# Connect Harpoon to Canva When **New Client** fires in [Harpoon](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon), your agent runs **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** in [Canva](https://apiant.ai/connections/canva). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Harpoon **9** triggers Harpoon **46** actions Canva **22** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Harpoon and Canva to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` 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 Harpoon can start in Canva - When **New Client** in Harpoon then **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** in Canva - When **New Contact** in Harpoon then **Create User Or Sub Folder** in Canva 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 Harpoon and Canva ## Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 68 actions - Trigger **New Client** Triggered when a new client is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggered when a new expense is created in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Expense Category** Triggered when a new expense category is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggered when a new invoice is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Payment** Triggered when a new payment is recorded in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Harpoon. - Trigger **New Task Category** Triggered when a new task category is added in your Harpoon account. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Harpoon. - Action **Add Credit Entry** Creates a new credit entry on a client's account in Harpoon, recording an amount, a date and an optional note or originating invoice. Returns the credit entry that was created. - Action **Add Invoice** Creates a new invoice in Harpoon for a client or project, with an invoice number, issue date, and optional line items. Returns the invoice that was created. - Action **Add Lead Source** Creates a new lead source in Harpoon, so new clients can be tagged with where they came from. Returns the lead source that was created. - Action **Add Note** Adds a note to a client, project or invoice in Harpoon. Returns the note that was created. - Action **Add Team** Creates a new team in your Harpoon account. Harpoon populates the new team from your account details; the API accepts no team attributes on creation. - Action **Clone Time Entry** Creates a copy of an existing time entry in Harpoon. The copy keeps the original's project, task and description, and starts with today's date and zero hours logged. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact person under a Harpoon client, with their name, email address, and phone number. Returns the contact that was created. - Action **Create Expense** Records a one-off expense in Harpoon with its date, amount, and vendor, optionally attributed to a client, project, or expense category. Returns the expense that was created. - Action **Create Expense Category** Creates a new expense category in your Harpoon account so expenses can be grouped under it. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project in Harpoon for a client, with its budget, rate, and start and end dates. Returns the project that was created. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs hours worked in Harpoon for a team member on a given date, optionally against a client or project. Returns the time entry that was created. - Action **Delete Client** Deletes a client from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Expense** Permanently deletes an expense from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Invoice** Permanently removes an invoice from Harpoon. Returns Harpoon's confirmation that the invoice was deleted. - Action **Delete Note** Deletes a note from your Harpoon account. - Action **Delete Recurring Expense** Deletes a recurring expense template from Harpoon by its id, so it stops generating new expenses. - Action **Delete Recurring Invoice** Stops and removes a recurring invoice schedule in Harpoon so it no longer generates invoices. Returns Harpoon's confirmation that it was deleted. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry from your Harpoon account. - Action **Get Client** Returns a single client from your Harpoon account, including its name, contact details and other stored attributes. - Action **Get Client Credits** Returns a client's credit entries in Harpoon, along with the credit still available on the account. - Action **Get Contact** Returns a single Harpoon contact, including their name, email address, phone number, and the client they belong to. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns a single estimate from your Harpoon account, including its client, line items, totals and status. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single expense from your Harpoon account, including its amount, date, vendor, category and the client or project it is attached to. - Action **Get Expense Category** Returns a single Harpoon expense category with every detail it carries, including its name and budget settings. - Action **Get Invoice** Fetches one invoice from Harpoon by its id, with its client, line items and payment totals. An error occurs if the invoice is not found. - Action **Get Lead Source** Returns a single lead source from your Harpoon account. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single project from your Harpoon account, including its client, budget and status. - Action **Get Recurring Expense** Fetches one recurring expense template from Harpoon by its id, with its vendor, amount, frequency and schedule. An error occurs if it is not found. - Action **Get Recurring Invoice** Returns a single recurring invoice schedule from Harpoon, including its client, frequency, dates, and line items. - Action **Get Task** Returns a single task category from your Harpoon account, including its name and hourly rate. - Action **Get Team** Returns a single team from your Harpoon account, including its name, email address, phone, address, owner and whether it is active. - Action **Get Time Entry** Returns a single tracked time entry from your Harpoon account, including its date, hours, client, project and notes. - Action **List Contacts** Returns the contacts in your Harpoon account, including each contact's name, email address and phone number. - Action **List Estimates** Returns the estimates in a Harpoon account, optionally narrowed to a year, client, project, status, or search text. - Action **List Expense Categories** Returns the expense categories set up in Harpoon, each with its budget settings. - Action **List Expenses** Returns the expenses in your Harpoon account, optionally narrowed by date range, client, project, category, billing status or search text. - Action **List Invoices** Returns the invoices in your Harpoon account, optionally narrowed by year, client, project, status or a search term. - Action **List Projects** Returns the projects in a Harpoon account, with