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Actual Budget integration

Open-source personal finance app with envelope budgeting (self-hosted)

Actions
11
Triggers
1
Auth
Custom auth
License
MIT, open source
Updated
November 2026

About the Actual Budget integration

Add the Actual Budget piece to a flow, connect your account once, and the rest of the builder can read from it and write to it. Because the piece is open source you can run it on our cloud or self-host it, and combine Actual Budget with 770+ other apps in the same flow.

Triggers

Start a flow the moment something happens in Actual Budget

Each trigger below can start a flow on its own, either instantly or on a schedule.

  • New Transaction

    Triggers when a transaction dated within the last 7 days (or later) is added to an account. Split transactions trigger once, with their splits.

    1 field

Actions

Everything Activepieces can do in Actual Budget

Drop any of these into a flow and fill in the fields. No code is required.

  • Get Budget

    Gets the budget for one month: totals plus budgeted, spent and balance per category (amounts in cents).

    2 fields

  • Import Transaction

    Adds one transaction to an account. Actual runs your rules on it and skips it when the Imported ID was already imported.

    10 fields

  • Import Transactions

    Imports many transactions into one account. Amounts are integer cents (-1250 = -12.50). Rows whose imported_id was already imported are skipped.

    2 fields

  • Get Categories

    Gets every budget category as a flat list.

  • Get Accounts

    Gets every account in the budget (open and closed).

  • Find Payees

    Finds payees whose name contains the search text (all payees when empty).

    1 field

  • Find Transactions

    Finds transactions in a date range, optionally filtered by account, payee, category, amount or text.

    9 fields

  • Update Transaction

    Changes fields of an existing transaction. Empty fields are left unchanged.

    8 fields

  • Delete Transaction

    Deletes a transaction (and its splits). This cannot be undone from the flow.

    1 field

  • Set Budget Amount

    Sets how much is budgeted for a category in a month (replaces the current amount).

    3 fields

  • Run Bank Sync

    Pulls new transactions from the bank for one linked account, or for all linked accounts.

    1 field

Use Actual Budget in a flow

Connect Actual Budget once and every trigger and action above is yours to drop into the builder, alongside 770+ other apps. Free to start, on our cloud or your own servers.

Actual Budget, answered.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the Actual Budget piece is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

Add the Actual Budget piece to a flow, then authenticate with Custom auth. Once connected, its 1 trigger and 11 actions are available anywhere in the builder.

"New Transaction" can start a flow that runs "Get Budget", and you can chain Actual Budget together with any of 770+ other apps and AI steps in between.

Yes. Activepieces is fully self-hostable, so you can run the Actual Budget piece on your own infrastructure with your connections and your data staying in your environment.

Yes. Every piece you connect can be exposed over one Activepieces MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client can call Actual Budget actions as tools.