--- title: "Connect FreshBooks to Moderation API - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add author\" in Moderation API." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-moderation-api" --- # Connect FreshBooks to Moderation API When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add author** in [Moderation API](https://apiant.ai/connections/moderation-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions Moderation API **18** 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 Moderation API 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 Moderation API - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add author** in Moderation API - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Add wordlist** in Moderation API 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 Moderation API ## Triggers and actions 16 triggers · 47 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 **Add author** Creates a new author (a user of your platform) in Moderation API so their content and behavior can be tracked and moderated. - Action **Add wordlist** Creates a new wordlist in your Moderation API organization, optionally filled with an initial set of words. Add the wordlist to a policy to use it in moderation. - Action **Add words to wordlist** Adds words or phrases to an existing wordlist. Words already on the list are ignored. - Action **Block author** Blocks an author so they cannot post new content until they are unblocked. - Action **Delete author** Deletes an author, resetting their status, blocks, trust level, metrics and action history. The author is recreated with a clean record the next time their content is moderated. - Action **Extract All Data** Analyzes a piece of text and returns all data found in it — email addresses, phone numbers, URLs, addresses, names and other personal information or wordlist matches — along with the overall moderation result. - Action **Get author** Returns an author's details, including their status, trust level, block details, risk level, content metrics and metadata. - Action **Get Moderated Text** Submits a piece of text for moderation and returns the moderated text (with any personal information or banned words masked), along with whether it was flagged and the recommended action. - Action **Get Moderation Object** Submits a structured object made of several named text, image, video or audio parts (for example a profile's name, bio and avatar) for moderation, and returns the evaluation, the recommended action and the per-policy results. - Action **Get wordlist** Returns a single wordlist, including its name, strict-mode setting and every word it contains. - Action **List authors** Returns the authors in your Moderation API project, with their status, trust level and content metrics. By default the most recently active authors come first. - Action **List queue items** Returns the items in a review queue, with the queue's own filters applied. By default only items still waiting for review are returned. - Action **List wordlists** Returns the wordlists in your Moderation API organization, with each wordlist's name, description and creation date. - Action **Moderate content** Submits text, an image, a video, audio or a structured object for moderation and returns whether it was flagged, the recommended action (allow, review or reject) and the per-policy results. - Action **Resolve queue item** Marks an item in a review queue as resolved, removing it from the queue's pending list. - Action **Send feedback** Sends a feature request, bug report or other feedback to the Moderation API team, who may reply by email. - Action **Unblock author** Unblocks a blocked or suspended author so they can post new content again. - Action **Update author** Updates an existing author's profile in Moderation API, such as their name, email, company, trust level or metadata, and returns the updated author. ## 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) - [ **Moderation API** Automatically detect and hide personal information like email addresses and phone numbers - even if the user...](https://apiant.ai/connections/moderation-api) 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 Moderation API when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of Moderation API's 18 actions, including Send feedback, Update author, Add author and Add wordlist. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Moderation API to FreshBooks? Moderation API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in FreshBooks. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Moderation API's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Moderation API? 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 Moderation API 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.