--- title: "Connect PPM Express and Wheelbase - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"Idea Created\" fires in PPM Express, your agent runs \"Create Customer\" in Wheelbase." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-wheelbase" --- # Connect PPM Express and Wheelbase When **Idea Created** fires in [PPM Express](https://apiant.ai/connections/ppm-express), your agent runs **Create Customer** in [Wheelbase](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase), or **New Customer** in Wheelbase to **Create Project Task** in PPM Express. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. PPM Express **8** triggers PPM Express **9** actions Wheelbase **4** triggers Wheelbase **16** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want PPM Express and Wheelbase 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 PPM Express and Wheelbase can do together ### From PPM Express to Wheelbase - When **Idea Created** in PPM Express then **Create Customer** in Wheelbase - When **Key Date Created** in PPM Express then **Update customer** in Wheelbase ### From Wheelbase to PPM Express - When **New Customer** in Wheelbase then **Create Project Task** in PPM Express - When **New Message** in Wheelbase then **Update Project Task** in PPM Express 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 PPM Express and Wheelbase ## Triggers and actions 12 triggers · 25 actions - Trigger **Idea Created** Triggers when a Idea is created. - Trigger **Key Date Created** Triggers when a Key Date is created. - Trigger **Key Date Updated** Triggers when a Key Date is updated. - Trigger **Project Created** Triggers when a Project is created. - Trigger **Project Updated** Triggers when a Project is updated. - Trigger **Task Created** Triggers when a Task is created. - Trigger **Task Deleted** Triggers when a Task is deleted. - Trigger **Task Updated** Triggers when a Task is updated. - Action **Create Idea** Creates a new idea in PPM Express, optionally under a challenge, with its name, description and any other idea fields. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project in PPM Express with the field values you supply, such as name, description, manager, program and portfolio. - Action **Create Project Key Date** Creates a key date (milestone) on a PPM Express project and returns the new key date. - Action **Create Project Task** Creates a task in a PPM Express project with the field values you supply. - Action **Delete Project Task** Deletes a task from a PPM Express project. - Action **Update Idea** Updates the field values of an existing idea in PPM Express and returns the updated idea. - Action **Update Project** Updates the fields of an existing project, including custom fields, and returns the updated project. - Action **Update Project Key Date** Updates the field values of an existing key date in a PPM Express project. - Action **Update Project Task** Updates field values on an existing task in a PPM Express project and returns the updated task. - Trigger **New Customer** Triggered when a new customer is created or a marketplace guest books with the dealer. - Trigger **New Message** Triggers when a new message appears in a renter message thread, from the renter, your team or the system. If several messages arrive between checks, it fires once for that thread with the latest message. - Trigger **New or Updated Reservation** Triggers when a reservation is created or updated in Wheelbase. - Trigger **New Rental** Triggers when a new rental vehicle is added to your Wheelbase fleet. Requires a dealer account. - Action **Approve booking** Approves a booking from your side. Returns the updated booking; for a dealer-created booking this sends the customer their quote, and once both sides approve, payment is captured and the booking is confirmed. - Action **Cancel booking** Cancels a confirmed booking and returns the booking after the cancellation. Cancelling may trigger a refund under the listing's cancel policy. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer in your Wheelbase account. If a customer with the same email already exists, that customer is updated and returned instead of creating a duplicate. - Action **Create Reservation** Creates a reservation on a listing for the given dates, in negotiating status, for an existing or new customer. Returns the reservation with its pricing, payment schedule and trip details. - Action **Decline booking** Declines a booking that has not yet been confirmed and returns the booking after the action. A booking that is already confirmed cannot be declined and must be cancelled instead. - Action **Find a Customer** Returns the customers that match a name, email, phone number or customer id, including dealer-managed customers and marketplace guests who have booked with the dealer. - Action **Find a Rental** Returns the rental listings that match a location, travel dates, guest count, vehicle type or instant-book setting. - Action **Get booking** Returns a single booking by its id, including the renter, listing, dates, line items, totals and payment status. An error occurs if the booking is not found. - Action **Get customer** Returns a single customer by id, including contact details, address, archived status and booking stats. An error occurs if the customer is not found. - Action **Get listing** Returns the full, up-to-date detail for a single Wheelbase listing, including pricing, location, delivery options, owner, vehicle details and images. - Action **List booking payments** Returns a booking's itemized money movement: customer charges, refunds and scheduled future charges, plus payouts made to your account. - Action **List bookings** Returns the bookings your Wheelbase account participates in as owner or renter, optionally narrowed by status, customer or start date. - Action **List locations** Returns the dealer's pickup and drop-off locations, with each location's address, coordinates and weekly hours. - Action **Update customer** Updates the details of a customer your account manages, such as their name, contact details and address, and returns the updated customer. Marketplace customers cannot be edited. - Action **Update listing** Updates a listing's name, description, nightly price or instant-book setting, and returns the updated listing. - Action **Update Reservation** Updates the dates, guest count, discount code, insurance, delivery or add-ons on a reservation that has not yet been confirmed, and returns the updated reservation with its recalculated pricing. ## Each app on its own - [ **PPM Express** PPM Express is Product Portfolio Management platform to easily integrate and orchestrate your existing...](https://apiant.ai/connections/ppm-express) - [ **Wheelbase** All-in-one rentals suite that combines rental management software with $1M in insurance coverage.](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from PPM Express - [ **PPM Express to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-salesforce) - [ **PPM Express to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-slack) - [ **PPM Express to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-stripe) - [ **PPM Express to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-shopify) - [ **PPM Express to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **PPM Express to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/ppm-express-to-trello) ## More into Wheelbase - [ **HubSpot to Wheelbase** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-wheelbase) - [ **Salesforce to Wheelbase** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-wheelbase) - [ **Slack to Wheelbase** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-wheelbase) - [ **Google Sheets to Wheelbase** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-wheelbase) - [ **Gmail to Wheelbase** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-wheelbase) - [ **Google Calendar to Wheelbase** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-wheelbase) Questions ## PPM Express and Wheelbase, answered ### ### What can start an automation from PPM Express? Any of PPM Express's 8 triggers in the catalog, including Idea Created, Key Date Created, Key Date Updated and Project Created. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Wheelbase when something happens in PPM Express? Any of Wheelbase's 16 actions, including Create Customer, Create Reservation, Update customer and Update listing. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Wheelbase to PPM Express? Yes. When something happens in Wheelbase, your agent can act in PPM Express too. This page covers both directions: Wheelbase's triggers and PPM Express's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for PPM Express or Wheelbase? 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 PPM Express and Wheelbase 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.