--- title: "Connect Zoho Invoice to Payaca - APIANT.ai" description: "When \"New Contact\" fires in Zoho Invoice, your agent runs \"Add invoice\" in Payaca." canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-payaca" --- # Connect Zoho Invoice to Payaca When **New Contact** fires in [Zoho Invoice](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-invoice), 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. Zoho Invoice **9** triggers Zoho Invoice **14** 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 Zoho Invoice and Payaca 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 Zoho Invoice can start in Payaca - When **New Contact** in Zoho Invoice then **Add invoice** in Payaca - When **New Contact Person** in Zoho Invoice 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 Zoho Invoice and Payaca ## Triggers and actions 9 triggers · 28 actions - Trigger **Customer Payment** Triggered when a new customer payment is recorded - Trigger **Invoice Status Change** Triggers when an invoice status is changed. - Trigger **New Contact** Triggered when a new contact is created - Trigger **New Contact Person** Triggers when a new point of contact is added to an existing contact. - Trigger **New Credit Note** Triggers when a new Credit Note is created. - Trigger **New Estimate** Triggers when a New Estimate is Created. - Trigger **New Invoice** Triggers when a new sales invoice is created. - Trigger **New Item** Triggers when New Item is created. - Trigger **Updated Invoice** Triggered when an invoice is created or updated - Action **Create Contact Person** Creates a new point of contact for a specific contact. - Action **Create Credit Note** Creates a new credit note for a customer - Action **Create New Contact** Creates a new contact. - Action **Create New Estimate** Create New Estimate - Action **Create New Invoice** Create a New Invoice - Action **Create New Item** Create New Item - Action **Find Contact** Returns the contacts that match the specified search criteria. - Action **Find Organization** Finds an Organization - Action **Get Credit Note** Retrieve a credit note by its ID; returns number, status, customer, reference number and line items. - Action **Get Estimate** Fetches an estimate by ID. An error occurs if the estimate is not found. - Action **Get Item** Returns one item by item_id - Action **Record Payment** Make payment to an Invoice. - Action **Update Contact** Action used to Update a existing Contact in Zoho Billing. - Action **Update Invoice** Updates an existing Zoho Invoice invoice. Line items not included in the list are removed. - 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 - [ **Zoho Invoice** Zoho Invoice is an easy invoice software meant for small businesses and freelancers.](https://apiant.ai/connections/zoho-invoice) - [ **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 Zoho Invoice - [ **Zoho Invoice to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-zoom) - [ **Zoho Invoice to LinkedIn** LinkedIn is a professional networking platform enabling job seekers, companies, and thought leaders to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-linkedin) - [ **Zoho Invoice to Facebook** Facebook is a social media and advertising platform used by individuals and businesses to connect, share...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-facebook) - [ **Zoho Invoice to Anthropic** Anthropic builds Claude, a family of large language models.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-anthropic) - [ **Zoho Invoice to Supabase** Supabase is an open-source backend-as-a-service providing a Postgres database, authentication, storage, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-supabase) - [ **Zoho Invoice to ElevenLabs** ElevenLabs is an AI audio research and deployment company.](https://apiant.ai/connect/zoho-invoice-to-elevenlabs) ## 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 Zoho Invoice? 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 Zoho Invoice? Payaca has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Zoho Invoice. 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 Zoho Invoice 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 Zoho Invoice 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.