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Mirror Pennylane invoices into FreshBooks

Move Pennylane invoices and contacts through Well and into Freshbooks as expenses and bills, with the audit trail kept on every record.

About Pennylane and Freshbooks

Pennylane
Pennylane
Source

The Pennylane integration creates a bidirectional bridge between Well and your accounting workspace.

Freshbooks
Freshbooks
Target

The FreshBooks connection delivers extracted documents into FreshBooks through its email-in address.

Why this pair

Invoices and the companies behind them live in Pennylane, but if your team also runs FreshBooks, each one gets re-entered by hand to exist in both.

Well reads the invoices and companies from Pennylane and forwards each as a document to your FreshBooks email-in address. The entry arrives with its counterparty resolved and its Pennylane record attached, so the same invoice exists in both places without anyone retyping it.

What Well does between Pennylane and Freshbooks

  • One-way: Pennylane into Well into Freshbooks
  • Sync mode: Real-time MCP push
  • Events arrive in seconds
Pennylane
Trigger from Pennylane
5 events · pick one
Well engine·recipe·When a Pennylane customer invoice is read
Source
from payment · live webhook
Atlas Robotics SAS
via Pennylane
Invoice
When a Pennylane customer invoice is read
INV-1284 · 22 Apr 2026€1,284.00
Extract
5 fields read from Pennylane
5 fields read
  • CustomerAtlas Robotics SAS
  • Invoice numberINV-1284
  • Issue date22 Apr 2026
  • Total€1,284.00
  • CurrencyEUR
Enrich
against your historical record graph
4 fields added
  • Customer recordAtlas Robotics SAS
  • Domainatlasrobotics.fr
  • Tax idFR21987654321
  • Sales journalVE · 2026
Confidence97%
<55% refused55–85% review≥85% auto-posts
Post
post as expenses and bills
Create a bill in FreshBooks (Select plan)
auto-posted
posted
  • TypeBill
  • VendorAtlas Robotics SAS
  • Amount€1,284.00
  • LedgerVE · 2026
  • Source docattached
  • Confidence97%
audit linkto Freshbooks
Freshbooks
Action in Freshbooks
3 compatible with this trigger
Create a bill in FreshBooks (Select plan)Resolve a FreshBooks merchant from the receiptCreate an expense in FreshBooks

Workflows Pennylane and Freshbooks unlock together.

01Featured

Mirror an invoice into FreshBooks

Well reads an invoice from Pennylane and forwards it to your FreshBooks email-in address, so the same record exists in both without anyone re-keying it.

02

Resolve the counterparty

Well reads the company behind a Pennylane invoice and attaches it to the document forwarded to FreshBooks, so the party is verified.

03

Keep the Pennylane record attached

The Pennylane invoice reference travels with the document forwarded to FreshBooks, so each entry traces back to the record it came from.

04

Catch a duplicate early

Well checks a Pennylane invoice against what it has already forwarded, so the same entry does not reach FreshBooks twice.

11 signals and actions across Pennylane and Freshbooks

  • When a Pennylane customer is read

    Pulls Pennylane company customers with name, registration number, and billing detail.

    Trigger·Company
  • When a Pennylane transaction is read

    Captures the bank transactions Pennylane holds with amount, date, and counterparty.

    Trigger·Transaction
  • When a Pennylane bank account is read

    Pulls the bank accounts linked in Pennylane with currency and holder detail.

    Trigger·Account
  • When a Pennylane supplier invoice is read

    Pulls Pennylane supplier invoices with the supplier, amount, due date, and VAT.

    Trigger·Invoice
  • When a Pennylane customer invoice is read

    Pulls Pennylane customer invoices with line items, customer, totals, and VAT.

    Trigger·Invoice
  • When a Pennylane payment is read

    Reads the payment recorded against a Pennylane invoice with method and amount.

    Trigger·Payment method
  • When a Pennylane credit note is read

    Captures Pennylane credit notes with the linked invoice, totals, and VAT so refunds reconcile correctly.

    Trigger·Invoice
  • Attach the receipt to the FreshBooks record

    The forwarded PDF is stored on the expense or bill as the source.

    Action·Document
  • Resolve a FreshBooks merchant from the receipt

    FreshBooks reads the merchant name off the forwarded receipt and matches it on the expense (or bill). You confirm or correct the merchant on first sight.

    Action·Company
Reference
Field mapping for Pennylane → Freshbooks
16 fields across 3 record types, open to see the full table.

Invoice fields

8 fields flow from Pennylane into Freshbooks.

