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title: "Connect Personio and Square - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Employee Updated\" fires in Personio, your agent runs \"Add order\" in Square, or \"New order\" in Square to \"Add project\" in Personio."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-square"
---

# Connect Personio and Square

When **Employee Updated** fires in [Personio](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio), your agent runs **Add order** in [Square](https://apiant.ai/connections/square), or **New order** in Square to **Add project** in Personio. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Personio **7** triggers Personio **20** actions Square **3** triggers Square **19** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Personio and Square 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 Personio and Square can do together

### From Personio to Square

- When **Employee Updated** in Personio then **Add order** in Square
- When **Employment Updated** in Personio then **Create customer** in Square

### From Square to Personio

- When **New order** in Square then **Add project** in Personio
- When **New or updated customer** in Square then **Create Absence** in Personio

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 Personio and Square

## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 39 actions

- Trigger

**Employee Updated**

Triggers when an employee is updated.

- Trigger

**Employment Updated**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are updated

- Trigger

**New Absence**

Triggers when a new absence is created.

- Trigger

**New Candidate**

Fires when a new recruiting candidate is added in Personio.

- Trigger

**New Employee**

Triggers when a new employee is created.

- Trigger

**New Employment Created**

Triggers when one or more Employment details of a Person are created

- Trigger

**New Open Position**

Triggers when a new open position is created.

- Action

**Add project**

/v2/projects - create a project.

- Action

**Create Absence**

Creates a new absence.

- Action

**Create Attendance**

Creates a new attendance.

- Action

**Create Employee**

Creates a new employee.

- Action

**Delete absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - delete an absence period.

- Action

**Delete attendance**

/v2/attendance-periods/{id} - delete an attendance period.

- Action

**Delete person**

/v2/persons/{id} - delete a person.

- Action

**Find Absence**

Finds an absence by employee ID.

- Action

**Find Employee**

Finds a employee based on email.

- Action

**Find Person**

Finds a person by their Personio ID, name, last name and email, optionally including their absence information.

- Action

**Get Employment**

Retrieves one employment of a person by id: position, status, type, working hours, org units, cost centers, supervisor, office, legal entity, dates.

- Action

**List absence types**

/v2/absence-types - list absence types.

- Action

**List Compensations**

Lists compensations filtered by person.id and a start_date/end_date window; returns id, amount, interval, type, effective_from per record.

- Action

**List legal entities**

/v2/legal-entities - list legal entities.

- Action

**List org units**

/v2/org-units - list org units.

- Action

**List projects**

/v2/projects - list projects.

- Action

**Update absence**

/v2/absence-periods/{id} - update an absence period.

- Action

**Update Attendance**

Updates an existing attendance.

- Action

**Update Employee**

Updates an existing employee.

- Action

**Update Employment**

updates an employment (position, department, office, weekly hours, status, etc.); requires personio:persons:write. Fires the employment.updated webhook.

- Trigger

**New order**

Triggered when a new order is created at the specified location.

- Trigger

**New or updated customer**

Triggered when a customer is created or updated.

- Trigger

**New payment**

Triggered when a new payment is received.

- Action

**Add catalog object**

Creates a catalog object (item, variation, category, tax, discount, modifier list and more) in the Square catalog.

- Action

**Add order**

Creates a new Square order at a location, with optional line items, taxes, discounts, service charges and a fulfillment.

- Action

**Add payment**

Creates a payment: charges a card or payment token, or records a cash or external payment the seller received outside Square.

- Action

**Add refund**

Refund a payment.

- Action

**Cancel payment**

Cancels (voids) a Square payment that is still in the APPROVED status, i.e. a delayed-capture payment that has not been completed.

- Action

**Create customer**

Creates a new customer profile.

- Action

**Delete catalog object**

Deletes a Square catalog object by ID, along with any objects that depend on it (for example an item's variations).

- Action

**Delete customer**

Deletes a customer profile by ID.

- Action

**Find catalog object**

Retrieves a catalog object (item, variation, etc.) by ID.

- Action

**Find customer**

Returns customer details for the specified customer ID.

- Action

**Find order**

Retrieves an order by ID.

- Action

**Find payment**

Retrieves a payment by ID.

- Action

**List locations**

Lists all business locations for the connected Square account.

- Action

**List payments**

Lists payments for the connected merchant, newest first.

- Action

**Search catalog objects**

Searches catalog objects by type (ITEM, CATEGORY, etc.).

- Action

**Search customers**

Searches customer profiles by email, phone, or reference ID.

- Action

**Search orders**

Searches orders for the specified location(s).

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates an existing customer profile.

- Action

**Update order**

Updates an open Square order by adding or replacing fields, or clearing them. Completed or canceled orders cannot be updated.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Personio** Personio is a holistic HR software for companies from 10 - 2000 employees.](https://apiant.ai/connections/personio)
- [ **Square** Square is a commerce platform for payments, point of sale, orders, customers, catalog, and invoices.](https://apiant.ai/connections/square)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Personio

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- [ **Personio to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-stripe)
- [ **Personio to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/personio-to-shopify)
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## More into Square

- [ **Shopify to Square** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-square)
- [ **Intercom to Square** Intercom is a customer communications platform for support, engagement, and marketing.](https://apiant.ai/connect/intercom-to-square)
- [ **JotForm to Square** JotForm is a web-based WYSIWYG form builder. Create forms, integrate them into your site, and collect...](https://apiant.ai/connect/jotform-to-square)
- [ **OpenAI to Square** OpenAI's platform for text generation (Responses + Chat Completions), image generation (gpt-image-1 /...](https://apiant.ai/connect/openai-to-square)
- [ **Capsule CRM to Square** Capsule is an online hosted CRM system for individuals, small businesses and sales teams wanting a simple...](https://apiant.ai/connect/capsule-crm-to-square)
- [ **MINDBODY to Square** MINDBODY is a powerful business management software that combines your scheduling, task automation...](https://apiant.ai/connect/mindbody-to-square)

Questions

## Personio and Square, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Personio?

Any of Personio's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Employee Updated, Employment Updated, New Absence and New Candidate. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Square when something happens in Personio?

Any of Square's 19 actions, including Create customer, Update customer, Update order and Add catalog object. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Square to Personio?

Yes. When something happens in Square, your agent can act in Personio too. This page covers both directions: Square's triggers and Personio's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Personio or Square?

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 Personio and Square 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.
