--- title: "Connect Pennylane and Productive.io - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Billing Subscription V2\" fires in Pennylane, your agent runs \"Add Comment to Deal\" in Productive.io." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-productive-io" --- # Connect Pennylane and Productive.io When **New Billing Subscription V2** fires in [Pennylane](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane), your agent runs **Add Comment to Deal** in [Productive.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/productive-io), or **New time entry** in Productive.io to **Create Company Customer V2** in Pennylane. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Pennylane **5** triggers Pennylane **34** actions Productive.io **1** trigger Productive.io **34** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Pennylane and Productive.io 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 Pennylane and Productive.io can do together ### From Pennylane to Productive.io - When **New Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane then **Add Comment to Deal** in Productive.io - When **New Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane then **Add invoice** in Productive.io ### From Productive.io to Pennylane - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Create Company Customer V2** in Pennylane - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Create Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane 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 Pennylane and Productive.io ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 68 actions - Trigger **New Billing Subscription V2** Triggers when a new billing subscription is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Customer Invoice V2** Triggers when a new customer invoice or credit note is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Customer V2** Triggers when a new customer (company or individual) is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Product V2** Triggers when a new product is created in Pennylane. - Trigger **New Quote V2** Triggers when a new quote is created in Pennylane. - Action **Add supplier** Creates a supplier in Pennylane and returns the new supplier record. - Action **Create Company Customer V2** Creates a company customer in Pennylane with its billing address, contact and invoicing details, and returns the new customer. - Action **Create Customer Invoice V2** Creates a draft or finalized customer invoice (or credit note) in Pennylane for an existing customer. - Action **Create Individual Customer V2** Creates an individual (person) customer in Pennylane with their name, billing address and invoicing preferences. - Action **Create Product V2** Creates a product in Pennylane with its label, price before tax and VAT rate, and returns the created product. - Action **Create Quote V2** Creates a quote for a customer in Pennylane, with its line items, dates and optional discount. - Action **Finalize customer invoice** Finalizes a draft customer invoice or credit note in Pennylane, assigning its number and locking it from further edits. - Action **Get Billing Subscription V2** Returns one billing subscription, including its schedule, status, customer and invoice settings. - Action **Get supplier** Returns a single supplier from Pennylane by its id, including contact, address, payment terms and ledger account. - Action **Get supplier invoice** Returns a single supplier invoice from Pennylane by its ID, including amounts, dates, supplier, and payment status. - Action **Get transaction** Returns a single bank transaction by its id, including amount, currency, date, bank account, categories and linked customer or supplier. - Action **List bank accounts** Returns the company's bank accounts with their currency, balance, journal and ledger account. - Action **List billing subscriptions** Returns the billing subscriptions in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by status, customer or start date. - Action **List categories** Returns the analytical categories defined in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by group, label or code. - Action **List customer invoices** Returns customer invoices and credit notes, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List customers** Returns a list of company and individual customers in Pennylane, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List ledger accounts** Returns the company's ledger accounts (chart of accounts), up to 1000 per call, optionally filtered by number, id or enabled status. - Action **List ledger entries** Returns the ledger entries of your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by id, date or journal and sorted by id or date. - Action **List products** Returns the products in the Pennylane company, optionally filtered by label, reference or id. - Action **List quotes** Returns the quotes in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by customer or status. - Action **List supplier invoices** Returns the supplier invoices in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List suppliers** Returns the suppliers in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered and sorted. - Action **List transactions** Returns the bank transactions in your Pennylane company, optionally filtered by bank account, journal, date or id. - Action **Retrieve Customer V2** Returns one customer (company or individual) by its Pennylane id, including contact details, addresses and billing settings. - Action **Retrieve Invoice V2** Returns one customer invoice or credit note, including its amounts, status, customer and links to its lines and payments. - Action **Retrieve Product V2** Returns one Pennylane product by its id, including price, VAT rate, unit, ledger account and custom field values. - Action **Retrieve Quote V2** Returns a single quote by its ID, including amounts, status, customer and dates. - Action **Update Billing Subscription V2** Updates a billing subscription in Pennylane: stop or resume it, change its invoicing mode, payment terms, schedule, customer or invoice content. - Action **Update Company Customer V2** Updates an existing company customer in Pennylane and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update customer invoice** Updates a customer invoice in Pennylane. Draft invoices accept all fields; finalized invoices accept only label, external reference, transaction reference, invoice line imputation/performance dates and installments. - Action **Update Individual Customer V2** Updates an individual (person) customer in Pennylane and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update Product V2** Updates an existing product in Pennylane, such as its label, price, VAT rate or custom fields. - Action **Update Quote V2** Updates an existing quote in Pennylane — its dates, customer, texts, discount, language and invoice lines — and returns the updated quote. - Action **Update supplier** Updates an existing supplier in Pennylane and returns the updated supplier. - Trigger **New time entry** Triggers when a new time entry is tracked in Productive. - Action **Add Comment to Deal** Adds a comment to a deal in Productive. - Action **Add comment to task** Adds a comment to a task in Productive. - Action **Add expense** Creates a new expense in Productive, optionally allocated to a budget service. - Action **Add invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client company in Productive. - Action **Add time entry** Creates a time entry in Productive, logging minutes a person worked on a service (and optionally a task) on a given date. - Action **Create Booking** Creates a booking that schedules a person's time on a service or an absence event over a date range in Productive. - Action **Create Company** Creates a new company (client) in Productive with its billing, invoicing and contact details. