--- title: "Connect Productive.io and Reply - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New time entry\" fires in Productive.io, your agent runs \"Add contact list\" in Reply." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-reply" --- # Connect Productive.io and Reply When **New time entry** fires in [Productive.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/productive-io), your agent runs **Add contact list** in [Reply](https://apiant.ai/connections/reply), or **New Email Opened** in Reply to **Add Comment to Deal** in Productive.io. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Productive.io **1** trigger Productive.io **34** actions Reply **7** triggers Reply **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 Productive.io and Reply 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 Productive.io and Reply can do together ### From Productive.io to Reply - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Add contact list** in Reply - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Add note to contact** in Reply ### From Reply to Productive.io - When **New Email Opened** in Reply then **Add Comment to Deal** in Productive.io - When **New Emails Sent** in Reply then **Add comment to task** in Productive.io 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 Productive.io and Reply ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 50 actions - Trigger **New time entry** Triggers when a new time entry is tracked in Productive. - Action **Add Comment to Deal** Adds a comment to a deal in Productive. - Action **Add comment to task** Adds a comment to a task in Productive. - Action **Add expense** Creates a new expense in Productive, optionally allocated to a budget service. - Action **Add invoice** Creates a new invoice for a client company in Productive. - Action **Add time entry** Creates a time entry in Productive, logging minutes a person worked on a service (and optionally a task) on a given date. - Action **Create Booking** Creates a booking that schedules a person's time on a service or an absence event over a date range in Productive. - Action **Create Company** Creates a new company (client) in Productive with its billing, invoicing and contact details. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a contact (person) in Productive, linked to a client company. - Action **Create Deal** Creates a new deal in Productive with a name, owner, deal type and date, plus optional value, company, contact and other deal details. - Action **Create Project** Creates a new project in Productive with a name, type, project manager and workflow, optionally linked to a client company. - Action **Create Service** Creates a service (a billable line of work) on a Productive deal or budget. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task in a Productive project task list, with optional assignee, dates, estimates, tags and recurrence. - Action **Create Task List** Creates a task list inside a project folder in Productive. - Action **Delete task** Permanently deletes a task in Productive. - Action **Find Company** Finds companies in Productive by name or company code and returns the matches. - Action **Find Contact** Finds contacts (client people) in Productive by search text, email or company, returning the matches and the first one. - Action **Find Deal** Finds deals in Productive by name, number or company and returns the matches. - Action **Find invoices by criteria** Returns invoices matching an invoice number and/or company, with the first match and a count. - Action **Find projects by criteria** Finds projects matching a name, client company, project manager or status, returning the matches and the first one. - Action **Find Task** Finds tasks matching a title, number, search text, project, task list, assignee or status, and returns the first match plus the full list. - Action **Find time entries by criteria** Returns time entries matching the criteria you give, such as person, service, task or date range. - Action **Find User** Finds users (team members) in your Productive organization by name or email and returns the matches. - Action **Get Booking** Returns a single booking (resource-planning allocation of a person to a service or event) by its ID, including dates, hours and custom fields. - Action **Get Comment** Returns a single comment by its ID, including its body, timestamps and the task, deal or other record it was posted on. - Action **Get Expense** Returns a single expense by its ID, including amounts, dates, approval status, custom fields and related records. - Action **Get Service** Returns a single service (a budget or deal line item) by its ID, including its attributes and custom field values. - Action **Get Task List** Returns a single task list by its ID, including its name, position, archive status and its project, board and folder. - Action **Update booking** Updates an existing booking in Productive, such as its dates, booked time, note or assigned service. Fields left blank are not changed. - Action **Update company** Updates an existing company in Productive. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact (person) in Productive. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Deal** Updates an existing deal or budget in Productive, changing only the fields you fill in. - Action **Update project** Updates an existing project in Productive. