--- title: "Connect Paystack and Polar - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Chargeback\" fires in Paystack, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in Polar, or \"Benefit Created\" in Polar to \"Send Simple Invoice\" in Paystack." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-polar" --- # Connect Paystack and Polar When **New Chargeback** fires in [Paystack](https://apiant.ai/connections/paystack), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [Polar](https://apiant.ai/connections/polar), or **Benefit Created** in Polar to **Send Simple Invoice** in Paystack. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Paystack **11** triggers Paystack **17** actions Polar **21** triggers Polar **26** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Paystack and Polar 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 Paystack and Polar can do together ### From Paystack to Polar - When **New Chargeback** in Paystack then **Create Customer** in Polar - When **New Invoice** in Paystack then **Add Subscription** in Polar ### From Polar to Paystack - When **Benefit Created** in Polar then **Send Simple Invoice** in Paystack - When **Benefit Updated** in Polar then **Add Product** in Paystack 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 Paystack and Polar ## Triggers and actions 32 triggers · 43 actions - 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. - Trigger **Benefit Created** Triggered when a new benefit is created in Polar. - Trigger **Benefit Updated** Triggered when a benefit is changed in Polar. - Trigger **Checkout Created** Triggered when a new checkout session is created in Polar. - Trigger **Checkout Expired** Triggered when a checkout session expires in Polar without being paid. - Trigger **Checkout Updated** Triggered when a checkout session changes in Polar, for example when it is confirmed or paid. - Trigger **Customer Created** Triggered when a new customer is created in Polar. - Trigger **Customer Deleted** Triggered when a customer is deleted in Polar. - Trigger **Customer State Changed** Triggered when a customer's state changes in Polar - their active subscriptions, granted benefits or meters. - Trigger **Customer Updated** Triggered when a customer's details change in Polar. - Trigger **Order Created** Triggers when a new order is placed in your Polar organization. - Trigger **Order Paid** Triggers when an order in your Polar organization is paid. - Trigger **Order Updated** Triggers when an order in your Polar organization changes. - Trigger **Product Created** Triggers when a new product is created in your Polar organization. - Trigger **Product Updated** Triggers when a product in your Polar organization changes. - Trigger **Subscription Active** Triggers when a subscription in your Polar organization becomes active. - Trigger **Subscription Canceled** Triggers when a customer cancels a subscription in your Polar organization. - Trigger **Subscription Created** Triggers when a new subscription is created in your Polar organization. - Trigger **Subscription Past Due** Triggers when a subscription in your Polar organization falls past due because a payment failed. - Trigger **Subscription Revoked** Triggers when a subscription in your Polar organization is revoked and the customer loses access. - Trigger **Subscription Uncanceled** Triggers when a customer reverses a pending cancellation and keeps a subscription in your Polar organization. - Trigger **Subscription Updated** Triggers when a subscription in your Polar organization changes. - Action **Add Subscription** Subscribes a customer to a free recurring product. - Action **Confirm Checkout Session** Completes an open checkout session so Polar creates the order. Works without payment only when the checkout needs none, for example a free product. - Action **Create Benefit** Creates a benefit in Polar that you can attach to products. - Action **Create Checkout Session** Creates a Polar checkout session for a product and returns the link the customer pays through. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer in Polar. - Action **Create Discount** Creates a discount in Polar, either a percentage off or a fixed amount off. - Action **Create Product** Creates a product in Polar with its price or prices. - Action **Delete Customer** Deletes a customer in Polar. Their subscriptions are cancelled and their benefits revoked. - Action **Get Checkout Session** Returns one Polar checkout session by its id, including its status and payment link. - Action **Get Customer** Returns one customer from Polar by their id, including any metadata you stored on them. - Action **Get Product** Returns one product from Polar by its id, with its prices and attached benefits. - Action **Get Subscription** Returns one subscription from Polar by its id, with its status, amount and current period. - Action **List Benefits** Returns a page of benefits from Polar. - Action **List Checkout Sessions** Returns a page of checkout sessions from Polar. - Action **List Customers** Returns a page of customers from Polar. - Action **List Discounts** Returns the discount codes set up in your Polar organization, newest first. You can narrow the list by organization or by name text, and page through the results. - Action **List Orders** Returns the orders placed in your Polar organization. You can narrow the list by product, customer, subscription, checkout, discount or status, and page through the results. - Action **List Products** Returns the products in your Polar organization, with their prices and benefits. You can narrow the list by name text, archived state, one-time versus subscription, or a benefit, and page through the results. - Action **List Subscriptions** Returns the subscriptions in your Polar organization. You can narrow the list by product, customer, discount, active state or status, and page through the results. - Action **Revoke Subscription** Cancels a Polar subscription immediately, ending the customer's access right away rather than at the end of the billing period. - Action **Update Benefit** Changes a benefit's description, visibility, settings or metadata. - Action **Update Checkout Session** Changes an open checkout session: buyer details, product, amount, metadata or redirect links. - Action **Update Customer** Updates an existing Polar customer. Only the fields you fill in are changed; anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Order** Changes the billing name or billing address shown on an order's invoice. - Action **Update Product** Updates an existing Polar product. Only the fields you fill in are changed; anything left blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Subscription** Changes an existing Polar subscription — switch its product, apply a discount, adjust seats, move the trial end, or schedule or reverse a cancellation. Only the fields you fill in are changed. ## Each app on its own - [ **Paystack** Paystack helps African merchants accept one-time and recurring payments online with a modern, safe, and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/paystack) - [ **Polar** Polar is a modern billing platform for developers & designers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/polar) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Paystack - [ **Paystack to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-salesforce) - [ **Paystack to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-slack) - [ **Paystack to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-stripe) - [ **Paystack to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-shopify) - [ **Paystack to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Paystack to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paystack-to-pipedrive) ## More into Polar - [ **Outlook to Polar** Outlook is Microsoft's email and calendaring platform integrating contacts and scheduling, enabling users to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/outlook-to-polar) - [ **Fillout Forms to Polar** Create powerful forms, surveys and quizzes your audience will answer with Fillout Forms.](https://apiant.ai/connect/fillout-forms-to-polar) - [ **Gallabox to Polar** Gallabox is no-code conversation workspace for business to grow sales](https://apiant.ai/connect/gallabox-to-polar) - [ **OutageDeck to Polar** OutageDeck aggregates the official status feeds of more than 170 cloud and SaaS providers into one place.](https://apiant.ai/connect/outagedeck-to-polar) - [ **HubSpot to Polar** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-polar) - [ **Google Sheets to Polar** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-polar) Questions ## Paystack and Polar, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Paystack? Any of Paystack's 11 triggers in the catalog, including New Chargeback, New Invoice, New Order and New Payment Page Transaction. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Polar when something happens in Paystack? Any of Polar's 26 actions, including Create Benefit, Create Checkout Session, Create Customer and Create Discount. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Polar to Paystack? Yes. When something happens in Polar, your agent can act in Paystack too. This page covers both directions: Polar's triggers and Paystack's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Paystack or Polar? 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 Paystack and Polar 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.