--- title: "Connect Pleo to ShipEngine - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Employee\" fires in Pleo, your agent runs \"Add batch\" in ShipEngine." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/pleo-to-shipengine" --- # Connect Pleo to ShipEngine When **New Employee** fires in [Pleo](https://apiant.ai/connections/pleo), your agent runs **Add batch** in [ShipEngine](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Pleo **2** triggers Pleo **24** actions ShipEngine **14** 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 ShipEngine 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 Pleo can start in ShipEngine - When **New Employee** in Pleo then **Add batch** in ShipEngine - When **New Tag** in Pleo then **Add label** in ShipEngine 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 ShipEngine ## Triggers and actions 2 triggers · 38 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. - Action **Add batch** Creates a new label batch in ShipEngine, optionally seeded with shipments or rates, so their labels can later be processed together. - Action **Add label** Purchases a shipping label from your chosen carrier and service for a shipment, returning the label's tracking number, cost and download links. - Action **Add shipment** Creates a shipment from a ship-to address, a ship-from address or warehouse, and its packages, returning the new shipment id for rating, labels and batches. - Action **Add warehouse** Creates a new warehouse location in ShipEngine with a ship-from address and an optional return address. - Action **Calculate rates** Returns shipping rate quotes from your connected carriers for a shipment, either from full shipment details or an existing shipment. - Action **Get batch** Returns a label batch by its id, including its status, shipment and error counts, and links to download the batch's labels and forms. - Action **Get label** Returns a shipping label by its id, including its status, tracking number, cost and links to download the label. - Action **Get manifest** Returns the details of an end-of-day manifest, including its ship date, the labels it covers and a link to download the manifest form. - Action **Get shipment** Returns a shipment by its id, including its status, carrier and service, addresses, packages and tags. - Action **List carriers** Returns all carrier accounts connected to your ShipEngine account, with each carrier's id, services, package types and options. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your ShipEngine account, optionally filtered by status, tag, batch or created/modified date range. - Action **List warehouses** Returns every warehouse in your ShipEngine account, with each warehouse's id, name, origin address and return address. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment's addresses, packages, carrier service and other details before it is shipped, and returns the updated shipment. - Action **Validate an Address** Checks a postal address against carrier and postal databases and returns its validation status, the corrected (matched) address, and any messages explaining problems found. ## Each app on its own - [ **Pleo** Pleo offers smart company cards that automate expense reports and simplify company spending.](https://apiant.ai/connections/pleo) - [ **ShipEngine** ShipEngine APIs empower ecommerce brands and platforms to shop rates, validate global addresses, print...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipengine) 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 ShipEngine - [ **HubSpot to ShipEngine** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-shipengine) - [ **Salesforce to ShipEngine** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-shipengine) - [ **Slack to ShipEngine** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-shipengine) - [ **Google Sheets to ShipEngine** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-shipengine) - [ **Gmail to ShipEngine** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-shipengine) - [ **Google Calendar to ShipEngine** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-shipengine) Questions ## Pleo and ShipEngine, 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 ShipEngine when something happens in Pleo? Any of ShipEngine's 14 actions, including Update shipment, Add batch, Add label and Add shipment. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from ShipEngine to Pleo? ShipEngine has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Pleo. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads ShipEngine's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Pleo or ShipEngine? 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 ShipEngine 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.