--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and Smartsheet - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add row\" in Smartsheet, or \"New row\" in Smartsheet to \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-smartsheet" --- # Connect FreshBooks and Smartsheet When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add row** in [Smartsheet](https://apiant.ai/connections/smartsheet), or **New row** in Smartsheet 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 Smartsheet **3** triggers Smartsheet **26** 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 Smartsheet 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What FreshBooks and Smartsheet can do together ### From FreshBooks to Smartsheet - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add row** in Smartsheet - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Add row attachment** in Smartsheet ### From Smartsheet to FreshBooks - When **New row** in Smartsheet then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New sheet** in Smartsheet 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 Smartsheet ## Triggers and actions 19 triggers · 55 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 **New row** Triggered when a new row is added to the specified sheet. Polls rows modified since the last check and emits new ones. - Trigger **New sheet** Triggered when a new sheet is created. Polls the list of sheets and emits newly seen ones. - Trigger **Updated row** Triggered when any row is updated in the specified sheet. Polls rows modified since the last check and emits updated ones. - Action **Add column** /sheets/{sheetId}/columns - add columns to a sheet. - Action **Add comment** /sheets/{sheetId}/discussions/{discussionId}/comments - add a comment to a discussion. - Action **Add discussion** Starts a new discussion on a sheet with a first comment, and returns the discussion. - Action **Add folder** /folders/{folderId}/folders or /home/folders - create a folder. - Action **Add home folder** Creates a folder at the top level of your Sheets home and returns it. - Action **Add row** Adds a new row to the specified sheet. Provide cells as an array of {columnId, value}. Set location to Top or Bottom. - Action **Add row attachment** /sheets/{sheetId}/rows/{rowId}/attachments - attach file or URL to a row. - Action **Add sheet** /sheets - create a sheet with columns. - Action **Copy row to another sheet** Copies a row from one sheet to another sheet. The placement of the cells in the destination sheet is determined by Smartsheet's logic. - Action **Copy sheet** /sheets/{sheetId}/copy - copy a sheet to a folder/workspace. - Action **Delete row** Deletes a row from a sheet given its Row ID. - Action **Delete row if deal does not exist in ActiveCampaign (Cisco)** Compares deals from ActiveCampaign with the Smartsheet 'ActiveCampaign Deal ID' column. Deletes rows whose deal ID is not present in the supplied list of existing ActiveCampaign deal IDs. Built from intent against Smartsheet API 2.0. - Action **Find rows** Searches for rows in a specified sheet containing the specified value (in any column). Returns zero or more row IDs. Use the 'Get row' action within a Loop to fetch each row's contents. - Action **Find rows by column value** Searches for rows in a specified sheet having the specified value in a specified column. Zero, one, or multiple row IDs may be returned. - Action **Find sheets by keyword** Returns the sheets that match the specified keyword. - Action **Find single row** Searches for a single row in a specified sheet matching the specified value (in any column). If zero or multiple rows are found, an error occurs. - Action **Find single row by column value** Searches for a single row in a specified sheet having the specified value in a specified column. If zero or multiple rows are found, an error occurs. - Action **Get discussion** Returns a sheet discussion with its title and comments. - Action **Get folder** Returns a folder with the folders and sheets directly inside it. - Action **Get row** Returns the column data for the specified row. An error occurs if the row is not found. - Action **Get sheet** Fetches a sheet by ID, including its columns and rows. An error occurs if the sheet is not found. - Action **List row attachments** Returns the attachments on a row of a Smartsheet sheet, such as files and links, with their names, types and addresses. - Action **Move row to another sheet** Moves a row from one sheet to another sheet. The placement of the cells in the destination sheet is determined by Smartsheet's logic. - Action **Two-way sync add or update a row** Creates or updates a row in a sheet. For use only with two-way sync triggers. If a Row ID is supplied the row is updated; otherwise a new row is added. - Action **Update row** Updates a row in a specified sheet. 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This page covers both directions: Smartsheet's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Smartsheet? 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 Smartsheet 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.