--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and JIRA - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add Comment to Issue\" in JIRA, or \"New Issue\" in JIRA to \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-jira" --- # Connect FreshBooks and JIRA When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add Comment to Issue** in [JIRA](https://apiant.ai/connections/jira), or **New Issue** in JIRA 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 JIRA **2** triggers JIRA **138** 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 JIRA 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 JIRA can do together ### From FreshBooks to JIRA - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add Comment to Issue** in JIRA - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Add comment** in JIRA ### From JIRA to FreshBooks - When **New Issue** in JIRA then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New or Updated Issue** in JIRA 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 JIRA ## Triggers and actions 18 triggers · 167 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 Issue** Polls for newly created issues in a project (ordered by creation date). - Trigger **New or Updated Issue** Polls for issues created or updated recently (ordered by updated date). - Action **Add attachment** add an attachment to an issue - Action **Add comment** add a comment to an issue - Action **Add Comment to Issue** Adds a comment to the specified issue. - Action **Add filter as favorite** Add filter as favorite - Action **Add gadget to dashboard** Add gadget to dashboard - Action **Add user to group** add a user to a group - Action **Add vote** add the current user's vote to an issue - Action **Add worklog** add a worklog to an issue - Action **Archive issues by ID or key** archive issues by ID/key - Action **Archive issue(s) by JQL** Archive issue(s) by JQL - Action **Assign Issue** Assigns an issue to a user by account ID. - Action **Bulk create issue** bulk create issues - Action **Bulk create statuses** Bulk create statuses - Action **Bulk delete issues** bulk delete issues - Action **Bulk delete Statuses** Bulk delete Statuses - Action **Bulk delete worklogs** bulk delete worklogs on an issue - Action **Bulk edit dashboards** Bulk edit dashboards - Action **Bulk edit issues** bulk edit issue fields - Action **Bulk fetch issues** bulk fetch issues by ID/key - Action **Bulk move issues** bulk move issues - Action **Bulk move worklogs** bulk move worklogs - Action **Bulk transition issue statuses** bulk transition issue statuses - Action **Bulk unwatch issues** bulk unwatch issues - Action **Bulk watch issues** bulk watch issues - Action **Change filter owner** Change filter owner - Action **Copy dashboard** Copy dashboard - Action **Create component** Create component - Action **Create custom field** Create custom field - Action **Create dashboard** Create dashboard - Action **Create filter** Create filter - Action **Create group** Create group - Action **Create Issue** Creates a new issue in the specified project. - Action **Create issue link** create a link between two issues - Action **Create issue link type** create an issue link type - Action **Create issue type** create an issue type - Action **Create project** create a project - Action **Create project category** create a project category - Action **Create related work** Create related work - Action **Create user** create a user - Action **Create version** Create version - Action **Delete and replace version** Delete and replace version - Action **Delete attachment** delete an attachment - Action **Delete comment** delete a comment - Action **Delete component** Delete component - Action **Delete custom field** Delete custom field - Action **Delete dashboard** Delete dashboard - Action **Delete filter** Delete filter - Action **Delete Issue** Deletes an issue by its key or ID. - Action **Delete issue link** delete an issue link - Action **Delete issue link type** delete an issue link type - Action **Delete issue type** delete an issue type - Action **Delete project** delete a project - Action **Delete project asynchronously** delete a project asynchronously - Action **Delete project category** delete a project category - Action **Delete related work** Delete related work - Action **Delete user** delete a user - Action **Delete version** Delete version - Action **Delete vote** remove the current user's vote from an issue - Action **Delete watcher** remove a watcher from an issue - Action **Delete worklog** delete a worklog - Action **Export Archived Issues** Export archived issue(s) - Action **Get all dashboards** Get all dashboards - Action **Get all projects** Get all projects - Action **Get attachment content** get attachment content - Action **Get attachment metadata** get attachment metadata - Action **Get available transitions** Get available transitions - Action **Get bulk available transitions** get transitions available for bulk transition - Action **Get comment** get a single comment - Action **Get comments by IDs** get comments by IDs - Action **Get component** Get component - Action **Get create issue metadata** Get create issue metadata - Action **Get create metadata issue types for a project** get create-metadata issue types for a project - Action **Get custom field** Fetches a custom field's definition by its ID, including its name, description and field type. Returns found = false when no field has that ID. - Action **Get dashboard** Get dashboard - Action **Get edit issue metadata** get edit metadata for an issue - Action **Get favorite filters** Get favorite filters - Action **Get filter** Get filter - Action **Get group** Get group - Action **Get Issue** Returns the details of a single issue by its key or ID. - Action **Get Issue Comments** Returns all comments for the specified issue. - Action **Get issue link** get an issue link - Action **Get issue link type** get an issue link type - Action **Get issue link types** list issue link types - Action **Get Issue Transitions** Returns the workflow transitions available for the specified issue. - Action **Get issue type** get an issue type - Action **Get issue watchers** get watchers of an issue - Action **Get issue worklogs** get worklogs on an issue - Action **Get is watching issue bulk** check watching status for multiple issues - Action **Get my filters** Get my filters - Action **Get Project** Returns the details of a single project by its key or ID. - Action **Get project category** Fetches a project category by ID, with its name and description. An error occurs if the category is not found. - Action **Get project components** get all components of a project - Action **Get project versions** get all versions of a project - Action **Get recent projects** get recently viewed projects - Action **Get related work** Get related work - Action **Get status** Get status - Action **Get status category** Get status category - Action **Get transitions** get available transitions for an issue - Action **Get user** get a user - Action **Get user groups** get groups a user belongs to - Action **Get users from group** list members of a group - Action **Get version** Get version - Action **Get votes** get votes on an issue - Action **Get worklog** get a worklog - Action **Get worklogs by IDs** get worklogs by IDs - Action **Get worklogs by issue ID and worklog ID** get worklogs by issue ID and worklog ID (internal) - Action **List Project Issue Types** Returns the issue types available, optionally for a given project. - Action **List Projects** Returns a paginated list of projects visible to the user. - Action **List users** Lists the users visible to the connected Jira account. Takes no search criterion. - Action **Merge versions** merge one version into another - Action **Move version** Move version - Action **Remove filter as favorite** Remove filter as favorite - Action **Remove gadget from dashboard** Remove gadget from dashboard - Action **Remove group** Remove group - Action **Remove user from group** remove a user from a group - Action **Restore custom field from trash** Restore custom field from trash - Action **Restore deleted or archived project** restore a deleted or archived project - Action **Search for dashboards** Search for dashboards - Action **Search for filters** Search for filters - Action **Search for issues using JQL enhanced search (GET)** Search for issues using JQL enhanced search (GET) - Action **Search for issues using JQL enhanced search (POST)** search for issues using enhanced JQL (POST) - Action **Search Issues (JQL)** Searches for issues using a JQL query. - Action **Transition Issue** Moves an issue to a new status by performing a workflow transition. - Action **Unarchive issues by keys or ID** unarchive issues by key/ID - Action **Update comment** update a comment - Action **Update component** Update component - Action **Update custom field** Update custom field - Action **Update dashboard** Update dashboard - Action **Update filter** Update filter - Action **Update gadget on dashboard** Update gadget on dashboard - Action **Update Issue** edit an issue - Action **Update issue link type** update an issue link type - Action **Update issue type** update an issue type - Action **Update project** update a project - Action **Update project category** update a project category - Action **Update related work** Update one related-work link on a Jira project version. Reads the version's existing related work, overlays only the fields you supply, then writes the merged object back — so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update version** Update version - Action **Update worklog** update a worklog ## 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) - [ **JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connections/jira) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from FreshBooks - [ **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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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in JIRA when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of JIRA's 138 actions, including Create component, Create custom field, Create dashboard and Create filter. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from JIRA to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in JIRA, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: JIRA's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or JIRA? 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 JIRA 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.