--- title: "Connect PaintScout and Timing - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Contact Created\" fires in PaintScout, your agent runs \"Create Project\" in Timing, or \"New Project\" in Timing to \"Add deal\" in PaintScout." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-timing" --- # Connect PaintScout and Timing When **Contact Created** fires in [PaintScout](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout), your agent runs **Create Project** in [Timing](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing), or **New Project** in Timing 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 Timing **4** triggers Timing **20** 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 Timing 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 Timing can do together ### From PaintScout to Timing - When **Contact Created** in PaintScout then **Create Project** in Timing - When **Invoice Status Changed** in PaintScout then **Update Project** in Timing ### From Timing to PaintScout - When **New Project** in Timing then **Add deal** in PaintScout - When **New Team** in Timing 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 Timing ## Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 39 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 Project** Triggered when a new project is created in Timing. - Trigger **New Team** Triggered when you are added to a new team in Timing. - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is logged in Timing. - Trigger **New Timer Started and Running** Triggered when a new timer is started and is still running in Timing. - Action **Batch Update Time Entries** Updates several Timing time entries at once — moves them to a project, retitles them, sets notes, billing status or custom fields. Anything left blank is left untouched on the entries. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Timing, optionally under a parent project, and returns the created project. - Action **Create Time Entry** Logs a finished block of work in Timing between a start and end time, optionally against a project, and returns the created time entry. - Action **Delete Project** Deletes a project in Timing, along with all of its child projects. - Action **Delete Time Entry** Deletes a time entry in Timing. - Action **Find Project** Searches your Timing projects by title and returns the first match, plus the full list of matches. - Action **Find Team** Finds a team you belong to in Timing by its name and returns the first match, plus every team whose name matched. - Action **Generate Report** Builds a time report in Timing over a date range, broken down by the columns you choose, and returns the report rows with their durations. - Action **Get Activity Hierarchy** Returns a readable breakdown of what you worked on in Timing over a date range, as tab-indented text grouped by project and app with durations. - Action **List Projects** Returns the projects you can see in Timing, optionally filtered by title, team, or hiding archived ones. - Action **List Teams** Returns all the Timing teams you are a member of. - Action **List Time Entries** Returns your Timing time entries, optionally narrowed by date range, project, team member, search text or billing status. - Action **Show Latest Time Entry** Returns your most recent time entry in Timing. - Action **Show Project** Returns a single Timing project with its colour, notes, billing default, parent and child projects. - Action **Show Running Timer** Returns the timer that is currently running in Timing. Errors with a not-found if no timer is running. - Action **Show Time Entry** Returns a single Timing time entry with its times, duration, project, notes and billing status. - Action **Start Timer** Starts a running timer in Timing, stopping any timer that is already running, and returns the new entry. - Action **Stop Timer** Stops the timer that is currently running in Timing and returns the finished time entry. - Action **Update Project** Updates a Timing project's name, colour, notes, archive state or billing default. Anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Time Entry** Updates a Timing time entry — its times, project, title, notes or billing status. Anything left blank keeps its current value. ## Each app on its own - [ **PaintScout** PaintScout helps estimate & sell painting jobs.](https://apiant.ai/connections/paintscout) - [ **Timing** Timing is an automatic time tracking app for macOS.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timing) 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. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-slack) - [ **PaintScout to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-stripe) - [ **PaintScout to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-shopify) - [ **PaintScout to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **PaintScout to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paintscout-to-pipedrive) ## More into Timing - [ **Favro to Timing** Plan a wedding, build an award winning video game or even send a rocket into space.](https://apiant.ai/connect/favro-to-timing) - [ **Pipefy to Timing** The easy button for processes and workflows Easily organize and run all your processes in one place, leaving...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipefy-to-timing) - [ **HubSpot to Timing** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-timing) - [ **Salesforce to Timing** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-timing) - [ **Slack to Timing** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-timing) - [ **Gmail to Timing** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-timing) Questions ## PaintScout and Timing, answered ### ### 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. ### ### What can your agent do in Timing when something happens in PaintScout? Any of Timing's 20 actions, including Create Project, Create Time Entry, Update Project and Update Time Entry. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Timing to PaintScout? Yes. When something happens in Timing, your agent can act in PaintScout too. This page covers both directions: Timing's triggers and PaintScout's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PaintScout or Timing? 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 Timing 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.