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact (person) in Productive, linked to a client company. - Action **Create Deal** Creates a new deal in Productive with a name, owner, deal type and date, plus optional value, company, contact and other deal details. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Productive with a name, type, project manager and workflow, optionally linked to a client company. - Action **Create Service** Creates a service (a billable line of work) on a Productive deal or budget. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task in a Productive project task list, with optional assignee, dates, estimates, tags and recurrence. - Action **Create Task List** Creates a task list inside a project folder in Productive. - Action **Delete task** Permanently deletes a task in Productive. - Action **Find Company** Finds companies in Productive by name or company code and returns the matches. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts (client people) in Productive by search text, email or company, returning the matches and the first one. - Action **Find Deal** Finds deals in Productive by name, number or company and returns the matches. - Action **Find invoices by criteria** Returns invoices matching an invoice number and/or company, with the first match and a count. - Action **Find projects by criteria** Finds projects matching a name, client company, project manager or status, returning the matches and the first one. - Action **Find Task** Finds tasks matching a title, number, search text, project, task list, assignee or status, and returns the first match plus the full list. - Action **Find time entries by criteria** Returns time entries matching the criteria you give, such as person, service, task or date range. - Action **Find User** Finds users (team members) in your Productive organization by name or email and returns the matches. - Action **Get Booking** Returns a single booking (resource-planning allocation of a person to a service or event) by its ID, including dates, hours and custom fields. - Action **Get Comment** Returns a single comment by its ID, including its body, timestamps and the task, deal or other record it was posted on. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single expense by its ID, including amounts, dates, approval status, custom fields and related records. - Action **Get Service** Returns a single service (a budget or deal line item) by its ID, including its attributes and custom field values. - Action **Get Task List** Returns a single task list by its ID, including its name, position, archive status and its project, board and folder. - Action **Update booking** Updates an existing booking in Productive, such as its dates, booked time, note or assigned service. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing company in Productive. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact (person) in Productive. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Deal** Updates an existing deal or budget in Productive, changing only the fields you fill in. - Action **Update project** Updates an existing project in Productive. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing task in Productive. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Update time entry** Updates an existing time entry in Productive, changing only the fields you fill in. ## Each app on its own - [ **Pennylane** Pennylane centralizes all your cash flows and connects with your financial tools to ease and automate...](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane) - [ **Productive.io** Productive is a project management tool that includes everything you need to run a profitable agency.](https://apiant.ai/connections/productive-io) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Pennylane - [ **Pennylane to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-salesforce) - [ **Pennylane to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-slack) - [ **Pennylane to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-stripe) - [ **Pennylane to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-shopify) - [ **Pennylane to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Pennylane to Pipedrive** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-pipedrive) ## More into Productive.io - [ **HubSpot to Productive.io** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-productive-io) - [ **Google Sheets to Productive.io** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-productive-io) - [ **Gmail to Productive.io** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-productive-io) - [ **Google Calendar to Productive.io** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-productive-io) - [ **Google Drive to Productive.io** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-productive-io) - [ **Mailchimp to Productive.io** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-productive-io) Questions ## Pennylane and Productive.io, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Pennylane? Any of Pennylane's 5 triggers in the catalog, including New Billing Subscription V2, New Customer Invoice V2, New Customer V2 and New Product V2. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Productive.io when something happens in Pennylane? Any of Productive.io's 34 actions, including Create Booking, Create Company, Create Contact and Create Deal. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Productive.io to Pennylane? Yes. When something happens in Productive.io, your agent can act in Pennylane too. This page covers both directions: Productive.io's triggers and Pennylane's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Pennylane or Productive.io? 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 Pennylane and Productive.io 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.