--- title: "Connect Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact updated (instant)\" fires in Lexware Office, your agent runs \"Create Task\" in Timely Time Tracking." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/lexware-office-to-timely-time-tracking" --- # Connect Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking When **Contact updated (instant)** fires in [Lexware Office](https://apiant.ai/connections/lexware-office), your agent runs **Create Task** in [Timely Time Tracking](https://apiant.ai/connections/timely-time-tracking), or **New Client** in Timely Time Tracking to **Create a contact** in Lexware Office. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Lexware Office **10** triggers Lexware Office **40** actions Timely Time Tracking **8** triggers Timely Time Tracking **19** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking 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 Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking can do together ### From Lexware Office to Timely Time Tracking - When **Contact updated (instant)** in Lexware Office then **Create Task** in Timely Time Tracking - When **Invoice status changed (instant)** in Lexware Office then **Create Client** in Timely Time Tracking ### From Timely Time Tracking to Lexware Office - When **New Client** in Timely Time Tracking then **Create a contact** in Lexware Office - When **New or Updated Person** in Timely Time Tracking then **Create an invoice** in Lexware Office 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 Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking ## Triggers and actions 18 triggers · 59 actions - Trigger **Contact updated (instant)** Fires when a contact changes in Lexware Office. Event type: contact.changed. - Trigger **Invoice status changed (instant)** Fires when an invoice's status changes in Lexware Office. Event type: invoice.status.changed. - Trigger **New article (instant)** Fires when a new article is created in Lexware Office. Event type: article.created. - Trigger **New contact (instant)** Fires when a new contact is created in Lexware Office. Event type: contact.created. - Trigger **New credit note (instant)** Fires when a new credit note is created in Lexware Office. Event type: credit-note.created. - Trigger **New invoice (instant)** Fires when a new invoice is created in Lexware Office. Event type: invoice.created. - Trigger **New order confirmation (instant)** Fires when a new order confirmation is created in Lexware Office. Event type: order-confirmation.created. - Trigger **New quotation (instant)** Fires when a new quotation is created in Lexware Office. Event type: quotation.created. - Trigger **New voucher (instant)** Fires when a new bookkeeping voucher is created in Lexware Office. Event type: voucher.created. - Trigger **Payment changed (instant)** Fires when the payment status of a sales voucher changes in Lexware Office. Event type: payment.changed. - Action **Create a contact** Creates a contact in Lexware Office as a person or a company, with optional billing address, email, phone and note, and returns the new contact's ID. - Action **Create a credit note** Creates a credit note in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a delivery note** Creates a delivery note in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your delivered line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a dunning** Creates a dunning (payment reminder) in Lexware Office, normally chasing an unpaid invoice. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create an article** Creates a product or service article in Lexware Office with its unit, price and tax rate, and returns the new article's ID. - Action **Create an invoice** Creates an invoice in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your line items and payment terms. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create an order confirmation** Creates an order confirmation in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your confirmed line items. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a quotation** Creates a quotation in Lexware Office for an existing contact or a typed-in address, with your quoted line items and an expiry date. Saves it as a draft unless you choose to finalize it. - Action **Create a voucher** Books a voucher (an incoming or outgoing document) into Lexware Office with its booking lines, and returns the new voucher's ID. - Action **Delete an article** Deletes an article from Lexware Office by its ID. - Action **Download a credit note file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized credit note in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a delivery note file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized delivery note in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a dunning file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized dunning in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a file** Downloads the actual bytes of a file stored in Lexware Office by its file ID — for example the PDF that "Download an invoice file" reports. Returns the file so a later step can email, upload or attach it. - Action **Download an invoice file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized invoice in Lexware Office. - Action **Download an order confirmation file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized order confirmation in Lexware Office. - Action **Download a quotation file** Returns the PDF file ID and download URL for a finalized quotation in Lexware Office. - Action **Find articles** Searches the Lexware Office article list by article number, barcode or type, and returns the matching articles a page at a time. - Action **Find contacts** Searches Lexware Office contacts by email, name, number or role, and returns the matching contacts a page at a time. - Action **Find voucher list** Lists Lexware Office documents (invoices, credit notes, quotations and the rest) filtered by type, status, contact and date, a page at a time. - Action **Find vouchers** Finds booked vouchers in Lexware Office by their document number and returns the full voucher records. - Action **Get a contact** Returns one Lexware Office contact by its ID, with its roles, person or company details, addresses, emails and phone numbers. - Action **Get a credit note** Returns one Lexware Office credit note by its ID, with its recipient, line items, totals and status. - Action **Get a delivery note** Returns one Lexware Office delivery note by its ID, with its recipient, delivered lines and delivery date. - Action **Get a