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Update Task** Updates an existing task in Productive. Only the values you fill in are changed. - Action **Update time entry** Updates an existing time entry in Productive, changing only the fields you fill in. - Trigger **Inbox Category Set for Reply** Triggers when an email reply in Reply is given an inbox category, automatically or by a user. - Trigger **New Email Opened** Triggers when a contact opens a tracked email sent from Reply. - Trigger **New Emails Sent** Triggers when Reply sends an email from a sequence step. - Trigger **New Link Clicked** Triggers when a recipient clicks a tracked link in an email sent from Reply. - Trigger **New Person Bounce** Triggers when an email sent from Reply bounces or is rejected by the recipient's mail server. - Trigger **New Person Opt Out** Triggers when a contact opts out of outreach in Reply (unsubscribe link, manual opt-out, or marked Do Not Contact). - Trigger **Prospect Finished** Triggers when a contact's participation in a Reply sequence ends — completed, replied, bounced, opted out, or finished manually. - Action **Add contact list** Creates a new contact list in Reply, optionally shared with your team. - Action **Add note to contact** Adds a note to a contact's timeline in Reply. - Action **Add sequence** Creates a new sequence in Reply with its steps, schedule, sending accounts and settings. - Action **Create\Update Person** Creates a Reply contact, or updates the existing contact with the same email address. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes a contact from your Reply account. - Action **Find contacts by criteria** Returns the contacts that match a search term and/or field rules, optionally scoped to a contact list, sequence or sequence step. - Action **Get contact** Returns one Reply contact by its id, including profile details, owner, opt-out, call and meeting status, stage and custom fields. - Action **Get sequence** Returns one sequence in full: name, status, owner, schedule, settings, connected email and LinkedIn accounts, and its steps. - Action **List contact lists** Returns the contact lists you own plus those shared with your team, optionally filtered by name. - Action **List contacts** Returns your Reply contacts, optionally narrowed to one email address or LinkedIn profile URL. - Action **List inbox categories** Returns the inbox categories you can file conversations under. - Action **List Sequence Contacts** Returns the contacts enrolled in a sequence, with each contact's status, current step, added date, opt-out and call status. - Action **List sequences** Returns the sequences in your Reply account, optionally filtered by status, owner, folder, archive state or name. - Action **Mark as Finished** Marks one or more contacts as finished in every sequence they are in, so they receive no further sequence steps. - Action **Remove Person From Campaign** Removes a contact from a sequence so they stop progressing through it. The contact and their history stay in your Reply account. - Action **Send Test Webhook Event** Sends a test event from an existing Reply webhook subscription to its configured URL. ## Each app on its own - [ **Productive.io** Productive is a project management tool that includes everything you need to run a profitable agency.](https://apiant.ai/connections/productive-io) - [ **Reply** Reply is a sales automation platform that puts outreach on autopilot, while still making each communication...](https://apiant.ai/connections/reply) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Productive.io - [ **Productive.io to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-salesforce) - [ **Productive.io to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-slack) - [ **Productive.io to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-stripe) - [ **Productive.io to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-shopify) - [ **Productive.io to QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-quickbooks-online) - [ **Productive.io to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-trello) ## More into Reply - [ **HubSpot to Reply** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-reply) - [ **Google Sheets to Reply** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-reply) - [ **Gmail to Reply** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-reply) - [ **Google Calendar to Reply** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-reply) - [ **Google Drive to Reply** Google Drive is a cloud storage solution for uploading, sharing, and collaborating on files across devices...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-drive-to-reply) - [ **Mailchimp to Reply** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-reply) Questions ## Productive.io and Reply, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Productive.io? Any of Productive.io's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New time entry. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Reply when something happens in Productive.io? Any of Reply's 16 actions, including Create\Update Person, Send Test Webhook Event, Add contact list and Add note to contact. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Reply to Productive.io? Yes. When something happens in Reply, your agent can act in Productive.io too. This page covers both directions: Reply's triggers and Productive.io's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Productive.io or Reply? 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 Productive.io and Reply 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.