--- title: "Connect FreshBooks to Retell AI - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add Agent\" in Retell AI." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-retell-ai" --- # Connect FreshBooks to Retell AI When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add Agent** in [Retell AI](https://apiant.ai/connections/retell-ai). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions Retell AI **27** 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 Retell AI 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 Retell AI - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add Agent** in Retell AI - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create Knowledge Base** in Retell AI 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 Retell AI ## Triggers and actions 16 triggers · 56 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 Agent** Create a new Retell AI voice agent attached to a response engine (Retell LLM, custom LLM, or conversation flow) and a voice. - Action **Create Knowledge Base** Create a new Retell AI knowledge base from texts, URLs and/or a file. - Action **Create Retell LLM** Create a new Retell LLM Response Engine that can be attached to an agent. This is used to generate response output for the agent. - Action **Delete Agent** Deletes an existing Retell AI agent, including all of its versions. - Action **Delete Knowledge Base** Delete an existing knowledge base. - Action **Delete Phone Number** Delete a phone number from your Retell AI account. - Action **Delete Retell LLM** Delete a Retell LLM response engine. - Action **Get a Call** Retrieves the full details of a Retell AI call (phone or web): status, transcript, recording links, post-call analysis, cost and latency. - Action **Get an Agent** Retrieve the full configuration of a Retell AI voice agent. - Action **Get a Phone Number** Retrieve the details of one phone number in your Retell AI account, including its bound agents, nickname and webhook settings. - Action **Get a Retell LLM** Retrieve the details of a Retell LLM response engine, including its prompt, model, tools and states. - Action **Get a Voice** Retrieve the details of a single Retell AI voice: its name, provider, accent, gender, age and a preview audio link. - Action **Get Concurrency** Gets your Retell AI organization's current number of ongoing calls and its concurrency limits. - Action **Get Knowledge Base** Retrieve the details of a knowledge base, including its processing status and sources. - Action **Import Phone Number** Import a phone number from your own telephony provider (for example a Twilio elastic SIP trunk) into Retell AI and optionally bind agents to it. - Action **List Agents** Lists the voice and chat agents in the Retell AI account, optionally filtered by channel or by a name/id search. - Action **List Calls** List calls in the Retell AI account, newest first by default, optionally filtered by agent, status, direction, numbers, time range and more. Returns up to 1000 calls; transcripts and recording URLs are not included (use Get a Call for those). - Action **List Knowledge Bases** List all knowledge bases in the Retell AI account. - Action **List Phone Numbers** Lists the phone numbers in your Retell AI account (up to 1000). - Action **List Retell LLMs** Lists the Retell LLM response engines in the account. - Action **List Voices** List all voices available to the Retell AI account. - Action **Make a Phone Call** Start a new outbound phone call from one of your Retell numbers, handled by a Retell voice agent. - Action **Register Phone Call** Register a phone call placed through your own (custom) telephony, so Retell issues a call id your telephony can connect the audio to. - Action **Update Agent** Updates an existing Retell AI voice agent's latest draft version. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Call** Update the metadata, data storage setting or custom attributes of an existing Retell AI call. - Action **Update Phone Number** Updates the agents, nickname, webhooks, country restrictions, SIP trunk and fallback settings of a phone number in Retell AI. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Retell LLM** Update an existing Retell LLM response engine's configuration (prompt, model, etc). ## 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) - [ **Retell AI** Retell AI is a conversation intelligence platform that turns customer calls into actionable insights.](https://apiant.ai/connections/retell-ai) 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 Retell AI's 27 actions, including Create Knowledge Base, Create Retell LLM, Update Agent and Update Call. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Retell AI to FreshBooks? Retell AI has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in FreshBooks. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Retell AI's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Retell AI? 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 Retell AI 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.