--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and Lexware Office - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Create a contact\" in Lexware Office." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-lexware-office" --- # Connect FreshBooks and Lexware Office When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Create a contact** in [Lexware Office](https://apiant.ai/connections/lexware-office), or **Contact updated (instant)** in Lexware Office 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 Lexware Office **10** triggers Lexware Office **40** 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 Lexware Office to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What FreshBooks and Lexware Office can do together ### From FreshBooks to Lexware Office - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Create a contact** in Lexware Office - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create an invoice** in Lexware Office ### From Lexware Office to FreshBooks - When **Contact updated (instant)** in Lexware Office then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **Invoice status changed (instant)** in Lexware Office 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 Lexware Office ## Triggers and actions 26 triggers · 69 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 **Contact updated (instant)** Fires when a contact changes in Lexware Office. Event type: contact.changed. - Trigger **Invoice status changed (instant)** Fires when an invoice's status changes in Lexware Office. Event type: invoice.status.changed. - Trigger **New article (instant)** Fires when a new article is created in Lexware Office. Event type: article.created. - Trigger **New contact (instant)** Fires when a new contact is created in Lexware Office. Event type: contact.created. - Trigger **New credit note (instant)** Fires when a new credit note is created in Lexware Office. Event type: credit-note.created. - Trigger **New invoice (instant)** Fires when a new invoice is created in Lexware Office. Event type: invoice.created. - Trigger **New order confirmation (instant)** Fires when a new order confirmation is created in Lexware Office. Event type: order-confirmation.created. - Trigger **New quotation (instant)** Fires when a new quotation is created in Lexware Office. Event type: quotation.created. - Trigger **New voucher (instant)** Fires when a new bookkeeping voucher is created in Lexware Office. Event type: voucher.created. - Trigger **Payment changed (instant)** Fires when the payment status of a sales voucher changes in Lexware Office. Event type: payment.changed. - Action **Create a contact** Creates a contact in Lexware Office as a person or a company, with optional billing address, email, phone and note, and returns the new contact's ID. - Action **Create a credit note** Creates a credit note in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a delivery note** Creates a delivery note in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your delivered line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a dunning** Creates a dunning (payment reminder) in Lexware Office, normally chasing an unpaid invoice. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create an article** Creates a product or service article in Lexware Office with its unit, price and tax rate, and returns the new article's ID. - Action **Create an invoice** Creates an invoice in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your line items and payment terms. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create an order confirmation** Creates an order confirmation in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your confirmed line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a quotation** Creates a quotation in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your quoted line items and an expiry date. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a voucher** Books a voucher (an incoming or outgoing document) into Lexware Office with its booking lines, and returns the new voucher's ID. - Action **Delete an article** Deletes an article from Lexware Office by its ID. - Action **Download a credit note file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized credit note in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a delivery note file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized delivery note in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a dunning file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized dunning in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a file** Downloads the actual bytes of a file stored in Lexware Office by its file ID — for example the PDF that "Download an invoice file" reports. Returns the file so a later step can email, upload or attach it. - Action **Download an invoice file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized invoice in Lexware Office. - Action **Download an order confirmation file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized order confirmation in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a quotation file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized quotation in Lexware Office. - Action **Find articles** Searches the Lexware Office article list by article number, barcode or type, and returns the matching articles a page at a time. - Action **Find contacts** Searches Lexware Office contacts by email, name, number or role, and returns the matching contacts a page at a time. - Action **Find voucher list** Lists Lexware Office documents (invoices, credit notes, quotations and the rest) filtered by type, status, contact and date, a page at a time. - Action **Find vouchers** Finds booked vouchers in Lexware Office by their document number and returns the full voucher records. - Action **Get a contact** Returns one Lexware Office contact by its ID, with its roles, person or company details, addresses, emails and phone numbers. - Action **Get a credit note** Returns one Lexware Office credit note by its ID, with its recipient, line items, totals and status. - Action **Get a delivery note** Returns one Lexware Office delivery note by its ID, with its recipient, delivered lines and delivery date. - Action **Get a dunning** Returns a single dunning (payment reminder) by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals and PDF file reference. - Action **Get an article** Returns a single article (product or service) by its ID, including its name, article number, unit and pricing. - Action **Get an invoice** Returns a single invoice by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals, payment terms and PDF file reference. - Action **Get an order confirmation** Returns a single order confirmation by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals and PDF file reference. - Action **Get a quotation** Returns a single quotation by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals, expiry date and PDF file reference. - Action **Get a voucher** Returns a single bookkeeping voucher by its ID, including its type, contact, amounts, line items and attached files. - Action **Get payment information** Returns the payment status of a voucher, such as an invoice: how much is still open, when it was paid, and the individual payments booked against it. - Action **Pursue to a credit note** Creates a credit note that follows on from an existing invoice, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the invoice's recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to a delivery note** Creates a delivery note that follows on from an existing order confirmation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to a dunning** Creates a dunning (payment reminder) that follows on from an unpaid invoice, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to an invoice** Creates an invoice that follows on from an existing order confirmation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to an order confirmation** Creates an order confirmation that follows on from an existing quotation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Update a contact** Updates an existing contact in Lexware Office. Reads the contact first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Update an article** Updates an existing article in Lexware Office. Reads the article first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Update a voucher** Updates an existing bookkeeping voucher in Lexware Office. Reads the voucher first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Upload Document for Bookkeeping Purposes** Uploads a receipt or other document to Lexware Office for bookkeeping and returns its file ID, which you can attach to a voucher. ## 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) - [ **Lexware Office** Lexware Office is a cloud app for german accounting.](https://apiant.ai/connections/lexware-office) 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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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 Lexware Office when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of Lexware Office's 40 actions, including Create a contact, Create a credit note, Create a delivery note and Create a dunning. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Lexware Office to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in Lexware Office, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: Lexware Office's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Lexware Office? 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 Lexware Office 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.