--- title: "Connect Motion and Zoho Books - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Comment\" fires in Motion, your agent runs \"Add customer payment\" in Zoho Books, or \"New bill\" in Zoho Books to \"Create Recurring Task\" in Motion." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-zoho-books" --- # Connect Motion and Zoho Books When **New Comment** fires in [Motion](https://apiant.ai/connections/motion), your agent runs **Add customer payment** in [Zoho Books](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books), or **New bill** in Zoho Books to **Create Recurring Task** in Motion. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Motion **4** triggers Motion **17** actions Zoho Books **6** triggers Zoho Books **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 Motion and Zoho Books to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Motion and Zoho Books can do together ### From Motion to Zoho Books - When **New Comment** in Motion then **Add customer payment** in Zoho Books - When **New or Updated Task** in Motion then **Create Customer** in Zoho Books ### From Zoho Books to Motion - When **New bill** in Zoho Books then **Create Recurring Task** in Motion - When **New Customer** in Zoho Books then **Create Task** in Motion 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 Motion and Zoho Books ## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 35 actions - Trigger **New Comment** Triggered when a new comment is added to the selected task. - Trigger **New or Updated Task** Triggers when a task is created or updated in Motion. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created in a Motion workspace. - Trigger **New Task** Triggered when a new task is created in Motion. Can be limited to a workspace, project, assignee, label, name or status. - Action **Create Comment** Creates a new comment on a Motion task and returns the created comment. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in a Motion workspace, optionally from a project template, and returns the created project. - Action **Create Recurring Task** Creates a recurring task in a Motion workspace, assigned to a person and repeating on the frequency you choose. Returns the new recurring task. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task in a Motion workspace, optionally with a due date, assignee, project, labels and auto-scheduling. Returns the new task. - Action **Delete Recurring Task** Deletes a recurring task in Motion by its ID. - Action **Delete Task** Deletes a Motion task by its ID. - Action **Find Task** Returns the tasks whose name contains the specified text, optionally narrowed by workspace, project, assignee, label or status. - Action **Get Project** Returns a single Motion project by its ID, including its status, timestamps and custom field values. An error occurs if the project is not found. - Action **Get Task** Returns a Motion task by its ID, including its schedule, assignees, project, workspace and custom field values. An error occurs if the task is not found. - Action **List Comments** Returns all comments on a Motion task, including each comment's content, creation time and creator. - Action **List Projects** Returns all projects in a Motion workspace, including each project's status and custom field values. - Action **List Recurring Tasks** Returns all recurring tasks in a Motion workspace, including each task's assignee, project, status, priority and labels. - Action **List Tasks** Returns the tasks in Motion, across every page of results, optionally narrowed by workspace, project, assignee, label, name or status. - Action **Move Task** Moves a task to a different workspace, optionally assigning it to a user there, and returns the updated task. - Action **Set Project Custom Field Value** Sets the value of an existing custom field on a project and returns the value that was saved. - Action **Unassign Task** Removes the assignee from a Motion task, leaving the task unassigned. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing Motion task by ID and returns the updated task, including its title, schedule, status, priority, labels and assignee. - Trigger **New bill** Triggered when a new bill is created - Trigger **New Customer** Triggers when a new customer is created. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a new estimate is created. - Trigger **New Expense** Triggers when an expense is created. - Trigger **New Item** Triggers when a new item is created. - Trigger **New Sales Invoice** Triggers when a new sales invoice is created. - Action **Add bill** Creates a bill received from a vendor in Zoho Books. - Action **Add customer payment** Record a customer payment. - Action **Add expense** Create an expense. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer contact in a Zoho Books organization. - Action **Create Estimate** Creates a new estimate. - Action **Create Item** Creates a new item. - Action **Create Sales Invoice** Creates a new sales invoice. - Action **Find customers by criteria** Returns the customers in a Zoho Books organization that match the specified criteria (name, company, contact person, address, email, phone, status or free text). - Action **Find Invoice** Returns up to 200 invoices that match the specified criteria, such as invoice number, customer, status or date range. - Action **Get Bill** Returns one vendor bill from Zoho Books, including its number, vendor, status and total. - Action **Get customer** Get a contact by id. - Action **Get Estimate** Returns one estimate (quote) from Zoho Books, including its number, customer, status and total. - Action **Get Expense** Returns one expense recorded in Zoho Books, including its amount, date and accounts. - Action **Get Item** Returns one item from your Zoho Books item list, including its name, rate and description. - Action **Get sales invoice** Retrieves the details of an existing invoice in Zoho Books. - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer in Zoho Books. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update item** Update an item. - Action **Update sales invoice** Updates an existing sales invoice in Zoho Books. The line items you send replace the invoice's line items. ## Each app on its own - [ **Motion** Motion uses artificial intelligence to optimize your and your team’s day.](https://apiant.ai/connections/motion) - [ **Zoho Books** Zoho Books is cloud-based accounting software in which you can record, audit and analyze all financial...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Motion - [ **Motion to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-salesforce) - [ **Motion to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-slack) - [ **Motion to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-stripe) - [ **Motion to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-shopify) - [ **Motion to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Motion to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/motion-to-pipedrive) ## More into Zoho Books - [ **HubSpot to Zoho Books** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-zoho-books) - [ **Salesforce to Zoho Books** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-zoho-books) - [ **Slack to Zoho Books** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-zoho-books) - [ **Google Sheets to Zoho Books** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-zoho-books) - [ **Gmail to Zoho Books** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-zoho-books) - [ **Google Calendar to Zoho Books** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-zoho-books) Questions ## Motion and Zoho Books, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Motion? Any of Motion's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Comment, New or Updated Task, New Project and New Task. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Zoho Books when something happens in Motion? Any of Zoho Books's 18 actions, including Create Customer, Create Estimate, Create Item and Create Sales Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Books to Motion? Yes. When something happens in Zoho Books, your agent can act in Motion too. This page covers both directions: Zoho Books's triggers and Motion's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Motion or Zoho Books? 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 Motion and Zoho Books 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.