--- title: "Connect Timely Time Tracking to Payaca - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Client\" fires in Timely Time Tracking, your agent runs \"Add invoice\" in Payaca." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-payaca" --- # Connect Timely Time Tracking to Payaca When **New Client** fires in [Timely Time Tracking](https://apiant.ai/connections/timely-time-tracking), your agent runs **Add invoice** in [Payaca](https://apiant.ai/connections/payaca). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Timely Time Tracking **8** triggers Timely Time Tracking **19** actions Payaca **14** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want Timely Time Tracking and Payaca to do together? 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[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp) Example flows ## What Timely Time Tracking can start in Payaca - When **New Client** in Timely Time Tracking then **Add invoice** in Payaca - When **New or Updated Person** in Timely Time Tracking then **Get customer** in Payaca 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 Timely Time Tracking and Payaca ## Triggers and actions 8 triggers · 33 actions - Trigger **New Client** Triggered when a new client is created - Trigger **New or Updated Person** Triggered when a person is created or updated in Timely - Trigger **New or Updated Project** Triggers when a project is created or updated. - Trigger **New or Updated Time Entry** Triggers when time entries are created or updated. - Trigger **New Project** Triggered when a new project is created - Trigger **New Time Entry** Triggered when a new time entry is created - Trigger **New Workspace** Triggers when a workspace is created. - Trigger **Project Updated (Only Admin Users)** Triggers when any project is updated in Timely. Fires for ALL project changes (name, budget, rate, archive, labels, users, etc. Can only be used by Timely Admin users. WARNING: avoid chaining this trigger to actions that write back to the same project (e. g. via "Update Project Name") in the source system without a guard — that can create an infinite update loop. - Action **Add tag** Create a tag. - Action **Create Client** Creates a Client - Action **Create Person** Creates a new person in the workspace. - Action **Create Project** Creates a project. - Action **Create Task** Creates a task. - Action **Delete project** Delete a project. - Action **Delete time entry** Delete a time entry. - Action **Find Client** Returns the clients in a Timely workspace whose name matches the given text. - Action **Find Project** Returns the projects whose name contains the specified text. - Action **Find Tag List and Tag** Finds a tag list and a specific tag if specified. - Action **Find time entries by criteria** Search time entries by date range, user, project. - Action **Find User** Finds a User - Action **Get Task** Retrieves a single task (forecast) by its id. - Action **Log Time Entry** Logs a new time entry against a project. - Action **Start timer** Start the timer on a time entry. - Action **Stop timer** Stop the running timer on a time entry. - Action **Update client** Update a client. - Action **Update Project Name** Updates only the name of an existing project. Look up the project by Timely Project ID or by External ID (recommended when the source-of-truth system stores the Timely external_id, e.g. NetSuite). - Action **Update time entry** Update a logged time entry. - Action **Add invoice** Creates an invoice against a Payaca project for a fixed amount, a percentage of the accepted project value, or everything still payable, and can optionally send it or mark it as sent. - Action **Add payment** Records a payment against a Payaca project, optionally reconciling it to a specific invoice and emailing the customer a receipt. Returns the created payment and how it was reconciled. - Action **Add project note** Adds one or more notes to a Payaca project and returns the notes that were created. - Action **Add proposal** Creates a proposal on a Payaca project, with its line items, optional payment schedule and any grants. Returns the new proposal with its totals. - Action **Get customer** Returns a customer by id, including their contacts, addresses, custom field values and tags. - Action **Get invoice** Returns a Payaca invoice by its ID, including its status, totals, line items and linked project. An error occurs if the invoice is not found. - Action **Get project** Returns a project by its id, including its customer, pipeline stage, site address, custom fields, totals, grants and expected payments. - Action **Get scheduled event** Returns a single scheduled event, including its times, location, customer, project, assignees, notes, tags and contacts to notify. An error occurs if the event is not found. - Action **List customers** Returns all customers in the Payaca account, optionally narrowed to those with a contact on a given email address or phone number. - Action **List pipelines** Returns all pipelines in the Payaca account, including each pipeline's stages in order. - Action **List projects** Returns the projects in the Payaca account, optionally only those belonging to one customer. - Action **Mark proposal as accepted** Marks a proposal that was already sent to the customer as accepted and returns the updated proposal. - Action **Update project** Updates the custom field values on an existing project and returns the updated project. Service-type projects cannot be updated. - Action **Update scheduled event** Updates the name, description, start time or end time of an existing scheduled event, and returns the updated event. ## Each app on its own - [ **Timely Time Tracking** Timely Time Tracking automates company time tracking, so everyone can focus on the work that matters.](https://apiant.ai/connections/timely-time-tracking) - [ **Payaca** Send professional quotes and invoices, manage customers and pricing, and take payment.](https://apiant.ai/connections/payaca) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Timely Time Tracking - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Zelothorn** Zelothorn publishes plain-English explanations of US public companies built from SEC filings and earnings...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-zelothorn) - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-trello) - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-zoom) - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Twilio** Cloud communications platform for sending SMS/MMS messages, making and managing voice calls, and looking up...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-twilio) - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Typeform** Build and publish online forms, surveys, and quizzes with Typeform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-typeform) - [ **Timely Time Tracking to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/timely-time-tracking-to-webflow) ## More into Payaca - [ **HubSpot to Payaca** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-payaca) - [ **Salesforce to Payaca** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-payaca) - [ **Slack to Payaca** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in Payaca when something happens in Timely Time Tracking? Any of Payaca's 14 actions, including Update project, Update scheduled event, Add invoice and Add payment. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from Payaca to Timely Time Tracking? Payaca has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Timely Time Tracking. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Payaca's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Timely Time Tracking or Payaca? 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 Timely Time Tracking and Payaca 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.