--- title: "Connect Ontraport and Paystack - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Ontraport, your agent runs \"Send Simple Invoice\" in Paystack." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-paystack" --- # Connect Ontraport and Paystack When **New Contact** fires in [Ontraport](https://apiant.ai/connections/ontraport), your agent runs **Send Simple Invoice** in [Paystack](https://apiant.ai/connections/paystack), or **New Chargeback** in Paystack to **Create or Update Contact** in Ontraport. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Ontraport **5** triggers Ontraport **14** actions Paystack **11** triggers Paystack **17** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Ontraport and Paystack 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 Ontraport and Paystack can do together ### From Ontraport to Paystack - When **New Contact** in Ontraport then **Send Simple Invoice** in Paystack - When **New or Updated Contact** in Ontraport then **Add Product** in Paystack ### From Paystack to Ontraport - When **New Chargeback** in Paystack then **Create or Update Contact** in Ontraport - When **New Invoice** in Paystack then **Create Task** in Ontraport 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 Ontraport and Paystack ## Triggers and actions 16 triggers · 31 actions - Trigger **New Contact** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created contact, newest first (sorted by creation date). - Trigger **New or Updated Contact** Polling trigger: fires when a contact is created or modified, sorted by date last modified. - Trigger **New Task** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created task (objectID 1), newest first. - Trigger **New Transaction** Polling trigger: fires for each newly created transaction (objectID 46), newest first. - Trigger **Two-way sync new or updated contact** A trigger for two-way syncing new and updated contacts, with enhanced on-the-fly mapping. Polls Ontraport Contacts sorted by date-last-modified descending; fires for each new or updated contact. - Action **Create Object** Create a record of any Ontraport object type. Provide objectID and a JSON of fields. Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the field unset. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Create a new contact, or merge into an existing one matched by email (Ontraport saveorupdate). Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the prior value in place. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Action **Create Task** Create a Task object (objectID 1) in Ontraport. - Action **Delete Contact** Delete a contact by its Ontraport ID. - Action **Delete Object** Delete a record of any object type by objectID and id. - Action **Find Contact by Email** Find a contact by exact email match. Returns the first matching record. - Action **Find contact by field (Go only has Find Contact by Email — covers email lookup only, not arbitrary field)** Returns the details for a contact if the specified field matches the specified value. Throws an error if zero or multiple match. - Action **Get Contact** Retrieve a single contact by its Ontraport ID. - Action **Get Object** Retrieve a single record of any object type by objectID and id. - Action **List Contacts** List contacts with optional search, range, and sort. - Action **List Objects** List records of any object type with optional search and range. - Action **Remove Tag from Contact** Remove a tag from one or more contacts. - Action **Tag Contact** Add a tag to one or more contacts. - Action **Update Object** Update a record of any Ontraport object type by ID. Note: Ontraport DROP (dropdown) custom fields fail OPEN — sending a value that is not one of the field's defined options returns HTTP 200 and silently discards it, leaving the prior value in place. Verify a dropdown value landed by reading the record back. - Trigger **Abandoned Transaction** Triggers when a customer starts a payment but does not complete it, leaving an abandoned transaction. - Trigger **Cancelled Subscription** Triggers when a subscription is cancelled. - Trigger **New Chargeback** Triggers when a customer files a new chargeback (transaction dispute) on your Paystack account. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggered when a new invoice (payment request) is created in Paystack. - Trigger **New Order** Triggered when a new order is created on your Paystack storefronts or products. - Trigger **New Payment Page Transaction** Triggers when a customer pays through one of your Paystack payment pages. Returns the transaction with its amount, customer, and the page it came from. - Trigger **New Refund** Triggered when a new refund is created in your Paystack account. - Trigger **New Subscription** Triggers when a new subscription is created on your Paystack integration. - Trigger **New Transaction** Triggers when a new transaction is created on your Paystack integration, optionally limited by status, channel, customer and more. - Trigger **New Transfer** Triggered when a new transfer is created on your Paystack business. - Trigger **Subsciption Renewal** Triggers when a subscription renews, meaning a further payment has been made after its first one. - Action **Add Product** Creates a new product on your Paystack integration and returns the created product. - Action **Cancel Subscription** Cancels an active Paystack subscription so the customer is no longer charged on renewal. - Action **Check Terminal Status** Returns whether a Paystack Terminal is online and available to receive an event, so you can check it before sending one. - Action **Create Refund** Creates a refund for a previously completed Paystack transaction, in full or for part of its amount. Returns the new refund and its status. - Action **Create Subscription** Creates a subscription that puts a customer on one of your plans, and returns the new subscription's id, code and email token. - Action **Create Virtual Terminal** Creates a Virtual Terminal on your Paystack integration, with the WhatsApp numbers that should receive its payment notifications. - Action **Find Customer** Returns the Paystack customer matching an email address or customer code, including their transactions, subscriptions and saved authorizations. - Action **Find Order** Returns the details of a Paystack order, including its customer, items and payment status, for the order ID you supply. - Action **Find Transaction** Returns the transaction that matches a transaction reference, including its status, amount, customer and payment authorization. - Action **Find Transfer** Returns the transfer that matches the specified transfer reference, including its status, amount and recipient. - Action **Get Customer Totals** Returns how many transactions a Paystack customer has made and the total value of those transactions, along with the customer's full record. - Action **Initialize Transaction** Creates a new pending Paystack transaction and returns the checkout link to send your customer to, along with its access code and reference. - Action **Initiate a Direct Debit Request** Starts linking a bank account to a customer for Direct Debit and returns the link the customer opens to authorize the mandate. - Action **Remove Phone Number From Virtual Terminal** Removes one or more WhatsApp phone numbers from a Paystack Virtual Terminal, so they stop receiving its payment notifications. - Action **Resolve Account Number** Returns the account name registered to a bank account number, so you can confirm who an account belongs to before paying it. - Action **Send Simple Invoice** Creates a payment request that issues an invoice to a customer and, by default, emails it to them. Returns the new invoice, including its request code. - Action **Share Link for Updating Subscription Card** Returns a link you can share with a customer so they can update the card on their subscription. ## Each app on its own - [ **Ontraport** Ontraport is an all-in-one CRM, marketing automation, and e-commerce platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ontraport) - [ **Paystack** Paystack helps African merchants accept one-time and recurring payments online with a modern, safe, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/paystack) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Ontraport - [ **Ontraport to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-salesforce) - [ **Ontraport to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-slack) - [ **Ontraport to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-stripe) - [ **Ontraport to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-shopify) - [ **Ontraport to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Ontraport to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ontraport-to-pipedrive) ## More into Paystack - [ **HubSpot to Paystack** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-paystack) - [ **Google Sheets to Paystack** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-paystack) - [ **Gmail to Paystack** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-paystack) - [ **Google Calendar to Paystack** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-paystack) - [ **Google Drive to Paystack** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-paystack) - [ **Mailchimp to Paystack** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-paystack) Questions ## Ontraport and Paystack, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Ontraport? Any of Ontraport's 5 triggers in the catalog, including New Contact, New or Updated Contact, New Task and New Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Paystack when something happens in Ontraport? Any of Paystack's 17 actions, including Create Refund, Create Subscription, Create Virtual Terminal and Send Simple Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Paystack to Ontraport? Yes. When something happens in Paystack, your agent can act in Ontraport too. This page covers both directions: Paystack's triggers and Ontraport's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Ontraport or Paystack? 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 Ontraport and Paystack 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.