--- title: "Connect Pennylane to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Billing Subscription V2\" fires in Pennylane, your agent runs \"Create XRechnung Invoice\" in ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/pennylane-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml" --- # Connect Pennylane to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML When **New Billing Subscription V2** fires in [Pennylane](https://apiant.ai/connections/pennylane), your agent runs **Create XRechnung Invoice** in [ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML](https://apiant.ai/connections/zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Pennylane **5** triggers Pennylane **34** actions ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML **8** 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 ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Pennylane can start in ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML - When **New Billing Subscription V2** in Pennylane then **Create XRechnung Invoice** in ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML - When **New Customer Invoice V2** in Pennylane then **Create ZUGFeRD Invoice** in ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML 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 ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 42 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. - Action **Convert XRechnung to PDF** Renders an XRechnung invoice XML file (UBL or CII syntax) into a readable PDF preview. The PDF is for human reading only and has no legal standing. - Action **Create XRechnung Invoice** Generates a validated XRechnung 3.0 e-invoice (UBL by default, or CII) from structured invoice data and returns the XML document. Totals and the VAT breakdown are calculated from the lines unless supplied. - Action **Create ZUGFeRD Invoice** Creates a new ZUGFeRD compliant PDF/A-3b invoice from scratch using the provided invoice data. - Action **Extract Invoice JSON** Reads a structured e-invoice (a Factur-X / ZUGFeRD / Peppol PDF with embedded CII or UBL XML, or a standalone CII or UBL XML file) and returns its data as structured JSON. Pure XML parsing, no AI. - Action **Extract Invoice XML** Pulls the embedded XML invoice out of a hybrid PDF (ZUGFeRD, Factur-X or other PDF/A-3 invoice) and returns it unchanged. - Action **Transform to ZUGFeRD** Turns a plain PDF invoice into a ZUGFeRD 2.x hybrid invoice (PDF/A-3 with embedded XML) using AI extraction. - Action **Validate XRechnung Invoice** Validates a CII XML invoice for XRechnung / EN16931 compliance. - Action **Validate ZUGFeRD Invoice** Validates a ZUGFeRD 2.x hybrid PDF invoice against the official schema and EN 16931 business rules for the profile it declares, and returns whether it is compliant along with any errors and warnings. ## 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) - [ **ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML is a German e-invoice compliance service for creating, validating...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) 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 ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML - [ **Freshworks CRM to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** Freshworks CRM (Freshsales Suite) — manage contacts, sales accounts, deals, notes, tasks, and appointments.](https://apiant.ai/connect/freshworks-crm-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Open Government, Netherlands to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** Netherlands Government Open Data. Public open-data portal — search dataset catalogs and retrieve published...](https://apiant.ai/connect/open-government-netherlands-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Paperless to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** Paperless lets you create, sign, and manage intelligent documents on a single platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/paperless-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Smartsheet to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** Smartsheet is a work execution platform for managing sheets, rows, and columns.](https://apiant.ai/connect/smartsheet-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **HubSpot to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) - [ **Salesforce to ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-zugferd-xrechnung-by-invoicexml) Questions ## Pennylane and ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML, 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 ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML when something happens in Pennylane? Any of ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML's 8 actions, including Create XRechnung Invoice, Create ZUGFeRD Invoice, Convert XRechnung to PDF and Extract Invoice JSON. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML to Pennylane? ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Pennylane. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Pennylane or ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML? 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 ZUGFeRD & XRechnung by InvoiceXML 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.