--- title: "Connect My Music Staff to TaxBandits - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Email\" fires in My Music Staff, your agent runs \"Request W-9/W-8 by Email\" in TaxBandits." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-taxbandits" --- # Connect My Music Staff to TaxBandits When **New Email** fires in [My Music Staff](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff), your agent runs **Request W-9/W-8 by Email** in [TaxBandits](https://apiant.ai/connections/taxbandits). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. My Music Staff **8** triggers My Music Staff **13** actions TaxBandits **8** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want My Music Staff and TaxBandits 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What My Music Staff can start in TaxBandits - When **New Email** in My Music Staff then **Request W-9/W-8 by Email** in TaxBandits - When **New Invoice** in My Music Staff then **Create Business** in TaxBandits 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 My Music Staff and TaxBandits ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 21 actions - Trigger **Attendance Taken** Triggers when attendance is taken or edited for a calendar event. - Trigger **New Email** Triggers when a new email message is created. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created (manually or by auto-invoicing). - Trigger **New SMS** Triggers when a new SMS message is created. - Trigger **New Student** Triggers when a new student is added to your My Music Staff account. - Trigger **Payment Added** Triggers when a payment is recorded in a Family Account. - Trigger **Student Added to Event** Triggers when a student is added to an event on the calendar. - Trigger **Student Updated** Triggers when a student's profile information is updated. - Action **Add Calendar Event** /calendar/event (body CalendarEventInputItem) — creates a calendar event with its student attendees, which creates Attendance records for each student. - Action **Add Payment** Records a payment in the Family Account - Action **Add Student** Adds a new student to your My Music Staff account. - Action **Find All Parents** Finds all parents based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Attendance Records** Searches attendance records by date range, student, teacher, event, or status. Returns matching records with a total count. - Action **Find Event** Finds an event based on Event ID. - Action **Find Parent** Finds first Parent based on Family ID or on search text. - Action **Find Student** Finds students based on Student ID or on search text. - Action **List Lesson Notes** Returns a student's past lessons, newest first, with the attendance status and the lesson notes written for the student, the parent and the teacher. - Action **List Student Repertoire** Returns the pieces assigned to a student with each piece's progress status (Recommended, Requested, In Progress or Completed) and the dates it was started and completed. - Action **Search Repertoire** Searches your studio's repertoire library by title or composer, instrument and genre, and returns the matching pieces. - Action **Search Students** Searches your students by name, email, family or status and returns the matching students with their family details. - Action **Update Student** Updates a student's details, such as, status (Active, Trial, Lead, Waiting, Inactive), name, email, phone, birthday, etc. - Action **Create Business** Creates a new business (payer or employer) in TaxBandits and returns its BusinessId for use in W-9/W-8 requests and filings. - Action **Get Business** Returns the full details of one TaxBandits business (payer), identified by its Business ID, TIN or your Payer Reference. - Action **Get W-9/W-8 status** Returns the status of every W-9 and W-8 request sent to a recipient, including completed and in-progress forms and any TIN Matching result. - Action **List businesses** Returns the businesses (payers) created in your TaxBandits account within a date range. - Action **Request W-9/W-8 by Email** Emails a recipient a secure link to complete and e-sign their W-9 or W-8 form for one of your businesses. - Action **Request W-9/W-8 by text** Sends a text message to a recipient with a secure link to complete their W-9 or W-8 form, and returns the submission's status. - Action **Request W-9/W-8 by URL** Generates a unique secure URL where a recipient can complete their W-9 or W-8 form, which you can share or embed in your own app. - Action **Update Business** Updates the details of an existing business (payer) in TaxBandits, such as its name, tax ID, address or contact information. ## Each app on its own - [ **My Music Staff** My Music Staff is a tool for private music teachers and schools, managing scheduling, payments, attendance...](https://apiant.ai/connections/my-music-staff) - [ **TaxBandits** TaxBandits is a trusted IRS-authorized e-filing solution that simplifies 1099, W-2, 94x, W-9, TIN Matching...](https://apiant.ai/connections/taxbandits) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from My Music Staff - [ **My Music Staff to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-salesforce) - [ **My Music Staff to ElevenLabs** ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company.](https://apiant.ai/connect/my-music-staff-to-elevenlabs) - [ **My Music Staff to Pixabay** Pixabay is a free image and video library. 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Any of TaxBandits's 8 actions, including Create Business, Update Business, Get Business and Get W-9/W-8 status. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from TaxBandits to My Music Staff? TaxBandits has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in My Music Staff. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads TaxBandits's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for My Music Staff or TaxBandits? 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 My Music Staff and TaxBandits 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.