Pennylane fieldFreshbooks field
invoice.amount.totalamount
invoice.currencycurrency_code
invoice.date.issue_datecreate_date
invoice.deadline.due_datedue_date
invoice.invoice_numberinvoice_number
invoice.vat_amount.taxvat_amount
invoice.pre_tax_amount.subtotalsubtotal
invoice.idexternal_id

Transaction fields

5 fields flow from Pennylane into Freshbooks.

Pennylane fieldFreshbooks field
transaction.amountamount
transaction.currencycurrency_code
transaction.date.createddate
transaction.label.descriptionnote
transaction.idexternal_id

Company fields

3 fields flow from Pennylane into Freshbooks.

Pennylane fieldFreshbooks field
customer.nameorganization
customer.vat_number.tax_idvat_number
customer.idclient_id

Connect Pennylane and Freshbooks in three steps.

  1. Pennylane1

    Connect Pennylane

    Click Connect with Pennylane; Well's OAuth proxy handles Pennylane authorisation through Dynamic Client Registration. Pennylane's MCP server registers a read-scoped Well client through DCR; no credential paste, no shared secret.

    • AuthOAuth 2.0
  2. 2

    Map your accounts

    Well discovers Pennylane's supplier and customer invoices, contacts, and VAT detail read over Pennylane's MCP server and the the FreshBooks expense or bill queue. Match candidates are scored on counterparty, amount, date, and reference; above 85% confidence the link posts automatically, below it the candidate set queues for sign-off.

    • Auto-post above85% confidence
    • Overridemanual anytime
  3. Freshbooks3

    Connect Freshbooks

    Click Connect with FreshBooks; FreshBooks asks for the account to authorise and returns a refresh token and authorise read-only discovery of your existing records so Well can match against them when forwarding documents. Access tokens are exchanged and refreshed automatically before they expire, and the grant is revocable from your FreshBooks.

    • AuthConnect
    • First syncup to an hour

44 agent skills run on Pennylane and Freshbooks.

Each one answers a question from the data this pair brings in. The required ones return nothing until a source like it is connected.

Needs a source like these

Runway

Know how many months of cash you have at your current burn, with both sides of the division shown.

Cash position

Know how much cash you hold right now, with the accounts counted and the ones left out both stated.

Cost structure

See where your company's money actually goes, no spreadsheets required.

Payment and invoice lookup

Find what payment settled an invoice, or catch every payment that never got one.

Burn rate

Know what you spend in an average month over a window you can see, with the months that carried no spend counted.

Cash forecast

See the settled month-end cash series and where the line goes from the last complete month.

Cash flow bridge

See how the month moved from opening cash to closing cash, with whatever does not reconcile named as its own step.

Missing supplier invoices

See which suppliers owe you paperwork, before your accountant asks.

Assign missing invoices

Put a name on every settled expense that still has no invoice.

Missing invoice sweep

Walk the whole month-end sweep in one prompt.

Close the books

Drive the month-end close from open to sent to your accounting tool.

Categorize your suppliers

Close the category gaps behind your spend before you close a month.

Board pack

The board numbers in one pass, each with its scope and its window stated.

Subscription spend

See which suppliers you pay on a schedule, what each costs a month, and how that spend moved.

Subscription actions

Cancel a subscription, ask for a better price or contest a double debit, with your bank's facts in the email.

Prefill Form 1120

Get page 1 of your 1120 back as a PDF with your own book figures already in the boxes, and a list of every box left for your preparer.

Prefill Form 1099-NEC

Get one 1099-NEC per contractor back as a PDF with your own posted figures already in box 1, and the list of payees you cannot file for yet.

Unposted and blocked

See what in a month has not reached the ledger, and which pile each item sits in.

Check bank and books

Check that your bank and your books match, and re-run what missed rows.

VAT radar

See the net VAT your posted ledger shows for a quarter and which invoices to fix first.

Accounting reports

Read your profit and loss or balance sheet straight from QuickBooks or Xero.

Answers better with these connected

Receivables aging

See who owes you money, and how long they have been sitting on it.

Bills due

See what you owe and when, ordered by due date with a running total.

Rank clients by LTV

Find out what each customer is worth over its whole life, ranked from the most valuable down.

FX exposure

See how much of your cash and receivables sit outside your reporting currency.

Company profile

Everything you know about one company, in one view.

Missing receipts

Find the bills with no paperwork attached, before an auditor does.

Recurring revenue

Know what you can count on earning each month, averaged over real months.

Invoice fetching agents

See exactly which agents would run, before any of them does.

Convert currencies

Turn mixed currencies into one number you can actually audit.

Payables aging

See what you owe your suppliers, and how long each bill has been past due.

Compose a board

The measures you name, arranged on one board that stores the question rather than the answer.

Revenue by customer

See which customers your revenue came from in a period, ranked, with the part you could not place named.

