--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and Sage Sales Management - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in Sage Sales Management." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-sage-sales-management" --- # Connect FreshBooks and Sage Sales Management When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [Sage Sales Management](https://apiant.ai/connections/sage-sales-management), or **Account Updated** in Sage Sales Management 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 Sage Sales Management **12** triggers Sage Sales Management **33** 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 Sage Sales Management to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What FreshBooks and Sage Sales Management can do together ### From FreshBooks to Sage Sales Management - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Create Contact** in Sage Sales Management - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Create or Update Contact** in Sage Sales Management ### From Sage Sales Management to FreshBooks - When **Account Updated** in Sage Sales Management then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **Activity Updated** in Sage Sales Management 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 Sage Sales Management ## Triggers and actions 28 triggers · 62 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 **Account Updated** Fires when an existing account (company) is updated in Sage Sales Management. - Trigger **Activity Updated** Triggers when an activity is updated. - Trigger **Calendar Item Updated** Fires when an existing calendar item (appointment or task) is updated in Sage Sales Management. - Trigger **Contact Updated** Triggers when a contact is created or updated in Sage Sales Management. Returns the contact's name, email and phone details, linked account, sales rep, address and update timestamps. - Trigger **New Account** Triggers when a new account is created. - Trigger **New Activity** Triggers when a new activity is created. - Trigger **New Calendar Item** Triggers when a new calendar item is created. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created. - Trigger **New Opportunity** Triggers when a new opportunity is created. - Trigger **New Sales Order** Triggers when a new sales order is created. - Trigger **Opportunity Updated** Triggers when an opportunity is updated. - Trigger **Sales Order Updated** Triggers when a sales order is updated. - Action **Create Account** Creates a new account (company) in Sage Sales Management with its contact details, address, owner and classification IDs. Returns the new account's ID. - Action **Create Activity** Logs a new activity (a call, visit or note) against an account in Sage Sales Management, optionally tied to an opportunity and a sales rep. Returns the new activity's ID. - Action **Create Calendar Item** Creates a calendar appointment or task in Sage Sales Management, optionally linked to an account, contact and sales rep. Returns the new calendar entry's ID. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact person in Sage Sales Management, optionally linked to an account and a sales rep. Returns the new contact's ID. - Action **Create Entity** Creates a record of any Sage Sales Management type (account, contact, opportunity, sales order, activity, calendar entry and so on) from a JSON object of that type's own fields. Returns the new record's ID. - Action **Create Opportunity** Creates a new sales opportunity against an account in Sage Sales Management, with its value, currency, win probability, status and owner. Returns the new opportunity's ID. - Action **Create or Update Account** Finds an account by its exact company name in Sage Sales Management and updates it, or creates a new account when no match is found. Returns the account's ID and which of the two happened. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Finds a contact by email address in Sage Sales Management and updates it, or creates a new contact when no match is found. Returns the contact's ID and which of the two happened. - Action **Create Sales Order** Creates a sales order header for an account in Sage Sales Management, with its reference, total, currency, status, discounts and owner. Returns the new order's ID; order lines are added separately. - Action **Find Account** Returns the accounts in Sage Sales Management whose company name exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Account by Any Field** Returns the accounts in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look an account up by email, phone, VAT number, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Account by External ID** Returns the account in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that company. - Action **Find Contact** Returns the contacts in Sage Sales Management whose email address exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Contact by Any Field** Returns the contacts in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look a contact up by phone, last name, account, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Contact by External ID** Returns the contact in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that person. - Action **Find Entity** Searches any Sage Sales Management record type — accounts, contacts, opportunities, sales orders, activities and so on — for records where the field you name equals the value you give. - Action **Find Opportunity** Returns the opportunities in Sage Sales Management whose reference exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Opportunity by Any Field** Returns the opportunities in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look one up by account, status, owner, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Opportunity by External ID** Returns the opportunity in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that deal. - Action **Get User** Returns one Sage Sales Management user by ID, with their name, email, login, phone, user type, manager, branch and active status. - Action **List Accounts** List accounts stored in Sage Sales Management, most recently updated first. - Action **List Branches** Returns every branch (office or environment) set up in Sage Sales Management, so you can pick the branch ID other operations need. - Action **List Countries** Returns every country Sage Sales Management knows about with its ID and ISO codes, so you can supply the country ID accounts and contacts expect. - Action **List Currencies** Returns every currency configured in Sage Sales Management with its ID, ISO code and symbol, so you can supply the currency ID opportunities and orders expect. - Action **List Timezones** Returns every time zone Sage Sales Management supports with its ID and IANA name, so you can supply the time zone ID branches expect. - Action **List Users** Returns the users (sales reps) in Sage Sales Management with their names, emails and IDs, so you can pick the sales-rep ID other operations need. - Action **Update Account** Updates an existing account in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Activity** Updates an existing activity in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Calendar Item** Updates an existing calendar appointment or task in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Entity** Updates a record of any Sage Sales Management type (account, contact, opportunity, sales order, activity, calendar entry and so on) from a JSON object of the fields you want changed. Fields you leave out keep their current values. - Action **Update Opportunity** Updates an existing opportunity in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you supply are changed; anything left blank is left as it is on the record. - Action **Update Sales Order** Updates an existing sales order in Sage Sales Management. 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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 Sage Sales Management when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of Sage Sales Management's 33 actions, including Create Account, Create Activity, Create Calendar Item and Create Contact. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Sage Sales Management to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in Sage Sales Management, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: Sage Sales Management's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Sage Sales Management? 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 Sage Sales Management 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.