dunning** Returns a single dunning (payment reminder) by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals and PDF file reference. - Action **Get an article** Returns a single article (product or service) by its ID, including its name, article number, unit and pricing. - Action **Get an invoice** Returns a single invoice by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals, payment terms and PDF file reference. - Action **Get an order confirmation** Returns a single order confirmation by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals and PDF file reference. - Action **Get a quotation** Returns a single quotation by its ID, including its addressee, line items, totals, expiry date and PDF file reference. - Action **Get a voucher** Returns a single bookkeeping voucher by its ID, including its type, contact, amounts, line items and attached files. - Action **Get payment information** Returns the payment status of a voucher, such as an invoice: how much is still open, when it was paid, and the individual payments booked against it. - Action **Pursue to a credit note** Creates a credit note that follows on from an existing invoice, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the invoice's recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to a delivery note** Creates a delivery note that follows on from an existing order confirmation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to a dunning** Creates a dunning (payment reminder) that follows on from an unpaid invoice, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to an invoice** Creates an invoice that follows on from an existing order confirmation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Pursue to an order confirmation** Creates an order confirmation that follows on from an existing quotation, linking the two in Lexware Office. Copies the recipient, lines and tax settings unless you supply your own lines. - Action **Update a contact** Updates an existing contact in Lexware Office. Reads the contact first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Update an article** Updates an existing article in Lexware Office. Reads the article first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Update a voucher** Updates an existing bookkeeping voucher in Lexware Office. Reads the voucher first and changes only the details you fill in, leaving everything else as it was. - Action **Upload Document for Bookkeeping Purposes** Uploads a receipt or other document to Lexware Office for bookkeeping and returns its file ID, which you can attach to a voucher. - Trigger **New Client** Triggered when a new client is created - Trigger **New or Updated Person** Triggered when a person is created or updated in Timely - Trigger **New or Updated Project** Triggers when a project is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Time Entry** Triggers when time entries are created or updated. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is created - Trigger **New Workspace** Triggers when a workspace is created. - Trigger **Project Updated (Only Admin Users)** Triggers when any project is updated in Timely. Fires for ALL project changes (name, budget, rate, archive, labels, users, etc. Can only be used by Timely Admin users. WARNING: avoid chaining this trigger to actions that write back to the same project (e. g. via "Update Project Name") in the source system without a guard — that can create an infinite update loop. - Action **Add tag** Create a tag. - Action **Create Client** Creates a Client - Action **Create Person** Creates a new person in the workspace. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task. - Action **Delete project** Delete a project. - Action **Delete time entry** Delete a time entry. - Action **Find Client** Returns the clients in a Timely workspace whose name matches the given text. - Action **Find Project** Returns the projects whose name contains the specified text. - Action **Find Tag List and Tag** Finds a tag list and a specific tag if specified. - Action **Find time entries by criteria** Search time entries by date range, user, project. - Action **Find User** Finds a User - Action **Get Task** Retrieves a single task (forecast) by its id. - Action **Log Time Entry** Logs a new time entry against a project. - Action **Start timer** Start the timer on a time entry. - Action **Stop timer** Stop the running timer on a time entry. - Action **Update client** Update a client. - Action **Update Project Name** Updates only the name of an existing project. Look up the project by Timely Project ID or by External ID (recommended when the source-of-truth system stores the Timely external_id, e.g. NetSuite). - Action **Update time entry** Update a logged time entry. ## Each app on its own - [ **Lexware Office** Lexware Office is a cloud app for german accounting.](https://apiant.ai/connections/lexware-office) - [ **Timely Time Tracking** Timely Time Tracking automates company time tracking, so everyone can focus on the work that matters.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timely-time-tracking) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Lexware Office - [ **Lexware Office to Base44** Base44 is a platform that allows non-technical people to build their own Apps using AI.](https://apiant.ai/connect/lexware-office-to-base44) - [ **Lexware Office to Browserless** Browserless allows you to run Chrome instances in the cloud for Data Extraction, Automation, PDF &...](https://apiant.ai/connect/lexware-office-to-browserless) - [ **Lexware Office to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/lexware-office-to-salesforce) - [ **Lexware Office to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of Lexware Office's 10 triggers in the catalog, including Contact updated (instant), Invoice status changed (instant), New article (instant) and New contact (instant). Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Timely Time Tracking when something happens in Lexware Office? Any of Timely Time Tracking's 19 actions, including Create Client, Create Person, Create Project and Create Task. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Timely Time Tracking to Lexware Office? Yes. When something happens in Timely Time Tracking, your agent can act in Lexware Office too. This page covers both directions: Timely Time Tracking's triggers and Lexware Office's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Lexware Office or Timely Time Tracking? 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 Lexware Office and Timely Time Tracking 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.