FreshBooks MCP connector
The FreshBooks connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent look up clients, draft and send invoices, record expenses and payments, and post journal entries in FreshBooks, with every action tied to the person who signed in.
- Connects over OAuth
- Free 14-day trial
- No credit card
Show unbilled expenses for our top ten FreshBooks clients.
Working in FreshBooks with Elaichi
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Get single FreshBooks client by ID
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List all FreshBooks clients
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List all FreshBooks credit notes
How to connect FreshBooks to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
Step by step, for each AI app
FreshBooks MCP connector for Claude
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Open Customize, then Connectors.
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Press Add.
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Name it, paste the MCP server URL, then Continue.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
FreshBooks MCP connector for Claude Code
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In a terminal, run
claude mcp addwith the endpoint.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Start Claude Code and run
/mcp. -
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Pick elaichi, then sign in and approve in the browser.
Terminal
$ claude mcp add --transport http elaichi --scope user https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
Use --scope project instead to share it with the repository through .mcp.json.
FreshBooks MCP connector for ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Leave Authentication on OAuth, then tick the risk acknowledgement.
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Press Create, then sign in and approve.
Works on the web. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
FreshBooks MCP connector for Cursor
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Open
~/.cursor/mcp.json. -
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Add the endpoint under
mcpServers.https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Reload Cursor, then sign in and approve.
~/.cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
Set up per machine, so repeat it on each computer you work from.
FreshBooks MCP connector for Microsoft Copilot
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In Copilot Studio, open your agent, then Tools, Add a tool, New tool and Model Context Protocol.
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Paste the endpoint into Server URL, choose OAuth 2.0, then Dynamic discovery, and press Create.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Create a new connection, sign in and approve, then press Add to agent.
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Under Channels, open Teams and Microsoft Copilot and make the agent available in Microsoft Copilot.
- Server URL
- https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Type
- Dynamic discovery
Microsoft Copilot was called Microsoft 365 Copilot. Keep the tool on end-user credentials, so each person signs in as themselves.
Connect FreshBooks to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp -
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Sign in and approve.
{
"mcpServers": {
"elaichi": {
"url": "https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
The Elaichi Agent already has these tools, with nothing to set up.
What teams do with FreshBooks through Elaichi
Ask in plain English. Each person’s AI can do only what they’re allowed to, and every action it takes in FreshBooks is logged.
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Finance
Send the month's invoices without retyping them
Ask for a new invoice for a client, check the line items, then have it sent from FreshBooks in one go. The invoice lands in the client's inbox the same way it would if you had clicked send yourself.
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Bookkeeping
Log expenses the moment receipts arrive
Read out a receipt and have the expense created in FreshBooks with the right client, category and amount. Fix a wrong amount later by asking for the update rather than hunting through the list.
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Finance
Record payments and close out open invoices
When a transfer shows up, ask which FreshBooks invoices are still outstanding for that client and record the payment against the right one. Overdue lists shrink without a spreadsheet in between.
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Sales
Check what a client owes before the call
Pull up a client's FreshBooks record along with their open invoices and recent payments so the conversation starts with the facts. Add the new client to FreshBooks straight after the deal is agreed.
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Accounting
Post month-end journal entries from plain notes
Describe the accrual or reclassification and have the journal entry created in FreshBooks, then list the entries for the period to confirm nothing is missing.
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Customer success
Issue a credit note when a refund is agreed
When a client is owed money back, ask for a credit note in FreshBooks against the original invoice and confirm the amount. If it was raised in error, it can be removed just as quickly.
Try asking
- “Show unbilled expenses for our top ten FreshBooks clients.”
- “Draft a credit note for client Northwind's duplicate invoice.”
- “Summarize journal entries logged in FreshBooks last month.”
What connecting FreshBooks gets you
6 screens from Elaichi, each doing one job for your FreshBooks account.
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Show unbilled expenses for our top ten FreshBooks clients.
Draft a credit note for client Northwind's duplicate invoice.
Summarize journal entries logged in FreshBooks last month.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Microsoft Copilot
The agent
Ask about invoices, get real answers.
Question FreshBooks clients, expenses and credit notes in plain language and read live records.
Copy the endpoint
AI apps
One FreshBooks endpoint for every MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Microsoft Copilot connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.
Tool catalog
97 FreshBooks tools ready on connect.
Clients, expenses, credit notes and journal entries are covered without custom code.
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Curate FreshBooks toolboxes per team so Finance and Sales see different tools.
Shared connections
Share FreshBooks access, never the credential.
See who connected each account and how many teams and members work through it.
Audit log
Answer who touched which invoice.
Every FreshBooks call is logged with time, person, action, type and resource.
From answering questions to doing the work
A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations, collections and live dashboards come with the Black plan.
