How do I connect Claude to Easyflex in 5 minutes?
Execute the following steps to connect Claude to Easyflex. You only need knowledge of Claude, your own business and the Easyflex administration.
Easyflex is Dutch online software for employment agencies. Easyflex provides timesheet registration and approval, payrolling as well as HR functionality.
No technical knowledge is needed nor knowledge on the Easyflex APIs to connect Easyflex to Claude. This step-by-step plan will tell you exactly which steps you need to go through on Invantive Cloud to create your own Azure data warehouse with data from Easyflex.
The steps to connect Claude to Easyflex are:
- Register an Invantive Cloud account.
- Create a Easyflex database.
- Grant connection from Claude access to Easyflex
- Connect Claude to Easyflex through the connector.
- Ask Claude a question about Easyflex
Invantive Cloud offers a Easyflex connector to download data from Easyflex into Claude, but there are over 110 other connectors available also for SQL, Power BI, Power Query, Qlik, Tableau i Azure Data Factory.
With the Easyflex connector for Claude you will by default fetch the data from all connected Easyflex companies in your dashboard. You can limit the number of Easyflex companies that are retrieved in Claude through the Database settings. For example, you can also limit the connector for Claude to the data from exactly one Easyflex company. Of course, you can also filter the data by a specific Easyflex company using a filter step in Claude. The Easyflex connector for Claude has advanced optimizations for great real-time performance with both a single Easyflex company as well as with hundreds of Easyflex companies.
When you are having questions, please check the forums for Easyflex.
Register Account on Invantive Cloud
Skip this step when you already have an account on Invantive Cloud. Otherwise execute the following steps one time to register an account on Invantive Cloud:
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Go to Invantive Cloud start page.
Select the Log on-button.
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Select the Next-button.
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Select the Next-button.
Enter your password and repeat the provided password.
You will receive a six-digit verification code by email within 2 minutes.
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Select the Sign Up-button.
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Make sure you have an authentication app installed on your phone. Select the Next-button.
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Add the displayed QR code to the authentication app, enter the current verification code, and choose "Finish".
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The Invantive Cloud dashboard will be shown.
You now have a login code on Invantive Cloud with which you can set up the connection with Easyflex and numerous other platforms. You will use the same Invantive login code and workflow for all other platforms.
Create Easyflex database
In this step, we set up a database with data from Easyflex. The database is "virtual" because it is not a traditional database, but is fed real-time from Easyflex. Invantive Cloud provides Claude with a real-time link to Easyflex. The database will be used for all your Easyflex reporting with Claude. So you only need to perform these steps once.
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Click the Add Database button.
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Please fill out the form with login information for Easyflex.
Select the OK-button.
Congratulations! You can now process data from Easyflex within the Invantive Cloud website. You can do this for example with the interactive SQL editor.
Grant connection from Claude access to Easyflex
To retrieve the data from Claude we create a link via Invantive Bridge Online. This creates a "bridge" between the cloud of Invantive and the standard OData connector that is available in every version of Claude. You do not need to install anything locally: no connector, no ado.NET provider and no Claude add-on neither.
Execute the following steps to safely use the data from Easyflex outside of Invantive Cloud:
Next to the database you will find an orange text requesting you to allow access from your current location (IP address). Select the nearby orange button.
You can completely disable IP address checking by entering an asterisk ("*").
You are now ready to import the Easyflex data into Claude.
Configure the MCP connector in Claude for Easyflex
In Claude the address of the MCP server is added once as a custom connector, after which the data of Easyflex is available in every conversation.
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In Claude: open Settings and then Connectors, and choose to add a custom connector.
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Paste the URL address of the MCP server copied in the previous step and confirm.
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Log on with your Invantive Cloud account and approve the request.
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Ask a question only your own Easyflex data can answer. The connector first reads the data model and then the records the question needs.
What Claude Can and Cannot Do
The connector offers tools such as to describe the data model and read records. There is no tool that writes, posts, deletes or executes SQL, so no instruction in a conversation can change anything in Easyflex.
Reading is bounded by the database: platforms not in it and Easyflex companies not selected are not reachable.