Claude Campfire connectorWhat Claude can do in your Campfire account.
The Claude Campfire connector exposes 12 tools: 12 read, 0 write. Claude can pull your chart of accounts, ledger transactions, budgets, contracts, aging reports and financial statements from Campfire. Below: what it reads, what it leaves alone, and its limits.
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Why plug Campfire into Claude
Finance questions rarely fit a saved report: what did marketing spend with one vendor last quarter, how does cash flow compare with budget, which receivables are aging. With the connector, you ask in plain English and Claude picks the matching Campfire data, filters it by date, entity or department, and explains the answer in the chat.
Statements on demand. Ask for last quarter's profit and loss: income_statement generates it for the period and cadence you name, and balance_sheet or cash_flow_statement complete the picture before a board meeting.
A spending question, answered from the ledger. get_transactions searches general ledger entries by vendor, account, department, tag or date range, and get_vendors adds the payee's details, so Claude can explain where the money went.
Collections without a spreadsheet. get_aging produces payables or receivables aging by bucket, which Claude can summarize into a short list of who to chase.
What it won't do: post a journal entry, pay a vendor or change a budget. Campfire describes all twelve tools as retrieving or generating data, and by default the sheet only exposes reading. Nothing runs on its own either: no report lands at month end unless you ask. Scheduled exports belong to an automation tool, a different trade; the Integrations hub covers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while plugging Campfire into Claude.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already have, so Claude can query it while it answers you.
- Tool
- One named job the connector opens to Claude, like generating a balance sheet. Claude picks the ones it needs; the directory lists them by name.
- Authorization
- Campfire's own sign-in screen, where you grant Claude the access it will use afterwards. Given once per person, and revocable.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes ahead with something that changes an account, shown in the chat when it matters.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Campfire.
Connect Campfire to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Campfire in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Campfire in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch the connector on before each member can link it.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Campfire in the window Campfire opens itself. If the link breaks one day, Disconnect and plug it back in from the same row.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read Campfire's screen before you accept it. It belongs to Campfire, not Claude, and decides what the access covers. Access granted there can also be withdrawn later from your Campfire account.
The 12 tools, sorted by what they do
Campfire gives Claude 12 tools: 12 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
All twelve tools read or generate data from Campfire. Names stay in English, exactly as Claude shows them.
- 12 read
What Claude reads (12)
12 toolsTwelve tools that retrieve records or build reports without changing your books.
get_accounts
Retrieves your chart of accounts, filtered by type, subtype or a search term when needed. Claude gets the account list it must reason with before touching any number.
get_aging
Generates payables or receivables aging, broken down into age buckets, so overdue amounts show up by how late they are.
get_budgets
Returns budget records with their entity and time-period metadata, which Claude can then line up against actual figures from the statements.
get_contracts
Retrieves revenue recognition contracts with their performance obligations, the building blocks of how revenue gets recognized over time.
get_departments
Brings back the department hierarchy, cost centers and business units, so Claude can group or filter figures the way your organization is structured.
get_entities
Lists the entities on your chart: parent companies, subsidiaries and locations. Claude needs them to scope a question to one company or consolidate several.
get_tags
Retrieves the transaction tags your team uses as custom dimensions for analysis, so a question can be cut along those same lines.
get_transactions
Searches general ledger entries with filters on entity, account, vendor, department, tag and date range, returning the ledger lines that match your question.
get_vendors
Returns your vendor and payee directory with contact details and status, the who behind each payment.
balance_sheet
Generates a balance sheet showing assets, liabilities and equity, as Campfire computes it from your books.
cash_flow_statement
Generates cash flow split into operating, investing and financing activities, so Claude can explain where cash came from and where it went.
income_statement
Produces a profit and loss statement for the periods you specify, with a monthly, quarterly or yearly cadence. Claude can then set the periods side by side and explain what moved.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks for your go-ahead before any action it takes on an account on your behalf. Here, every tool on the sheet reads or generates data, so no change to your books waits for approval.
Campfire adds two points. Results are always scoped to your organization, the one tied to your access. And your data is only accessed when you explicitly ask for it through the assistant. On Team and Enterprise, owners decide whether members can let some actions through without being asked each time, and they can limit what a connector may do for the whole organization; nobody overrides that from their own account. Claude works with the connected person's rights, nothing more.
Which plans it's available on
Among the 819 sheets in the official directory, not one shows plan availability. For any single connector the answer goes unpublished: a real gap in the catalogue.
The general rule, though, is public: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner switches the connector on for the organization before members can link it. To know where Campfire stands for your account, open the connector's sheet in the official directory, the only place that shows its current state.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: no statement is generated at month end and no alert fires on a large transaction.
Everything Campfire-specific here comes from Campfire's documentation; no Claude help article covers this connector. A tool list that only shows reading is an observed floor, not a guarantee, since an admin can open actions that no public sheet shows; by default, this sheet exposes reading only. The directory badge isn't a security audit, and Anthropic writes on every sheet that it doesn't control a publisher's tools. The same structure is used on the Claude affinity connector page.
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