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Summary
Exact Online — the Dutch accounting and ERP standard: accounts, sales and purchase invoices, items, stock, GL accounts and outstanding receivables. OData REST API, OAuth 2.0, scoped to one administration.
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Example prompts for Exact Online
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Exact Online + ChatGPT
Exact Online — the Dutch accounting and ERP standard: accounts, sales and purchase invoices, items, stock, GL accounts and outstanding receivables. OData REST API, OAuth 2.0, scoped to one administration.
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:
EXACT_CLIENT_ID, EXACT_CLIENT_SECRET, EXACT_REFRESH_TOKEN, EXACT_BASE_HOST, EXACT_DIVISION
Step 1 — Get credentials
Getting a token
- Register an app in the Exact Online App Centre for your country (
apps.exactonline.com). You receive a client id and client secret. - Run the authorization-code flow once against your country's host. Keep the refresh token — Exact's access tokens last ten minutes, so the refresh token is the only value worth storing.
- Set
EXACT_CLIENT_ID,EXACT_CLIENT_SECRET,EXACT_REFRESH_TOKEN,EXACT_BASE_HOSTandEXACT_DIVISION.
…(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 ChatGPT
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 showsYOUR_SERVER_ID.
ChatGPT adds MCP servers as plugins on its Plugins page, on the web and on paid plans. Developer mode is no longer needed. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; in Enterprise and Edu an admin can grant the Create plugins with MCPs permission.
- Go to chatgpt.com/plugins, click Add, then Add custom MCP server.
- Enter a name, e.g. Name:
Exact Online. - Under Connection, enter the Server URL
https://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_IDand keep Authentication on OAuth. - Select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin. When ChatGPT asks, sign in to AnythingMCP and allow access.
- Install the new plugin from your personal plugins, then type @ in a chat and pick it.
Available tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
exact_online_get_me | Read the authenticated user and, importantly, their CurrentDivision — the administration id every other path needs |
exact_online_list_divisions | List the administrations (divisions) this account can reach, with their code, description and currency |
exact_online_list_accounts | List accounts — Exact's customers, suppliers and prospects — with their code, name, VAT number and status |
exact_online_list_sales_invoices | List sales invoices with their number, date, account, amounts and status |
exact_online_list_receivables | List outstanding receivables with their invoice number, account, due date and amount still open — the direct answer to 'who owes us money' |
exact_online_list_purchase_invoices | List purchase invoices with their supplier, date, due date and amount — the payables side of the ledger |
exact_online_list_items | List items from the product catalogue with their code, description, sales price, cost price and unit |
exact_online_list_stock_positions | Read current stock positions per item and warehouse — the availability answer, separate from the item master |
exact_online_list_gl_accounts | List general ledger accounts with their code, description, type and balance side, for questions that need the chart of accounts |
exact_online_list_purchase_entries | List purchase entries (Inkoopboekingen): the bookkeeping record of every supplier invoice, with supplier, invoice number, entry and due… |
FAQ
Does the free ChatGPT plan work with custom MCP servers? OpenAI documents custom MCP servers for paid plans only; the Free plan is not on its list.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
- Connect to Microsoft Copilot
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