--- title: "Connect Gmail to Zoho Inventory - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Gmail Message\" fires in Gmail, your agent runs \"Add Invoice Attachment\" in Zoho Inventory." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-zoho-inventory" --- # Connect Gmail to Zoho Inventory When **New Gmail Message** fires in [Gmail](https://apiant.ai/connections/gmail), your agent runs **Add Invoice Attachment** in [Zoho Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Gmail **2** triggers Gmail **41** actions Zoho Inventory **64** 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 Zoho Inventory 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 Gmail can start in Zoho Inventory - When **New Gmail Message** in Gmail then **Add Invoice Attachment** in Zoho Inventory - When **Email Sent** in Gmail then **Add Invoice Comment** in Zoho Inventory 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 Zoho Inventory ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 105 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. - Action **Add Credit Note Comment** Tool to add a comment to a credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to add notes or comments to a specific credit note for record-keeping or audit purposes. - Action **Add Invoice Attachment** Tool to upload an attachment to a specific invoice. Use when you need to add a file attachment to an invoice. - Action **Add Invoice Comment** Tool to add a comment to a specific invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add notes, updates, or internal/client-visible comments to an invoice. - Action **Apply Credits To Invoices** Tool to apply credits from a credit note to one or more invoices. Use when you need to apply available credits from a credit note to settle invoice balances. - Action **Bulk Delete Sales Orders** Tool to bulk delete sales orders. Use this to remove multiple sales orders at once. - Action **Bulk Email Invoices** Sends multiple invoices by email to a contact in a single API call. Use this tool when you need to email up to 10 invoices at once to a customer. The invoices will be scheduled for delivery and the contact will receive individual emails for each invoice. If contact_id is not provided, the action will automatically fetch the customer_id from the first invoice and use that as the contact. - Action **Bulk Export Invoices** Tool to bulk export invoices as a single PDF. Use when you need to download multiple invoices in a single file for archiving or sharing. - Action **Bulk Print Invoices** Generate a consolidated PDF containing multiple invoices for printing or archiving. Use this tool to download one or more invoices as a single PDF document. The PDF can contain up to 25 invoices and is useful for bulk printing, record keeping, or sharing with customers. - Action **Bulk Print Packages** Tool to bulk print package slips as a consolidated PDF. Use when you need a PDF file of multiple package slips for printing or archiving. - Action **Create Bill** Tool to create a bill in Zoho Inventory. Use when a vendor supplies goods/services on credit and you need to track the amount owed. - Action **Create Contact** Tool to create a new contact (customer or vendor) in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new business relationship to your organization. - Action **Create Contact Person** Tool to create a contact person. Use when you need to add a new contact person to an existing contact in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Create Credit Note** Tool to create a new credit note in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to issue a credit note to a customer for returns, refunds, or adjustments. - Action **Create Customer Payment** Tool to create a customer payment in Zoho Inventory. Use when recording a payment received from a customer against one or more invoices. - Action **Create Invoice** Tool to create a new invoice in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to invoice a customer for products or services sold. - Action **Create Item** Tool to create a new item in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to add a new product or service to your inventory catalog. - Action **Create Item Group** Tool to create an item group in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to create a new item group with multiple items that share common attributes like size or color variations. - Action **Create Package** Tool to create a package for a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to prepare items from a sales order for shipping. - Action **Create Purchase Order** Tool to create a purchase order in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to order goods or services from a vendor. - Action **Create Sales Order** Tool to create a sales order in Zoho Inventory. Use when a customer places an order for products and you need to track the sale before invoicing. - Action **Deactivate Contact** Tool to mark a contact as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate a contact without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item** Tool to mark an item as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item without permanently deleting it. - Action **Deactivate Item Group** Tool to mark an item group as inactive in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to deactivate an item group and all its items without permanently deleting them. - Action **Delete Contact** Tool to delete a contact. Use when you need to remove an existing contact from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Contact Person** Tool to delete a contact person. Use when you need to remove a contact person from your organization after confirming it is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Invoice** Tool to delete an invoice. Use when you need to remove an existing invoice that has no payments or credits applied. - Action **Delete Invoice Attachment** Tool to delete an invoice attachment. Use when you need to remove a file attached to an invoice. - Action **Delete Invoice Comment** Delete a specific comment from an