--- title: "Connect FreshBooks and Vapi - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Bill\" fires in FreshBooks, your agent runs \"Add assistant\" in Vapi, or \"New Assistant\" in Vapi to \"Add Payment to Invoice\" in FreshBooks." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-vapi" --- # Connect FreshBooks and Vapi When **New Bill** fires in [FreshBooks](https://apiant.ai/connections/freshbooks), your agent runs **Add assistant** in [Vapi](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi), or **New Assistant** in Vapi 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 Vapi **3** triggers Vapi **21** 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 Vapi 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 Vapi can do together ### From FreshBooks to Vapi - When **New Bill** in FreshBooks then **Add assistant** in Vapi - When **New Client** in FreshBooks then **Add phone number** in Vapi ### From Vapi to FreshBooks - When **New Assistant** in Vapi then **Add Payment to Invoice** in FreshBooks - When **New Call** in Vapi 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 Vapi ## Triggers and actions 19 triggers · 50 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 Assistant** Triggers when a new assistant is created in your Vapi organization. - Trigger **New Call** Triggers when a new call is created in Vapi, optionally limited to one assistant or phone number. - Trigger **New File** Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your Vapi account. - Action **Add assistant** Creates a new Vapi voice assistant with its model, voice, transcriber, first message and call behavior. - Action **Add phone number** Adds a phone number to Vapi: a free Vapi number, or one you bring from Twilio, Vonage, Telnyx or your own SIP trunk. Returns the new phone number record. - Action **Add squad** Creates a squad: a group of assistants that hand a call off to one another, starting with the first member. - Action **Add tool** Creates a tool in Vapi (for example a function, end-call, transfer-call or API-request tool) that assistants can use during calls. - Action **Create Call** Starts a Vapi call (or a batch of outbound calls) using a saved or one-off assistant, squad or workflow, and returns the created call. - Action **Create Chat** Sends a message to a Vapi assistant or squad as a text chat and returns the chat, including the assistant's reply messages. - Action **Delete assistant** Deletes an assistant from your Vapi account and returns the deleted assistant. - Action **Delete Call Data** Deletes a call and its data, including recordings, and returns the deleted call. - Action **Delete Chat** Deletes a chat from your Vapi account and returns the deleted chat's details. - Action **Delete File** Deletes a file from your Vapi account. - Action **Find Call** Finds calls matching a call id, assistant, phone number, or created/updated date range. Returns up to 1000 matching calls. - Action **Get assistant** Returns a Vapi assistant's full configuration, including its model, voice, transcriber and first message. - Action **Get file** Returns a file uploaded to Vapi, including its name, size, type, processing status and download URL. - Action **List assistants** Returns the voice assistants in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or last updated. - Action **List chats** Returns the chats in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by assistant, squad, session or creation/update date. - Action **List files** Returns the files uploaded to your Vapi account, optionally filtered by purpose. - Action **List phone numbers** Returns the phone numbers in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **List tools** Returns the tools configured in your Vapi account, optionally filtered by when they were created or updated. - Action **Update Call** Updates the name of an existing Vapi call. - Action **Update phone number** Updates a Vapi phone number's name, the assistant, squad or workflow that answers it, and its provider settings. - Action **Upload File** Uploads a file to Vapi, for use by assistants or knowledge bases, and returns the stored file record. ## 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) - [ **Vapi** Vapi is a developer-first Voice AI platform for building natural, low-latency, multilingual phone agents via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/vapi) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from FreshBooks - [ **FreshBooks to Vercel** Vercel is a platform for building, deploying, and scaling fast, modern web applications effortlessly.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshbooks-to-vercel) - [ **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 is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](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) ## More into Vapi - [ **HubSpot to Vapi** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-vapi) - [ **Salesforce to Vapi** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-vapi) - [ **Slack to Vapi** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-vapi) - [ **Google Sheets to Vapi** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-vapi) - [ **Gmail to Vapi** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-vapi) - [ **Google Calendar to Vapi** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-vapi) Questions ## FreshBooks and Vapi, 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 Vapi when something happens in FreshBooks? Any of Vapi's 21 actions, including Create Call, Create Chat, Update Call and Update phone number. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Vapi to FreshBooks? Yes. When something happens in Vapi, your agent can act in FreshBooks too. This page covers both directions: Vapi's triggers and FreshBooks's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for FreshBooks or Vapi? 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 Vapi 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.