Productive
Turn requests and orders into Productive work, and keep status in step across your tools.
32 ways to read, 21 ways to write, each write switched on by you.
Quality checks
Built and tested with example responses.
- Ready to connect: doneEvery listed action is built in.
- Built and tested with example responses: doneEach action is built from the provider’s published API and tested against example responses, errors, rate limits and paging.
Connected, approved, proven.
The things teams do most with Productive, an example flow with a person in the loop, and what Nexra keeps as proof.
Top actions
- Create booking
bookings.createApproval by rule - Add comment
comments.createApproval by rule - List bookings
bookings.listRead
Example flow
- Productive · List bookings
bookings.listDone - Productive · Create booking
bookings.createMaker-checker - Nexra · Record the decision and result in the evidence chainProven
Example workflow. Routine runs go through on their own. Only a change your rules flag, such as one over a limit you set, waits for the right person, who sees the exact change and the rule before it reaches Productive.
What gets logged
- Whether it ran on its own or who approved it, and under which rule
- A fingerprint of the exact request sent to Productive
- Productive's reply: what it created or changed
- One entry in the evidence chain, linked to the one before
Try this in the sandbox
Run the whole flow with test data in your sandbox, then connect your own account when you are ready to go live.
For developers
Technical detail
Read and write Productive projects, budgets, services, tasks, time, timers, expenses, bookings, companies and comments; read invoices, payments, people and pipelines.
Productive.io API docs- Source actions
- 32
- Destination actions
- 21
- Data types
- 20
What you can map
Reads are always available. Writes are off until you switch them on for a connection, and governed writes follow your policies.
bookings4
- Create bookingDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Books a person on a budget service, or records an absence with an event, for a date range.
- Get bookingSource
One booking.
- List bookingsSourceIncremental
Resource bookings (budget work and absences) for people and projects.
- Update bookingDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Changes the dates, allocation, note or tentative state of a booking.
comments2
- Add commentDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Adds a comment to a task, deal or project as the token's user.
- List commentsSource
Comments on a task or project, oldest first.
companies4
- Create companyDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates a client company.
- Get companySource
One client company.
- List companiesSource
Client companies with billing details and custom fields.
- Update companyDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied company fields.
custom fields1
- List custom fieldsSource
Custom field definitions with the record type and data type they apply to.
deal statuses1
- List deal statusesSource
Pipeline stages with outcome, probability and tracking settings.
deals4
- Create deal or budgetDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates a sales deal, or a budget when isBudget is true.
- Get deal or budgetSource
One sales deal or budget.
- List deals and budgetsSource
Sales deals and production budgets with value, status and custom fields.
- Update deal or budgetDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied deal or budget fields.
expenses4
- Create expenseDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Records an expense, optionally on a budget service and for a person.
- Get expenseSource
One expense.
- List expensesSourceIncremental
Expenses with amounts, approval, budget, service and vendor.
- Update expenseDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied expense fields.
invoices2
- Get invoiceSource
One invoice with amounts and states (read-only).
- List invoicesSource
Invoices with amounts, dates and company (read-only).
payments1
- List invoice paymentsSource
Payments recorded against invoices (read-only).
people2
- Get personSource
One employee or contact.
- List peopleSource
Employees and contacts with title, manager and custom fields.
pipelines1
- List pipelinesSource
Sales and production pipelines.
projects4
- Create projectDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates an internal or client project.
- Get projectSource
One project with company, manager, workflow and custom fields.
- List projectsSource
Projects with company, manager, workflow and custom fields.
- Update projectDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates name, manager, company, colour or custom fields of a project.
running timers1
- Stop timerDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Stops a running timer and records the time on its time entry.
service types1
- List service typesSource
Work categories used on services, expenses and people.
services4
- Create serviceDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Adds a service line to a deal or budget.
- Get serviceSource
One budget service with pricing and tracked time.
- List servicesSourceIncremental
Budget and deal line services with pricing, estimates and tracked time.
- Update serviceDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied service fields.
task lists4
- Create task listDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates a task list on a project board.
- Get task listSource
One task list.
- List task listsSource
Task lists of a project.
- Rename task listDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Renames a task list or changes its position on the board.
tasks5
- Create task or subtaskDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Creates a task in a project task list; supply a parent task for a subtask.
- Get taskSource
One task or subtask.
- List tasksSourceIncremental
Tasks and subtasks with assignee, status, estimates and custom fields.
- Search tasksSource
Tasks whose title or number matches the text, optionally in one project.
- Update taskDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied task fields, status, assignee or custom fields.
time entries4
- Create time entryDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Tracks time for a person on a service, optionally on a task.
- Get time entrySource
One time entry.
- List time entriesSourceIncremental
Tracked time with person, service, task and approval state.
- Update time entryDestinationProvider duplicate protectionApproval before production
Updates supplied fields on an unapproved time entry.
timers3
- Start timerDestinationNot retried automaticallyApproval before production
Starts a timer for the token's user on a service (new time entry) or an existing time entry.
- Get timerSource
One timer.
- List timersSource
Timers, newest first, optionally for one person.
workflow statuses1
- List workflow statusesSource
Task workflow statuses with their lifecycle category.
Access and limits
- Authentication
- API token with organisation ID
- Plans and access
- All Productive plans with API access; budgets, invoicing and custom fields depend on the plan. API tokens act as the user who created them, with read-only or full access, and follow that user's permissions.
- Test environment
- Use a Productive trial organisation for testing.
- Rate limits
- 100 requests per 10 seconds and 4,000 per 30 minutes per token (reports 10 per 30 seconds); HTTP 429.
- Pagination
- page[number] and page[size] (up to 200) with meta.total_pages.
- Provider events
- Productive webhooks for task, deal, time entry and other events. Flows run on demand, on a schedule, or when a scheduled check finds new or changed records.
Before you build a flow
- Budgets are deals with budget = true; there is no separate budgets endpoint.
- Comments are always created as the token's user.
- Invoices and payments are read-only in Nexra; creating, finalising, sending or paying invoices and recording payments are not automated.
- Excluded on purpose: every delete, archive, merge and restore endpoint, expense and time approval or rejection, accounting exports, creating or inviting people (invitations), deactivating people, and bulk endpoints.
- Incremental filters (filter[updated_at][gt_eq]) are used for tasks, time entries, services, expenses and bookings; Productive compares by date unless its datetime filtering flag is enabled for the organisation.
- Money attributes (expense amounts, invoice totals) are passed through exactly as Productive returns and accepts them; Nexra does not convert currency units.
- Productive has no idempotency key; uncertain creates are not repeated automatically.
Developer reference
- Create the Productive.io credentials described above with the narrowest permissions your flows need.
- In Nexra, open Connect, then Connections, then New connection, choose Productive, enter its settings and credentials, and tick only the write actions you need. Connection guide
- Test the connection, then use its actions as flow sources and destinations. Flow guide
Machine-readable detail: GET /api/public/connect/connectors/productive and the Connections API.