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How to Connect AFAS Profit to Microsoft Copilot — via MCP

AFAS Profit — Dutch ERP and HR: read any published GetConnector, list what is available, and inspect a connector's metadata. Token auth with AFAS's base64-wrapped XML token.

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AFAS Profit

AFAS Profit

AFAS Profit — Dutch ERP and HR: read any published GetConnector, list what is available, and inspect a connector's metadata. Token auth with AFAS's base64-wrapped XML token.

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6

Region

NL

Category

ERP

Authentication

API Key

Required env vars

AFAS_ENVIRONMENTAFAS_TOKEN
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Summary

AFAS Profit — Dutch ERP and HR: read any published GetConnector, list what is available, and inspect a connector's metadata. Token auth with AFAS's base64-wrapped XML token.

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AFAS Profit + Microsoft Copilot

AFAS Profit — Dutch ERP and HR: read any published GetConnector, list what is available, and inspect a connector's metadata. Token auth with AFAS's base64-wrapped XML token.

Prerequisites

See the full setup instructions baked into the connector (visible in the in-app store when you select the connector). The required environment variables for this connector are:

AFAS_ENVIRONMENT, AFAS_TOKEN

Step 1 — Get credentials

AFAS exposes nothing until somebody publishes a GetConnector. That is the whole model, and it is why this adapter takes the connector name as a parameter rather than hard-coding entity paths.

  1. In AFAS open Algemeen → Beheer → App connector and create an app connector for the integration.
  2. Add the GetConnectors the agent should reach. The typed tools use the standard Profit_Debtor, Profit_Debtor_Invoices (outstanding debtor items) and Profit_Employees; anything else, including your own custom GetConnectors, goes through afas_profit_get_data. A GetConnector that has not been added to the app connector does not exist as far as the API is concerned.

…(continued in the in-app connector instructions)

Step 2 — Install the adapter

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp/main/docker-compose.quickstart.yml -o docker-compose.yml
printf 'JWT_SECRET=%s\nENCRYPTION_KEY=%s\n' "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" "$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
docker compose up -d

Step 3 — Add the connector in Microsoft Copilot

Your server URL: in AnythingMCP, open MCP Servers → the server this connector is on, and copy its URL (https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/…). Use it wherever this guide shows YOUR_SERVER_ID.

Microsoft Copilot uses MCP servers through agents built in Copilot Studio: you add AnythingMCP to an agent as a tool, then publish the agent to Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud over Streamable HTTP, which AnythingMCP supports.

  1. In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
  2. Enter a Server name (for example AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URL https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server.
  3. Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to X-API-Key, then select Create.
  4. In Add tool, choose Create a new connection, paste an MCP API key from AnythingMCP (MCP Servers → your server → API keys) and select Add to agent.
  5. Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the AFAS Profit tools.
  6. Select Publish, then Channels → Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams, keep Make agent available in Microsoft Copilot selected and choose Add channel. See agent in Teams installs it for you; in Microsoft 365 Copilot, type @ and pick the agent.

Prefer per-user sign-in? Choose OAuth 2.0 → Dynamic discovery instead of an API key: each user then signs in to AnythingMCP the first time the agent calls it.

Self-hosting? Use your instance's public HTTPS address instead of https://cloud.anythingmcp.com. Copilot Studio connects from Microsoft's cloud, so localhost does not work.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
afas_profit_list_connectorsList the GetConnectors and UpdateConnectors published to this app connector
afas_profit_get_connector_metadataRead one GetConnector's field definitions: the field ids, their types and lengths
afas_profit_get_dataRead rows from a GetConnector with AFAS's positional three-list filter
afas_profit_get_debtorsRead the Profit_Debiteuren GetConnector — customers with their debtor number, name, address and credit data
afas_profit_get_invoicesRead the Profit_Facturen GetConnector — invoices with their number, date, debtor and amounts
afas_profit_get_employeesRead the Profit_Medewerkers GetConnector — employees with their number, name, department and employment data

FAQ

Which Copilot is this for? Microsoft 365 Copilot at work, through agents built in Copilot Studio. The Microsoft Copilot app for personal accounts has no option to add your own MCP server.

What do I need? A work account with access to Copilot Studio (a license or a trial) to build the agent. People who use it in Microsoft 365 Copilot or Teams need access to the agent: share it with them, or ask an admin to publish it to the organization. If your organization applies data policies to Power Platform connectors, they cover MCP servers too.

The agent doesn't call the tools. Check that the header name is exactly X-API-Key and that the key belongs to the same MCP server as the URL, and make the server description specific: Copilot Studio uses it to decide when to call the server. Publish the agent again after each change; in an open chat, type "start over" to get the new version.

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