---
title: "Connect Manychat and Personio - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New or Updated Custom Field\" fires in Manychat, your agent runs \"Add project\" in Personio."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-personio"
---

# Connect Manychat and Personio

When **New or Updated Custom Field** fires in [Manychat](https://apiant.ai/connections/manychat), your agent runs **Add project** in [Personio](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio), or **Employee Updated** in Personio to **Find User by Name** in Manychat. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Manychat **1** trigger Manychat **12** actions Personio **7** triggers Personio **20** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Manychat and Personio 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 Manychat and Personio can do together

### From Manychat to Personio

- When **New or Updated Custom Field** in Manychat then **Add project** in Personio
- When **New or Updated Custom Field** in Manychat then **Create Absence** in Personio

### From Personio to Manychat

- When **Employee Updated** in Personio then **Find User by Name** in Manychat
- When **Employment Updated** in Personio then **Get page info** in Manychat

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 Manychat and Personio

## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 32 actions

- Trigger

**New or Updated Custom Field**

Triggers when a subscriber custom field is created on the Manychat page, or an existing one's name, type or description changes.

- Action

**Add custom field**

Creates a new subscriber custom field on your Manychat page, with the name, data type and description you choose.

- Action

**Add tag**

Creates a new tag on your Manychat page.

- Action

**Create Subscriber**

Creates a new Manychat subscriber (contact) from a name plus an email, phone or WhatsApp number, and returns the created subscriber.

- Action

**Delete tag**

Deletes a tag from your Manychat page and removes it from every subscriber that has it. This cannot be undone.

- Action

**Find User by Name**

Returns up to 100 subscribers whose full name matches the name you specify.

- Action

**Get page info**

Returns details of the connected Manychat page: its id, name, category, avatar, username, about text, description, Pro status and timezone.

- Action

**List custom fields**

Returns every subscriber custom field defined on the Manychat page, with each field's id, name, type and description.

- Action

**List flows**

Returns all automations (flows) on the connected Manychat page, along with the folders they are organized in.

- Action

**List tags**

Returns every tag defined on your Manychat page, with each tag's id and name.

- Action

**Send flow**

Sends one of your Manychat automations (flows) to a subscriber.

- Action

**Set bot field**

Sets the value of a Manychat bot field (an account-wide field shared by all subscribers).

- Action

**Set Custom Field**

Sets the value of one custom user field on a Manychat subscriber.

- Trigger

**Employee Updated**

Triggers when an employee is updated.

- Trigger

**Employment Updated**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are updated

- Trigger

**New Absence**

Triggers when a new absence is created.

- Trigger

**New Candidate**

Fires when a new recruiting candidate is added in Personio.

- Trigger

**New Employee**

Triggers when a new employee is created.

- Trigger

**New Employment Created**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are created

- Trigger

**New Open Position**

Triggers when a new open position is created.

- Action

**Add project**

/v2/projects - create a project.

- Action

**Create Absence**

Creates a new absence.

- Action

**Create Attendance**

Creates a new attendance.

- Action

**Create Employee**

Creates a new employee.

- Action

**Delete absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - delete an absence period.

- Action

**Delete attendance**

/v2/attendance-periods/{id} - delete an attendance period.

- Action

**Delete person**

/v2/persons/{id} - delete a person.

- Action

**Find Absence**

Finds an absence by employee ID.

- Action

**Find Employee**

Finds a employee based on email.

- Action

**Find Person**

Finds a person by their Personio ID, name, last name and email, optionally including their absence information.

- Action

**Get Employment**

Retrieves one employment of a person by id: position, status, type, working hours, org units, cost centers, supervisor, office, legal entity, dates.

- Action

**List absence types**

/v2/absence-types - list absence types.

- Action

**List Compensations**

Lists compensations filtered by person.id and a start_date/end_date window; returns id, amount, interval, type, effective_from per record.

- Action

**List legal entities**

/v2/legal-entities - list legal entities.

- Action

**List org units**

/v2/org-units - list org units.

- Action

**List projects**

/v2/projects - list projects.

- Action

**Update absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - update an absence period.

- Action

**Update Attendance**

Updates an existing attendance.

- Action

**Update Employee**

Updates an existing employee.

- Action

**Update Employment**

updates an employment (position, department, office, weekly hours, status, etc.); requires personio:persons:write. Fires the employment.updated webhook.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Manychat** Manychat is an all-in-one Messenger Marketing platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/manychat)
- [ **Personio** Personio is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees.](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Manychat

- [ **Manychat to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-salesforce)
- [ **Manychat to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-slack)
- [ **Manychat to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-stripe)
- [ **Manychat to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-shopify)
- [ **Manychat to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-quickbooks-online)
- [ **Manychat to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/manychat-to-pipedrive)

## More into Personio

- [ **Elixmail to Personio** Elixmail is a French AI email and CRM suite. Trigger on new contacts and deals; send emails and create...](https://apiant.ai/connect/elixmail-to-personio)
- [ **HubSpot to Personio** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-personio)
- [ **Google Sheets to Personio** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-personio)
- [ **Gmail to Personio** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-personio)
- [ **Google Calendar to Personio** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-personio)
- [ **Google Drive to Personio** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-personio)

Questions

## Manychat and Personio, answered

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### What can start an automation from Manychat?

Any of Manychat's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New or Updated Custom Field. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Personio when something happens in Manychat?

Any of Personio's 20 actions, including Create Absence, Create Attendance, Create Employee and Update absence. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Personio to Manychat?

Yes. When something happens in Personio, your agent can act in Manychat too. This page covers both directions: Personio's triggers and Manychat's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for Manychat or Personio?

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 Manychat and Personio 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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
