--- title: "Connect Openlayer and Zoho Billing - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Project\" fires in Openlayer, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in Zoho Billing." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-zoho-billing" --- # Connect Openlayer and Zoho Billing When **New Project** fires in [Openlayer](https://apiant.ai/connections/openlayer), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [Zoho Billing](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-billing), or **New Credit Note** in Zoho Billing to **Publish Record** in Openlayer. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Openlayer **2** triggers Openlayer **22** actions Zoho Billing **15** triggers Zoho Billing **30** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Openlayer and Zoho Billing 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 Openlayer and Zoho Billing can do together ### From Openlayer to Zoho Billing - When **New Project** in Openlayer then **Create Customer** in Zoho Billing - When **New Test Result** in Openlayer then **Create New Invoice** in Zoho Billing ### From Zoho Billing to Openlayer - When **New Credit Note** in Zoho Billing then **Publish Record** in Openlayer - When **New Customer** in Zoho Billing then **Create Project** in Openlayer 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 Openlayer and Zoho Billing ## Triggers and actions 17 triggers · 52 actions - Trigger **New Project** Triggers when a new project is created in your Openlayer workspace. - Trigger **New Test Result** Triggers when a new test result is available for a data source. Useful for alerting on passing or failing model tests. - Action **Create Data Source** Creates a new data source in a project for streaming production data to Openlayer. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new AI or ML project in your Openlayer workspace. - Action **Create Test** Creates a data quality test in a project. Checks for duplicate rows, null values, or row counts. - Action **Delete Inference Pipeline** Delete an inference pipeline by its ID. - Action **Delete Project** Delete a project by its ID. - Action **Delete Test** Delete a test by its ID. - Action **Evaluate Test** Evaluates a test for a specific time range. Use after publishing records to get immediate results. - Action **Find Data Source** Finds a data source (inference pipeline) by name in a project. - Action **Find Project** Finds a project by name in your Openlayer workspace. - Action **Find Test Result** Finds test results for a data source, including whether each test passed or failed. Filter by outcome or test type to branch an automation on the result. - Action **Get Inference Pipeline** Retrieve the details around a specific inference pipeline. - Action **Get Project** Retrieves one project by its id. Openlayer has no single-project endpoint, so this reads the workspace's first 100 projects and returns the one matching the id. - Action **Get Test** Retrieve a test by ID. - Action **Get Test Result** Retrieves one test result by its id. Openlayer has no single-result endpoint, so this reads the data source's 100 most recent results and returns the matching one. - Action **List Inference Pipelines** List the authenticated user's inference pipelines under a project. - Action **List Projects** Lists the projects in your Openlayer workspace, optionally narrowed to one kind of project. Returns up to 100 projects. - Action **List Test Results** List all results for a test/goal under an inference pipeline. - Action **List Tests** Lists the tests in a project, optionally narrowed by kind, archived state or monitoring mode. Returns up to 100 tests. - Action **Publish Record** Publishes an LLM inference record to a data source for monitoring. Streams the model input, output, and metadata to Openlayer. - Action **Update Inference Pipeline** Update an inference pipeline. - Action **Update Project** Update a project. - Action **Update Test** Update a test (partial updates allowed). - Trigger **Cancel Subscription** Triggered when a subscription is cancelled - Trigger **Invoice Paid** Fires once for each invoice that reaches Paid status in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggered when a new credit note is created - Trigger **New Customer** Triggered when a new customer is created - Trigger **New Invoice** Fires once for each new invoice created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Item** Fires when a new item is added in Zoho Billing. - Trigger **New Quote** Fires once for each new quote created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **New Subscription** Fires once for each new subscription created in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **Payment Failure** Fires when an online payment attempt fails in Zoho Billing (for example a declined card charge). - Trigger **Payment Success** Fires when a new successful customer payment is recorded in Zoho Billing. - Trigger **Subscription About to Renew** Fires once per billing term for each live subscription that is scheduled to renew, carrying the date of its upcoming renewal. - Trigger **Subscription Activation** Fires when a subscription is activated (becomes live) in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Trigger **Updated Customer** Triggered when a customer is created or updated. