Tipalti MCP connector
The Tipalti connector brings payees, invoices, payments, payment terms and GL accounts into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent, so each person on your finance team works with live Tipalti records inside their own access.
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How it connects. Connects with an API key. 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 Tipalti to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
Two steps, about a minute.
In Elaichi
Connect Tipalti once
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Open Connections, choose Add connection, and pick Tipalti.
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Optionally set Share with to give a team access, then press Connect.
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Supply your own Tipalti app, then approve. Tipalti 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.
Tipalti 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.
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Sign in and approve.
On Team and Enterprise, an Owner adds it once. Everyone else turns it on for themselves.
Tipalti 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.
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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.
Tipalti 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.
Connect Tipalti 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 Tipalti 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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Accounts payable
Check which invoices are still waiting
Ask which Tipalti invoices are open, overdue or sitting in a batch, and get a plain list with amounts and payees instead of paging through the invoice screen.
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Accounts payable
Build a payment batch before the run
Pull together the invoices due this week into a Tipalti payment batch, then review the batch total before anyone releases funds.
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Finance
Trace a payment a vendor says is missing
Look up the payment in Tipalti, see its status and which invoice it settled, and answer the vendor while they are still on the phone.
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Procurement
Set up a new vendor as a payee
Create the payee in Tipalti from the details in the signed contract, and update the record later when their bank or address changes.
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Controller
Keep payment terms consistent across vendors
List every payment term in Tipalti, spot the odd ones, and update payees in bulk so the whole vendor base sits on the terms finance agreed.
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Accounting
Code invoices to the right GL account
Ask which GL accounts and tax codes exist in Tipalti, add a missing tax code, and make sure a new invoice batch lands on the correct accounts.
Try asking
- “Which Tipalti invoices are still unpaid past their payment terms?”
- “List every payment sent to Acme Supplies this quarter.”
- “Update our top twenty payees to net 30 payment terms.”
AI tools
Tipalti tools for your AI agents
36 tools are ready to call through Elaichi's MCP endpoint the moment you connect Tipalti, governed by the same roles, restrictions, and audit log as everything else in Elaichi.
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What connecting Tipalti gets you
6 screens from the product, each doing one job for your Tipalti account.
The agent
Ask about payees and invoices in plain language.
Type a question and get answers from live Tipalti invoices, payments and payees.
- payees
- invoices
- payments
- payment batches
Ask Elaichi to work across your apps.
Which Tipalti invoices are still unpaid past their payment terms?
List every payment sent to Acme Supplies this quarter.
Update our top twenty payees to net 30 payment terms.
Also runs in Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
MCP clients
One endpoint puts Tipalti in every AI client.
Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor connect over OAuth, with no SDK and no shared API key.
Copy the endpoint
Tool catalog
36 Tipalti tools ready without writing code.
Payees, invoices, payments, payment terms, GL accounts and tax codes, covered from day one.
- List all Tipalti custom fields
- Get single Tipalti custom field by ID
- List all Tipalti gl accounts
- Get single Tipalti gl account by ID
Toolboxes
Every team gets its own Tipalti toolbox.
Accounts payable, procurement and controllers each see only the Tipalti tools their work needs.
- Accounts payable
- Finance
- Procurement
- Controller
Shared connections
Teammates work in Tipalti without holding a credential.
One person connects Tipalti once and shares it with teams, and the key stays hidden.
- Accounts payable
- Finance US
- Finance EMEA
- Procurement
Audit log
Every Tipalti action is logged with a name.
See who created a payee, updated payment terms or opened a payment batch, and when.
- 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 runs Tipalti work end to end.
New Tipalti invoices are fetched, grouped and drafted into a digest a person approves before posting.
Tipalti 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 payees
Tipalti
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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
Tipalti
Queued
Collections and dashboards
Tipalti payment health, computed without a model.
Four metrics, fourteen days of invoices created and a team breakdown, refreshed on a schedule.
Tipalti health
Refreshed 4 minutes ago · every 15 minutes · from the payees collection
Payees
1,284 ↓ 12%
Invoices
96 ↓ 8%
Needs attention
3 ↑ 2
Updated this week
412 ↑ 9%
Payees created
Last 14 days
By team
Share of activity
Accounts payable 34%
Finance US 27%
Finance EMEA 21%
Procurement 18%
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
How do I connect Tipalti to Claude?
Connect Tipalti in Elaichi first, then in Claude go to Customize, then Connectors, then Add, and paste https://api.elaichi.ai/mcp. Tipalti's own sign-in step asks for an API key, which comes from an OAuth application your Tipalti admin registers inside Tipalti, so one person brings that client ID and secret once. After that, everyone else simply signs in as themselves and never handles a credential.
Does Tipalti work with ChatGPT and Cursor as well as Claude?
Yes. Once Tipalti 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 Tipalti once and every client picks it up.
What can an AI agent actually do with my Tipalti data?
It can list and look up Tipalti invoices, payments, payees, payer entities, payment terms, GL accounts and custom fields, and answer questions about them in plain language. It can also create payees, invoice batches, payment batches, payment terms and tax codes, and update payees one at a time or in bulk. Short, concrete asks such as "show me overdue invoices from Acme" work better than long sentences.
Does connecting Tipalti give the AI access to everything in my account?
No. Every call to Tipalti runs inside the access of the person who signed in, so the AI sees only the payees, invoices and payments that person can already see in Tipalti. Elaichi can narrow that access further with restrictions, and it never widens it beyond what Tipalti itself allows.
Can I stop an agent from deleting or changing things in Tipalti?
Yes. Restrictions in Elaichi apply per action, so you can allow reading Tipalti invoices and payments while blocking the creation of payment batches or updates to payees. A restricted action is never advertised to Claude, ChatGPT or any other client, so no prompt can reach it.
What happens to a Tipalti connection when someone leaves?
Offboarding that person in Elaichi ends their access to Tipalti through every client at once. If they were using a shared Tipalti connection, it keeps working for everyone else on the team. If you disconnect Tipalti in Elaichi entirely, it disappears from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and the Elaichi Agent in one step.
Does the Tipalti MCP connector work with Gemini, Codex, Claude Code or other MCP clients?
Yes. Tipalti 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, and the Elaichi Agent. The tools on offer and the access behind them are identical whichever client asks. Only the setup screen differs.
Put Tipalti in front of your team
14 days on Gold, no credit card. Connect it once and pick what each team can call.
- Works with
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and any other MCP client, or the Elaichi Agent.
- When the trial ends
- Nothing is deleted. Connections, roles and the audit log stay where they are, so subscribing picks up exactly where you left off.