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title: "Connect PaintScout and shipcloud - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Add order\" in shipcloud, or \"New Shipment Status\" in shipcloud to \"Add deal\" in PaintScout."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-shipcloud"
---

# Connect PaintScout and shipcloud

When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Add order** in [shipcloud](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud), or **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud to **Add deal** in PaintScout. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

PaintScout **5** triggers PaintScout **19** actions shipcloud **1** trigger shipcloud **16** 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 shipcloud 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 and shipcloud can do together

### From PaintScout to shipcloud

- When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Add order** in shipcloud
- When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Add address** in shipcloud

### From shipcloud to PaintScout

- When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Add deal** in PaintScout
- When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Add task** in PaintScout

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 shipcloud

## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 35 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 note**

Adds a note to a PaintScout contact, deal or company and returns the new note.

- 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 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 task**

Updates an existing task in PaintScout, such as its title, owner, notes, start time or completion status.

- Trigger

**New Shipment Status**

Triggers when a shipcloud shipment changes status (label created, picked up, in transit, delivered, deleted and more).

- Action

**Add address**

Creates a new address in your shipcloud address book, ready to use as a shipment's sender or recipient.

- Action

**Add order**

Creates an order in shipcloud with its delivery address and line items, so shipments can later be associated with it.

- Action

**Add pickup request**

Requests a carrier pickup for your shipments, either all shipments not yet picked up or only the ones you list.

- Action

**Create Shipment**

Creates a shipment in shipcloud and, optionally, books the shipping label with the carrier.

- Action

**Create Shipment Quote**

Returns the price a carrier would charge for shipping a package between two addresses, without creating a shipment.

- Action

**Delete shipment**

Deletes a shipment. Prepared shipments can be deleted any time; shipments with a label only before the carrier's cutoff time.

- Action

**Find Shipment**

Finds shipments matching a reference number, tracking number, carrier, status or creation date range.

- Action

**Get address**

Returns a saved address from your shipcloud address book by its id.

- Action

**Get order**

Returns an order previously sent to shipcloud, including its delivery address and line items.

- Action

**Get pickup request**

Returns a pickup request, including its carrier, pickup time window, pickup address and included shipments.

- Action

**Get shipment**

Returns the details of a single shipment, including its carrier, tracking information, label and addresses.

- Action

**List addresses**

Returns the addresses saved in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by name, company, street, city, postal code, country or phone.

- Action

**List carriers**

Returns the carriers available to your shipcloud account, with their services, package types, additional services and label formats.

- Action

**List orders**

Returns the orders previously created in your shipcloud account, including delivery address and line items.

- Action

**List shipments**

Returns the shipments in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by carrier, tracking number, reference number, service, type, source, tracking status or creation time.

- Action

**Update shipment**

Updates an existing shipment, such as its addresses, package, carrier or service, and can create its shipping label.

## Each app on its own

- [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout)
- [ **shipcloud** Shipcloud is a shipping service provider for creating shipping labels as well as tracking shipments.](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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- [ **PaintScout to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-pipedrive)

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- [ **HubSpot to shipcloud** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shipcloud)
- [ **Salesforce to shipcloud** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shipcloud)
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Questions

## PaintScout and shipcloud, answered

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### What can start an automation from PaintScout?

Any of PaintScout's 5 triggers in the catalog, including Contact Created, Invoice Status Changed, Quote Status Changed and Quote Tag Added. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in shipcloud when something happens in PaintScout?

Any of shipcloud's 16 actions, including Create Shipment, Create Shipment Quote, Update shipment and Add address. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from shipcloud to PaintScout?

Yes. When something happens in shipcloud, your agent can act in PaintScout too. This page covers both directions: shipcloud's triggers and PaintScout's actions are listed here as well.

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### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or shipcloud?

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 shipcloud 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.

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### 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.

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### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
