--- title: "Connect VideoDB to TaxJar - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Video Uploaded & Indexed\" fires in VideoDB, your agent runs \"Create a Customer\" in TaxJar." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-taxjar" --- # Connect VideoDB to TaxJar When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** fires in [VideoDB](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb), your agent runs **Create a Customer** in [TaxJar](https://apiant.ai/connections/taxjar). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. VideoDB **1** trigger VideoDB **21** actions TaxJar **20** actions What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it. ## What do you want VideoDB and TaxJar 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 VideoDB can start in TaxJar - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create a Customer** in TaxJar - When **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** in VideoDB then **Create an Order Transaction** in TaxJar 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 VideoDB and TaxJar ## Triggers and actions 1 trigger · 41 actions - Trigger **New Video Uploaded & Indexed** Triggered when a new video is uploaded to a VideoDB collection. - Action **Add Collection** Creates a new VideoDB collection to organize videos and scope search. - Action **Add Overlay / Watermark** Places an image (logo or watermark) over a VideoDB video at a chosen time and position, and returns a stream URL for the result. - Action **Ask Video (Q&A)** Get the Q&A for a video. - Action **Auto-Chapter Video** Splits a video into scenes (chapters) using shot detection or fixed time segments. The job runs in the background; the result is available at the returned output URL. - Action **Auto-Dub Video** Starts an AI dubbing job that replaces a video's soundtrack with a version in another language, preserving the speaker's voice characteristics. - Action **Check Job Status** Checks the progress of a long-running VideoDB job (dubbing, generation, transcoding, indexing) and returns its status and, once finished, its result. - Action **Create Highlight Clip** Starts an AI clip-generation job on an indexed video from a natural-language prompt describing the moments to include. - Action **Delete Video** Permanently delete a video and all its metadata, transcripts and indexes from VideoDB. - Action **Find Video Moment** Searches one indexed video for the moments matching a spoken-word or visual query, returning each match's start and end time, text and score. - Action **Generate Image** Generates an image from a text prompt using VideoDB's AI generation. Generation runs asynchronously; the result returns a job id and an address to check for the finished image. - Action **Generate Subtitles** Generates subtitles for a video using VideoDB service. - Action **Generate Video** Starts an AI video generation job from a text prompt and saves the result to a collection. - Action **Generate Voice-Over** Converts text into AI-generated speech (a voice-over audio asset) in a VideoDB collection. Generation runs as a job; check its result with Check Job Status or a callback URL. - Action **Get Collection** Retrieve the details of one VideoDB collection by its id. - Action **Get Meeting Assets** Get a meeting recording's status and recorded video URL. - Action **Get Transcript** Get the transcript of a video. - Action **Get Video Metadata** Get metadata for a video. - Action **List Collections** Retrieve all collections in your VideoDB account, including the default collection. - Action **List Videos** Lists the videos in a VideoDB collection. - Action **Summarize Video** Asks VideoDB's AI to summarize a video using your own instructions. Summarization usually runs as a background job: use Check Job Status with the returned job id to fetch the finished summary. - Action **Upload & Index Video** Uploads a video from a URL into a VideoDB collection, waits for the upload to finish, then starts indexing it (spoken words by default) and returns the indexing job. - Action **Calculate Sales Tax for an Order** Works out the sales tax due on an order from the ship-from and ship-to addresses, the order amount and its line items. - Action **Create a Customer** Creates a customer in TaxJar with their exemption type and the regions the exemption applies to. - Action **Create an Order Transaction** Records a completed order in TaxJar so it counts towards your sales tax reporting. - Action **Create a Refund Transaction** Records a refund against an existing order in TaxJar so your sales tax reporting stays accurate. - Action **Get Two-Letter ISO Code for Region** Looks up the two-letter code for a state, province or country by name, using TaxJar's own list of regions. - Action **List Categories** Returns TaxJar's product categories and the tax code to use for each one. - Action **List Customers** Returns the IDs of every customer in your TaxJar account. - Action **List Nexus Regions** Returns the states, provinces and countries where your TaxJar account has nexus and must collect tax. - Action **List Orders** Returns the IDs of the orders recorded in TaxJar, optionally limited to a date or date range. - Action **List Refunds** Returns the IDs of the refunds recorded in TaxJar, optionally limited to a date or date range. - Action **Rates for Location** Returns the sales tax rates that apply at a location, broken down by state, county and city. - Action **Show a Customer** Returns one customer from TaxJar, including their exemption type and exempt regions. - Action **Show Order** Returns one order recorded in TaxJar, including its addresses, totals and line items. - Action **Show Refund** Returns one refund recorded in TaxJar, including the order it applies to and the amounts refunded. - Action **Summarize Tax Rates for All Regions** Returns the minimum and average sales tax rate for every state, province and country TaxJar covers. - Action **Update a Customer** Updates a customer in TaxJar. Only the fields you supply are changed. - Action **Update an Order Transaction** Updates an order already recorded in TaxJar. Only the fields you supply are changed. - Action **Update a Refund Transaction** Updates a refund already recorded in TaxJar. Only the fields you supply are changed. - Action **Validate an Address** Checks a US address and returns TaxJar's corrected version of it, so tax is worked out on a clean address. - Action **Validate a VAT Number** Checks whether a VAT number is valid and returns the business name and address registered against it. ## Each app on its own - [ **VideoDB** VideoDB is an AI engine for video workflows—search scenes, cut clips, dub, subtitles, and apply GenAI effects.](https://apiant.ai/connections/videodb) - [ **TaxJar** TaxJar’s award-winning solution makes it easy to automate sales tax management, reporting and filing.](https://apiant.ai/connections/taxjar) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from VideoDB - [ **VideoDB to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-zoom) - [ **VideoDB to Webflow** Webflow is a professional website builder and CMS for designing, building, and launching responsive...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-webflow) - [ **VideoDB 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/videodb-to-wix) - [ **VideoDB to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-linkedin) - [ **VideoDB to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-facebook) - [ **VideoDB to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/videodb-to-anthropic) ## More into TaxJar - [ **HubSpot to TaxJar** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-taxjar) - [ **Salesforce to TaxJar** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-taxjar) - [ **Slack to TaxJar** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. 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Any of TaxJar's 20 actions, including Create a Customer, Create an Order Transaction, Create a Refund Transaction and Update a Customer. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from TaxJar to VideoDB? TaxJar has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in VideoDB. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads TaxJar's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for VideoDB or TaxJar? 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 VideoDB and TaxJar 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.