--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and inFlow Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Create a Sales Order\" in inFlow Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-inflow-inventory" --- # Connect FreshBooks and inFlow Inventory When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), 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 **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** 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 FreshBooks 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What FreshBooks and inFlow Inventory can do together ### From FreshBooks to inFlow Inventory - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Create a Sales Order** in inFlow Inventory - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create Customer** in inFlow Inventory ### From inFlow Inventory to FreshBooks - When **New or Updated Customer** in inFlow Inventory then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New or Updated Manufacturing Order** in inFlow Inventory then **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks 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 FreshBooks and inFlow Inventory ## Triggers and actions 26 triggers · 97 actions - Trigger **New Bill** Triggers when a new bill is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Client** Triggers when a new client is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggers when a new credit note is created in your FreshBooks account. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a new estimate is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when a new expense is recorded in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Filtered Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice matching your chosen filters (client, status, currency, amount, and more) is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Invoice Payment** Triggers when a new invoice payment is created. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Staff Member** Triggers when a new staff member is added to your FreshBooks business. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggers when a new time entry is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **New Vendor** Triggers when a new bill vendor is created in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Bill** Triggers when a bill is updated in FreshBooks. Returns the id of the updated bill and the account, business and user it belongs to. - Trigger **Updated Estimate** Triggers when an estimate is updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggers when an invoice is updated in FreshBooks. - Trigger **Updated Vendor** Triggers when a bill vendor is updated in FreshBooks. - Action **Add Payment to Invoice** Records a payment against a FreshBooks invoice and returns the created payment. - Action **Create Bill** Creates a bill in FreshBooks recording what your business owes a vendor, with its line items. - Action **Create Client** Creates a new client in your FreshBooks business, with contact details, billing and shipping addresses, and optional secondary contacts. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note or prepayment credit for a client in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate for a client in FreshBooks, optionally with line items. - Action **Create Expense** Creates an expense in your FreshBooks business, with its amount, category, date and optional vendor, client, project and taxes. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client in FreshBooks, with optional line items, terms and notes. New invoices start as drafts unless a status is given. - Action **Create Invoice PDF** Returns the PDF of an existing FreshBooks invoice as a file you can attach or store. - Action **Create or Update Client** Updates an existing FreshBooks client (by Client ID, or by matching email) or creates a new client when none matches. - Action **Create or Update Invoice** Updates an existing FreshBooks invoice (by Invoice ID, or by matching Invoice Number), or creates a new invoice when none matches. - Action **Create Other Income** Records income received outside of an invoice, such as online store sales, rentals or advertising, in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in FreshBooks, optionally linked to a client, with a fixed price or hourly rate. - Action **Create Recurring Invoice** Creates a recurring invoice profile in FreshBooks that generates invoices for a client on a set schedule. - Action **Create Time Entry** Creates a time entry recording time spent working for a client or project in FreshBooks. - Action **Create Vendor** Creates a bill vendor (a supplier you receive bills from) in your FreshBooks business. - Action **Find Bill** Finds bills in FreshBooks by id, vendor, status or currency and returns the matches. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients in your FreshBooks business by email, name, organization, phone or other details, and returns the matches. - Action **Find Credit Note** Finds a credit note in FreshBooks by its id and returns the credit note's details. - Action **Find Estimate** Finds estimates in FreshBooks matching an estimate number, client, status, notes, date or amount range, and other criteria. - Action **Find Invoice** Finds invoices in your FreshBooks account matching the criteria you give, such as invoice number, client, status, dates or amounts. - Action **Find Project** Finds FreshBooks projects whose title contains the given text, optionally limited to active or completed projects. - Action **Find Vendor** Finds bill vendors in your FreshBooks account whose business name matches the text you give. - Action **Send Estimate** Emails an existing estimate to the listed recipients and marks it as sent. - Action **Send Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you choose and marks it as sent. - Action **Update Bill** Updates an existing bill from a vendor, such as its dates, bill number, line items or status. - Action **Update Credit Note** Updates an existing credit note in FreshBooks, changing only the details you fill in. - Action **Update Estimate** Updates an existing FreshBooks estimate's client, dates, address details, notes, terms or line items. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in FreshBooks, such as its duration, note, client or project. - Action **Update Vendor** Updates an existing bill vendor's name, contact details, address and preferences. 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 - [ **FreshBooks** FreshBooks is a cloud accounting software designed exclusively for self-employed professionals and their...](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks) - [ **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 FreshBooks - [ **FreshBooks to Vercel** Vercel is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling fast, modern web applications effortlessly.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-vercel) - [ **FreshBooks to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-hubspot) - [ **FreshBooks to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-salesforce) - [ **FreshBooks to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of FreshBooks's 16 triggers in the catalog, including New Bill, New Client, New Credit Note and New Estimate. 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 FreshBooks? 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 FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in inFlow Inventory, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: inFlow Inventory's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks 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 FreshBooks 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.