# Connect shipcloud to VATlayer When **New Shipment Status** fires in [shipcloud](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud), your agent runs **Calculate price with VAT** in [VATlayer](https://apiant.ai/connections/vatlayer). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. shipcloud **1** trigger shipcloud **16** actions VATlayer **4** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want shipcloud and VATlayer to do together? Give your AI client this address. `https://mcp.apiant.ai` 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 shipcloud can start in VATlayer - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Calculate price with VAT** in VATlayer - When **New Shipment Status** in shipcloud then **Validate VAT number** in VATlayer 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 shipcloud and VATlayer ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 20 actions - Trigger **New Shipment Status** Triggers when a shipcloud shipment changes status (label created, picked up, in transit, delivered, deleted and more). - Action **Add address** Creates a new address in your shipcloud address book, ready to use as a shipment's sender or recipient. - Action **Add order** Creates an order in shipcloud with its delivery address and line items, so shipments can later be associated with it. - Action **Add pickup request** Requests a carrier pickup for your shipments, either all shipments not yet picked up or only the ones you list. - Action **Create Shipment** Creates a shipment in shipcloud and, optionally, books the shipping label with the carrier. - Action **Create Shipment Quote** Returns the price a carrier would charge for shipping a package between two addresses, without creating a shipment. - Action **Delete shipment** Deletes a shipment. Prepared shipments can be deleted any time; shipments with a label only before the carrier's cutoff time. - Action **Find Shipment** Finds shipments matching a reference number, tracking number, carrier, status or creation date range. - Action **Get address** Returns a saved address from your shipcloud address book by its id. - Action **Get order** Returns an order previously sent to shipcloud, including its delivery address and line items. - Action **Get pickup request** Returns a pickup request, including its carrier, pickup time window, pickup address and included shipments. - Action **Get shipment** Returns the details of a single shipment, including its carrier, tracking information, label and addresses. - Action **List addresses** Returns the addresses saved in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by name, company, street, city, postal code, country or phone. - Action **List carriers** Returns the carriers available to your shipcloud account, with their services, package types, additional services and label formats. - Action **List orders** Returns the orders previously created in your shipcloud account, including delivery address and line items. - Action **List shipments** Returns the shipments in your shipcloud account, optionally filtered by carrier, tracking number, reference number, service, type, source, tracking status or creation time. - Action **Update shipment** Updates an existing shipment, such as its addresses, package, carrier or service, and can create its shipping label. - Action **Calculate price with VAT** Calculates a VAT-compliant price for an amount in a given EU country, optionally using a reduced VAT rate for a type of goods or reversing a VAT-inclusive amount. - Action **Get VAT rate** Returns the standard and reduced VAT rates for a single EU country, chosen by country code or IP address. - Action **List VAT rates** Returns the standard and reduced VAT rates for every EU member state in one call. - Action **Validate VAT number** Checks whether an EU VAT number is valid and returns the company name and address registered to it. ## Each app on its own - [ **shipcloud** Shipcloud is a shipping service provider for creating shipping labels as well as tracking shipments.](https://apiant.ai/connections/shipcloud) - [ **VATlayer** VAT number validation](https://apiant.ai/connections/vatlayer) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from shipcloud - [ **shipcloud to Slack** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of VATlayer's 4 actions, including Calculate price with VAT, Get VAT rate, List VAT rates and Validate VAT number. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from VATlayer to shipcloud? VATlayer has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in shipcloud. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads VATlayer's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for shipcloud or VATlayer? 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. ### ### 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.