--- title: "Connect Gmail and Raiser's Edge - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Gmail Message\" fires in Gmail, your agent runs \"Get Event\" in Raiser's Edge." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-raiser-s-edge" --- # Connect Gmail and Raiser's Edge When **New Gmail Message** fires in [Gmail](https://apiant.ai/connections/gmail), your agent runs **Get Event** in [Raiser's Edge](https://apiant.ai/connections/raiser-s-edge), or **New Constituent** in Raiser's Edge to **Add Label To Email** in Gmail. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Gmail **2** triggers Gmail **41** actions Raiser's Edge **9** triggers Raiser's Edge **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 Gmail and Raiser's Edge 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 Gmail and Raiser's Edge can do together ### From Gmail to Raiser's Edge - When **New Gmail Message** in Gmail then **Get Event** in Raiser's Edge - When **Email Sent** in Gmail then **Find Duplicate Constituents** in Raiser's Edge ### From Raiser's Edge to Gmail - When **New Constituent** in Raiser's Edge then **Add Label To Email** in Gmail - When **New Event Participant** in Raiser's Edge then **Create Email Draft** in Gmail 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 Gmail and Raiser's Edge ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 80 actions - Trigger **Email Sent** Fires when an email is sent from the mailbox (optionally filtered by query). - Trigger **New Gmail Message** Fires when a new email arrives (optionally filtered by query/labels). - Action **Add Label To Email** Adds and/or removes specified gmail labels for a message; ensure `message id` and all `label ids` are valid (use 'listlabels' for custom label ids). - Action **Batch Delete Messages** Tool to permanently delete multiple Gmail messages in bulk, bypassing Trash with no recovery possible. Use when you need to efficiently remove large numbers of emails (e.g., retention enforcement, mailbox hygiene). Use GMAIL_MOVE_TO_TRASH instead when reversibility may be needed. Always obtain explicit user confirmation and verify a sample of message IDs before executing. High-volume calls may trigger 429 rateLimitExceeded or 403 userRateLimitExceeded errors; apply exponential backoff. - Action **Batch Modify Messages** Modify labels on multiple Gmail messages in one efficient API call. Supports up to 1,000 messages per request for bulk operations like archiving, marking as read/unread, or applying custom labels. High-volume calls may return 429 rateLimitExceeded or 403 userRateLimitExceeded; apply exponential backoff. - Action **Create Email Draft** Creates a gmail email draft, supporting to/cc/bcc, subject, plain/html body (ensure `is html=true` for html), attachments, and threading. - Action **Create Label** Creates a new label with a unique name in the specified user's gmail account. - Action **Delete Draft** Permanently deletes a specific gmail draft using its id; ensure the draft exists and the user has necessary permissions for the given `user id`. - Action **Delete Label** Permanently DELETES a user-created Gmail label from the account (not from a message). WARNING: This action DELETES the label definition itself, removing it from all messages. System labels (INBOX, SENT, UNREAD, etc.) cannot be deleted. To add/remove labels from specific messages, use GMAIL_ADD_LABEL_TO_EMAIL action instead. - Action **Delete Message** Permanently deletes a specific email message by its id from a gmail mailbox; for `user id`, use 'me' for the authenticated user or an email address to which the authenticated user has delegated access. - Action **Delete Thread** Tool to immediately and permanently delete a specified thread and all its messages. This operation cannot be undone. Use threads.trash instead for reversible deletion. - Action **Fetch Emails** Fetches a list of email messages from a gmail account, supporting filtering, pagination, and optional full content retrieval. - Action **Fetch Message By Message Id** Fetches a specific email message by its id, provided the `message id` exists and is accessible to the authenticated `user id`. - Action **Fetch Message By Thread Id** Retrieves messages from a gmail thread using its `thread id`, where the thread must be accessible by the specified `user id`. - Action **Forward Message** Forward an existing Gmail message to specified recipients, preserving original body and attachments. Verify recipients and content before forwarding to avoid unintended exposure. Bulk forwarding may trigger 429/5xx rate limits; keep concurrency to 5–10 and apply backoff. Messages near Gmail's size limits may fail; reconstruct a smaller draft if needed. - Action **Get Attachment** Retrieves a specific attachment by id from a message in a user's gmail mailbox, requiring valid message and attachment ids. - Action **Get Contacts** Fetches contacts (connections) for the authenticated google account, allowing selection of specific data fields and pagination. - Action **Get Draft** Retrieves a single Gmail draft by its ID. Use this to fetch and inspect draft content before sending via GMAIL_SEND_DRAFT. The format parameter controls the level of detail returned. - Action **Get Filter** Tool to retrieve a specific Gmail filter by its ID. Use when you need to inspect the criteria and actions of an existing filter. - Action **Get Label** Gets details for a specified Gmail label. Use this to retrieve label information including name, type, visibility settings, message/thread counts, and color. - Action **Get People** Retrieves either a specific person's details (using `resource name`) or lists 'other contacts' (if `other contacts` is true), with `person fields` specifying the data to return. - Action **Get Profile** Retrieves key gmail profile information (email address, message/thread totals, history id) for a user. - Action **Import Message** Tool to import a message into the user's mailbox with standard email delivery scanning and classification. Use when you need to add an existing email to a Gmail account without sending it through SMTP. This method doesn't perform SPF checks, so it might not work for some spam messages. - Action **Insert