--- title: "Connect TidyCal and Twilio - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Team\" fires in TidyCal, your agent runs \"Update Message\" in Twilio, or \"New Call\" in Twilio to \"Add contact\" in TidyCal." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-twilio" --- # Connect TidyCal and Twilio When **New Team** fires in [TidyCal](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal), your agent runs **Update Message** in [Twilio](https://apiant.ai/connections/twilio), or **New Call** in Twilio to **Add contact** in TidyCal. Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. TidyCal **1** trigger TidyCal **15** actions Twilio **4** triggers Twilio **11** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want TidyCal and Twilio 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 TidyCal and Twilio can do together ### From TidyCal to Twilio - When **New Team** in TidyCal then **Update Message** in Twilio - When **New Team** in TidyCal then **Schedule Message** in Twilio ### From Twilio to TidyCal - When **New Call** in Twilio then **Add contact** in TidyCal - When **New Incoming Call** in Twilio then **Update contact** in TidyCal 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 TidyCal and Twilio ## Triggers and actions 5 triggers · 26 actions - Trigger **New Team** Triggers when a new team you have access to appears in your TidyCal account. - Action **Add contact** Creates a new contact in your TidyCal account with a name, email and optional timezone. - Action **Add guest to booking** Adds a guest to an existing upcoming booking. The guest gets their own linked booking at the same time and location and receives a confirmation email. - Action **Cancel booking** Cancels a TidyCal booking, optionally with a reason and without notifying the booker and host. Returns the cancelled booking. - Action **Delete booking type** Deletes a booking type from your TidyCal account. Team-managed copies of a booking type cannot be deleted. - Action **Get booking** Returns a single TidyCal booking by its ID, including its contact, booking-question answers, payment, add-ons, refund status and hosts. - Action **Get booking type** Returns a single booking type, including its title, duration, price, booking URL and availability settings. - Action **Get contact** Returns a single TidyCal contact by its id, including name, email, phone number, timezone and timestamps. - Action **List available timeslots** Returns the open times a client can book for one of your booking types between two dates, with how many bookings each slot can still take. - Action **List bookings** Returns the bookings on your TidyCal account, optionally limited to a date range, to cancelled bookings only, or including team bookings. - Action **List booking types** Returns every booking type (event type) on the connected TidyCal account, including its title, duration, price and booking URL. - Action **List contacts** Returns the contacts in your TidyCal account, optionally only those whose name or email starts with given text. - Action **List teams** Returns the TidyCal teams the connected account has access to, with each team's id, name and created/updated times. - Action **Reschedule booking** Moves an existing TidyCal booking to a new start time, keeping the booking type's duration. Returns the updated booking. - Action **Update booking type** Updates an existing booking type in TidyCal. Only the details you fill in are changed; everything else keeps its current value. - Action **Update contact** Updates an existing TidyCal contact's name, email, phone number or timezone. Only the fields you fill in are changed. - Trigger **New Call** Polls for voice calls on your Twilio account. - Trigger **New Incoming Call** Fires instantly when the selected Twilio phone number receives a call. - Trigger **New Message Received** Polls for inbound SMS/MMS messages received by your Twilio account. - Trigger **New SMS received** Fires instantly when the selected Twilio phone number receives an SMS/MMS. Activating the automation points the number's incoming-message webhook at this automation; deactivating clears it. - Action **Delete Message** Deletes a message from your Twilio account's message logs. - Action **Find available phone numbers by criteria** Returns up to 50 phone numbers available to buy in a country that match the specified criteria (area code, pattern, capabilities, location). - Action **Get Call** Retrieves details of a single voice call by its Call SID. - Action **Get Message** Retrieves a single SMS/MMS message by its Message SID. - Action **List Calls** Lists voice calls on the account, optionally filtered by To, From, or status. - Action **List Messages** Lists SMS/MMS messages on the account, optionally filtered by To, From, or date sent. - Action **List Phone Numbers** Lists the Twilio phone numbers (incoming phone numbers) owned by your account. - Action **Lookup Phone Number** Looks up details (carrier, line type, caller name) for a phone number via the Twilio Lookup v2 API. - Action **Schedule Message** Schedules an SMS or MMS message to be sent later through one of your Messaging Services. A scheduled message can be canceled with Update Message until it is sent. - Action **Update Message** Updates a Twilio Message: replaces or redacts its text, or cancels a scheduled message that has not been sent yet. - Action **Update Phone Number** Update settings (voice/SMS URLs, friendly name) of an owned incoming phone number. ## Each app on its own - [ **TidyCal** TidyCal is simple and easy calendar management and booking tool.](https://apiant.ai/connections/tidycal) - [ **Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connections/twilio) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from TidyCal - [ **TidyCal to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-trello) - [ **TidyCal to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-zoom) - [ **TidyCal to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-typeform) - [ **TidyCal to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-webflow) - [ **TidyCal to Wix** The Wix website builder gives businesses of any size the tools to create, manage and grow a fully integrated...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-wix) - [ **TidyCal to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/tidycal-to-linkedin) ## More into Twilio - [ **HubSpot to Twilio** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-twilio) - [ **Salesforce to Twilio** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-twilio) - [ **Mailchimp to Twilio** Mailchimp marketing automation and email platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/mailchimp-to-twilio) - [ **Shopify to Twilio** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shopify-to-twilio) - [ **QuickBooks Online to Twilio** QuickBooks Online accounting — manage customers, invoices, bills, payments, vendors, expenses, and more via...](https://apiant.ai/connect/quickbooks-online-to-twilio) - [ **Pipedrive to Twilio** Pipedrive is a sales CRM and pipeline management tool.](https://apiant.ai/connect/pipedrive-to-twilio) Questions ## TidyCal and Twilio, answered ### ### What can start an automation from TidyCal? Any of TidyCal's 1 trigger in the catalog, including New Team. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Twilio when something happens in TidyCal? Any of Twilio's 11 actions, including Update Message, Update Phone Number, Find available phone numbers by criteria and Get Call. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Twilio to TidyCal? Yes. When something happens in Twilio, your agent can act in TidyCal too. This page covers both directions: Twilio's triggers and TidyCal's actions are listed here as well. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for TidyCal or Twilio? 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 TidyCal and Twilio 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.