--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and RO App - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add Lead Comment\" in RO App, or \"New Invoice Statuses\" in RO App to \"Create Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-ro-app" --- # Connect FreshBooks and RO App When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add Lead Comment** in [RO App](https://apiant.ai/connections/ro-app), or **New Invoice Statuses** in RO App to **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. FreshBooks **16** triggers FreshBooks **29** actions RO App **12** triggers RO App **39** 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 RO App 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 and RO App can do together ### From FreshBooks to RO App - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add Lead Comment** in RO App - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create a Client** in RO App ### From RO App to FreshBooks - When **New Invoice Statuses** in RO App then **Create Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New Order Items** in RO App then **Add Payment to 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 RO App ## Triggers and actions 28 triggers · 68 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 **Ad Campaigns** Triggers when a new ad campaign is added in RO App. - Trigger **Cash Flow Items** Triggers when a new cash flow category (income or expense item) is added in RO App. - Trigger **Clients List** Triggers when a new client (person contact) is added in RO App. - Trigger **Employees List** Triggers when a new employee is added to the RO App company account. - Trigger **Lead Types** Triggers when a new inquiry (lead) type is added to your RO App account. - Trigger **List of Services** Triggers when a new service is added to the RO App service catalog. - Trigger **List of the Products** Triggers when a new product is added to the RO App catalog, optionally limited to products matching a name, barcode, SKU, code, MPN or category. - Trigger **Locations** Triggers when a new location is added to your RO App company. - Trigger **New Invoice Statuses** Triggers when a new invoice status is added to your RO App account. - Trigger **New Order Items** Triggers when a new item (product or service) is added to the selected order. - Trigger **New Taxes** Triggers when a new tax rate is added to the company in RO App. - Trigger **Order Statuses** Triggers when a new order status is added to your RO App account. - Action **Add Booking Item** Adds a product or service line item to an existing booking. - Action **Add Lead Comment** Adds a comment to a lead (inquiry) in RO App. - Action **Add Order Comment** Adds a comment to an existing order in RO App, optionally marked private. - Action **Add Task Comment** Adds a comment to a task in RO App. - Action **Changing Order Status** Changes the status of an order, optionally with a comment. - Action **Create a Client** Creates a new client (person) in your RO App contacts. - Action **Create a Lead** Creates a new lead (inquiry) in RO App, optionally linked to a client, location, manager and ad campaign. - Action **Create an Order** Creates a new order in RO App for a client at a chosen location. - Action **Create an Order Item** Adds a product or service line item to an existing order in RO App. - Action **Create an Order or Estimate** Creates a new estimate in RO App for a client at a location. - Action **Create a Payment** Records an income or expense payment in a cashbox in RO App. - Action **Create Asset** Creates a new asset (such as a vehicle or device) in RO App, identified by its serial number. - Action **Create Booking** Creates a new booking for a client at a location with an assigned employee and time slot. - Action **Create Product** Creates a new product in the RO App catalog. - Action **Create Service** Creates a new service in the RO App catalog. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task in RO App with a title, due date and assigned employees, optionally linked to an order, lead, client or invoice. - Action **Create Update_booking** Updates an existing booking's location, status, assignee, client, schedule, resource or comment. - Action **Find Product** Finds products in the RO App catalog by name, barcode, SKU, code, manufacturer part number or category. - Action **Find Service** Finds services in the RO App catalog by name, barcode or category. - Action **Get Booking Items** Returns all the service items on a specific booking. - Action **Get Client by ID** Returns the details of a single client (person) by its ID. - Action **Get Estimate by ID** Returns the full details of a single estimate, including its custom field values. - Action **Get Lead by ID** Returns a single lead (inquiry) by its ID, including its custom fields. - Action **Get Order by Id** Returns the full details of a single order by its ID. - Action **Get Prices** Returns the list of price types (margins) configured for your company. - Action **Get Product by Id** Returns a single product from your RO App catalog by its ID, including its custom fields. - Action **Get Product Categories** Returns the product categories in your RO App catalog, optionally limited to the children of one parent category. - Action **Get Service Categories** Returns the list of service categories in your RO App catalog, optionally under a parent category. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single task by its ID, including all of its details. - Action **Get UOMs (Inits of Measure)** Returns the list of product units of measure (UOMs) defined in the RO App account. - Action **Move Asset** Moves an asset to a different warehouse. - Action **Search for Assets** Searches assets by serial number (VIN, IMEI), optionally narrowed by warehouse, owner or asset ID. - Action **Search for Clients** Searches clients (people) by name, phone, email, manager, tag or date, and returns the matching clients. - Action **Search Task** Searches tasks for ones whose title or description contains the given text, optionally narrowed by author, assignee or deadline. - Action **Update an Order Item** Updates an existing item on an order — its quantity, price, cost, discount, warranty, taxes, assignee or comment. - Action **Update an Order or Estimate** Updates an existing order (or estimate) in RO App — its location, type, people, schedule, notes, due date and custom field values. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update_booking_item** Updates the quantity, price, cost, discount, warranty, taxes or comment of an item on a booking. - Action **Update Client** Updates an existing client (person) in RO App contacts. - Action **Update Product** Updates an existing product in the RO App catalog, such as its title, SKU, category, prices or barcodes. ## 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) - [ **RO App** RO App is an all-in-one software for business management.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ro-app) 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. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-slack) - [ **FreshBooks to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-google-sheets) - [ **FreshBooks to Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-gmail) - [ **FreshBooks to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-google-calendar) ## More into RO App - [ **HubSpot to RO App** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-ro-app) - [ **Google Sheets to RO App** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-ro-app) - [ **Gmail to RO App** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-ro-app) - [ **Google Calendar to RO App** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-ro-app) - [ **Google Drive to RO App** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-ro-app) - [ **Mailchimp to RO App** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-ro-app) Questions ## FreshBooks and RO App, answered ### ### What can start an automation from FreshBooks? 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 RO App when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of RO App's 39 actions, including Create a Client, Create a Lead, Create an Order and Create an Order Item. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from RO App to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in RO App, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: RO App's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or RO App? 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 RO App 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.