--- title: "Connect FreshBooks to Manatal - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in Manatal." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-manatal" --- # Connect FreshBooks to Manatal When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [Manatal](https://apiant.ai/connections/manatal). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions Manatal **66** 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 Manatal 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. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Zed Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) ### Any other MCP client Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection. [Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What FreshBooks can start in Manatal - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Create Contact** in Manatal - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create Contact Attachment** in Manatal 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 Manatal ## Triggers and actions 16 triggers · 95 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. - Action **Create a Candidate** Creates a new candidate in Manatal and returns the created candidate record. - Action **Create a Job** Creates a new job in Manatal, assigned to an organization. - Action **Create Candidate Attachment** Adds an attachment to a candidate in Manatal from a file URL, and returns the attachment that was created. - Action **Create Candidate Note** Adds a note to a candidate in Manatal and returns the created note. - Action **Create Candidate Resume** Uploads a resume file to a candidate in Manatal from a file link. - Action **Create Candidate Social Media** Adds a social media profile to a candidate and returns the created profile. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact in Manatal, linked to an organization. - Action **Create Contact Attachment** Adds a file attachment to a contact, using a link to the file, and returns the new attachment. - Action **Create Contact Note** Adds a note to a contact in Manatal. - Action **Create Job Attachment** Adds a file attachment to a job, given a link to the file, and returns the created attachment. - Action **Create Job Note** Creates a note on a job in Manatal and returns the new note. - Action **Create Match** Adds a candidate to a job in Manatal, creating a match between them. - Action **Create Match Attachment** Adds an attachment, given by a link to the file, to a match between a candidate and a job, and returns the created attachment. - Action **Create Match Note** Adds a note to a match, the link between a candidate and a job, and returns the created note. - Action **Create Organization** Creates a new organization (client company) in Manatal. - Action **Create Organization Attachment** Adds a file attachment, given by a link to the file, to an organization in Manatal and returns the created attachment. - Action **Create Organization Note** Creates a note on an organization in Manatal. - Action **Get Candidate** Returns a candidate by id, including their contact details, source, skills, tags, industries and custom field values. - Action **Get Candidate Attachment** Returns one attachment on a candidate, including its name, description and file link. - Action **Get Candidate Note** Returns a single note on a candidate, including its text, author and creation time. - Action **Get Candidate Social Media** Returns one social media profile saved on a candidate, including its network, web address, username and enrichment state. An error occurs if the profile is not found. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a contact by its id, including the organization it belongs to and its custom field values. - Action **Get Contact Attachment** Returns one attachment on a contact, including its name, description and a link to the file. - Action **Get Contact Note** Returns a single note on a contact, including its text, the user who wrote it and when it was created. - Action **Get Job** Returns a job by its id, including its position, status, salary, location and custom field values. - Action **Get Job Attachment** Returns a single attachment on a job, including its name, description and a link to the file. - Action **Get Job Note** Returns a single note on a job, including its text, author and creation time. An error occurs if the note is not found. - Action **Get Match** Returns a match (a candidate's link to a job) by its id, including its pipeline stage, key dates and custom field values. - Action **Get Match Attachment** Returns a single attachment on a match (a candidate's application to a job), including its name, description and file link. - Action **Get Match Note** Returns one note on a match, including its text, author and creation time. - Action **Get Organization** Returns a single organization by its id, including its custom field values. - Action **Get Organization Attachment** Returns one attachment on an organization, including its name, description and a link to the file. - Action **Get Organization Note** Returns one note on an organization, including its text, author and creation time. - Action **Retrieve Candidate Matches List** Returns every job match for a candidate, including each match's job, pipeline stage and key dates. - Action **Retrieve Job Matches List** Returns every candidate match for a job, including each match's pipeline stage and key dates. - Action **Search Candidate Attachments** Returns a candidate's attachments, optionally narrowed to those whose name contains the text you enter. - Action **Search Candidate Notes** Returns a candidate's notes, optionally only those whose text contains the words you enter. - Action **Search Candidate Resume** Returns the resumes on file for a candidate, each with its ID, file link and creation time. - Action **Search Candidate Social Media** Returns a candidate's social media profiles, optionally limited to one social network. - Action **Search Contact Attachments** Returns a contact's attachments, optionally narrowed to those whose name contains the text you enter. - Action **Search Contact Notes** Returns the notes on a contact, optionally only those containing the text you specify. - Action **Search Contacts** Searches your Manatal contacts by name, email, phone, organization or created/updated dates and returns the matching contacts. - Action **Search Job Attachments** Returns the attachments on a job, optionally narrowed to those whose name contains the text you provide. - Action **Search Job Notes** Returns the notes on a job, optionally only those whose text contains the words you specify. - Action **Search Jobs** Returns the jobs that match the search criteria you provide, such as position name, organization, status, location or date ranges. - Action **Search Match Attachments** Returns the attachments on a match (a candidate in a job pipeline), optionally only those whose name contains the text you give. - Action **Search Matches** Returns the matches (candidates linked to jobs) in your Manatal account that meet the filters you set, such as external id, pipeline stage, or hire, submit, interview, offer, drop, create and update dates. - Action **Search Match Notes** Returns the notes on a match, optionally narrowed to those containing the text you specify. - Action **Search Organization Attachments** Returns the attachments on a Manatal organization, optionally narrowed to those whose name contains the text you provide. - Action **Search Organization Notes** Returns the notes on a Manatal organization, optionally only those whose text contains the words you give. - Action **Search Organizations** Searches organizations by name, owner, address, website, external ID or date ranges and returns the matching organizations. - Action **Update Candidate** Updates an existing candidate by id, changing only the details you fill in, and returns the updated candidate. - Action **Update Candidate Attachment** Updates an existing attachment on a candidate, such as its name, file link or description. - Action **Update Candidate Note** Updates the text of an existing note on a candidate and returns the updated note. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact in Manatal. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Contact Attachment** Updates the name, file link, description or creator of an attachment on a contact and returns the updated attachment. - Action **Update Contact Note** Updates the text of an existing note on a contact and returns the updated note. - Action **Update Job** Updates an existing job in Manatal. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Job Attachment** Updates the name, file link, description or creator of an attachment on a job, and returns the updated attachment. - Action **Update Job Note** Updates the text of an existing note on a job and returns the updated note. - Action **Update Match** Updates an existing match (a candidate's application to a job) in Manatal, such as its owner, pipeline stage, status or key dates. - Action **Update Match Attachment** Updates the name, file link, description or creator of an attachment on a match. - Action **Update Match Note** Updates the text of an existing note on a match and returns the updated note. - Action **Update Organization** Updates an existing organization in Manatal, changing only the details you provide. - Action **Update Organization Attachment** Updates the name, file link, description or creator of an attachment on a Manatal organization and returns the updated attachment. - Action **Update Organization Note** Updates the text of an existing note on an organization in Manatal. ## 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) - [ **Manatal** Manatal is a recruitment software designed for HR, Talent Acquisition, recruiting and headhunting teams.](https://apiant.ai/connections/manatal) 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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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Manatal when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of Manatal's 66 actions, including Create a Candidate, Create a Job, Create Candidate Attachment and Create Candidate Note. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Manatal to FreshBooks? Manatal has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in FreshBooks. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Manatal's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Manatal? 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 Manatal 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.