--- title: "Connect Wheelbase to NGP VAN - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Customer\" fires in Wheelbase, your agent runs \"Add Contact History\" in NGP VAN." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-ngp-van" --- # Connect Wheelbase to NGP VAN When **New Customer** fires in [Wheelbase](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase), your agent runs **Add Contact History** in [NGP VAN](https://apiant.ai/connections/ngp-van). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running. Wheelbase **4** triggers Wheelbase **16** actions NGP VAN **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 Wheelbase and NGP VAN 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 Wheelbase can start in NGP VAN - When **New Customer** in Wheelbase then **Add Contact History** in NGP VAN - When **New Message** in Wheelbase then **Add Note to Contact** in NGP VAN 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 Wheelbase and NGP VAN ## Triggers and actions 4 triggers · 36 actions - Trigger **New Customer** Triggered when a new customer is created or a marketplace guest books with the dealer. - Trigger **New Message** Triggers when a new message appears in a renter message thread, from the renter, your team or the system. If several messages arrive between checks, it fires once for that thread with the latest message. - Trigger **New or Updated Reservation** Triggers when a reservation is created or updated in Wheelbase. - Trigger **New Rental** Triggers when a new rental vehicle is added to your Wheelbase fleet. Requires a dealer account. - Action **Approve booking** Approves a booking from your side. Returns the updated booking; for a dealer-created booking this sends the customer their quote, and once both sides approve, payment is captured and the booking is confirmed. - Action **Cancel booking** Cancels a confirmed booking and returns the booking after the cancellation. Cancelling may trigger a refund under the listing's cancel policy. - Action **Create Customer** Creates a customer in your Wheelbase account. If a customer with the same email already exists, that customer is updated and returned instead of creating a duplicate. - Action **Create Reservation** Creates a reservation on a listing for the given dates, in negotiating status, for an existing or new customer. Returns the reservation with its pricing, payment schedule and trip details. - Action **Decline booking** Declines a booking that has not yet been confirmed and returns the booking after the action. A booking that is already confirmed cannot be declined and must be cancelled instead. - Action **Find a Customer** Returns the customers that match a name, email, phone number or customer id, including dealer-managed customers and marketplace guests who have booked with the dealer. - Action **Find a Rental** Returns the rental listings that match a location, travel dates, guest count, vehicle type or instant-book setting. - Action **Get booking** Returns a single booking by its id, including the renter, listing, dates, line items, totals and payment status. An error occurs if the booking is not found. - Action **Get customer** Returns a single customer by id, including contact details, address, archived status and booking stats. An error occurs if the customer is not found. - Action **Get listing** Returns the full, up-to-date detail for a single Wheelbase listing, including pricing, location, delivery options, owner, vehicle details and images. - Action **List booking payments** Returns a booking's itemized money movement: customer charges, refunds and scheduled future charges, plus payouts made to your account. - Action **List bookings** Returns the bookings your Wheelbase account participates in as owner or renter, optionally narrowed by status, customer or start date. - Action **List locations** Returns the dealer's pickup and drop-off locations, with each location's address, coordinates and weekly hours. - Action **Update customer** Updates the details of a customer your account manages, such as their name, contact details and address, and returns the updated customer. Marketplace customers cannot be edited. - Action **Update listing** Updates a listing's name, description, nightly price or instant-book setting, and returns the updated listing. - Action **Update Reservation** Updates the dates, guest count, discount code, insurance, delivery or add-ons on a reservation that has not yet been confirmed, and returns the updated reservation with its recalculated pricing. - Action **Add a Contribution** Creates a contribution (donation) for a contact in NGP VAN, credited to a designation. - Action **Add Activist Codes** Applies or removes one or more activist codes on a person in NGP VAN. - Action **Add Canvass Responses** Records a canvass interaction on a person in NGP VAN: either a result code such as Not Home, or script responses such as activist codes, survey answers and volunteer activities. - Action **Add Contact History** Records