--- title: "Connect Pennylane and Recurly - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Billing Subscription V2\" fires in Pennylane, your agent runs \"Add add-on to subscription\" in Recurly." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-recurly" --- # Connect Pennylane and Recurly When **New Billing Subscription V2** fires in [Pennylane](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane), your agent runs **Add add-on to subscription** in [Recurly](https://apiant.ai/connections/recurly), or **Prerenewal of subscription** in Recurly to **Update Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Pennylane **5** triggers Pennylane **34** actions Recurly **1** trigger Recurly **80** 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 Recurly 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 Recurly can do together ### From Pennylane to Recurly - When **New Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane then **Add add-on to subscription** in Recurly - When **New Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane then **Add invoice** in Recurly ### From Recurly to Pennylane - When **Prerenewal of subscription** in Recurly then **Update Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane - When **Prerenewal of subscription** in Recurly then **Create Company Customer 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 Recurly ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 114 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 **Prerenewal of subscription** Instant trigger: fires before a Recurly subscription renews (webhook). - Action **Add add-on to subscription** Adds an add-on to an existing subscription. An error occurs if the subscription already has the add-on. - Action **Add coupon** Create a new discount coupon. - Action **Add coupon redemption** Apply a coupon to an account or subscription. - Action **Add gift card** Create a new gift card. - Action **Add invoice** Create an invoice for an account's pending line items. - Action **Add item** Create a new catalog item. - Action **Add plan** Create a new subscription plan. - Action **Add plan add-on** Create a new add-on for a subscription plan. - Action **Add shipping address** Create a new shipping address for an account. - Action **Add subscription change** Schedule a pending change to a subscription (e.g. plan or quantity change at renewal). - Action **Adjust add-on quantity** Increases or decreases the quantity of the specified add-on. NOTE: this action assumes the subscription only has a single add-on! Do not use if the subscription has multiple add-ons, otherwise all add-ons other than the specified one will be deleted if the computed quantity is zero! - Action **Cancel subscription** Cancels a subscription so it remains active until the end of the current bill cycle, then expires. - Action **Convert trial subscription** Immediately converts a trial subscription to a fully active paid subscription, creating and collecting an invoice for auto-collecting subscriptions. If the invoice cannot be collected, the subscription will remain in trial. The subscription must be in a trial; active, paused, expired, cancelled, or failed subscriptions cannot be converted. - Action **Create account** Creates a new account. An error occurs if the account code already exists. - Action **Create line item** Creates a one-time charge or credit on the specified account. type is charge or credit. - Action **Create purchase - add subscription** Adds a subscription to the specified purchase. Must be passed a Purchase ID emitted by 'Create purchase - initialize'. - Action **Create purchase - add subscription add-on** Adds an add-on to the specified subscription within a staged purchase. The subscription (by plan code) must have already been added to the purchase. - Action **Create purchase - initialize** Initializes a new purchase. Emits a Purchase ID that must be passed into other create purchase actions to add items to the purchase and finalize. - Action **Create purchase - submit** Submits the assembled purchase to Recurly. - Action **Create subscription** Creates a new subscription for an account on a plan. Pass account_code, plan_code, and currency. - Action **Deactivate account** Deactivates (deletes) the specified account. - Action **Delete account billing info** Remove an account's stored billing information. - Action **Delete coupon** Expire a coupon so it can no longer be redeemed. - Action **Delete coupon redemption** Remove an active coupon redemption from an account or subscription. - Action **Delete item** Deactivate an item so it cannot be bought again. Existing line items are unaffected. - Action **Delete line item** Delete an uninvoiced line item. - Action **Delete plan** Remove a subscription plan. - Action **Delete plan add-on** Remove an add-on from a plan. - Action **Delete shipping address** Remove an account's shipping address. - Action **Delete subscription change** Cancel a subscription's pending scheduled change. - Action **Delete usage record** Deletes a usage record from a subscription add-on. - Action **Get account** Returns all fields