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggered when an invoice is created or updated. - Trigger **Void Invoice** Fires once for each invoice that is voided in the selected Zoho Billing organization. - Action **Add Charge** Charge a one-time amount against a Zoho Billing subscription. Creates an invoice for the charge, or adds it to the subscription's unbilled charges. - Action **Associate Coupon** Applies a coupon to an existing subscription in Zoho Billing. - Action **Cancel Invoice WriteOff** Cancels the write-off on an invoice in Zoho Billing, restoring its unpaid balance. - Action **Cancel Subcription** Cancels a Zoho Billing subscription, either immediately or at the end of the current term. - Action **Create a New Quote** Create a New Quote for a Customer - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a credit note for a customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer. - Action **Create New Invoice** Creates an invoice for a customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Create New Item** Create New Item for One time Invoices - Action **Create Subscription** Creates a new subscription in Zoho Billing, either for an existing customer or for a new customer created in the same call. - Action **Disassociate Coupon** Removes the coupon currently applied to a Zoho Billing subscription. - Action **Email an Invoice** Emails an existing invoice to the recipients you specify, with your own subject and message. - Action **Fetch Customer** Retrieve the details of an existing customer in Zoho Billing. - Action **Fetch Invoice** Retrieve the details of a single invoice by its id. - Action **Fetch Subscription** Retrieve the details of a subscription by its id. - Action **Find Customer** Finds Zoho Billing customers whose email address matches the one supplied, returning the first match and the full list of matches. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices whose invoice number matches the one you supply. - Action **Find Subscription** Finds subscriptions by subscription number, customer, or reference, optionally narrowed by status. - Action **Get Item** Retrieves one item by item_id, returning its name, rate, product type, status and custom fields. - Action **Get Payment** Retrieve a payment by id; returns the payment including amount, mode and applied invoices. - Action **Invoice WriteOff** Writes off the unpaid balance of a Zoho Billing invoice. - Action **Mark Invoice as Sent** Marks a draft invoice as sent by changing its status to open, without emailing it to the customer. - Action **Postpone Renewal** Postpones a subscription's next renewal (billing) date to a later date. No prorated charges are applied. - Action **Reactivate Subscription** Reactivates a non-renewing Zoho Billing subscription so it keeps renewing for the given number of billing cycles. - Action **Record Payment** Records a payment received from a customer in Zoho Billing, optionally applying it to one or more invoices. - Action **Update Customer** Update an existing customer. - Action **Update Customer Status** Marks a Zoho Billing customer as active or inactive. - Action **Update Invoice** Update an existing invoice - Action **Update Subscription** Updates the existing subscription - Action **Void Invoice** Marks an invoice as void in Zoho Billing. ## Each app on its own - [ **Openlayer** Openlayer is a platform for monitoring, evaluating, and testing AI and ML models in production.](https://apiant.ai/connections/openlayer) - [ **Zoho Billing** Zoho Billing is a recurring billing and subscription management app that helps manage the entire life cycle...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-billing) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Openlayer - [ **Openlayer to Astroworld** Astroworld serves reference data about the game Minecraft.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-astroworld) - [ **Openlayer to Byabbe** Seach histories from wikipedia for a particular day](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-byabbe) - [ **Openlayer to Cliniko** Cliniko is a practice management platform — manage patients, appointments, invoices, contacts, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-cliniko) - [ **Openlayer to Enrich CRM** Enrich CRM helps you perform real-time contact and company enrichment.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-enrich-crm) - [ **Openlayer to Evervault** Evervault provides secure encryption infrastructure for developers.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-evervault) - [ **Openlayer to Postman** Postman is a platform for building and testing APIs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/openlayer-to-postman) ## More into Zoho Billing - [ **HubSpot to Zoho Billing** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Salesforce to Zoho Billing** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Slack to Zoho Billing** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Google Sheets to Zoho Billing** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Gmail to Zoho Billing** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-zoho-billing) - [ **Google Calendar to Zoho Billing** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-zoho-billing) Questions ## Openlayer and Zoho Billing, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Openlayer? Any of Openlayer's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Project and New Test Result. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Zoho Billing when something happens in Openlayer? Any of Zoho Billing's 30 actions, including Create a New Quote, Create Credit Note, Create Customer and Create New Invoice. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Zoho Billing to Openlayer? Yes. When something happens in Zoho Billing, your agent can act in Openlayer too. This page covers both directions: Zoho Billing's triggers and Openlayer's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Openlayer or Zoho Billing? 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 Openlayer and Zoho Billing 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.