invoice in Zoho Inventory. - Action **Delete Item** Tool to delete an item. Use when you need to remove an existing inventory item after confirming it is not referenced in any transactions. - Action **Delete Item Group** Tool to delete an item group. Use to remove an existing item group that is no longer needed. - Action **Delete Item Image** Tool to delete an image associated with an item. Use when you need to remove an item's image after ensuring it's no longer required. - Action **Delete Package** Tool to delete a package. Use when you need to remove an existing package created for a sales order. - Action **Delete Sales Order** Tool to delete a sales order. Use when you need to remove an existing sales order. - Action **Disable Payment Reminder** Tool to disable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to stop automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Email Contact** Tool to email a contact in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to send an email to a specific contact with a custom subject and body. - Action **Email Contact Statement** Tool to email a statement of transactions to a contact. Use when you need to send account statements to customers or vendors. - Action **Email Credit Note** Tool to email a credit note to customers. Use when you need to send a credit note via email to recipients. - Action **Email Invoice** Tool to email a specific invoice to customers. Use when you need to send an invoice via email, with optional attachments. - Action **Enable Invoice Payment Reminder** Tool to enable payment reminders for an invoice. Use when you want to activate automatic payment reminders for an invoice after it has been issued. - Action **Get Contact** Tool to retrieve a specific contact by ID from Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get detailed information about a customer or vendor contact. - Action **Get Contact Address** Tool to get contact address. Use when you need to retrieve address information for a specific contact. - Action **Get Credit Note** Tool to retrieve a credit note by ID. Use when you need to fetch detailed information about a specific credit note. - Action **Get Credit Note Email Content** Tool to get credit note email content including subject, body, recipients, and available templates. Use when you need to preview or retrieve the email content for a credit note before sending it. - Action **Get Current User** Tool to get details of the currently authenticated user in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve user profile information, permissions, or validate the authenticated user. - Action **Get Invoice** Retrieve the complete details of one existing invoice by invoice ID. - Action **Get Item** Retrieve the complete details of one existing inventory item by item ID. - Action **Get Package** Retrieve complete details for one existing package by ID. - Action **Get Purchase Order** Retrieve complete details for one existing purchase order by ID. - Action **Get Sales Order** Tool to retrieve the details of an existing sales order. Use when you need to get complete information about a sales order including line items, customer details, shipping information, and order status. - Action **Get Variant Opening Stock** Retrieve opening-stock configuration for one item variant. - Action **List Bills** Tool to list bills. Use when needing to fetch bills for an organization. - Action **List Contacts** Tool to list all contacts (customers and vendors) in Zoho Inventory. Use when needing to fetch contacts for an organization. - Action **List Credit Notes** Tool to list all credit notes. Use when needing to fetch credit notes for an organization. Supports filtering by status, customer, date, and other criteria. - Action **List Currencies** Tool to list all currencies configured in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve available currencies, exchange rates, or identify the base currency for an organization. - Action **List Customer Payments** List customer payments for a Zoho Inventory organization. - Action **List Invoice Payments** Tool to list all payments received for a specific invoice. Use when you need to retrieve payment records for an invoice. - Action **List Invoices** Tool to list all invoices in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve invoices for an organization. - Action **List Items** Tool to list all items in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to retrieve inventory items for an organization. - Action **List Organizations** Tool to list all organizations the user has access to in Zoho Inventory. Use when you need to get organization IDs or view available organizations. This action does not require organization_id as a parameter. - Action **List Purchase Orders** Tool to list purchase orders. Use when needing to fetch purchase orders for an organization. - Action **List Sales Orders** Tool to list sales orders. Use when needing to fetch sales orders for an organization. - Action **Update Contact** Update editable details for one customer or vendor contact. - Action **Update Item** Update editable catalog details for one existing Zoho Inventory item. - Action **Update Variant Opening Stock** Update organization-level or location-level opening stock for one variant. ## 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) - [ **Zoho Inventory** Zoho Inventory helps businesses track stock, manage orders, and sync inventory across multiple sales...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-inventory) 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 Zoho Inventory's 64 actions, including Create Bill, Create Contact, Create Contact Person and Create Credit Note. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Inventory to Gmail? Zoho Inventory has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Gmail. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Zoho Inventory's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Gmail or Zoho Inventory? 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 Zoho Inventory 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.