--- title: "Connect Stax to Direct Mail Manager - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"List Payment\" fires in Stax, your agent runs \"Add address\" in Direct Mail Manager." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-direct-mail-manager" --- # Connect Stax to Direct Mail Manager When **List Payment** fires in [Stax](https://apiant.ai/connections/stax), your agent runs **Add address** in [Direct Mail Manager](https://apiant.ai/connections/direct-mail-manager). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Stax **1** trigger Stax **17** actions Direct Mail Manager **12** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Stax and Direct Mail Manager 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 Stax can start in Direct Mail Manager - When **List Payment** in Stax then **Add address** in Direct Mail Manager - When **List Payment** in Stax then **Add address to mailing list** in Direct Mail Manager 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 Stax and Direct Mail Manager ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 29 actions - Trigger **List Payment** Triggers when a new payment transaction is recorded in Stax. - Action **Capture payment** Captures funds from a pre-authorized Stax transaction, turning the pre-authorization into a completed charge. Returns the updated transaction. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer record on the Stax merchant account and returns the new customer. - Action **Create Item** Creates an item in the merchant's Stax catalog and returns the new catalog item. - Action **Create Scheduled Invoice** Creates a scheduled invoice that automatically generates invoices for a customer on a one-time or recurring schedule, with optional autopay. Returns the new schedule. - Action **Delete Catalog Item** Deletes a catalog item from Stax. - Action **Delete payment method** Deletes a customer's saved payment method in Stax and returns the deleted payment method. - Action **Delete Scheduled Invoice** Deletes a recurring invoice schedule so it stops generating invoices. - Action **Find Customers** Searches your Stax customers by name, email, company, phone, address or other details and returns the matching customers. - Action **Find Invoices** Returns the invoices on the Stax merchant account that match the search criteria you supply, such as keywords, customer name, company, email, price, schedule or payment method. - Action **Find Items** Searches the merchant's catalog for items matching a name, code, price or other criteria and returns the matching items. - Action **Find Payment Methods** Returns all saved payment methods (cards and bank accounts) for a Stax customer. - Action **Find Payments** Returns the payments and other transactions on the merchant account that match the search criteria, such as keywords, customer, date range, amount, type or status. - Action **Make a Payment** Charges a customer's saved payment method for the amount you specify, or places a pre-authorization to capture later. Returns the resulting transaction. - Action **Refund payment** Refunds all or part of a settled Stax payment transaction back to the customer. - Action **Update customer** Updates an existing customer's contact details, address, notes and options in Stax, and returns the updated customer. - Action **Update invoice** Updates an existing unpaid invoice's customer, amounts, line items, memos and payment options, and returns the updated invoice. Fully paid invoices cannot be edited. - Action **Void payment** Voids a payment transaction in Stax before it settles, cancelling the charge. - Action **Add address** Adds a new recipient address to your Direct Mail Manager account, optionally placing it on one or more mailing lists, and returns the new address's id and verification result. - Action **Add address to mailing list** Adds an existing address to a mailing list. An address can belong to any number of mailing lists. - Action **Add mailing list** Creates a new mailing list in Direct Mail Manager and returns its ID. - Action **Delete address** Deletes an address from your Direct Mail Manager account. The deletion is a soft delete, so the address can be restored later; suppressed or locked addresses cannot be deleted. - Action **Delete mailing list** Permanently deletes a mailing list. Addresses that were on the list are kept. - Action **Get address** Returns a single address from Direct Mail Manager, including its verification status, deliverability, mailing lists, metadata and custom field values. - Action **Get mailing list** Returns a single mailing list by its ID, including its name, address count and mailable count. - Action **List addresses** Returns the addresses in your Direct Mail Manager account, optionally narrowed by name, location, verification status, creation date or a search term. - Action **List mailing lists** Returns the mailing lists in your Direct Mail Manager account, with each list's name, address counts and dates. Optionally filter by name, search text or creation date. - Action **Suppress address** Suppresses an address so no postcards are sent to it, no matter how many mailing lists it belongs to. Returns the updated address. - Action **Update address** Updates an existing address in Direct Mail Manager, including its recipient name, street address, mailing lists, metadata and custom field values. - Action **Update mailing list** Renames an existing mailing list in Direct Mail Manager and returns the updated mailing list. ## Each app on its own - [ **Stax** Stax makes it easy to accept payments in-person and online and provides businesses with the tools they need...](https://apiant.ai/connections/stax) - [ **Direct Mail Manager** Direct Mail Manager makes sending postcards, letters, and checks as easy as sending an email.](https://apiant.ai/connections/direct-mail-manager) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Stax - [ **Stax to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-stripe) - [ **Stax to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-trello) - [ **Stax to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-zoom) - [ **Stax to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-twilio) - [ **Stax to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-typeform) - [ **Stax to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/stax-to-webflow) ## More into Direct Mail Manager - [ **HubSpot to Direct Mail Manager** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-direct-mail-manager) - [ **Salesforce to Direct Mail Manager** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-direct-mail-manager) - [ **Slack to Direct Mail Manager** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-direct-mail-manager) - [ **Google Sheets to Direct Mail Manager** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-direct-mail-manager) - [ **Gmail to Direct Mail Manager** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-direct-mail-manager) - [ **Google Calendar to Direct Mail Manager** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-direct-mail-manager) Questions ## Stax and Direct Mail Manager, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Stax? Any of Stax's 1 trigger in the catalog, including List Payment. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Direct Mail Manager when something happens in Stax? Any of Direct Mail Manager's 12 actions, including Update address, Update mailing list, Add address and Add address to mailing list. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Direct Mail Manager to Stax? Direct Mail Manager has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Stax. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Direct Mail Manager's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Stax or Direct Mail Manager? 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 Stax and Direct Mail Manager 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.