Supplier spend register

See what you paid each supplier over a year, ranked, with the invoices that could not be placed counted beside the total.

Call and claim

Claim a refund or a compensation with the evidence in hand, and know what to say when you call.

Money back

Find the supplier refunds and VAT credits your company is still owed, with the evidence for each.

Employer cost

Read a month of payslips, or each of several months, and state, per person, gross pay plus the employee deductions and the employer charges the payslip printed, then list the payroll related bills paid from the bank that no payslip carries.

Check contractor status

For each supplier that looks like a freelancer, read the purchase invoices, the payment rail and any contract Well holds, and state the facts a requalification question turns on, next to the papers your country expects you to keep.

How Pennylane and Freshbooks stay secure with Well

Well connects to Pennylane through its MCP server, which issues short-lived access tokens via Dynamic Client Registration. Well never holds a long-lived Pennylane secret; the server refreshes its own tokens on each session. Anything Well holds between Pennylane and Freshbooks is encrypted at rest and handled in line with GDPR.

MCP server authEncrypted at restGDPR compliant
Scopes Well requestswellapp.ai/v1/mcps/pennylane/mcp
  • Read Pennylane records

    Scoped to supplier and customer invoices, contacts, and VAT detail read over Pennylane's MCP server. No access to anything else in your Pennylane account.

    granted
  • Deliver documents to your Freshbooks inbox

    Well forwards the extracted document to your Freshbooks email-in address; Freshbooks reads expenses (or bills on the Select plan) via email-in, with merchant, total, and tax populated from it and you review and post. No write credential to Freshbooks is requested.

    granted
  • Modify or delete Pennylane records

    Not granted. Pennylane is read-only on Well's side; the source of truth never moves.

    refused
  • Read other workspaces' data

    Not granted. A session resolves only to the workspaces your account belongs to, and Well checks that membership before it returns any record.

    refused
Disconnect any time from Well settings or Pennylane’s admin panel.

Frequently asked questions about Pennylane and Freshbooks on Well

01How often does Pennylane data sync to Freshbooks?
Pennylane pushes events to Well over its MCP server, so most records land within seconds of the underlying action. Each event is matched immediately and reaches Freshbooks within a confidence window: above 85% it posts, 55-85% queues for review, below 55% is refused.
02How does Well match Pennylane records to entries in Freshbooks?
Well scores every candidate match between Pennylane records and existing Freshbooks entries on counterparty name, amount, date proximity, currency, and reference. Above 85% the record links to the historical entry and Freshbooks updates; between 55% and 85% the candidates are queued for sign-off; below 55% the record stays open with the candidate list available.
03Does Well handle multi-currency records between Pennylane and Freshbooks?
Pennylane carries the original transaction currency on every record and Freshbooks natively ledgers in multiple currencies. Well preserves the original amount, applies your Freshbooks chart-of-accounts conversion rules at posting time, and both the source and converted amounts ride on the document Well forwards to Freshbooks, so the Freshbooks entry you post keeps both sides of the trade.
04Can I customise which Pennylane fields are sent to Freshbooks?
The default mapping covers every Pennylane field your Freshbooks chart of accounts accepts (counterparty, amount, currency, reference, tax). From the integration settings page you can override mappings field-by-field, attach computed values from your connected data (GL code, project tag, tax bucket), or ignore fields Freshbooks does not need. Custom mappings are versioned and apply only to records reconciled after the change, so anything you have already reviewed and posted in Freshbooks is left exactly as it stands.
05What happens if a Pennylane record fails to post to Freshbooks?
When a record fails to post to Freshbooks (validation rule, missing field, transient 5xx), Well retries automatically with backoff. Auth failures short-circuit the retry loop and notify the workspace owner; schema rejections are kept on the integration status page with a one-click retry-after-fix action pointing back at the original Pennylane record. Nothing silently drops.
06How does Well authenticate with Pennylane and Freshbooks?
Pennylane's MCP server handles authorisation directly; Well receives an access token through Dynamic Client Registration and never sees raw user credentials. For the delivery side, Well forwards the reconciled document to your Freshbooks email-in address once it clears the matching threshold; Freshbooks creates the draft record from it and you confirm and post it. Well holds no write credential to Freshbooks. Tokens are encrypted in transit under TLS 1.3. Anything Well holds between Pennylane and Freshbooks is encrypted at rest and handled in line with GDPR.
PennylaneFreshbooks

Connect Pennylane and FreshBooks

Link both tools to Well so Pennylane invoices reach FreshBooks without manual re-entry.

  • Read-only scopes on Pennylane
  • AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit
  • GDPR compliant
  • Revocable Freshbooks access in one click