--- title: "Connect Invoice Ninja to Loops - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New expense\" fires in Invoice Ninja, your agent runs \"Add Contact\" in Loops." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-loops" --- # Connect Invoice Ninja to Loops When **New expense** fires in [Invoice Ninja](https://apiant.ai/connections/invoice-ninja), your agent runs **Add Contact** in [Loops](https://apiant.ai/connections/loops). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Invoice Ninja **1** trigger Invoice Ninja **10** actions Loops **12** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Invoice Ninja and Loops 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 Invoice Ninja can start in Loops - When **New expense** in Invoice Ninja then **Add Contact** in Loops - When **New expense** in Invoice Ninja then **Add contact property** in Loops 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 Invoice Ninja and Loops ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 22 actions - Trigger **New expense** Triggers when a new expense is created in Invoice Ninja. - Action **Delete invoice** Deletes an invoice from your Invoice Ninja company by its id. - Action **Email Invoice** Emails an invoice to its client using the chosen email template, optionally with a custom subject, body and CC address. - Action **Email Quote** Emails an existing quote to its client, using a quote template or a custom subject and body. Returns the confirmation message and the quote that was emailed. - Action **Find Client** Finds clients by name, email, number or search text and returns the matching client records. - Action **Find Credit** Returns the credits that match a credit number, search text, client, status or date. - Action **Find Invoice** Finds invoices by number, search text, client, status or date, and returns the matches with the first one broken out. - Action **Find payments** Returns the payments that match a payment number, search text, client or other criteria. - Action **Find Product** Finds products in Invoice Ninja by name, product key or other filters, returning the matches and the first match. - Action **Find Project** Finds projects whose name, number or notes match the search text and returns the matches. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a quote number, search text, client, status or date criteria. - Action **Add Contact** Creates a new contact in your Loops audience, with optional name, user group, subscription status, mailing list memberships and custom contact properties. - Action **Add contact property** Creates a new custom contact property in your Loops account, such as a plan name or signup date, so it can be stored on contacts. - Action **Delete Contact** Deletes a contact from your Loops audience, identified by email address or user ID. - Action **Find Contact** Finds a Loops contact by email address or by your own user ID and returns the matching contact, including its custom properties. - Action **Get campaign** Returns a single Loops campaign by its ID, including its name, status, audience, mailing list and schedule. - Action **List campaigns** Returns all campaigns in your Loops account, with each campaign's name, status, audience and scheduling details. - Action **List contact properties** Returns the contact properties defined in your Loops account, either all of them or only your custom ones. - Action **List mailing lists** Returns every mailing list in your Loops account, with each list's name, description and whether it is public. - Action **List transactional emails** Returns the transactional emails in your Loops account, including each email's id, name, and the data variables it expects. - Action **Send Event** Sends an event for a contact in Loops to trigger workflows, identifying the contact by email or user ID and optionally updating their contact properties and mailing list subscriptions. - Action **Send Transactional Email** Sends a published Loops transactional email to one recipient, filling in the email's data variables. - Action **Update Contact** Updates a Loops contact identified by email or user ID, including standard fields, custom contact properties and mailing list subscriptions. Creates the contact if no match exists. ## Each app on its own - [ **Invoice Ninja** Create. Send. Get Paid. Invoice Ninja is a free, code-available suite of apps to invoice clients, accept...](https://apiant.ai/connections/invoice-ninja) - [ **Loops** Loops is a platform for SaaS companies to send marketing and transactional email.](https://apiant.ai/connections/loops) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Invoice Ninja - [ **Invoice Ninja to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-salesforce) - [ **Invoice Ninja to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-slack) - [ **Invoice Ninja to Mailchimp** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-mailchimp) - [ **Invoice Ninja to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-stripe) - [ **Invoice Ninja to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-shopify) - [ **Invoice Ninja to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/invoice-ninja-to-quickbooks-online) ## More into Loops - [ **HubSpot to Loops** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-loops) - [ **Salesforce to Loops** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-loops) - [ **Slack to Loops** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-loops) - [ **Google Sheets to Loops** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-loops) - [ **Gmail to Loops** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-loops) - [ **Google Calendar to Loops** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-loops) Questions ## Invoice Ninja and Loops, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Invoice Ninja? Any of Invoice Ninja's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New expense. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Loops when something happens in Invoice Ninja? Any of Loops's 12 actions, including Send Event, Send Transactional Email, Update Contact and Add Contact. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Loops to Invoice Ninja? Loops has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Invoice Ninja. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Loops's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Invoice Ninja or Loops? 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 Invoice Ninja and Loops 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.