--- title: "Connect Harpoon to When I Work - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Client\" fires in Harpoon, your agent runs \"Create User\" in When I Work." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/harpoon-to-when-i-work" --- # Connect Harpoon to When I Work When **New Client** fires in [Harpoon](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon), your agent runs **Create User** in [When I Work](https://apiant.ai/connections/when-i-work). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Harpoon **9** triggers Harpoon **46** actions When I Work **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 When I Work 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 Harpoon can start in When I Work - When **New Client** in Harpoon then **Create User** in When I Work - When **New Contact** in Harpoon then **Update user** in When I Work 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 When I Work ## 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 **Add location** Creates a new schedule (location) in the When I Work account and returns the created schedule. - Action **Add position** Creates a position, such as Dishwasher or Server, in the When I Work account. - Action **Add time entry** Creates a time entry on a user's timesheet in When I Work and returns the new entry. - Action **Add time off request** Creates a time off request for a user, covering a start and end time, with an optional time off type and paid hours. - Action **Clock in** Clocks a user in, starting a time entry for them. Returns the time entry, the user and the punches recorded on it. - Action **Clock out** Clocks a When I Work user out and returns the time entry the clock-out belongs to. - Action **Create User** Creates a new user in the When I Work account and returns the created user, optionally sending them an invitation. - Action **Delete shift** Deletes a shift by its ID, optionally notifying the assigned user and removing later shifts in a repeating series. This cannot be undone. - Action **Delete user** Deletes a user from the When I Work account, optionally deleting their future shifts as well. When I Work allows this to be reversed. - Action **Get account** Returns the When I Work account for the connected login, including its company name, plan status, enabled features and settings. For a parent account, also returns its child accounts. - Action **Get shift** Returns a single shift by its ID, including its breaks and any repeating series it belongs to. An error occurs if the shift is not found. - Action **Get user** Returns a single When I Work user by ID, including their contact details, role, positions, schedules and pay information. - Action **List locations** Returns all the schedules (locations) in the When I Work account, optionally only those not yet confirmed. - Action **List positions** Returns all the positions in the When I Work account, optionally including deleted ones. - Action **List shifts** Returns the shifts in a date range, optionally narrowed to a user or schedule, and optionally including open, unpublished or repeating shifts. - Action **List sites** Returns all the sites in the When I Work account, optionally including deleted sites. - Action **List time entries** Returns the time entries (timesheet records) in a date range, optionally limited to specific users, entries still clocked in, or entries updated since a given time. - Action **List time off requests** Returns the time off requests that fall within a date range, optionally narrowed by user, schedule, status or type. - Action **List users** Returns the users in the When I Work account, optionally narrowed by schedule or by a search on name or email, and optionally including pending or deleted users. - Action **Publish shifts** Publishes a group of shifts so they become visible on the schedule, and returns the shifts that were published. It does not notify the assigned users. - Action **Update shift** Updates an existing shift on the schedule, such as its times, assigned user, position, breaks or notes, and returns the updated shift. - Action **Update user** Updates an existing user's contact details, role, positions, schedules, pay and access settings, and can reactivate a deleted user. Returns the updated user. ## Each app on its own - [ **Harpoon** Harpoon is a financial planning, scheduling, time-tracking, invoicing, and budgeting platform for...](https://apiant.ai/connections/harpoon) - [ **When I Work** When I Work is the easiest way to schedule, manage attendance, and communicate with your staff from your...](https://apiant.ai/connections/when-i-work) 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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Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-when-i-work) - [ **Google Sheets to When I Work** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-when-i-work) - [ **Gmail to When I Work** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-when-i-work) - [ **Google Calendar to When I Work** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-when-i-work) Questions ## Harpoon and When I Work, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Harpoon? Any of Harpoon's 9 triggers in the catalog, including New Client, New Contact, New Expense and New Expense Category. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in When I Work when something happens in Harpoon? Any of When I Work's 22 actions, including Create User, Update shift, Update user and Add location. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from When I Work to Harpoon? When I Work has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Harpoon. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads When I Work's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Harpoon or When I Work? 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 Harpoon and When I Work 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.