--- title: "Connect QuickBooks Online to Award Force - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New bill\" fires in QuickBooks Online, your agent runs \"Create Review Task\" in Award Force." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-award-force" --- # Connect QuickBooks Online to Award Force When **New bill** fires in [QuickBooks Online](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online), your agent runs **Create Review Task** in [Award Force](https://apiant.ai/connections/award-force). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. QuickBooks Online **11** triggers QuickBooks Online **43** actions Award Force **15** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want QuickBooks Online and Award Force to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What QuickBooks Online can start in Award Force - When **New bill** in QuickBooks Online then **Create Review Task** in Award Force - When **New customer** in QuickBooks Online then **Create User** in Award Force 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 QuickBooks Online and Award Force ## Triggers and actions 11 triggers · 58 actions - Trigger **New bill** Polls for newly created bills (accounts payable), most recent first. - Trigger **New customer** Polls for newly created customers, most recent first. - Trigger **New estimate** Fires when a new estimate is created in QuickBooks Online. - Trigger **New invoice** Polls for newly created invoices, most recent first. - Trigger **New or updated customer** Fires when a QuickBooks customer is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New or updated estimate** Fires when a QuickBooks estimate is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated invoice** Fires when a QuickBooks invoice is created or edited — line items, amounts, due date, or status. - Trigger **New or updated item** Fires when a QuickBooks product or service item is created or edited. - Trigger **New or updated vendor** Fires when a QuickBooks vendor is created or any of its details change. - Trigger **New paid invoice** Polls for invoices that are fully paid (Balance = 0), most recently updated first. - Trigger **New payment** Polls for newly created customer payments, most recent first. - Action **Create account** Create an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts — name, account type, and detail type. - Action **Create bill** Creates a new bill (accounts payable) for a vendor with a single account-based line item. - Action **Create credit memo** Creates a new credit memo for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create customer** Creates a new customer in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Create estimate** Create a QuickBooks Online estimate (quote) for a customer. - Action **Create expense (purchase)** Creates a new expense (Purchase) paid from a bank/credit-card account with one account-based line. - Action **Create item (product/service)** Creates a new product or service item. - Action **Create journal entry** Create a QuickBooks journal entry with balanced debit and credit lines against the chart of accounts. - Action **Create payment** Records a customer payment, optionally applied against a specific invoice. - Action **Create sales receipt** Creates a new sales receipt for a customer with a single line item. - Action **Create vendor** Creates a new vendor in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Delete bill** Permanently delete a QuickBooks bill by Id. - Action **Delete credit memo** Permanently delete a QuickBooks credit memo by Id. - Action **Delete estimate** Permanently delete a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Delete invoice** Permanently delete a QuickBooks invoice by Id. Unlike voiding, this removes the transaction entirely. - Action **Delete sales receipt** Permanently delete a QuickBooks sales receipt by Id. - Action **Find account by name** Look up an account in the QuickBooks chart of accounts by its name. - Action **Find customer by name** Searches for a customer by display name and returns its Id and SyncToken. - Action **Find invoice by number** Look up a QuickBooks invoice by its document number (the invoice number customers see) rather than its internal Id. - Action **Find item by name** Look up a QuickBooks product or service item by its name. - Action **Find vendor by name** Look up a QuickBooks Online vendor by display name. - Action **Get bill balance** Returns the outstanding balance for a bill by its Id. - Action **Get customer by ID** Retrieves a single customer by its Id. - Action **Get estimate by ID** Retrieve a QuickBooks Online estimate by its ID. - Action **Get estimate PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks estimate by Id. - Action **Get invoice by ID** Retrieves a single invoice by its Id, including its balance. - Action **Get invoice PDF** Download the rendered PDF of a QuickBooks invoice by Id, for emailing or archiving. - Action **List accounts** List the accounts in the QuickBooks chart of accounts, with their type, detail type, and current balance. - Action **List attachments** List the files attached to a QuickBooks transaction or record, with their download links. - Action **List employees** List employees recorded in QuickBooks Online. - Action **List items** List products and services (items) defined in QuickBooks Online. - Action **Pay bill** Records a bill payment against a vendor bill, paid from the specified bank/credit-card account. - Action **Run query** Runs an arbitrary read-only QuickBooks Online query (QBO SQL-like syntax) and returns the raw QueryResponse. - Action **Send estimate** Email a QuickBooks Online estimate to the customer. - Action **Send invoice** Emails an invoice to the supplied email address (or the invoice's billing email if omitted). - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer (sparse update). Requires the customer Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Update estimate** Update an existing QuickBooks estimate by Id, changing only the fields supplied. - Action **Update invoice** Update an existing QuickBooks invoice by Id — a sparse update that changes only the fields supplied and leaves the rest of the invoice intact. - Action **Update item** Update an existing QuickBooks product or service item by Id — name, description, price, income account, or active flag. - Action **Update vendor** Update an existing QuickBooks vendor by Id — contact details, billing address, terms, or active flag. - Action **Upload attachment** Upload a file to QuickBooks and attach it to a transaction or record — a receipt on an expense, a contract on an invoice. - Action **Void invoice** Voids an existing invoice. Requires the invoice Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Void payment** Voids an existing customer payment. Requires the payment Id and current SyncToken. - Action **Create Assignment** Assigns entries to judges under a score set and judging rounds. Creates one assignment for each entry and judge pairing, or updates an existing one, and processes the request in the background. - Action **Create Review Task** Creates a review task that pairs an entry with a review stage, and returns the new task with its reviewers. - Action **Create User** Creates a user in the Award Force account, or adds an existing user from another account when the email or mobile already belongs to one. - Action **Get Assignment** Returns a single judging assignment, including its entry, judge or role, rounds, score set, score and comments. - Action **Get Attachment** Returns an entry attachment by its token, including its file details, download link, tab and attachment field values. - Action **Get Entry** Returns a single entry, including its entrant, category, form field answers, attachments, contributors and statuses. - Action **Get User by Email** Returns the user with the given email address, including their profile field answers and roles. - Action **Get User by Slug** Returns a single Award Force user, including profile field answers, roles and preferences, by the user's slug. - Action **List Categories** Returns the program's categories, including the season and entry form each one belongs to. - Action **List Fields** Returns the form fields configured in your Award Force account, optionally filtered by resource, type, form, tab, category or season. - Action **Recuse Assignment** Recuses a judge from judging an entry, optionally limited to one score set, and prevents them being assigned to it in the future. - Action **Tag Entry** Adds one or more tags to an Award Force entry and returns the updated entry. - Action **Update User** Updates an existing user's name, contact details, password, roles, notification and cookie preferences, and user field values. - Action **Upload Entry Attachment** Uploads a file as a new attachment on an entry, under one of the program's Attachments tabs, optionally with values for that tab's attachment fields. - Action **Upload Entry File** Uploads a file into a file field on an Award Force entry and returns the stored file's token and link. ## Each app on its own - [ **QuickBooks Online** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connections/quickbooks-online) - [ **Award Force** Award Force is an awards management software for organisers of awards, grants, scholarships, and pitch...](https://apiant.ai/connections/award-force) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from QuickBooks Online - [ **QuickBooks Online to Salesforce** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-salesforce) - [ **QuickBooks Online to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-stripe) - [ **QuickBooks Online to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-shopify) - [ **QuickBooks Online to ActiveCampaign** ActiveCampaign is a marketing automation, email marketing, and CRM platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-activecampaign) - [ **QuickBooks Online to JIRA** Atlassian JIRA Cloud — issue tracking and project management.](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-jira) - [ **QuickBooks Online to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-zoom) ## More into Award Force - [ **HubSpot to Award Force** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-award-force) - [ **Salesforce to Award Force** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-award-force) - [ **Slack to Award Force** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-award-force) - [ **Google Sheets to Award Force** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-award-force) - [ **Gmail to Award Force** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-award-force) - [ **Google Calendar to Award Force** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-award-force) Questions ## QuickBooks Online and Award Force, answered ### ### What can start an automation from QuickBooks Online? Any of QuickBooks Online's 11 triggers in the catalog, including New bill, New customer, New estimate and New invoice. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Award Force when something happens in QuickBooks Online? Any of Award Force's 15 actions, including Create Assignment, Create Review Task, Create User and Update User. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Award Force to QuickBooks Online? Award Force has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in QuickBooks Online. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Award Force's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for QuickBooks Online or Award Force? 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 QuickBooks Online and Award Force 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.