Invoice Ninja

Invoice Ninja

· #247 most-used

Invoicing, payments, and billing — automated.

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Invoice Ninja is the open-source invoicing platform trusted by freelancers and small businesses to create professional invoices, track billable time, manage expenses, and collect payments — available self-hosted or as a SaaS product. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can create clients, generate invoices the moment milestones complete, email quotes to prospects, log billable expenses from receipts, and record payments in real time — so your billing cycle runs itself while you focus on the work.

Average time saved
10 hours
per person · per month
≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Actionist eliminates the manual steps between completing work and getting paid — invoice creation, quote sending, payment logging, and AR reporting all happen automatically at the right moment.

Schedule

What your Invoice Ninja agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Invoice Ninja × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
9Apps spanned
~23 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For customer success
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Invoice paid to client onboarded in 60 seconds

When a client emails to confirm their first payment has been sent, the agent reads the Invoice Ninja invoice, verifies payment status, emails the client an onboarding confirmation with project next steps, posts a kick-off notice to the team in Slack, and drops a project-start event on the Google Calendar — before any human has reached for their keyboard. Every new client gets a consistent, professional welcome with zero manual steps and zero dropped balls.

~6 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a client's Gmail message contains a payment confirmation subject line
Result
Create a new task — log onboarding kick-off as billablePost new-client announcement to #customer-successCreate kick-off call placeholder on project calendar
The win
Saved per run
45 min
Runs / week
~8×
Zero missed onboarding steps
Driven byCustomer Support Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    18 min / week
    Manual quote creation

    Sales reps spend 20+ minutes building and sending Invoice Ninja quotes after each verbal agreement.

    Sales Agent
    0 min
    Agent quotes on deal close

    When a deal moves to Proposal Sent, the agent creates and emails the Invoice Ninja quote in seconds.

  • Marketing
    13 min / week
    Deal-to-invoice gap

    Marketing hands off closed deals without triggering billing, causing a lag between commitment and first invoice.

    Marketing Agent
    0 min
    Agent invoices on won deal

    When a HubSpot deal closes, the agent creates and emails the first Invoice Ninja invoice within 60 seconds.

  • Customer Support
    18 min / week
    Payment status chasing

    Support reps manually log into Invoice Ninja to check invoice status when clients raise billing questions.

    Customer Support Agent
    0 min
    Agent surfaces billing context

    The agent fetches the client's Invoice Ninja balance and last payment date the moment a billing ticket arrives.

  • Human Resources
    7 min / week
    Contractor invoice tracking

    HR manually checks Invoice Ninja to confirm contractor invoices are received and approved before payroll runs.

    Human Resources Agent
    0 min
    Agent flags unpaid contractor invoices

    The agent scans all contractor invoices each week and posts a summary of unpaid items to HR before payroll.

  • Finance
    13 min / week
    Month-end AR pull

    Finance manually exports Invoice Ninja invoices and payments every month to build the accounts-receivable report.

    Finance Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates AR report automatically

    On the last business day, the agent fetches all invoices and payments and delivers a structured AR ageing report.

  • Operations
    25 min / week
    Receipt-to-ledger entry

    Operations staff manually log each expense receipt into Invoice Ninja, one by one, after collecting them.

    Operations Agent
    0 min
    Agent logs expenses from intake form

    When a receipt is submitted via the intake sheet, the agent creates the Invoice Ninja expense record instantly.

  • Legal
    6 min / week
    Invoice audit preparation

    Legal manually pulls Invoice Ninja invoices and payment records to support contract audits and client disputes.

    Legal Agent
    0 min
    Agent compiles invoice audit trail

    The agent fetches all invoices and payments for a client period and exports a structured audit log on request.

+ 100s of other Invoice Ninja automations
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Average monthly
10 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
10 person
Hourly rate
$20 / hr
Hours saved / week
25
Hours saved / year
1,250
Annual ROI
$25,000

Based on Invoice Ninja's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug Invoice Ninja into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path for self-hosted and SaaS Invoice Ninja users alike. Connect via the Invoice Ninja MCP server and Actionist agents gain full access to clients, invoices, quotes, payments, expenses, and tasks through a single permissioned handshake — no API keys to rotate, no token scope management.

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Open the Apps tab

Find Invoice Ninja in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

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Authorise in Invoice Ninja

You'll be redirected to your Invoice Ninja instance (invoiceninja.com or your self-hosted URL). Log in and grant Actionist read/write access to clients, invoices, quotes, payments, expenses, and tasks.

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Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

26 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

8 event your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

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Skills that pair with Invoice Ninja

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FAQs

Questions about Invoice Ninja + Actionist

How do I connect Invoice Ninja to Actionist?
Open the Apps tab, find Invoice Ninja, and click Connect. MCP is the recommended method — you'll authorise Actionist against your Invoice Ninja account (invoiceninja.com or your self-hosted URL) in a single OAuth flow. If you prefer a long-lived token, switch to API Key mode and paste your token from Settings → Account Management → API Tokens.
Does Actionist work with self-hosted Invoice Ninja?
Yes. When using the API Key method, enter your self-hosted instance URL alongside the API token. For MCP, you'll be prompted for your instance URL during the authorisation flow. Both hosted (invoiceninja.com) and self-hosted v5 instances are supported.
What Invoice Ninja objects can agents read and write?
Agents have full CRUD access to clients, invoices, quotes, payments, expenses, and tasks. They can also email invoices and quotes directly from Invoice Ninja. Credits are available as a read/react surface via webhooks. The agent cannot modify Invoice Ninja system settings, payment gateway configuration, or user accounts.
What are the most common Invoice Ninja automations in Actionist?
The highest-volume patterns are: (1) creating invoices automatically when a project milestone completes or a deal closes in your CRM; (2) emailing quotes within minutes of a sales enquiry; (3) logging expenses from receipt intake forms; and (4) monthly AR ageing reports generated from all invoices and payments without any manual export.
How do I avoid agents creating duplicate invoices?
Before creating any invoice, instruct the agent to call 'Get data of all invoices' and filter by client and billing period. If a matching invoice already exists, the agent skips creation and posts a notice instead. For recurring invoice workflows, use the 'Recurring invoice generated' trigger rather than a scheduled create action — Invoice Ninja's own scheduler prevents duplicates on that path.
Can agents react when a client pays an invoice?
Yes. Use the 'Invoice paid' or 'Payment received' triggers to fire an agent the moment Invoice Ninja marks payment complete. Common reactions include sending a receipt email, updating the CRM deal to Closed Won, unlocking client access in another system, or posting a cash-received note to the finance Slack channel.
Can I use Actionist to manage Invoice Ninja expenses from a shared inbox?
Yes. Set up a Gmail trigger on your expenses inbox and instruct the agent to parse the vendor name and amount from each forwarded receipt, then call 'Create a new expense' in Invoice Ninja with the correct client attribution. For bulk intake, a Google Sheets form trigger works equally well — the agent reads each row and logs the expense in one step.
What Invoice Ninja API rate limits should I be aware of?
Invoice Ninja's REST API does not publish a hard public rate limit, but self-hosted instances are constrained by your server capacity. For high-volume scheduled runs — such as pulling all invoices at month-end — stagger bulk reads across a few minutes rather than firing all requests simultaneously. For SaaS Invoice Ninja, keep automated runs to a reasonable cadence (once per minute or slower) to avoid throttling.