--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and MailUp - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Create New Email Message\" in MailUp." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-mailup" --- # Connect FreshBooks and MailUp When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Create New Email Message** in [MailUp](https://apiant.ai/connections/mailup), or **New Email Message in List** in MailUp 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 MailUp **4** triggers MailUp **25** 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 MailUp 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 MailUp can do together ### From FreshBooks to MailUp - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Create New Email Message** in MailUp - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Send Message to Email Address** in MailUp ### From MailUp to FreshBooks - When **New Email Message in List** in MailUp then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New Group** in MailUp 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 MailUp ## Triggers and actions 20 triggers · 54 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 Email Message in List** A new email message was created in the list. MailUp is a multi-list environment and messages are list-specific. - Trigger **New Group** New group added to the specified list. MailUp is a multi-list environment and groups are list-specific. - Trigger **New Recipient Subscribed** There is a new subscriber in the specified list. MailUp is a multi-list environment. - Trigger **New Recipient Unsubscribed** A recipient unsubscribed from the specified list. MailUp is a multi-list environment. - Action **Add list** Create a new list. POST Console/List - Action **Add Recipient to Group** Add recipient to the specified group on the list. - Action **Add Recipient to List** Adds a new recipient to the specified list as a subscriber. - Action **Create New Email Message** Create a new email message on the specified list. - Action **Create New Group** Add a new group to the specified list. MailUp is a multi-list environment. - Action **Delete email message** Delete an email message. DELETE Console/List/{id_List}/Email/{id_Message} - Action **Delete group** Delete a group in a list. DELETE Console/List/{id_List}/Group/{id_Group} - Action **Delete list** Delete a list. DELETE Console/List/{id_List} - Action **Get email message** Retrieve email message details. GET Console/List/{id_List}/Email/{id_Message} - Action **Get list** Retrieve list details by id. GET Console/List/{id_List} - Action **List email messages** Retrieve email messages of a list. GET Console/List/{id_List}/Emails - Action **List Email Message Sendings** lists the sendings (send tasks, with recipients count and status) created for an email message. - Action **List Group Recipients** Lists the recipients in a MailUp group (GET Console/Group/{id_group}/Recipients), with id, email, name and personal data fields. - Action **List groups** Retrieve groups of a list. GET Console/List/{id_List}/Groups - Action **List lists** Retrieve the console's lists. GET Console/List on services.mailup.com/API/v1.1/Rest/ConsoleService.svc - Action **List subscribed recipients** Retrieve subscribed recipients of a list. GET Console/List/{id_List}/Recipients/Subscribed - Action **Remove recipient from group** Unsubscribe a recipient from a group. DELETE Console/Group/{id_Group}/Unsubscribe/{id_Recipient} - Action **Remove Recipient From List** This method unsubscribe the given recipient from the specified list. - Action **Send Message to Email Address** Sends the specified message (previously created in MailUp in the specified List) to the email address specified. - Action **Send Message to Group** Send a message to a predefined group in the specified list. - Action **Send message to list** Send an email message to all recipients of a list. POST Console/List/{id_List}/Email/{id_Message}/Send - Action **Unsubscribe recipient from list** Unsubscribe a recipient from a list. DELETE Console/List/{id_List}/Unsubscribe/{id_Recipient} - Action **Update email message** Modify an email message. PUT Console/List/{id_List}/Email/{id_Message} - Action **Update group** Modify a group in a list. PUT Console/List/{id_List}/Group/{id_Group} - Action **Update list** Modify details of a list. 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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 MailUp when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of MailUp's 25 actions, including Create New Email Message, Create New Group, Send Message to Email Address and Send Message to Group. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from MailUp to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in MailUp, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: MailUp's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or MailUp? 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 MailUp 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.