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title: "Connect Zoho Books to Fly.io Machines API - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"New bill\" fires in Zoho Books, your agent runs \"Create App\" in Fly.io Machines API."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-books-to-fly-io-machines-api"
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# Connect Zoho Books to Fly.io Machines API

When **New bill** fires in [Zoho Books](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books), your agent runs **Create App** in [Fly.io Machines API](https://apiant.ai/connections/fly-io-machines-api). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Zoho Books **6** triggers Zoho Books **18** actions Fly.io Machines API **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 Zoho Books and Fly.io Machines API to do together?

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### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

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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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### Cursor

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 Zoho Books can start in Fly.io Machines API

- When **New bill** in Zoho Books then **Create App** in Fly.io Machines API
- When **New Customer** in Zoho Books then **Create Machine** in Fly.io Machines API

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 Zoho Books and Fly.io Machines API

## Triggers and actions 6 triggers · 29 actions

- Trigger

**New bill**

Triggered when a new bill is created

- Trigger

**New Customer**

Triggers when a new customer is created.

- Trigger

**New Estimate**

Triggers when a new estimate is created.

- Trigger

**New Expense**

Triggers when an expense is created.

- Trigger

**New Item**

Triggers when a new item is created.

- Trigger

**New Sales Invoice**

Triggers when a new sales invoice is created.

- Action

**Add bill**

Creates a bill received from a vendor in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Add customer payment**

Record a customer payment.

- Action

**Add expense**

Create an expense.

- Action

**Create Customer**

Creates a new customer contact in a Zoho Books organization.

- Action

**Create Estimate**

Creates a new estimate.

- Action

**Create Item**

Creates a new item.

- Action

**Create Sales Invoice**

Creates a new sales invoice.

- Action

**Find customers by criteria**

Returns the customers in a Zoho Books organization that match the specified criteria (name, company, contact person, address, email, phone, status or free text).

- Action

**Find Invoice**

Returns up to 200 invoices that match the specified criteria, such as invoice number, customer, status or date range.

- Action

**Get Bill**

Returns one vendor bill from Zoho Books, including its number, vendor, status and total.

- Action

**Get customer**

Get a contact by id.

- Action

**Get Estimate**

Returns one estimate (quote) from Zoho Books, including its number, customer, status and total.

- Action

**Get Expense**

Returns one expense recorded in Zoho Books, including its amount, date and accounts.

- Action

**Get Item**

Returns one item from your Zoho Books item list, including its name, rate and description.

- Action

**Get sales invoice**

Retrieves the details of an existing invoice in Zoho Books.

- Action

**Update customer**

Updates an existing customer in Zoho Books. Only the fields you fill in are changed.

- Action

**Update item**

Update an item.

- Action

**Update sales invoice**

Updates an existing sales invoice in Zoho Books. The line items you send replace the invoice's line items.

- Action

**Create App**

Creates a new Fly.io app in the chosen organization and returns its id.

- Action

**Create Machine**

Creates a new Machine in a Fly.io app from the image and configuration you provide, and returns the created Machine.

- Action

**Create Volume**

Creates a persistent storage volume for a Fly.io app in the chosen region.

- Action

**Delete App**

Deletes a Fly.io app by its name.

- Action

**Delete Machine**

Deletes a Machine from a Fly.io app, optionally force-killing it if it is still running.

- Action

**Delete Volume**

Destroys a volume in a Fly.io app and returns the deleted volume's details.

- Action

**Extend Volume**

Extends a Fly.io volume to a larger size in gigabytes. Returns the updated volume and whether its Machine needs a restart.

- Action

**Start Machine**

Starts a stopped or suspended Machine in a Fly.io app.

- Action

**Stop Machine**

Stops a running Fly.io Machine in an app, optionally choosing the stop signal and how long to wait before it is killed.

- Action

**Suspend Machine**

Suspends a Machine in a Fly.io app so its next start can resume from a snapshot instead of a cold boot.

- Action

**Update Machine**

Updates a Fly.io Machine's configuration, such as its image, guest size, environment variables, services or restart policy, and returns the updated Machine.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Zoho Books** Zoho Books is cloud-based accounting software in which you can record, audit and analyze all financial...](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-books)
- [ **Fly.io Machines API** Fly.io Machines API is a low-level interface to deploy and manage lightweight VMs globally with fine-grained...](https://apiant.ai/connections/fly-io-machines-api)

Reviews

## What our customers say

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Questions

## Zoho Books and Fly.io Machines API, answered

###

### What can start an automation from Zoho Books?

Any of Zoho Books's 6 triggers in the catalog, including New bill, New Customer, New Estimate and New Expense. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

###

### What can your agent do in Fly.io Machines API when something happens in Zoho Books?

Any of Fly.io Machines API's 11 actions, including Create App, Create Machine, Create Volume and Update Machine. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Fly.io Machines API to Zoho Books?

Fly.io Machines API has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Zoho Books. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Fly.io Machines API's API documentation and adds it.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Zoho Books or Fly.io Machines API?

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 Zoho Books and Fly.io Machines API 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.
