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How to connect Accredo to Claude

Use Anthropic Claude as a conversational interface to your Accredo company file — read balances, draft orders, find a customer — through the Rapido MCP server.

If your team already uses Claude — Claude.ai, Claude Code, Claude Desktop — you can give it read-and-write access to your Accredo company file in about 90 seconds. Claude becomes a natural-language layer over your ERP: “what does Mainland Steel’s balance look like this month?”, “draft an order for 200 of RHS-50×50×3 to D-1841”, “show me overdue invoices over $5,000.”

This guide explains the moving parts and how to wire it up.

What MCP is, briefly

MCP — Model Context Protocol — is the open standard Anthropic shipped in November 2024 for connecting AI clients to external systems. A model that “speaks MCP” can call tools and read resources from any MCP-compatible server. Today that includes Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI’s Apps SDK is built on it), Cursor, Windsurf, and a growing list of agent frameworks. In late 2025 Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation, alongside Block and OpenAI — it’s no longer a single-vendor protocol.

Rapido publishes your Accredo company file as an MCP server. The server speaks Accredo (debtors, creditors, products, orders, invoices) on one side and MCP on the other. Whatever model you point at it gets a typed surface to work with — no glue code, no custom integration layer.

What Claude can do once connected

Out of the box, the Rapido MCP server exposes:

  • /debtors — read, search, update, generate statements
  • /creditors — read, search, remit
  • /products — read, stock levels, pricing
  • /orders — read, draft, approve
  • /invoices — read, match against POs and remittances

Writes (drafting an order, marking a remittance) are explicit, scoped per token, and audited.

Real workflows customers run today:

  • “Pull every overdue invoice over $5,000 from Mainland Steel and draft chase emails” — debtors + invoices
  • “How much RHS-50×50×3 do we have on hand across all locations?” — products + stock
  • “Draft an order for the line items in this PDF I just dropped in” — combines with PO2Order
  • “Compare this quarter’s gross margin on the steel-section range against last quarter” — products + orders

Connecting it

In Claude Code (the CLI):

claude mcp add rapido https://mcp.rapido.co.nz/v1

In Claude Desktop, add the server in Settings → Developer → MCP, with the same URL. Claude.ai (the web app) supports MCP via Custom Connectors on Pro and Team plans — same URL, same auth flow.

Authentication is bearer-token. We issue you a token scoped to your Accredo company file when you onboard; rotate it any time. The token is stored in the Claude client, never sent to a third party.

Security

Three things worth knowing:

  1. Writes are explicit. Specific write paths (drafting an order, marking a remittance) are turned on per workflow, scoped per token, audited.
  2. Hosted in AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2).
  3. No prompts retained on the model side. Customer data passed to Claude over the API or under Claude for Work is governed by Anthropic’s Commercial Terms; Anthropic does not train on commercial inputs or outputs by default.

What it costs

The Rapido MCP server is a Rapido-hosted commercial product. There’s no per-query charge from us; usage is bounded by your Anthropic API or Claude.ai subscription. We scope it on a 30-minute call alongside the rest of your engagement.

Get started

The fastest path is a discovery call. We connect, walk you through a few real queries against your own company file, and you decide whether it earns its place. Book the call — no services engagement required.

If you’d rather poke around the SDK first, the open-source Rapido SDK on GitHub gives you a typed TypeScript client over the Accredo Web Service API directly. The MCP server is a thin layer on top of the same primitives.

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