for the specified account. The account ID may be a Recurly UUID or a code-prefixed account code. - Action **Get account balance** Fetch an account's current balance and past-due status. - Action **Get account billing info** Returns the billing information for the specified account. - Action **Get add-on** Fetch a single add-on by ID. - Action **Get all subscriptions** Returns all subscriptions for the account. - Action **Get coupon** Fetch a coupon by its code. - Action **Get gift card** Fetch a gift card by ID. - Action **Get invoice** Returns the specified invoice. ID may be a Recurly UUID or the invoice number. - Action **Get item** Fetch a catalog item by ID. - Action **Get line item** Fetch a single line item by ID. - Action **Get plan** Returns the specified plan. The ID may be a Recurly UUID or a code-prefixed plan code. - Action **Get shipping address** Fetch an account's shipping address. - Action **Get subscription** Returns all fields for the specified subscription. The ID may be a Recurly UUID or a uuid-prefixed value. - Action **Get subscription add-ons** Returns all add-ons for the specified subscription. - Action **Get subscription change** Fetch a subscription's pending scheduled change. - Action **Get transaction** Fetch a single payment transaction by ID. - Action **List account invoices** Returns the invoices for the specified account. - Action **List account line items** Returns the line items (charges and credits) for the specified account. - Action **List account notes** List the notes on an account. - Action **List accounts** Returns a list of accounts. Supports limit, order, sort, and state filters. - Action **List account subscriptions** Returns the subscriptions for the specified account. - Action **List active coupon redemptions** Read the coupon currently applied to an account. Fails with a not-found error when the account has no coupon on it. - Action **List a subscription add-on's usage records** Lists all usage records for a subscription add-on for the specified subscription. - Action **List coupons** Returns a list of coupons for the site. - Action **List credit payments** List credit payments issued across the site. - Action **List gift cards** List gift cards issued on the site. - Action **List invoices** Returns a list of all invoices on the site. Supports limit and state filters. - Action **List items** List a site's catalog items. - Action **List plans** Returns a list of plans for the site. - Action **List shipping addresses** List an account's shipping addresses. - Action **List subscriptions** Returns a list of all subscriptions. Supports limit and state filters. - Action **List transactions** List payment transactions across the site. - Action **Log a usage record on subscription add-on** Logs a usage record on the specified subscription add-on. - Action **Pause subscription** Pauses a subscription for the given number of remaining billing cycles. - Action **Reactivate account** Reactivate an inactive Recurly account. - Action **Reactivate subscription** Reactivates a canceled subscription so it renews at the end of the current bill cycle. - Action **Redeem gift card** Redeem a gift card's redemption code onto an account. - Action **Refund invoice** Issue a refund against an invoice. - Action **Remove add-on from subscription** Removes an add-on from a subscription. - Action **Terminate subscription** Immediately terminates a subscription. refund may be none, partial, or full. - Action **Update account** Updates the specified account. - Action **Update account billing info** Set or replace an account's credit card / payment billing information. - Action **Update coupon** Update an active coupon's details. - Action **Update item** Update an existing catalog item. - Action **Update plan** Update an existing subscription plan. - Action **Update plan add-on** Update an existing plan add-on. - Action **Update shipping address** Update an account's shipping address. - Action **Update subscription renewal date** For an active subscription, this will change the next renewal date. For a subscription in a trial period, modifying the renewal date will change when the trial expires. - Action **Void invoice** Void a credit invoice. ## 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) - [ **Recurly** Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/recurly) 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. 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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 Recurly when something happens in Pennylane? Any of Recurly's 80 actions, including Create account, Create line item, Create purchase - add subscription and Create purchase - add subscription add-on. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Recurly to Pennylane? Yes. When something happens in Recurly, your agent can act in Pennylane too. This page covers both directions: Recurly's triggers and Pennylane's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Pennylane or Recurly? 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 Recurly 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.