Summary
Invoice Ninja: clients, invoices, quotes, recurring invoices, payments, products, expenses and projects. REST API v5 on Invoice Ninja's hosted service or your own instance, API-token auth.
Guided setup
Connect Invoice Ninja to Microsoft Copilot in 2 minutes
Start a free trial on AnythingMCP Cloud, connect Invoice Ninja in the guided setup, then add your MCP URL to Microsoft Copilot. No code and no server to run.
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Example prompts for Invoice Ninja
Click any prompt to copy it. Paste into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot or OpenClaw to run it against this connector.
Claude is AI and can make mistakes. Please double-check responses.
💡 No install? Use cloud.anythingmcp.com directly. Sign in, click Connectors → Invoice Ninja, paste your credentials, mint an MCP API key — done. No Docker, no
git clone, no local server.
Invoice Ninja + Microsoft Copilot
Invoice Ninja: clients, invoices, quotes, recurring invoices, payments, products, expenses and projects. REST API v5 on Invoice Ninja's hosted service or your own instance, API-token auth.
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:
INVOICENINJA_URL, INVOICENINJA_API_TOKEN
Step 1 — Get credentials
Getting a token
- Sign in and open Settings → Account Management → API Tokens (on v5; on a self-hosted instance the same page exists).
- Create a token and put it in
INVOICENINJA_API_TOKEN. - Set
INVOICENINJA_URL. For the hosted service that ishttps://invoicing.co; for a self-hosted instance, your own root. No trailing slash and no/api/v1— the adapter appends it.
The header is X-API-TOKEN.
One token, one company. Invoice Ninja supports several companies per account, and the token is bound to the one it was created in. A second company needs a second token and a second connector.
…(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 showsYOUR_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.
- In Copilot Studio, open your agent (or create one), go to Tools and choose Add a tool → New tool → Model Context Protocol.
- Enter a Server name (for example
AnythingMCP), a Server description that says what the connector does, and the Server URLhttps://cloud.anythingmcp.com/mcp/YOUR_SERVER_ID. Copilot Studio uses the description to decide when to call the server. - Under authentication, choose API key, set Type to Header and the header name to
X-API-Key, then select Create. - 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.
- Try it in the agent's Test pane: ask for something that needs the
Invoice Ninjatools. - 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
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
invoice_ninja_list_clients | List clients with their name, contacts, balance, paid-to-date total and currency |
invoice_ninja_get_client | Read one client in full: their contacts, addresses, payment terms, balance and the settings that override the company defaults for them |
invoice_ninja_list_invoices | List invoices with their number, date, due date, client, amount and balance |
invoice_ninja_get_invoice | Read one invoice in full: every line item with quantity, cost and tax, the totals, the balance outstanding and the payments applied |
invoice_ninja_list_quotes | List quotes with their number, date, client, amount and status — what is out with prospects and not yet converted into an invoice |
invoice_ninja_list_payments | List payments with their date, amount, method, client and the invoices they were applied to — the money that actually arrived |
invoice_ninja_list_recurring_invoices | List recurring invoices with their frequency, next send date, client and amount — the predictable part of the revenue |
invoice_ninja_list_products | List products with their key, notes, cost, price, quantity and tax settings |
invoice_ninja_list_expenses | List expenses with their date, vendor, category, amount and whether they have been billed to a client — the cost side of the ledger |
invoice_ninja_list_projects | List projects with their name, client, budgeted hours, task rate and due date — the anchor for time and profitability questions |
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.
Next steps
- Connector landing page
- Connect to Claude
- Connect to ChatGPT
- Connect to Cursor
- Connect to Gemini
- Connect to Meta Muse
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