---
title: "Connect Teachworks and YNAB - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Lesson Completed\" fires in Teachworks, your agent runs \"Create Transaction\" in YNAB."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/teachworks-to-ynab"
---

# Connect Teachworks and YNAB

When **Lesson Completed** fires in [Teachworks](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks), your agent runs **Create Transaction** in [YNAB](https://apiant.ai/connections/ynab), or **Goal Completed** in YNAB to **Add payment allocation** in Teachworks. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Teachworks **17** triggers Teachworks **28** actions YNAB **14** triggers YNAB **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 Teachworks and YNAB to do together?

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### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

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Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

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### 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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Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

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### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

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### 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.

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### Any other MCP client

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Example flows

## What Teachworks and YNAB can do together

### From Teachworks to YNAB

- When **Lesson Completed** in Teachworks then **Create Transaction** in YNAB
- When **New Availability** in Teachworks then **Budget to a Category** in YNAB

### From YNAB to Teachworks

- When **Goal Completed** in YNAB then **Add payment allocation** in Teachworks
- When **New Account** in YNAB then **Add profile note** in Teachworks

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 Teachworks and YNAB

## Triggers and actions 31 triggers · 32 actions

- Trigger

**Lesson Completed**

Triggers when a lesson is marked completed in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Availability**

Triggers when a new availability block is added for a teacher or employee.

- Trigger

**New Cost Premium**

Triggers when a new cost premium is created in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Employee**

Triggers when a new employee (teacher or staff member) is added in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Invoice**

Triggers when a new invoice is created in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Lesson**

Triggers when a new lesson is scheduled in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Lesson Participant**

Triggers when a student is added to a lesson as a new lesson participant.

- Trigger

**New Location**

Triggers when a new location (or sub-location) is added in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Other Event**

Triggers when a new other event (such as an open house or staff meeting) is added to the Teachworks calendar.

- Trigger

**New Package Balance Alert**

Triggers when a customer's package balance is created or recalculated in Teachworks (for example after lessons use package units).

- Trigger

**New Payment**

Triggers when a new payment is recorded in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Refund**

Triggers when a new refund is recorded against a customer's payment in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Service**

Triggers when a new service is created in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Student**

Triggers when a new student is added in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Unavailability**

Triggers when a new unavailability (time off) is added for an employee in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Wage Payment**

Triggers when a new wage payment to an employee is recorded in Teachworks.

- Trigger

**New Wage Tier**

Triggers when a new wage tier is created in Teachworks.

- Action

**Add location**

Creates a new location in your Teachworks account.

- Action

**Add payment allocation**

Allocates part or all of a payment to an invoice.

- Action

**Add profile note**

Creates a profile note on a customer (family) or student.

- Action

**Add student to lesson**

Adds a student to an existing scheduled lesson and returns the updated lesson with its participants.

- Action

**Add wage payment**

Creates a wage payment for an employee in Teachworks.

- Action

**Complete lesson**

Completes a Teachworks lesson: sets attendance status for the lesson or each participant, and records charges and lesson notes.

- Action

**Create Child Student**

Creates a child student who belongs to a family, with their fees billed to that family.

- Action

**Create Employee**

Creates a new employee (teacher or staff member) in Teachworks.

- Action

**Create Family**

Creates a family customer in Teachworks. Families are billed for the lessons of their child students.

- Action

**Create Independent Student**

Creates an independent student in Teachworks: a directly billed customer together with its associated student record.

- Action

**Create Lesson**

Creates a single lesson in Teachworks with a teacher, service, students, location and start/end date and time.

- Action

**Create Payment**

Creates a payment received from a customer (family or independent student).

- Action

**Find Child Student**

Finds child students (students belonging to a family) matching the name, email, phone or other details you supply.

- Action

**Find Customer**

Finds customers (families and independent students) matching name, email, phone, address, type or status, and returns the first match plus all matches.

