--- title: "Connect Handwrytten to TemplateDocs - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Address List\" fires in Handwrytten, your agent runs \"Add template\" in TemplateDocs." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-templatedocs" --- # Connect Handwrytten to TemplateDocs When **Address List** fires in [Handwrytten](https://apiant.ai/connections/handwrytten), your agent runs **Add template** in [TemplateDocs](https://apiant.ai/connections/templatedocs). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Handwrytten **1** trigger Handwrytten **7** actions TemplateDocs **5** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Handwrytten and TemplateDocs 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 Handwrytten can start in TemplateDocs - When **Address List** in Handwrytten then **Add template** in TemplateDocs - When **Address List** in Handwrytten then **Update template** in TemplateDocs 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 Handwrytten and TemplateDocs ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger ยท 12 actions - Trigger **Address List** Triggers when Recipient Addresses are needed. - Action **Add Order to Basket** Adds an order to a basket. If sending multiple cards at once, use this for each order, then check-out with Send Basket - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new address book entry for the Handwrytten address book. (Note: other zaps don't really use the address book, but the rest of Handwrytten does.). - Action **Create Custom Card** Creates a new custom 5x7 card with full bleed cover, using specified images, fonts, and logos. - Action **Empty Basket** Clears your basket. - Action **Find Contact** Finds a contact in your address book. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an entry in the Handwrytten address book. - Action **Upload Custom Image** Adds an image to Handwrytten for use in custom card designs. - Action **Add template** Uploads a Word document to TemplateDocs as a new template, and returns the template's id along with the placeholders found inside it. - Action **Delete template** Removes a template from your TemplateDocs account. - Action **Get template** Returns the details of one template, including its name, size, checksum and the placeholder tags it contains. - Action **List templates** Returns the templates available in your TemplateDocs account, each with its name, size and placeholder tags. - Action **Update template** Renames a template or changes its settings. Returns the id of the template that was updated. ## Each app on its own - [ **Handwrytten** Handwrytten is a way to automatically send real cards and notes written in pen and ink.](https://apiant.ai/connections/handwrytten) - [ **TemplateDocs** TemplateDocs is a tool for creating documents from templates.](https://apiant.ai/connections/templatedocs) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Handwrytten - [ **Handwrytten to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-hubspot) - [ **Handwrytten to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-salesforce) - [ **Handwrytten to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-slack) - [ **Handwrytten to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-mailchimp) - [ **Handwrytten to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-stripe) - [ **Handwrytten to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/handwrytten-to-shopify) ## More into TemplateDocs - [ **Goaffpro to TemplateDocs** Affiliate marketing platform for ecommerce stores, managing affiliate recruiting, commissions, and referral...](https://apiant.ai/connect/goaffpro-to-templatedocs) - [ **Mailjet to TemplateDocs** Mailjet is an all-in-one solution to send, track and deliver transactional, notification and marketing emails.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailjet-to-templatedocs) - [ **Perigon to TemplateDocs** REST API for real-time news search, monitoring, and enriched data on companies, people, and topics.](https://apiant.ai/connect/perigon-to-templatedocs) - [ **HubSpot to TemplateDocs** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-templatedocs) - [ **Salesforce to TemplateDocs** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-templatedocs) - [ **Slack to TemplateDocs** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-templatedocs) Questions ## Handwrytten and TemplateDocs, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Handwrytten? Any of Handwrytten's 1 trigger in the catalog, including Address List. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in TemplateDocs when something happens in Handwrytten? Any of TemplateDocs's 5 actions, including Update template, Add template, Get template and List templates. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from TemplateDocs to Handwrytten? TemplateDocs has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Handwrytten. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads TemplateDocs's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Handwrytten or TemplateDocs? 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 Handwrytten and TemplateDocs 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.