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Zoho Creator
Add Zoho Creator to your product for your customers, and give your AI agents governed access to it.
Zoho Creator is a platform for applications a customer builds themselves, so there is no fixed schema waiting for you: there is whatever they made. The API reflects that in an asymmetry worth knowing before you start. You write a record to a form and you read records from a report, and both are addressed by link name inside an application that is itself addressed by link name under the account owner who built it, so a path is four customer-chosen strings deep before it reaches any data. Field names belong to them as well, which is why the meta calls that list an application's forms, reports and fields are the first request an integration should make rather than an afterthought. Reads page through a record cursor returned in a response header, a thousand rows at a time at most, so a large report is a sequence of calls instead of one. fastn holds the authorisation per tenant and keeps the mapping between their link names and your fields as configuration.
In your product
Embedded for your customers. Per-tenant auth, no per-customer code, maintained by fastn.
Let each customer connect the Creator application they built, and read their forms, reports and fields before you offer them a single mapping.
Write a record into a form the moment your product has something to record, so the application they built picks the work up where their users already are.
Read records from the report a customer nominates, since a report rather than a form is what Creator exposes data through.
Page a large report with the record cursor instead of asking for everything in one request.
For your AI agents
Governed, audited access for the agents you build, through the MCP server.
An agent lists the reports in a customer's application and explains what each one holds before it queries any of them.
An agent adds or updates a record through a form within granted permissions, and the application it wrote to is logged.
An agent answers a question out of a report and names the application the numbers came from.
Example prompt
Which records in this report have nobody assigned, and which form do new ones arrive through?
Set up Zoho Creator in 4 steps
- 01Enable the Zoho Creator connector in your fastn dashboard.
- 02Have each customer authorise their own Creator account, then capture the owner name and application link name their app lives under.
- 03Read that customer's forms, reports and field metadata, line them up against your own fields, then enable the reads and writes you need.
- 04Call it from your product and expose the same connection to your agents through the MCP gateway.
Why teams use the Zoho Creator integration
What you get by embedding it with fastn instead of building it yourself.
- Ship a Zoho Creator integration without building it. Your customers connect their own Zoho Creator account inside your product and work their records, datasets and fields there, with no per-customer code on your side.
- Handle the part that actually costs time: schemas differ per customer and change without notice, and volumes can be large. fastn owns the auth, token refresh, rate limits, pagination and breaking-change fixes, so a Zoho Creator update is not your on-call problem.
- One integration serves your product and your agents. The same governed Zoho Creator connection powers in-product features and gives AI agents scoped, audited access, so you read and write your customers' data where it already lives without wiring it twice.
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How do I add a Zoho Creator integration to my product?
Enable the Zoho Creator connector in your fastn dashboard, then let each customer authenticate their own Zoho Creator account. fastn handles the OAuth flow, token storage and refresh per tenant, so there is no Zoho Creator client code in your app and no per-customer branch in your codebase. Setup is 4 steps.
Do my customers each connect their own Zoho Creator account?
Yes. Every connection is scoped to the individual customer, so each authorises their own Zoho Creator account and only ever sees their own records, datasets and fields. That per-tenant isolation is the point of an embedded integration: you support the long tail of customer setups without maintaining an integration per customer.
Can AI agents use this Zoho Creator integration?
Yes. The same connection is exposed to your agents through the fastn MCP gateway, with permissions scoped per tenant and every call audited. An agent lists the reports in a customer's application and explains what each one holds before it queries any of them.
Who maintains the Zoho Creator integration?
fastn does. When Zoho Creator changes an endpoint, deprecates a field or alters its auth, the fix lands in the connector rather than in your backlog, and your customers' connections keep working.
Does the Zoho Creator integration adapt when a customer's schema changes?
Schema and field mapping is configuration per customer, so a change on their side is a mapping update rather than a code change and a release on yours.
How are large Zoho Creator reads handled?
Pagination and throttling are handled for you, and initial backfills are rate-limited so a large import does not exhaust a customer's API allowance.
What can I build with the Zoho Creator integration?
A common starting point: let each customer connect the Creator application they built, and read their forms, reports and fields before you offer them a single mapping. Teams also use it for the other use cases listed above, and expose it to agents for governed reads and writes.
How much does the Zoho Creator integration cost?
It is included. Pricing is based on connected accounts, not on how many connectors you enable, so adding Zoho Creator does not change your per-connector cost. You can start free with 3 connected accounts.
Add Zoho Creator to your product
Start free with 3 connected accounts. No sales call required, and no per-customer integration code.