FreshBooks digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emily Carter
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Schedule
Every weekday at 8:00 AM
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Fetch clients
FreshBooks
1.4s -
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Group by owner
Transform
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Draft the digest
Agent step
Ran with 4 tools, returned a structured summary
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Approve the digest
Needs approval
Assigned to Jake Morgan
Approve Deny -
Post the digest
FreshBooks
Queued
Automations
A schedule fires, the expense digest ships.
Fetch FreshBooks expenses, group them, draft a digest, approve it, post it back.
FreshBooks health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the clients collection
Clients
1,284 ↓ 12%
Expenses
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Clients created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Finance 34%
Accounts payable 27%
Sales EMEA 21%
Client services 18%
Collections and dashboards
FreshBooks numbers, counted not guessed.
Four metrics, 14 days of invoices created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
For IT and engineering
Elaichi vs Zapier MCP vs Composio for FreshBooks
All three can connect FreshBooks to an AI assistant, and all three have admin controls. They differ in where access lives and how you pay.
| What to check | Elaichi | Zapier MCP | Composio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the AI connects |
One address for the whole organization.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
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A server per member, created at sign-in. | An MCP endpoint per team, or an SDK. |
| Control over FreshBooks tools | Allow or restrict single FreshBooks tools, per role or user. | App and action restrictions on the account. | Role permissions, down to the action. |
| Record of calls | One audit entry per FreshBooks call. | A History tab of tool calls. | A log of every tool call. |
| Single sign-on | SAML or OIDC, plus SCIM, on Gold. | SAML on Enterprise. | SAML and OIDC on Enterprise. |
| Price | Free for one person; $15 per user per month on Gold. | 2 tasks per successful call. | Billed per tool call. |
Sources: Zapier MCP docs, security, usage; Composio docs, gateway, enterprise, pricing. Checked September 2026.
Longer take: Zapier MCP alternative and when you don't need an MCP gateway.
FreshBooks tools for your AI agents
97 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect FreshBooks, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
No tools match your search.
Questions, answered
How do I connect FreshBooks to Claude?
First connect FreshBooks in Elaichi: FreshBooks asks you to register an app inside your FreshBooks account, so one person brings that client ID and secret once, and after that everyone signs in to FreshBooks through the normal FreshBooks login screen and approves access. Then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Claude will ask you to sign in to Elaichi, and from there FreshBooks is available in your conversations.
Does FreshBooks work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once FreshBooks is connected in Elaichi, the same endpoint, https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, works in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, any other MCP client and the Elaichi Agent. You connect FreshBooks once and every client you use picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my FreshBooks data?
With FreshBooks connected, an agent can look up or add clients, create and send invoices, record expenses and payments, raise credit notes, post journal entries and check a tax rate, all from a plain request such as "send the March invoice for Harbor Design". FreshBooks is a large connector, so short, concrete asks that name the client or invoice work better than long paragraphs. It can also list what is outstanding and remove a payment, invoice or credit note that was entered by mistake.
Does connecting FreshBooks give the AI my whole set of books?
No. Every request runs inside the FreshBooks access of the person who signed in, so someone who cannot see payments or journal entries in FreshBooks cannot see them through an agent either. Elaichi can narrow that access further by team or by action, and it never widens what FreshBooks itself allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in FreshBooks?
Yes. In Elaichi you can allow reading FreshBooks clients and invoices while restricting the actions that delete invoices, payments or credit notes, or restricting anything that creates or edits records at all. A restricted action still appears in Elaichi's tool search, flagged as restricted, but Claude, ChatGPT or any other client cannot run it, whatever the prompt says.
What happens to a FreshBooks connection when someone leaves?
When you offboard a person in Elaichi, their access to FreshBooks through every AI client ends at once. If they were sharing a FreshBooks connection with a team, that connection keeps working for everyone else. If you want FreshBooks gone entirely, disconnecting it once in Elaichi removes it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot and every other client at the same time.
Does the FreshBooks MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. FreshBooks is reached over the same MCP endpoint every client uses, so anything that speaks MCP can call it — Gemini, Codex, Claude Code, Windsurf, Cline, Zed and OpenCode among them — alongside Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Microsoft Copilot, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Is Elaichi an alternative to Zapier MCP for FreshBooks?
Yes. Both let Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor use FreshBooks. Zapier MCP fits a team that already automates in Zapier, since each person signs in and acts as themselves in that account. Elaichi fits when IT wants one address for the whole company, per-tool rules by role, and a record of every FreshBooks call.
How is Elaichi different from Composio for FreshBooks?
Composio gives AI agents tools and sign-in handling across 1,000+ apps, for developers building agents or people using an assistant, billed per tool call. Elaichi gives a company's own people governed access to FreshBooks: one address, restrictions per role or user, and $15 per user per month. Both have role permissions and a log of every call.
Put FreshBooks in front of your team
14 days of Black, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
When the trial ends, nothing is deleted. You move to the free Personal plan, and connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are.
Add one link to your AI app
The same link for everyone on your team.
https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp
ChatGPT
Claude
Cursor
Microsoft Copilot