their client, budget, rate, and dates. - Action **List Teams** Returns the teams in your Harpoon account, along with the total number of teams found. - Action **List Time Entries** Returns time entries from your Harpoon account — either the timers running now or logged history for a date range — optionally narrowed by client, project, task, team member or billing status. - Action **Update Expense** Updates an existing expense in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing invoice in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Project** Updates an existing project in Harpoon — its name, client, billing type, status, dates, budget and task rates. Returns the updated project. - Action **Update Recurring Expense** Updates a recurring expense in Harpoon — its vendor, amount, frequency, category, dates, and status. Anything left blank keeps its current value. Returns the updated recurring expense. - Action **Update Recurring Invoice** Updates an existing recurring invoice template in your Harpoon account. Only the values you supply are changed. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates an existing time entry in Harpoon — its date, hours, description, project, task or billing state. - Action **Access User Specific Brand Templates List** This year, brand template ids will change; integrations storing them must update within 6 months. also, api use requires canva enterprise membership. - Action **Create Canva Design With Optional Asset** Create a new canva design using a preset or custom dimensions, and add an asset with `asset id` from a user's project using relevant apis. - Action **Create Design Comment In Preview Api** This api is in preview and may change without notice; integrations using it won't pass review. it allows creating comments on a design, with a limit of 1000 comments per design. - Action **Create User Or Sub Folder** This api creates a folder in a canva user's projects at the top level or within another folder, returning the new folder's id and additional details upon success. - Action **Delete Asset By Id** You can delete an asset by specifying its `assetid`. this operation mirrors the behavior in the canva ui. deleting an item moves it to the trash. deleting an asset doesn't remove it from designs that already use it. - Action **Fetch Canva Connect Signing Public Keys** The api for verifying canva webhooks, 'connect/keys,' is in preview, meaning unstable, not for public integrations, and provides a rotating jwk for signature verification to prevent replay attacks. cache keys for efficiency. - Action **Fetch Current User Details** Returns the user id, team id, and display name of the user account associated with the provided access token. - Action **Fetch Design Metadata And Access Information** Gets the metadata for a design. this includes owner information, urls for editing and viewing, and thumbnail information. - Action **Get Design Export Job Result** Get the outcome of a canva design export job; if done, receive download links for the design’s pages. for details, visit the create design export job api documentation. - Action **Initiates Canva Design Export Job** Canva's new job feature exports designs in multiple formats using a design id, with provided download links. the export status can be tracked via an api. exports with 'pro' quality may fail if the design contains unpaid premium elements. - Action **List Design Pages With Pagination** Preview api for canva: subject to unannounced changes and not for public integrations. lists metadata for design pages with optional `offset` and `limit`; not applicable to all design types. - Action **List Folder Items By Type With Sorting** Lists the items in a folder, including each item's `type`. folders can contain: - other folders. - designs, such as instagram posts, presentations, and documents (canva docs). - image assets. - Action **List User Designs** Provides a summary of canva user designs, includes search filtering, and allows showing both self-created and shared designs with sorting options. - Action **Move Item To Specified Folder** Transfers an item to a different folder by specifying both the destination folder's id and the item's id. if the item is in various folders, an error occurs; manual relocation via canva ui is required. - Action **Remove Folder And Move Contents To Trash** Deletes a folder by moving the user's content to trash and reassigning other users' content to their top-level projects. - Action **Retrieve A Specific Design Comment** This preview api is subject to unannounced changes and can't be used in public integrations. it retrieves a comment, details of which are on canva help center. - Action **Retrieve Asset Metadata By Id** You can retrieve the metadata of an asset by specifying its `assetid`. - Action **Retrieve Folder Details By Id** Gets the name and other details of a folder using a folder's `folderid`. - Action **Retrieve User Profile Data** Currently, this returns the display name of the user account associated with the provided access token. more user information is expected to be included in the future. - Action **Update Asset S Name And Tags By Id** You can update the name and tags of an asset by specifying its `assetid`. updating the tags replaces all existing tags of the asset. - Action **Update Folder Details By Id** Updates a folder's details using its `folderid`. currently, you can only update a folder's name. - Action **Upload Asset From URL** Starts a job that uploads an image or video from a public URL into the user's Canva media library. Poll Fetch Asset Upload Job Status with the returned job ID to get the asset. ## Each app on its own - [ **Harpoon** Harpoon is a financial planning, scheduling, time-tracking, invoicing, and budgeting platform for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon) - [ **Canva** Canva offers a drag-and-drop design suite for creating social media graphics, presentations, and marketing...](https://apiant.ai/connections/canva) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Harpoon - [ **Harpoon to Bugcrowd** Bugcrowd API for interacting and tracking the reported issues programmatically](https://apiant.ai/connect/harpoon-to-bugcrowd) - [ **Harpoon to HubSpot** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/harpoon-to-hubspot) - [ **Harpoon to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/harpoon-to-salesforce) - [ **Harpoon to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Canva's 22 actions, including Create Canva Design With Optional Asset, Create Design Comment In Preview Api, Create User Or Sub Folder and Update Asset S Name And Tags By Id. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Canva to Harpoon? Canva has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Harpoon. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Canva's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Harpoon or Canva? 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. ### ### 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.