a contact attempt (contact history) on a person in NGP VAN with a result code such as Not Home or Wrong Number, plus optional context like contact type, date and phone. - Action **Add Note to Contact** Adds a free-text note to a person in NGP VAN, optionally with a note category and a contact history record. - Action **Add Survey Responses** Records one or more survey question answers on a person in VAN, optionally with details of how and when they were canvassed. - Action **Create Financial Batch** Creates a financial batch in NGP VAN for grouping contributions under a designation. - Action **Create or Update Contact With a Contribution** Finds a matching contact (creating one if none exists, otherwise updating it) and records a contribution for that contact. Returns the contact's VAN ID and the new contribution ID. - Action **Delete code from contact** Removes a single code (tag) from a contact in NGP VAN. - Action **Delete contact** Deletes (suppresses) a contact record in NGP VAN by its VANID. - Action **Find Contact** Finds the person in NGP VAN who matches the VAN ID, name, date of birth, phone numbers or email addresses you provide, and returns that person's full record. - Action **Find Financial Batch** Finds financial batches whose names contain the given text. - Action **Get contact** Returns a person record from NGP VAN by VAN ID, with optional phones, emails, addresses, custom fields and other details. - Action **List activist codes** Returns the activist codes available in your VAN committee, optionally filtered by status, name or type. - Action **List campaigns** Returns the campaigns in your NGP VAN account, with each campaign's name, type and status. - Action **List notes** Returns the notes recorded on a person (contact) in NGP VAN. - Action **Merge contacts** Merges a source contact into a target contact, keeping the target's values on conflicts and deleting the source. - Action **Subscribe Email** Finds or creates a contact by email address and marks that email as subscribed. - Action **Tag a Contact** Applies a tag or source code to an existing contact. - Action **Update note** Updates the text, view restriction and category of an existing note on a person in NGP VAN. ## Each app on its own - [ **Wheelbase** All-in-one rentals suite that combines rental management software with $1M in insurance coverage.](https://apiant.ai/connections/wheelbase) - [ **NGP VAN** NGP VAN is the leading technology provider to Democratic and progressive campaigns and organizations...](https://apiant.ai/connections/ngp-van) Reviews ## What our customers say ## More from Wheelbase - [ **Wheelbase to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-zoom) - [ **Wheelbase 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/wheelbase-to-wix) - [ **Wheelbase to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-linkedin) - [ **Wheelbase to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-facebook) - [ **Wheelbase to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-anthropic) - [ **Wheelbase to Supabase** Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service providing a Postgres database, authentication, storage, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/wheelbase-to-supabase) ## More into NGP VAN - [ **HubSpot to NGP VAN** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-ngp-van) - [ **Salesforce to NGP VAN** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-ngp-van) - [ **Slack to NGP VAN** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-ngp-van) - [ **Google Sheets to NGP VAN** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-ngp-van) - [ **Gmail to NGP VAN** Gmail is Google’s email service, featuring spam protection, search functions, and seamless integration with...](https://apiant.ai/connect/gmail-to-ngp-van) - [ **Google Calendar to NGP VAN** Google Calendar is a time management tool providing scheduling features, event reminders, and integration...](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-calendar-to-ngp-van) Questions ## Wheelbase and NGP VAN, answered ### ### What can start an automation from Wheelbase? Any of Wheelbase's 4 triggers in the catalog, including New Customer, New Message, New or Updated Reservation and New Rental. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one. ### ### What can your agent do in NGP VAN when something happens in Wheelbase? Any of NGP VAN's 20 actions, including Create Financial Batch, Create or Update Contact With a Contribution, Update note and Add a Contribution. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships. ### ### Can it also run from NGP VAN to Wheelbase? NGP VAN has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Wheelbase. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads NGP VAN's API documentation and adds it. ### ### Do I have to build a connector for Wheelbase or NGP VAN? 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 Wheelbase and NGP VAN 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.