Freshbooks MCP server for AI agents and assistants

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Freshbooks MCP or direct API to generate invoices, log expenses, fetch client records, and track billable hours through natural language.

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FreshBooks is a cloud-based accounting software for small businesses. It streamlines invoicing, expense tracking, and time management in one place.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Freshbooks action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Create Webhook

Register a new webhook callback for a FreshBooks account.

Delete Webhook

Delete a webhook callback from a FreshBooks account.

Get Business Users

Retrieves staff identities and members for a specific FreshBooks business.

List Businesses

List all businesses associated with the authenticated user.

List Clients

Retrieves all clients for a FreshBooks account.

List Journal Entries

Retrieves all journal entries for a FreshBooks business account.

List Projects

Retrieves all projects associated with a FreshBooks business account.

List Webhooks

List all webhook callbacks registered for a FreshBooks account.

Register as a New User

Register a new user account in FreshBooks.

Update Webhook

Update or verify a FreshBooks webhook callback.

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Freshbooks MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/mcp @ai-sdk/openai
Install the Composio SDK and your agent framework
2

Create a session with MCP enabled

typescript
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";

const composio = new Composio();
const { mcp } = await composio.create("your-user-id", {
  toolkits: ["freshbooks"],
  mcp: true,
});
Create a session scoped to Freshbooks and read its MCP URL and headers
3

Connect your agent to the MCP server

typescript
import { createMCPClient } from "@ai-sdk/mcp";
import { openai } from "@ai-sdk/openai";
import { generateText, stepCountIs } from "ai";

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: { type: "http", url: mcp.url, headers: mcp.headers },
});

const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai("gpt-5.6-sol"),
  tools: await client.tools(),
  prompt: "List all businesses connected to my Freshbooks account",
  stopWhen: stepCountIs(10),
});

console.log(text);
await client.close();
Pass the session's MCP URL and headers to your agent and run a Freshbooks request
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Freshbooks API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core @composio/openai openai
Install the Composio SDK, the OpenAI provider, and the OpenAI SDK
2

Create a Composio session

typescript
import OpenAI from "openai";
import { Composio } from "@composio/core";
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from "@composio/openai";

const composio = new Composio({ provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider() });
const client = new OpenAI();

const session = await composio.create("your-user-id", { toolkits: ["freshbooks"] });
const tools = await session.tools();
Initialize Composio with the OpenAI Responses provider and create a session scoped to Freshbooks
3

Run Freshbooks tools with your agent

typescript
let response = await client.responses.create({
  model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
  tools,
  input: [{ role: "user", content: "List all businesses connected to my Freshbooks account" }],
});

while (response.output.some((o) => o.type === "function_call")) {
  const outputs = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(session, response.output);
  response = await client.responses.create({
    model: "gpt-5.6-sol",
    tools,
    previous_response_id: response.id,
    input: outputs,
  });
}

console.log(response.output_text);
Send a request, execute the Freshbooks tool calls through the session, and print the final answer

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Freshbooks Integration

  • Supports both Freshbooks MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Freshbooks data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Freshbooks access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Freshbooks
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Freshbooks resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

No. Composio provides a managed OAuth app for Freshbooks, so you sign in with your normal Freshbooks account and approve access. If you later want the consent screen to show your own company name, you can add your own Freshbooks OAuth app in the Composio dashboard, and every connection after that uses it.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Yes. Composio is SOC 2 Type II compliant and is built to keep your Freshbooks connection and credentials secure. OAuth tokens and API keys are encrypted, and sensitive customer data is protected at rest and in transit.

Composio also undergoes independent security testing and continuously monitors its systems for security threats. You can review the latest reports and policies in the Composio Trust Center.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

When you connect a Freshbooks account through Composio, every action runs under that account, so anything the agent creates, sends, or changes shows up in Freshbooks as done by you. Keep an approval step in your prompt for actions with side effects, such as sending or deleting, and have the agent draft first.

Exactly the ones Freshbooks lists on its consent screen when you connect. Review that screen before approving. If you connect a work account, your Freshbooks administrator may need to approve the app first, and you can revoke the access inside Freshbooks whenever you want.

Yes. Composio supports multiple connected accounts for the same app, and that works in Claude, ChatGPT, or any other assistant you connect through Composio. Give each Freshbooks connection a name such as work or personal, and the assistant uses the one you mention in the request. Each account keeps its own credentials and nothing is merged.

Composio refreshes Freshbooks tokens automatically, so day to day you do nothing. If you revoke access inside Freshbooks, or Freshbooks invalidates the session, the connection shows as expired in Composio and the agent stops acting on that account until you reconnect it, which is a single sign-in.

Composio's free Hobby plan includes 100,000 tool calls per month with no credit card, and up to 20,000 of those can run through Composio-managed apps like Freshbooks. Personal Freshbooks use rarely gets near that. Paid plans add higher limits and team features, and Freshbooks's own pricing is unaffected.

Built-in connectors usually give one AI access to a limited set of apps. Many people use Composio because it lets their AI connect to more apps than it normally supports, or connect to multiple accounts for the same app (e.g. connect Claude to multiple Freshbooks accounts).

With Composio, you connect Freshbooks once and then use it across different AI assistants without setting it up separately in each one. Connect your apps to Composio once, then connect Composio to whichever AI you use, whether that's Claude, ChatGPT, Hermes, or your own custom assistant.

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