--- title: "Connect SOS Inventory to EmailOctopus - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in SOS Inventory, your agent runs \"Add Tag to Contact\" in EmailOctopus." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-emailoctopus" --- # Connect SOS Inventory to EmailOctopus When **New Customer** fires in [SOS Inventory](https://apiant.ai/connections/sos-inventory), your agent runs **Add Tag to Contact** in [EmailOctopus](https://apiant.ai/connections/emailoctopus). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. SOS Inventory **10** triggers SOS Inventory **26** actions EmailOctopus **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 SOS Inventory and EmailOctopus 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 SOS Inventory can start in EmailOctopus - When **New Customer** in SOS Inventory then **Add Tag to Contact** in EmailOctopus - When **New Estimate** in SOS Inventory then **Update Contact's Email Address** in EmailOctopus 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 SOS Inventory and EmailOctopus ## Triggers and actions 10 triggers · 42 actions - Trigger **New Customer** Triggers when a new customer is created. - Trigger **New Estimate** - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new invoice is created. - Trigger **New Item** - Trigger **New Purchase Order** Triggers when a new purchase order is created. - Trigger **New Sales Order** Triggers when a new sales order is created. - Trigger **New Sales Receipt** Triggers when a new sales receipt is created. - Trigger **New Shipment** Triggers when a new shipment is created. - Trigger **New Vendor** - Trigger **Updated Item Quantity** Triggers when an item quantity is updated. - Action **Add estimate** /api/v2/estimate. Creates an estimate. - Action **Add inventory adjustment** /api/v2/adjustment. Creates an inventory adjustment. - Action **Add invoice** /api/v2/invoice. Creates an invoice. - Action **Add item** /api/v2/item. Creates an item (inventory, non-inventory, service, assembly, kit etc.). - Action **Add purchase order** /api/v2/purchaseorder. Creates a purchase order. - Action **Add transfer** /api/v2/transfer. Creates an inventory transfer between locations. - Action **Add vendor** /api/v2/vendor. Creates a vendor. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a new customer - Action **Create Sales Order** Creates a new sales order - Action **Create Sales Receipt** Creates a new sales receipt - Action **Find Customer** Finds a customer - Action **Find Sales Order** Finds a sales order - Action **Find vendors** /api/v2/vendor with query filters. Searches vendors. - Action **Get customer** /api/v2/customer/{id}. Retrieves one customer by id. - Action **Get estimate** Returns one estimate by id, including its lines and custom fields. - Action **Get inventory adjustment** Returns one inventory adjustment by id, including its lines. - Action **Get invoice** Returns one invoice by id. - Action **Get item** /api/v2/item/{id}. Retrieves one item by id. - Action **Get purchase order** Returns one purchase order by id. - Action **Get sales order** /api/v2/salesorder/{id}. Retrieves one sales order. - Action **Get sales receipt** Returns one sales receipt by id, including its lines and custom fields. - Action **Get transfer** Retrieves a single inventory transfer by id, including its from/to locations and lines. - Action **List items** /api/v2/item. Lists items with query filters and paging. - Action **Update customer** /api/v2/customer/{id}. Updates a customer; requires syncToken. - Action **Update item** /api/v2/item/{id}. Updates an item; requires current syncToken. - Action **Update sales order** /api/v2/salesorder/{id}. Updates a sales order; requires syncToken. - Action **Add field** Creates a new custom field on an EmailOctopus list, such as a text, number, date or choice field that contacts can hold a value for. - Action **Add list** Creates a new mailing list in EmailOctopus and returns the list's details. - Action **Add tag** Creates a new tag on an EmailOctopus list so it can be applied to contacts. - Action **Add Tag to Contact** Adds a tag to an existing contact in an EmailOctopus list, leaving the contact's other tags unchanged. - Action **Delete contact** Permanently deletes a contact from an EmailOctopus list. - Action **Delete list** Deletes an EmailOctopus list, along with its contacts, fields and tags. - Action **Get campaign** Returns the details of an EmailOctopus campaign, including its status, subject, sender, recipient lists and HTML content. - Action **Get campaign summary report** Returns the summary report for an EmailOctopus campaign: how many contacts it was sent to, plus its bounce, open, click, complaint and unsubscribe counts. - Action **Get list** Returns the details of an EmailOctopus list, including its custom fields, tags and subscriber counts. - Action **List campaigns** Returns every campaign in your EmailOctopus account, including its status, subject, sender and the lists it was sent to. - Action **List lists** Returns all mailing lists in the EmailOctopus account, with each list's fields, tags, contact counts and dates. - Action **Remove Tag From Contact** Removes a tag from a contact on an EmailOctopus list, leaving the contact's other tags unchanged. Returns the updated contact. - Action **Start automation for contact** Starts an EmailOctopus automation for a contact. The automation must be one that is started through the API. - Action **Unsubscribe Contact** Unsubscribes a contact from an EmailOctopus list so they stop receiving campaigns, and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update Contact's Email Address** Changes the email address of an existing contact on an EmailOctopus list and returns the updated contact. - Action **Update list** Renames an existing EmailOctopus list and returns the updated list. ## Each app on its own - [ **SOS Inventory** SOS Inventory is an app that tracks inventory, provides order management and manufacturing tracking and...](https://apiant.ai/connections/sos-inventory) - [ **EmailOctopus** EmailOctopus is a simple to use email marketing platform that helps you grow your audience, send beautiful...](https://apiant.ai/connections/emailoctopus) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from SOS Inventory - [ **SOS Inventory to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-stripe) - [ **SOS Inventory to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-trello) - [ **SOS Inventory to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-zoom) - [ **SOS Inventory to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-twilio) - [ **SOS Inventory to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-typeform) - [ **SOS Inventory to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/sos-inventory-to-webflow) ## More into EmailOctopus - [ **HubSpot to EmailOctopus** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Salesforce to EmailOctopus** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Slack to EmailOctopus** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Google Sheets to EmailOctopus** Google Sheets](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Gmail to EmailOctopus** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-emailoctopus) - [ **Google Calendar to EmailOctopus** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-emailoctopus) Questions ## SOS Inventory and EmailOctopus, answered ### ### What can start an automation from SOS Inventory? Any of SOS Inventory's 10 triggers in the catalog, including New Customer, New Estimate, New Invoice and New Item. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in EmailOctopus when something happens in SOS Inventory? Any of EmailOctopus's 16 actions, including Update Contact's Email Address, Update list, Add field and Add list. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from EmailOctopus to SOS Inventory? EmailOctopus has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in SOS Inventory. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads EmailOctopus's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for SOS Inventory or EmailOctopus? 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 SOS Inventory and EmailOctopus 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.