--- title: "Connect Moneybird to OpenVan - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Moneybird, your agent runs \"Get event\" in OpenVan." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-openvan" --- # Connect Moneybird to OpenVan When **New Contact** fires in [Moneybird](https://apiant.ai/connections/moneybird), your agent runs **Get event** in [OpenVan](https://apiant.ai/connections/openvan). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Moneybird **3** triggers Moneybird **26** actions OpenVan **18** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Moneybird and OpenVan 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 Moneybird can start in OpenVan - When **New Contact** in Moneybird then **Get event** in OpenVan - When **New Quote** in Moneybird then **Calculate route cost** in OpenVan 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 Moneybird and OpenVan ## Triggers and actions 3 triggers · 44 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created. - Trigger **New Quote** Triggers when a new quote is created. - Trigger **New Sales Invoice** Triggers when a new sales invoice is created. - Action **Add Attachment to New Document** Creates a new document in the Moneybird inbox and attaches a file to it, ready to be classified as a purchase invoice or receipt. - Action **Add external sales invoice** Imports an invoice created in another system (webshop, marketplace, POS) into Moneybird as an external sales invoice. - Action **Add payment to sales invoice** Registers a payment against an existing Moneybird sales invoice. - Action **Add product** /api/v2/{administration_id}/products.json - create a product. - Action **Add project** /api/v2/{administration_id}/projects.json - create a project. - Action **Add time entry** Records a time entry (time spent by a user, optionally on a project and for a contact) in a Moneybird administration. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact (customer, supplier or other business relation) in a Moneybird administration, including any contact custom fields. - Action **Create Document** Creates a new typeless document (a document whose type is not yet known, such as an uploaded receipt or bill) in a Moneybird administration. - Action **Create Quote** Create a new quote - Action **Create Sales Invoice** Create a new sales invoice - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact from a Moneybird administration. - Action **Find Contact** Returns the Moneybird contacts that match a free-text search (name, contact people, email, phone, customer id, tax number, chamber of commerce number, IBAN or address), optionally narrowed by filters. - Action **Find ledger accounts** Returns the ledger accounts in a Moneybird administration whose name or account code contains the search text, optionally limited to one account type. - Action **Find products by criteria** Returns the products in a Moneybird administration that match the search text and optional filters. - Action **Find sales invoices by criteria** Returns up to 100 sales invoices that match the specified state, period, reference, contact, recurring invoice, workflow or created/updated time. - Action **Find Tax Rate** Returns up to 100 tax rates in a Moneybird administration that match the specified name, partial name, percentage or other criteria. - Action **Get contact** Returns all information about a Moneybird contact, including its contact people, notes, custom field values and event history. - Action **Get external sales invoice** Returns one external sales invoice in a Moneybird administration, including its reference, contact, lines and totals. - Action **Get project** Returns one project in a Moneybird administration, including its name, state and budget. - Action **Get Quote** Returns one quote (estimate) in a Moneybird administration, including its reference, contact, texts, lines and totals. - Action **Get sales invoice** Fetches a sales invoice by ID. An error occurs if the sales invoice is not found. - Action **Get time entry** Returns one time entry in a Moneybird administration, including its description, times, project and contact. - Action **Get typeless document** Returns one typeless document in a Moneybird administration, including its reference, contact and attachments. - Action **Send Sales Invoice** Send a sales invoice - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing Moneybird contact. Only the fields you fill in are changed; blank fields keep their current value. - Action **Update sales invoice** /api/v2/{administration_id}/sales_invoices/{id}.json - update a sales invoice. - Action **Calculate route cost** Estimate the fuel and travel cost of a road-trip route between locations. - Action **Check visa requirement** Check whether a passport needs a visa for a given destination country. - Action **Compare food prices** Compare VanBasket food-price index values between two countries. - Action **Find news stories** Semantically search vanlife news stories by topic (RAG-based search). - Action **Get event** Get details for a single vanlife event. - Action **Get fuel prices** Get current fuel prices by country, for trip budgeting and route comparison. - Action **Get story** Get the full details of a single vanlife news story. - Action **Get temporary vehicle import rules** Get temporary vehicle-import rules for a country. - Action **Get VanBasket country** Get the VanBasket food-price index detail for a single country. - Action **Get VanSky weather for a country** Get the vanlife-oriented weather suitability score for a single country. - Action **Get visa rules changelog** Get the change log of visa and vehicle-import rule updates. - Action **Get visa rules for route** Get visa and vehicle-import rules for every country along a whole road-trip route in one request. - Action **List event articles** List news articles related to a vanlife event. - Action **List events** List vanlife-oriented events. - Action **List stories** List vanlife news stories. - Action **List VanBasket countries** List all countries covered by the VanBasket food-price index. - Action **List VanSky weather scores** List vanlife-oriented weather suitability scores for all countries. - Action **List visa-free destinations for a passport** List all destinations a given passport can enter without a prior visa. ## Each app on its own - [ **Moneybird** Moneybird provides cloud accounting for SME's in Holland.](https://apiant.ai/connections/moneybird) - [ **OpenVan** OpenVan publishes travel-cost and conditions data aimed at RV, campervan and road-trip planning.](https://apiant.ai/connections/openvan) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Moneybird - [ **Moneybird to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-salesforce) - [ **Moneybird to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-slack) - [ **Moneybird to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-stripe) - [ **Moneybird to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-shopify) - [ **Moneybird to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Moneybird to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/moneybird-to-pipedrive) ## More into OpenVan - [ **Pipedrive to OpenVan** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipedrive-to-openvan) - [ **HubSpot to OpenVan** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-openvan) - [ **Salesforce to OpenVan** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-openvan) - [ **Slack to OpenVan** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-openvan) - [ **Google Sheets to OpenVan** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-openvan) - [ **Gmail to OpenVan** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-openvan) Questions ## Moneybird and OpenVan, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Moneybird? Any of Moneybird's 3 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New Quote and New Sales Invoice. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in OpenVan when something happens in Moneybird? Any of OpenVan's 18 actions, including Calculate route cost, Check visa requirement, Compare food prices and Find news stories. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from OpenVan to Moneybird? OpenVan has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Moneybird. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads OpenVan's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Moneybird or OpenVan? 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 Moneybird and OpenVan 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.