. - Trigger **Queue Item Moved** Triggers when an item in the SimplyPrint print queue is moved. - Trigger **Queue Item Revived** Triggers when a deleted queue item is restored. - Trigger **Quota Adjusted** Triggers when a user's print quota is adjusted in SimplyPrint. - Trigger **Quota Request Created** Triggers when a user requests a new quota. - Trigger **Quota Request Resolved** Triggers when a quota request is approved or denied. - Trigger **Quota Reset** Triggers when a quota is reset (e.g. at period rollover). - Trigger **Spare Part Created** Triggers when a spare part is added to the SimplyPrint maintenance inventory. - Trigger **Spare Part Deleted** Triggers when a spare part is deleted from the SimplyPrint maintenance inventory. - Trigger **Spare Part Low Stock** Triggers when a spare part stock falls below its threshold. - Trigger **Spare Part Stock Adjusted** Triggers when the stock level of a spare part in SimplyPrint's maintenance inventory is adjusted. - Trigger **Spare Part Updated** Triggers when a spare part is updated. - Action **Add Queue Item** Adds a file to the SimplyPrint print queue, either a file from your SimplyPrint files or one uploaded through the API, and returns the new queue item's id. Requires the Print Farm plan. - Action **Add Spare Part** Adds a spare part to your SimplyPrint maintenance inventory, with its stock quantity, low-stock threshold, cost and compatible printer models. Requires the Print Farm plan. - Action **Assign Tag** Assigns one or more custom tags to a printer, printer group, file or queue item in SimplyPrint, optionally detaching other custom tags in the same call. - Action **Create Filament** Creates one or more filament spools in your SimplyPrint filament inventory, with their color, material, brand, size and slicing temperatures. - Action **Create Folder** Creates a new folder in your SimplyPrint files, either private or shared with your organisation. - Action **Create Printer Group** Creates a new printer group in your SimplyPrint account with the name you choose. - Action **Create Queue Group** Creates a new print queue group in SimplyPrint, optionally limited to certain file types, printers, printer models or printer groups. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a new custom tag in your SimplyPrint account, with a name and badge color, that you can then assign to printers, groups, files or queue items. - Action **Delete Filament** Deletes a filament spool from your SimplyPrint account. - Action **Delete Files** Deletes one or more files from the SimplyPrint file library. - Action **Delete Folders** Deletes one or more folders from your SimplyPrint file library. - Action **Delete Printer Group** Deletes a printer group. Printers in the deleted group are moved to the next group, or to "No group" if it was the last one. - Action **Delete Queue Group** Deletes a print queue group in SimplyPrint, optionally moving its queue items to another group. - Action **Delete Queue Item** Deletes one or more items from the SimplyPrint print queue. Requires the Print Farm plan. - Action **Delete Tag** Deletes a custom tag and detaches it from every printer, file and queue item it was attached to. - Action **Detach Tag** Removes a custom tag from a printer, printer group, file or queue item. - Action **Download Temp File** Download a file you uploaded to SimplyPrint's temporary storage with Upload Temp File. - Action **Empty Queue** Removes every item from a SimplyPrint print queue (or a single queue group), or clears the queue's completed-items history. - Action **Find Filament** Finds filament spools in your SimplyPrint account whose spool code, id, brand, colour name or material type matches the text you enter. - Action **Find Filament Type** Returns the filament types (material profiles) in your SimplyPrint account whose name or material type matches the text you give, such as PLA or PETG. - Action **Find File** Finds files in your SimplyPrint file library whose names match a search, across all folders or within one folder. - Action **Find Folder** Finds folders in your SimplyPrint files whose name matches the search text, returning every match and the first one. - Action **Find Printer Group** Finds printer groups on the SimplyPrint account whose name matches the name you give, and returns the matching groups. - Action **Find Queue Group** Finds print queue groups whose name contains the text you give and returns the matches, with the first match on its own. - Action **Find Tag** Finds custom tags on your SimplyPrint account by name or id. Returns every matching tag and the first match. - Action **Get Queue Item** Returns one item from the SimplyPrint print queue, including its file, print count, analysis, cost estimate and custom field values. - Action **List API Files** Lists the files you uploaded through the SimplyPrint API that have not expired yet. - Action **List Spare Parts** Returns the spare parts in your SimplyPrint maintenance inventory, optionally filtered by category, stock status, printer brand or model, or a search term. - Action **Move Files** Moves one or more files into a folder in your SimplyPrint file library. - Action **Move Folder** Moves a folder in SimplyPrint into another folder, or to the top level of your files. - Action **Move Queue Items** Moves one or more print queue items into a different queue group. - Action **Send Test Webhook** Makes SimplyPrint send a test event to one of your webhooks, so you can check it is reachable. - Action **Set Queue Order** Moves a print queue item to a new position in the SimplyPrint queue. - Action **Submit Custom Field Value** Saves custom field values on one or more SimplyPrint records, such as print jobs, queue items, user files, printers, users or filament spools. - Action **Update Filament** Updates an existing filament spool in your SimplyPrint account, such as its color, material, brand, slicing temperatures and remaining amount. - Action **Update Printer Group** Renames an existing printer group in your SimplyPrint account. - Action **Update Queue Group** Updates an existing print queue group in SimplyPrint: its name, accepted file types, and which printers, printer models or printer groups it serves. - Action **Update Spare Part** Updates an existing spare part in your SimplyPrint maintenance inventory, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Tag** Renames a custom tag or changes its badge color in your SimplyPrint account. - Action **Upload API File** Uploads a file to SimplyPrint as a temporary API file, so it can then be added to your files or started as a print. - Action **Upload File** Adds a file previously uploaded through SimplyPrint API Files to your SimplyPrint files, optionally inside a chosen folder, and returns the new file's id. - Action **Upload Temp File** Uploads a file to SimplyPrint's temporary file storage so it can be used by a later step, such as adding it to your files or the print queue. ## Each app on its own - [ **FreeAgent** FreeAgent is cloud accounting software for small businesses and freelancers — manage contacts, invoices...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freeagent) - [ **SimplyPrint** SimplyPrint is a 3D printer management platform that lets you monitor, control, and automate your 3D...](https://apiant.ai/connections/simplyprint) 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 SimplyPrint when something happens in FreeAgent? Any of SimplyPrint's 42 actions, including Create Filament, Create Folder, Create Printer Group and Create Queue Group. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from SimplyPrint to FreeAgent? Yes. When something happens in SimplyPrint, your agent can act in FreeAgent too. This page covers both directions: SimplyPrint's triggers and FreeAgent's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreeAgent or SimplyPrint? 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 SimplyPrint 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.