Finance & payments · Connects with an API key

An AI teammate for Better Proposals.

Connect Better Proposals and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 22 Better Proposals actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.

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Things to ask about Better Proposals
  • Which Better Proposals invoices are overdue, and by how much?
  • Check this month's Better Proposals payments against the sheet and flag anything that doesn't match.
  • Send me money in and money out from Better Proposals every Monday.
  • Draft reminders for the customers more than 30 days late in Better Proposals.
Text it, Slack it, or type it in the app. Swap in your own details.
What Cicada can do in Better Proposals

22 Better Proposals actions, picked for what you ask.

About Better Proposals: Better Proposals is a web-based proposal creation tool that enables users to send professionally designed proposals.

Reads

19 in all · always allowed
  • Get Quote
    Retrieve details of a specific quote. use when you need full quote data by id.
  • Get Company
    Retrieve details of a specific company. use when you need company metadata by id.
  • Get Currency
    Retrieve details of a specific currency. use when you need currency metadata by id.
  • Get Settings
    Retrieve current account settings. use when you need default currency, tax, and timezone…
  • Get All Quotes
    Retrieve a paginated list of all quotes. use after setting pagination parameters.
  • Get All Companies
    Retrieve a paginated list of all companies. use when listing available companies for display or…
  • Get All Proposals
    Retrieve a paginated list of all proposals. use when you need to fetch proposals list after…
  • Get All Templates
    Retrieve a paginated list of all templates. use when you need to list available templates for…
  • Get New Proposals
    Retrieve all new proposals. use after validating credentials when you need only newly created…
  • Get All Currencies
    Retrieve a paginated list of all currencies. use when listing available currency options before…
  • Get Brand Settings
    Retrieve settings for the default brand. use when you need default-brand configuration (colors,…
  • Get Paid Proposals
    Retrieve all paid proposals. use when you need to list proposals that have been paid.
  • Get Proposal Count
    Retrieve the total count of proposals. use when you need to know how many proposals exist.
  • Get Sent Proposals
    Retrieve all sent proposals. use after dispatching proposals to clients to list them.
  • Get Opened Proposals
    Retrieve all opened proposals. use when you need proposals that recipients have opened.
  • Get Signed Proposals
    Retrieve all signed proposals. use when you need to list proposals clients have signed after…
  • Get Template Details
    Retrieve details of a specific template. use after selecting the template id to fetch metadata.

Changes

3 in all · off when Better Proposals is read-only
  • Create Company
    Create a new company. use after confirming the company does not already exist.
  • Create Document Type
    Create a new document type. use after confirming the desired type name does not already exist.
  • Create Proposal Cover
    Create a new proposal cover design. use when you need a custom cover design before sending out a…

Showing 20 of 22. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.

How it works

Connected in a minute. In your control after that.

  1. Connect Better Proposals

    Open Connections, find Better Proposals and paste an API key from your Better Proposals account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

  2. Choose what it may do

    Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Better Proposals with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.

  3. Ask from anywhere

    Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Better Proposals job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.

Works with your other tools

Better Proposals, together with the rest of your stack.

Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.

Questions

Better Proposals and Cicada, answered.

Does Cicada integrate with Better Proposals?

Yes. Better Proposals is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with an API key. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.

How do I connect Better Proposals?

Open Connections, find Better Proposals and paste an API key from your Better Proposals account settings. Cicada checks it works before saving it.

What can Cicada do in Better Proposals?

22 actions: 19 that read from Better Proposals and 3 that change things in it, for example get quote, get company, get currency. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.

Can I stop Cicada changing things in Better Proposals?

Yes. In Connections, set Better Proposals to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.

Can I ask about Better Proposals from my phone?

Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Better Proposals jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.

Is my Better Proposals data safe?

Your Better Proposals login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.

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