--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and LiveSwitch - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Find Contact by ID\" in LiveSwitch." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-liveswitch" --- # Connect FreshBooks and LiveSwitch When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Find Contact by ID** in [LiveSwitch](https://apiant.ai/connections/liveswitch), or **New Contact Matching Filter** in LiveSwitch 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 LiveSwitch **5** triggers LiveSwitch **21** 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 LiveSwitch 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 LiveSwitch can do together ### From FreshBooks to LiveSwitch - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Find Contact by ID** in LiveSwitch - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Find Contact by Phone** in LiveSwitch ### From LiveSwitch to FreshBooks - When **New Contact Matching Filter** in LiveSwitch then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New Conversation Matching Filter** in LiveSwitch 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 LiveSwitch ## Triggers and actions 21 triggers · 50 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 Contact Matching Filter** Triggers when a new contact appears in your LiveSwitch organization, optionally limited to contacts matching a filter. - Trigger **New Conversation Matching Filter** Triggers when a new conversation is created in LiveSwitch, optionally limited to conversations matching a filter. - Trigger **New Guided Instructions** Triggers when a new set of guided instructions is added to your LiveSwitch organization, returning its name, description, where it is shown and its steps. - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project appears in LiveSwitch, optionally limited by status, contact or external ID. - Trigger **New Tag** Triggers when a new tag is created in LiveSwitch. - Action **Create Conversation** Creates a LiveSwitch conversation, such as a live call, recording request, photo session or scheduled call, for a new or existing contact. Returns the conversation with its join and review links. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project in LiveSwitch with a name, status, address, tags, associated contacts and custom attributes, and returns the new project including its links. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a tag in your LiveSwitch organization, with an optional display color, and returns the new tag. - Action **Find All Tags** Returns the tags in your LiveSwitch organization, optionally narrowed by a filter and sorted in the order you choose. - Action **Find Contact by ID** Returns a single LiveSwitch contact by its id, including its name, email, phone and custom attribute values. - Action **Find Contact by Phone** Returns the LiveSwitch contact that has the given phone number, including its custom attributes. - Action **Find Conversation by ID** Returns one LiveSwitch conversation by its ID, including its join and review links, status, contact, tags, notes and custom attributes. - Action **Find Conversations** Returns the conversations in your LiveSwitch organization that match an optional filter, most recent first unless you choose another order. - Action **Find Document by ID** Returns a single LiveSwitch document, either a snapshot or an uploaded file, with its project, conversation, tags and links. - Action **Find Form by ID** Returns a LiveSwitch form by its id, including its name, headline, notes and the fields it collects. - Action **Find Form Submission by ID** Returns a single form submission by its id, including the form, contact and conversation it belongs to and the answers given. - Action **Find Guided Instructions** Returns the guided instructions in your LiveSwitch organization that match the specified filter or conversation type. - Action **Find Project by ID** Returns a single LiveSwitch project by its ID, including its status, share links, tags, contacts and custom attributes. - Action **Find Projects** Returns the projects in your LiveSwitch organization, optionally narrowed by status, external ID, contact or a custom filter. - Action **Find Recording by ID** Returns one LiveSwitch recording by its ID, including its public link, thumbnail, type, status and tags. - Action **Find Recordings by Conversation** Returns the recordings that belong to a LiveSwitch conversation, including their public links, status and tags. - Action **Find Recordings by Project** Returns the recordings that belong to the specified project, including their public links, status, type and tags. - Action **Get Current User (Me)** Returns the LiveSwitch user the connected account is signed in as, including their name, contact details and organization. - Action **Get Organization Settings** Returns the settings of the organization you are logged in to, including its default country code, whether recordings start automatically, and whether SMS is enabled. - Action **Update Conversation** Updates a conversation's name, notes, tags, contact, project or assigned user in LiveSwitch and returns the updated conversation. - Action **Update Tag** Updates the name or display color of an existing tag and returns the updated tag. ## 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) - [ **LiveSwitch** LiveSwitch is a video business communication company that provides instant connectivity between customers...](https://apiant.ai/connections/liveswitch) 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 LiveSwitch when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of LiveSwitch's 21 actions, including Create Conversation, Create Project, Create Tag and Update Conversation. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from LiveSwitch to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in LiveSwitch, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: LiveSwitch's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or LiveSwitch? 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 LiveSwitch 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.