--- title: "Connect Productive.io and Sage Sales Management - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New time entry\" fires in Productive.io, your agent runs \"Create Contact\" in Sage Sales Management." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/productive-io-to-sage-sales-management" --- # Connect Productive.io and Sage Sales Management When **New time entry** fires in [Productive.io](https://apiant.ai/connections/productive-io), your agent runs **Create Contact** in [Sage Sales Management](https://apiant.ai/connections/sage-sales-management), or **Account Updated** in Sage Sales Management 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 Sage Sales Management **12** triggers Sage Sales Management **33** 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 Sage Sales Management 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. 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Productive.io and Sage Sales Management can do together ### From Productive.io to Sage Sales Management - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Create Contact** in Sage Sales Management - When **New time entry** in Productive.io then **Create or Update Contact** in Sage Sales Management ### From Sage Sales Management to Productive.io - When **Account Updated** in Sage Sales Management then **Add Comment to Deal** in Productive.io - When **Activity Updated** in Sage Sales Management 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 Sage Sales Management ## Triggers and actions 13 triggers · 67 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 **Account Updated** Fires when an existing account (company) is updated in Sage Sales Management. - Trigger **Activity Updated** Triggers when an activity is updated. - Trigger **Calendar Item Updated** Fires when an existing calendar item (appointment or task) is updated in Sage Sales Management. - Trigger **Contact Updated** Triggers when a contact is created or updated in Sage Sales Management. Returns the contact's name, email and phone details, linked account, sales rep, address and update timestamps. - Trigger **New Account** Triggers when a new account is created. - Trigger **New Activity** Triggers when a new activity is created. - Trigger **New Calendar Item** Triggers when a new calendar item is created. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggers when a new contact is created. - Trigger **New Opportunity** Triggers when a new opportunity is created. - Trigger **New Sales Order** Triggers when a new sales order is created. - Trigger **Opportunity Updated** Triggers when an opportunity is updated. - Trigger **Sales Order Updated** Triggers when a sales order is updated. - Action **Create Account** Creates a new account (company) in Sage Sales Management with its contact details, address, owner and classification IDs. Returns the new account's ID. - Action **Create Activity** Logs a new activity (a call, visit or note) against an account in Sage Sales Management, optionally tied to an opportunity and a sales rep. Returns the new activity's ID. - Action **Create Calendar Item** Creates a calendar appointment or task in Sage Sales Management, optionally linked to an account, contact and sales rep. Returns the new calendar entry's ID. - Action **Create Contact** Creates a new contact person in Sage Sales Management, optionally linked to an account and a sales rep. Returns the new contact's ID. - Action **Create Entity** Creates a record of any Sage Sales Management type (account, contact, opportunity, sales order, activity, calendar entry and so on) from a JSON object of that type's own fields. Returns the new record's ID. - Action **Create Opportunity** Creates a new sales opportunity against an account in Sage Sales Management, with its value, currency, win probability, status and owner. Returns the new opportunity's ID. - Action **Create or Update Account** Finds an account by its exact company name in Sage Sales Management and updates it, or creates a new account when no match is found. Returns the account's ID and which of the two happened. - Action **Create or Update Contact** Finds a contact by email address in Sage Sales Management and updates it, or creates a new contact when no match is found. Returns the contact's ID and which of the two happened. - Action **Create Sales Order** Creates a sales order header for an account in Sage Sales Management, with its reference, total, currency, status, discounts and owner. Returns the new order's ID; order lines are added separately. - Action **Find Account** Returns the accounts in Sage Sales Management whose company name exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Account by Any Field** Returns the accounts in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look an account up by email, phone, VAT number, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Account by External ID** Returns the account in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that company. - Action **Find Contact** Returns the contacts in Sage Sales Management whose email address exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Contact by Any Field** Returns the contacts in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look a contact up by phone, last name, account, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Contact by External ID** Returns the contact in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that person. - Action **Find Entity** Searches any Sage Sales Management record type — accounts, contacts, opportunities, sales orders, activities and so on — for records where the field you name equals the value you give. - Action **Find Opportunity** Returns the opportunities in Sage Sales Management whose reference exactly matches the one you give, with the first match surfaced on its own for easy mapping. - Action **Find Opportunity by Any Field** Returns the opportunities in Sage Sales Management where the field you name equals the value you give, so you can look one up by account, status, owner, external ID or any other stored field. - Action **Find Opportunity by External ID** Returns the opportunity in Sage Sales Management carrying the external ID you give — the ID your own system uses for that deal. - Action **Get User** Returns one Sage Sales Management user by ID, with their name, email, login, phone, user type, manager, branch and active status. - Action **List Accounts** List accounts stored in Sage Sales Management, most recently updated first. - Action **List Branches** Returns every branch (office or environment) set up in Sage Sales Management, so you can pick the branch ID other operations need. - Action **List Countries** Returns every country Sage Sales Management knows about with its ID and ISO codes, so you can supply the country ID accounts and contacts expect. - Action **List Currencies** Returns every currency configured in Sage Sales Management with its ID, ISO code and symbol, so you can supply the currency ID opportunities and orders expect. - Action **List Timezones** Returns every time zone Sage Sales Management supports with its ID and IANA name, so you can supply the time zone ID branches expect. - Action **List Users** Returns the users (sales reps) in Sage Sales Management with their names, emails and IDs, so you can pick the sales-rep ID other operations need. - Action **Update Account** Updates an existing account in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Activity** Updates an existing activity in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Calendar Item** Updates an existing calendar appointment or task in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Contact** Updates an existing contact in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you fill in are sent, so anything you leave blank keeps its current value. - Action **Update Entity** Updates a record of any Sage Sales Management type (account, contact, opportunity, sales order, activity, calendar entry and so on) from a JSON object of the fields you want changed. Fields you leave out keep their current values. - Action **Update Opportunity** Updates an existing opportunity in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you supply are changed; anything left blank is left as it is on the record. - Action **Update Sales Order** Updates an existing sales order in Sage Sales Management. Only the fields you supply are changed; anything left blank stays as it is on the order. ## 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) - [ **Sage Sales Management** Sage Sales Management is a mobile CRM that allows you to measure, analyse and improve your sales team’s...](https://apiant.ai/connections/sage-sales-management) 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. 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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 Sage Sales Management when something happens in Productive.io? Any of Sage Sales Management's 33 actions, including Create Account, Create Activity, Create Calendar Item and Create Contact. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Sage Sales Management to Productive.io? Yes. When something happens in Sage Sales Management, your agent can act in Productive.io too. This page covers both directions: Sage Sales Management's triggers and Productive.io's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Productive.io or Sage Sales Management? 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 Sage Sales Management 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.