Message** Tool to insert a message into the user's mailbox similar to IMAP APPEND. Use when you need to add an email directly to a mailbox bypassing most scanning and classification. This does not send a message. - Action **List Drafts** Retrieves a paginated list of email drafts from a user's gmail account. use verbose=true to get full draft details including subject, body, sender, and timestamp. - Action **List History** Tool to list Gmail mailbox change history since a known startHistoryId. Use for incremental mailbox syncs. Persist the latest historyId as a checkpoint across sessions; without it, incremental sync is unreliable. An empty history list in the response is valid and means no new changes occurred. - Action **List Labels** Retrieves a list of all system and user-created labels for the specified gmail account. - Action **List Smime Info** Lists S/MIME configs for the specified send-as alias. Use when you need to retrieve all S/MIME certificate configurations associated with a specific send-as email address. - Action **List Threads** Retrieves a list of email threads from a gmail account, identified by `user id` (email address or 'me'), supporting filtering and pagination. - Action **Modify Thread Labels** Adds or removes specified existing label ids from a gmail thread, affecting all its messages; ensure the thread id is valid. - Action **Move Thread To Trash** Moves the specified thread to the trash. Any messages that belong to the thread are also moved to the trash. - Action **Move To Trash** Moves an existing, non-deleted email message to the trash for the specified user. - Action **Patch Label** Patches the specified label. - Action **Remove Label** Permanently deletes a specific, existing user-created gmail label by its id for a user; cannot delete system labels. - Action **Reply To Thread** Sends a reply within a specific gmail thread using the original thread's subject, requiring a valid `thread id` and correctly formatted email addresses. supports attachments via the `attachment` parameter with valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, and `name`. - Action **Search People** Searches contacts by matching the query against names, nicknames, emails, phone numbers, and organizations, optionally including 'other contacts'. - Action **Send Draft** Sends the specified, existing draft to the recipients in the to, cc, and bcc headers. - Action **Send Email** Sends an email via gmail api using the authenticated user's google profile display name, requiring `is html=true` if the body contains html and valid `s3key`, `mimetype`, `name` for any attachment. - Action **Settings Send As Get** Tool to retrieve a specific send-as alias configuration for a Gmail user. Use when you need to get details about a send-as email address including display name, signature, SMTP settings, and verification status. Fails with HTTP 404 if the specified address is not a member of the send-as collection. - Action **Untrash Message** Tool to remove a message from trash in Gmail. Use when you need to restore a previously trashed email message. - Action **Untrash Thread** Tool to remove a thread from trash in Gmail. Use when you need to restore a deleted thread and its messages. - Action **Update Draft** Updates (replaces) an existing Gmail draft's content in-place by draft ID. This action replaces the entire draft content with the new message - it does not patch individual fields. All fields are optional; if not provided, you should provide complete draft content to avoid data loss. - Action **Update Label** Tool to update the properties of an existing Gmail label. Use when you need to modify label name, visibility settings, or color. - Trigger **New Constituent** Fires when a new constituent is added. Polls constituents sorted by date_added; dedups on constituent id. - Trigger **New Event Participant** Triggers when a new participant is added to the selected Raiser's Edge NXT event. - Trigger **New Fund** Triggers when a new fund is created in Raiser's Edge NXT. - Trigger **New Gift** Fires when a new gift is recorded. Polls gifts sorted by date_added; dedups on gift id. - Trigger **New Note** Triggers when a new note is added to a constituent record in Raiser's Edge NXT. - Trigger **New Opportunity** Triggers when a new opportunity is created in Raiser's Edge NXT. - Trigger **New or Updated Gift** Triggers when a gift is created or updated in Raiser's Edge NXT. Changes can take about 30 minutes to appear. - Trigger **New or Updated Opportunity** Triggers when an opportunity is created or updated in Raiser's Edge NXT. - Trigger **Updated Constituent** Fires when a constituent is modified. Polls constituents sorted by date_modified; dedups on a composite of id + date_modified. - Action **Find Duplicate Constituents** Returns individual, organization or relationship contact records that may be duplicates of the name and contact details you supply, ranked by how closely they match. - Action **Get Action** Returns a constituent action (a call, meeting, mailing, email or task) by its ID, including its status, dates, fundraisers and linked opportunity, campaign, fund and appeal. - Action **Get Appeal** Returns an appeal by its ID, including its category, dates, goal and custom field values. - Action **Get Campaign** Returns a campaign by its ID, including its category, dates, goal and custom field values. - Action **Get Constituent** Retrieves a constituent by system record id. - Action **Get Constituent Latest Gift** Returns the most recent gift recorded for a constituent in Raiser's Edge NXT, including its amount, date, type, and the funds, campaigns and appeals it was credited to. - Action **Get Constituent Lifetime Giving** Returns a constituent's lifetime giving summary: total given, total received, pledge balance, soft credits, matching gifts and years of giving. - Action **Get Event** Returns an event from Raiser's Edge NXT by its ID, including its category, group, location, dates, capacity and fundraising goal. - Action **Get Event Participant** Returns one event participant record, including the participant's constituent, event, RSVP and invitation status, attendance and participation level. - Action **Get