- Action

**Find Employee**

Finds employees (teachers and staff) matching the name, email, location, status or subject you give, and returns the first match plus the full list.

- Action

**Find Family**

Finds family customers in Teachworks matching the name, email, phone, address or status you supply, returning the first match and the full list.

- Action

**Find Independent Student (Full Details)**

Finds independent-student customers matching the search criteria and returns their full customer profile, including the student details and custom fields.

- Action

**Find Independent Student (Student Details)**

Finds independent students matching name, email, phone, school, status or other criteria and returns their student details.

- Action

**Find Payment**

Finds payments by customer and/or payment date, returning the first match and the full list of matching payments.

- Action

**Get lesson**

Returns a single lesson, including its time, teacher, service, location and participants.

- Action

**List lessons**

Returns lessons in your Teachworks account, optionally filtered by teacher, student, location, service, status or date range.

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates an existing customer in Teachworks — a family or an independent student — including contact details, status, notification preferences and invoice schedules.

- Action

**Update Customer Custom Field Values**

Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks customer.

- Action

**Update employee**

Updates an existing employee's profile, wage settings and user permissions in Teachworks.

- Action

**Update lesson**

Updates an existing lesson's details, schedule, cost override and participants, and returns the updated lesson.

- Action

**Update payment**

Updates an existing payment's customer, date, amount, description, payment method or Stripe transaction ID.

- Action

**Update student**

Updates an existing child student in Teachworks, such as their name, contact details, status, billing and default teachers.

- Action

**Update Student Custom Field Values**

Sets the values of up to 10 custom profile fields on a Teachworks student.

- Trigger

**Category Overspent**

Triggers when a category is overspent and has a negative balance.

- Trigger

**Goal Completed**

Triggers when a goal is completed.

- Trigger

**Low Account Balance**

Triggers when a Checking or Savings account balance drops below a certain amount during a month.

- Trigger

**Low Category Balance**

Triggers when a category balance drops below a certain amount.

- Trigger

**New Account**

Triggers when a new account is created.

- Trigger

**New Category**

Triggers when a new category is created.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Account**

Triggers when a new account is created or an existing account is updated.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Category**

Triggers when a new category is created or an existing category is updated.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Scheduled Transaction**

Triggers when a scheduled transaction is created or updated.

- Trigger

**New or Updated Transaction**

Triggers when a transaction is created or updated.

- Trigger

**New Payee**

Triggers when a new payee is created.

- Trigger

**New Transaction**

Triggers when a new transaction is created.

- Trigger

**Spending in Account**

Triggers when a new outflow transaction is created in an account.

- Trigger

**Spending in Category**

Triggers when a new outflow transaction is assigned to a category.

- Action

**Budget to a Category**

Budgets to a category in the current month.

- Action

**Create Transaction**

Creates a new transaction.

- Action

**Get Current Budget Month**

Returns the current month of the last-used budget, including Age of Money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.

- Action

**Get Current Month Summary**

Returns the current budget month's summary, including age of money, income, budgeted, activity, and to-be-budgeted amounts.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Teachworks** Teachworks is a simple, easy-to-use system that education companies use for managing teachers, students...](https://apiant.ai/connections/teachworks)
- [ **YNAB** YNAB is an award-winning personal finance app and method that helps you gain total control of your money.](https://apiant.ai/connections/ynab)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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Questions

## Teachworks and YNAB, answered

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### What can start an automation from Teachworks?

Any of Teachworks's 17 triggers in the catalog, including Lesson Completed, New Availability, New Cost Premium and New Employee. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in YNAB when something happens in Teachworks?

Any of YNAB's 4 actions, including Create Transaction, Budget to a Category, Get Current Budget Month and Get Current Month Summary. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from YNAB to Teachworks?

Yes. When something happens in YNAB, your agent can act in Teachworks too. This page covers both directions: YNAB's triggers and Teachworks's actions are listed here as well.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Teachworks or YNAB?

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 Teachworks and YNAB 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.
