--- title: "Connect Pleo and SendGrid - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Employee\" fires in Pleo, your agent runs \"Create or update contact\" in SendGrid, or \"New bounce\" in SendGrid to \"Add account\" in Pleo." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-sendgrid" --- # Connect Pleo and SendGrid When **New Employee** fires in [Pleo](https://apiant.ai/connections/pleo), your agent runs **Create or update contact** in [SendGrid](https://apiant.ai/connections/sendgrid), or **New bounce** in SendGrid to **Add account** in Pleo. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Pleo **2** triggers Pleo **24** actions SendGrid **4** triggers SendGrid **10** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Pleo and SendGrid 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Pleo and SendGrid can do together ### From Pleo to SendGrid - When **New Employee** in Pleo then **Create or update contact** in SendGrid - When **New Tag** in Pleo then **Send an email** in SendGrid ### From SendGrid to Pleo - When **New bounce** in SendGrid then **Add account** in Pleo - When **New global suppression** in SendGrid then **Add tag group** in Pleo 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 Pleo and SendGrid ## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 34 actions - Trigger **New Employee** Triggered when a new employee is added in Pleo. - Trigger **New Tag** Triggers when a new tag is added to the selected tag group. - Action **Add account** Creates an account in a Pleo company's chart of accounts, matching a record in your accounting system, and returns the new account. - Action **Add tag group** Creates a new tag group (a cost-centre dimension such as Projects or Departments) in Pleo. - Action **Add tax code** Creates a tax code in a Pleo company, with its name, rate and type. - Action **Add team** Creates a new team in a Pleo company or organisation and returns the created team. - Action **Create Tag** Creates a new tag in a Pleo tag group, such as a cost centre or project, and returns the created tag. - Action **Delete tag** Deletes a tag from Pleo by its ID. - Action **Delete tag group** Deletes a tag group from Pleo by its ID. - Action **Delete tax code** Deletes a tax code from a Pleo company. - Action **Get an Employee** Returns one Pleo employee by ID, including their name, email, job title, phone, role, company and avatar. - Action **Get company balance** Returns the current balance of every Pleo account belonging to a company, including available funds, pending debits and overdraft. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single Pleo expense (accounting entry) by its ID, including its amounts, merchant, category, tags, review and export status, and receipt IDs. - Action **Get tag** Returns a Pleo tag by its ID, including its name, code, tag group and archived status. - Action **Get tag group** Returns a tag group by its ID, including its name, code, archived status, metadata and total number of tags. - Action **Get Tax Code** Returns a single tax code from Pleo, including its name, rate, type and archived status. - Action **Get team** Returns a Pleo team by its ID, including its name, code, company, organisation and employee IDs. An error occurs if the team is not found. - Action **List accounts** Returns the accounts in a Pleo company's chart of accounts, optionally narrowed by name, code, external ID, account ID or archived status. - Action **List employees** Returns the employees in your Pleo company, optionally filtered by company, email or external ID. - Action **List tag groups** Returns the tag groups for a Pleo company, or for all companies in an organisation. - Action **List tags** Returns the tags in a Pleo tag group, optionally including archived tags. - Action **List tax codes** Returns the tax codes for a Pleo company, optionally filtered by code, type, archived status or specific tax code IDs. - Action **List teams** Returns the teams in a Pleo company or organisation, optionally filtered by name, member employee or team. - Action **Update tag** Updates a tag's code, name, archived state and additional dimension values in Pleo, and returns the updated tag. - Action **Update tag group** Updates a tag group's name, code, archived status and metadata. All values replace the tag group's current ones. - Action **Update tax code** Updates an existing tax code in Pleo, including its name, rate, type and archived status, and returns the updated tax code. - Trigger **New bounce** Polls the v3 Suppression Bounces API for bounced email addresses. Emits one record per bounce. - Trigger **New global suppression** Polls the v3 Suppressions API for globally-suppressed (unsubscribed) email addresses. Emits one record per suppressed email. - Trigger **New or updated recipient** Triggered when a recipient is created or updated. - Trigger **New suppressed email** Triggered when a new email is suppressed. - Action **Add to suppression group** Add a recipient's email to a SendGrid suppression group (unsubscribe group). - Action **Create custom field** Creates a new custom field. - Action **Create list** Creates a new marketing contact list via the v3 Marketing Lists API. - Action **Create or update contact** Adds or updates a marketing contact (upsert by email) via the v3 Marketing Contacts API. Optionally assigns to lists. - Action **Create or update recipient** Creates a new recipient if the email does not exist, otherwise updates the existing recipient. - Action **Delete contacts** Deletes one or more marketing contacts by their contact IDs via the v3 Marketing Contacts API. - Action **Get contact by email** Looks up a marketing contact by email address via the v3 Marketing Contacts search-by-emails endpoint. - Action **Remove from suppression group** Remove a recipient's email from a SendGrid suppression group (unsubscribe group). - Action **Send an email** Sends an email via the v3 Mail Send API to a single recipient with subject and plain-text or HTML body. - Action **Send an email using template** Sends an email via the v3 Mail Send API using a dynamic template ID. Dynamic template data is passed as a JSON object. ## Each app on its own - [ **Pleo** Pleo offers smart company cards that automate expense reports and simplify company spending.](https://apiant.ai/connections/pleo) - [ **SendGrid** SendGrid by Twilio — email delivery and marketing platform.](https://apiant.ai/connections/sendgrid) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Pleo - [ **Pleo to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-salesforce) - [ **Pleo to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-slack) - [ **Pleo to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-stripe) - [ **Pleo to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-shopify) - [ **Pleo to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Pleo to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-trello) ## More into SendGrid - [ **HubSpot to SendGrid** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-sendgrid) - [ **Salesforce to SendGrid** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-sendgrid) - [ **Slack to SendGrid** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-sendgrid) - [ **Gmail to SendGrid** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-sendgrid) - [ **Pipedrive to SendGrid** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipedrive-to-sendgrid) - [ **ActiveCampaign to SendGrid** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/activecampaign-to-sendgrid) Questions ## Pleo and SendGrid, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Pleo? Any of Pleo's 2 triggers in the catalog, including New Employee and New Tag. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in SendGrid when something happens in Pleo? Any of SendGrid's 10 actions, including Create custom field, Create list, Create or update contact and Create or update recipient. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from SendGrid to Pleo? Yes. When something happens in SendGrid, your agent can act in Pleo too. This page covers both directions: SendGrid's triggers and Pleo's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Pleo or SendGrid? 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 Pleo and SendGrid 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.