Gift** Retrieves a gift by system record id. - Action **Get Membership** Returns the details of one member's membership in Raiser's Edge NXT: its program, category, dues, join date, membership type, years of membership and times renewed. - Action **Get Note** Returns a constituent note from Raiser's Edge NXT, including its summary, text, type, date and the constituent it belongs to. - Action **Get Opportunity** Returns an opportunity's details, including ask, expected and funded amounts, status, fundraisers, linked gifts and its custom field values. - Action **Get Package** Returns a fundraising package by its ID, including its appeal, description, dates, goal, default gift amount and recipient count. - Action **List Actions** Returns actions (calls, meetings, emails, tasks) across all constituents, optionally filtered by status, date added, date modified or a saved action list. - Action **List Appeals** Returns the appeals in Raiser's Edge NXT, optionally filtered by date added, date modified, specific appeal IDs, or including inactive appeals. - Action **List Campaigns** Returns the fundraising campaigns in Raiser's Edge NXT, optionally filtered by date added, date modified, specific campaign IDs, and whether to include inactive campaigns. - Action **List Constituent Actions** Returns every action (calls, meetings, mailings, emails and tasks) recorded for a constituent, newest first. - Action **List Constituent Addresses** Returns all addresses on file for a constituent, including where and whether to send mail. Optionally includes inactive addresses. - Action **List Constituent Codes** Returns the constituent codes (such as Board Member, Volunteer or Alumnus) assigned to one constituent, with their start and end dates and active status. - Action **List Constituent Custom Fields** Returns every custom field recorded on a constituent, including each field's category, type, value, comment and date. - Action **List Constituent Email Addresses** Returns all email addresses on file for a constituent, optionally including inactive ones. - Action **List Constituent Memberships** Returns every membership held by a constituent, including program, category, dues, dates, standing and members. - Action **List Constituent Notes** Returns the notes recorded on a constituent, such as interests and special instructions, excluding RE NXT summary notes. - Action **List Constituent Phones** Returns the phone numbers on a constituent's record, including type, primary and do-not-call flags. - Action **List Constituents** Lists constituents with paging (limit/offset). - Action **List Constituents in List** Returns constituents that belong to a saved list (by list id). - Action **List Event Fees** Returns every fee set up for an event, such as registration fees and add-ons like parking, with cost, tax-deductible amount and number sold. - Action **List Event Participants** Returns the participants registered for an event in Raiser's Edge NXT, optionally filtered by name, RSVP or invitation status, attendance, fees and more. - Action **List Events** Returns the events in Raiser's Edge NXT, optionally filtered by name, category, group, start date range, or when they were added or modified. - Action **List Funds** Returns the funds in your Raiser's Edge NXT database, optionally filtered by date added, date modified, specific fund IDs, or including inactive funds. - Action **List Gift Custom Fields** Returns the custom fields recorded on a single gift, with each field's category, type, value, comment and date. - Action **List Gifts** Lists gifts, optionally filtered by constituent, with paging. - Action **List Memberships** Returns memberships across all constituents, with each membership's program, category, dues, join and expiry dates, standing and members. Optionally limited to memberships added or changed since a date. - Action **List Opportunities** Returns opportunities in Raiser's Edge NXT, optionally filtered by date added or modified, constituent, list, or search text. - Action **List Opportunity Notes** Returns the notes recorded on an opportunity, including each note's date, type, summary, text and author. - Action **List Packages** Returns the packages used with your appeals, optionally filtered by appeal, package, date added or date last modified. - Action **List Participant Fees** Returns the fees recorded for an event participant, including the quantity, amount, tax-receiptable amount, date and the event fee each one is for. - Action **Search Constituents** Searches constituents by name, lookup id, email, or other text. ## Each app on its own - [ **Gmail** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connections/gmail) - [ **Raiser's Edge** The Raiser's Edge NXT by Blackbaud — a cloud-based fundraising and constituent relationship management...](https://apiant.ai/connections/raiser-s-edge) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Gmail - [ **Gmail to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-hubspot) - [ **Gmail to Google Sheets** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-google-sheets) - [ **Gmail to Google Calendar** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-google-calendar) - [ **Gmail to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Gmail to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-pipedrive) - [ **Gmail to Notion** A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. 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Any of Gmail's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Gmail Message and Email Sent. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Raiser's Edge when something happens in Gmail? Any of Raiser's Edge's 39 actions, including Find Duplicate Constituents, Get Action, Get Appeal and Get Campaign. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Raiser's Edge to Gmail? Yes. When something happens in Raiser's Edge, your agent can act in Gmail too. This page covers both directions: Raiser's Edge's triggers and Gmail's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Gmail or Raiser's Edge? 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 Gmail and Raiser's Edge 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.