
Connectors / Sales · HTTP Connector
Automate Nutshell with Tray.ai
Create a lead, create a contact and create an activity in Nutshell, and start a workflow when Nutshell sends “Contact edited”.
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What can you do with Nutshell on Tray.ai?
Nutshell is a CRM for small sales teams that tracks leads, companies, people, activities and pipelines, with quotes, invoices and email marketing audiences alongside. Tray.ai connects to Nutshell through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the Nutshell API alongside the rest of your stack.
- When Nutshell sends “Lead won”, create the customer record in your accounting system.
- Create a lead in Nutshell for each new demo request from your website forms.
- After “Contact edited”, sync the updated details to your marketing platform.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- Basic authentication
- Base URL
- https://app.nutshell.com/rest
What the Nutshell API covers
5 resources and 20 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow.
Leads
- List leads
- Get a lead
- Create a lead
- Update a lead
- Delete a lead
Accounts
- List accounts
- Get an account
- Create an account
- Update an account
Contacts
- List contacts
- Get a contact
- Create a contact
- Update a contact
Activities
- List activities
- Get an activity
- Create an activity
- Update an activity
Tasks
- List tasks
- Create a task
- Delete a task
Events Nutshell can send to a Tray.ai webhook trigger
- Contact edited
- Lead won
Checked against Nutshell's own documentation on 2026-10-22
How Tray.ai makes this work
Nutshell plugs into the whole Tray.ai platform
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in Nutshell?
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The Nutshell API documents 20 actions across 5 resources (Leads, Accounts, Contacts, Activities, Tasks). For example: List leads; List accounts; List contacts. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with Nutshell?
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The Nutshell API uses basic authentication. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
Which Nutshell events can start a Tray.ai workflow?
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Nutshell sends 2 events to a webhook URL, for example: Contact edited; Lead won. A Tray.ai webhook trigger receives them and starts a workflow.
See Nutshell working against your stack.
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