--- title: "Connect PaintScout to HitPay - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Add customer\" in HitPay." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-hitpay" --- # Connect PaintScout to HitPay When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Add customer** in [HitPay](https://apiant.ai/connections/hitpay). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **25** actions HitPay **21** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want PaintScout and HitPay 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 PaintScout can start in HitPay - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Add customer** in HitPay - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Add order** in HitPay 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 PaintScout and HitPay ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 46 actions - Trigger **Contact Created** Triggers when a new contact is created in PaintScout. - Trigger **Invoice Sent** Triggers when an invoice is sent to a customer, including when an invoice is re-sent. - Trigger **Invoice Status Changed** Triggers when an invoice's status changes, delivering the invoice with its new status. - Trigger **Quote Status Changed** Triggers when a quote's status changes, for example when it is sent, accepted or declined. - Trigger **Quote Tag Added** Triggers when a tag is added to a quote, optionally only for one specific tag. - Action **Add company** Creates a new company in PaintScout with its name, contact details, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Add deal** Creates a new deal in PaintScout, with its contact, job address, pipeline stage and value. - Action **Add event** Creates a scheduled event (such as a consultation or production job) on a PaintScout deal. - Action **Add invoice item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout invoice, with its name, price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add note** Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note. - Action **Add quote item** Adds a line item to an existing PaintScout quote, with its price, hours, quantity, notes, files and materials. - Action **Add task** Creates a task in PaintScout, optionally linked to a deal and assigned to a user. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact in PaintScout with names, email, phone numbers, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. - Action **Create Invoice** Creates a new invoice in PaintScout, optionally with its contact, job address, line items, discount and tax, and returns the created invoice. - Action **Create Quote** Creates a new quote in PaintScout for a contact, with its job address, notes, pricing adjustments and tags. - Action **Find companies** Returns the companies that match a search filter, such as a name, email or city. - Action **Find Contact** Returns up to 100 contacts that match the search you specify, such as an email address, name or company. - Action **Find deals** Returns the deals that match a search filter, such as a deal name, pipeline, stage or lead source. - Action **Find Invoice** Returns the invoices that match a search, such as a status, invoice number, contact name or date range. - Action **Find Quote** Returns the quotes that match a search filter, such as a quote number, status or contact name. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single PaintScout contact by its ID, including name, company, email, phone, address, lead source, owner and tags. - Action **Get deal** Returns a single PaintScout deal by its ID, including its contact, job address, pipeline stage, value, tags, linked quotes and invoices, and job costing. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a single PaintScout invoice with its contact, line items, payments, taxes, discounts and totals. Can optionally return the work-order view, which includes per-item material costs. - Action **Get quote** Returns a single PaintScout quote by its ID, including contact, job address, totals, tax, discount, payments, tags and customer-view links. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing PaintScout company's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner or tags. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing PaintScout contact's name, contact details, address, lead source, owner, note and tags. Fields left blank keep their current values. - Action **Update deal** Updates an existing deal in PaintScout — its name, contact, job address, pipeline and stage, lead source, owner, tags and job costing. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update invoice** Updates an existing PaintScout invoice — its status, contact, line items, notes, terms, discount, tax and other details. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update Quote** Updates an existing PaintScout quote, such as its status, contact, job address, notes, discount or tags, and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update task** Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status. - Action **Add customer** Creates a customer in your HitPay account with their contact details and optional address. - Action **Add order** Creates a new draft order in HitPay. - Action **Add subscription plan** Creates a subscription plan with a name, amount and billing frequency that customers can be signed up to for recurring billing. - Action **Create Payment Request** Creates a HitPay payment request and returns its checkout link for the buyer to pay. - Action **Delete customer** Deletes a customer from your HitPay account. - Action **Delete invoice** Deletes an invoice from your HitPay business account. - Action **Delete Payment Request** Deletes a payment request. Completed payment requests cannot be deleted. - Action **Delete product** Deletes a product from your HitPay product catalog. - Action **Get balances** Returns your HitPay account balances for each currency, including available, pending and reserve amounts. - Action **Get charge** Returns the details of a single HitPay charge, including amount, fees, status, payment method, customer and refunds. - Action **Get customer** Returns the details of a HitPay customer, including contact information and address. - Action **Get order** Returns the full details of a HitPay order, including its line items, charges, customer and totals. - Action **Get Payment Request Details** Returns a payment request's details and status, including its amount, customer, checkout URL and any payments made against it. - Action **Get product** Returns the details of a product, including its price, variations and images. - Action **List charges** Returns the charges (payments) on your HitPay account, optionally filtered by status, date, amount, customer, payment request or payout. - Action **List customers** Returns all customers saved in your HitPay account. - Action **List invoices** Returns the invoices in your HitPay account, optionally filtered by customer email, status or reference. - Action **List payouts** Returns payouts of your HitPay balance to your linked bank account, newest first, optionally filtered by status and creation date. - Action **List products** Returns the products in your HitPay account, optionally filtered by status, category, source, inventory, location, channel or keyword. - Action **Refund Payment** Refunds all or part of a successful payment, returning the refund record. - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer's details, such as name, email, phone and address. ## Each app on its own - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) - [ **HitPay** HitPay is a one-stop payments and commerce platform for SMEs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/hitpay) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PaintScout - [ **PaintScout to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-salesforce) - [ **PaintScout to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in HitPay when something happens in PaintScout? Any of HitPay's 21 actions, including Create Payment Request, Update customer, Add customer and Add order. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from HitPay to PaintScout? HitPay has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in PaintScout. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads HitPay's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or HitPay? 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 PaintScout and HitPay 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.