Accounting
FreshBooks MCP connector
The FreshBooks connector lets Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, 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.
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How it connects. Connects over OAuth. The credential goes into a vault nobody reads back.
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One address. https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp, the same for every user.
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Their own access. An agent never gets more than the person it acts for.
How to connect
How to connect FreshBooks to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect FreshBooks once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick FreshBooks.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Supply your own FreshBooks app, then approve. FreshBooks needs an OAuth app you register yourself, so bring its client ID and secret. One person does this once for the organization.
The credential is vaulted. Nobody reads it back, not even the AI.
Add connection
Choose a connector.
In your AI client
Point it at one endpoint
Everyone in the organization uses the same address, and each person only ever reaches what their own account allows.
Connect FreshBooks to 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.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Connect FreshBooks to ChatGPT
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Open Plugins, then press the + button.
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Name it and paste the endpoint into Server URL.
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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 today. The plugin directory lives at chatgpt.com/plugins.
Connect FreshBooks to 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.
Connect FreshBooks to any MCP client
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Add the endpoint as a remote MCP server.
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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.
Use cases
What teams do with FreshBooks through Elaichi
Every one of these runs inside the access the person already has, and lands in the same audit log.
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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.”
AI tools
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.
See it in Elaichi
What connecting FreshBooks gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your FreshBooks account.
The agent
Ask about invoices, get real answers.
Question FreshBooks clients, expenses and credit notes in plain language and read live records.
- clients
- expenses
- credit notes
- journal entries
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 or Cursor
MCP clients
One FreshBooks endpoint for every MCP client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
97 FreshBooks tools ready on connect.
Clients, expenses, credit notes and journal entries are covered without custom code.
- Get single FreshBooks client by ID
- List all FreshBooks clients
- Create a FreshBooks client
- Update a FreshBooks client by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own toolbox.
Curate FreshBooks toolboxes per team so Finance and Sales see different tools.
- Finance
- Accounts payable
- Accounts receivable
- Sales
Shared connections
Share FreshBooks access, never the credential.
See who connected each account and how many teams and members work through it.
- Finance
- Accounts payable
- Sales EMEA
- Client services
Audit log
Answer who touched which invoice.
Every FreshBooks call is logged with time, person, action, type and resource.
- When
- Who
- What happened
- Type
Launching soon
From answering questions to doing the work
A person no longer has to ask. A trigger starts the work, inside the same permissions and the same audit log as everything else. Automations and live dashboards are launching soon, on the Black plan.
Automations
A schedule fires, the expense digest ships.
Fetch FreshBooks expenses, group them, draft a digest, approve it, post it back.
FreshBooks digest
Run 418 · started 2 minutes ago · on behalf of Emma Laurent
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Schedule
Every weekday at 08:00
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Fetch clients
FreshBooks
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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 Michael Brennan
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Post the digest
FreshBooks
Queued
Collections and dashboards
FreshBooks numbers, counted not guessed.
Four metrics, 14 days of invoices created and a team breakdown, refreshed on schedule.
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%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
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, 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 blocking the actions that delete invoices, payments or credit notes, or blocking anything that creates or edits records at all. A blocked action is never shown to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt, however worded, can reach it.
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 and every other client at the same time.
Put FreshBooks in front of your team
Fourteen days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.