About Mini Accountant
Mini Accountant is a hosted MCP server for freelancers and small businesses to manage invoicing, expenses, and reporting through an AI assistant. It connects to the user's workspace with OAuth 2.1 and exposes guided skills and prompts alongside account data operations.
Key features
- 01Create and manage invoices and customers
- 02Track expenses and reusable services
- 03Manage payment settings
- 04Run reports and estimate taxes
- 05Guided skills and prompts
Use cases
- 01Create an invoice for client work
- 02Log and review business expenses
- 03Check invoices and transactions for a period
- 04Estimate tax for a reporting period
MCP support
The remote streamable HTTP MCP server exposes tools for invoices, customers, expenses, services, payment settings, analytics, and account settings, plus guided skills and prompts. Users authorize access to their workspace through OAuth 2.1.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1betaclaude mcp add --transport http app-miniaccountant-mini-accountant https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta{"mcpServers":{"app-miniaccountant-mini-accountant":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"app-miniaccountant-mini-accountant":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"app-miniaccountant-mini-accountant":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"}}}{"mcpServers":{"app-miniaccountant-mini-accountant":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEMini Accountant — MCP setup
Connect your AI assistant to your Mini Accountant workspace through our hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. No local setup, no API keys — the server is remote and protected by OAuth 2.1, so you sign in once with your Mini Accountant account and your assistant acts on your behalf.
- Server:
mini-accountant - Transport: streamable HTTP
- URL:
https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta - Auth: OAuth 2.1 / OIDC (Authorization Code + PKCE) — you'll be prompted to sign in.
- Sign-in required: yes. The server is user-scoped, so there is a sign-in step and no anonymous access. It needs a Mini Accountant account; the app is free to download and its core features are free, with an optional in-app subscription on top.
- Built for: freelancers and small businesses, including ones billing in more than one currency.
What you can do
Once connected, the assistant can:
- Invoices — create, read, update, delete; add/update/remove positions and transactions; change the customer on an invoice.
- Customers — create, read, update, delete; set a customer's payment method.
- Expenses — create, read, update, delete; fetch expenses for a period.
- Services — manage your reusable product/service catalogue.
- Payment settings — manage the payment-method documents customers reference.
- Analytics — run reporting queries; get invoices/transactions/expenses for a date range; estimate tax for a period.
- Account — read and update your user profile and app settings.
Guided skills and prompts (e.g. "create an invoice") are also exposed so the assistant discovers the right workflow automatically.
Ask it things like
- "Invoice Acme for 12 hours of design work at €90 an hour."
- "Log a €400 expense for the Berlin trip."
- "What did I invoice last month, and how much VAT is on it?"
- "Add a customer in the US who pays in dollars by bank transfer."
- "Which invoices have no payment against them yet?"
- "Estimate my tax for the third quarter."
The assistant works in your own Mini Accountant workspace — the same data the iOS, Android and web apps show.
What it doesn't do
Worth stating plainly, because comparison tables tend to assume the opposite:
- No recurring or scheduled invoicing. You can duplicate an existing invoice in one step and the copy is dated today, which is the nearest equivalent.
- No double-entry bookkeeping and no audit trail. This is invoicing, expenses and reporting for a small business, not a general ledger.
- No payroll.
- No statutory e-invoicing. It does not file invoices into a national e-invoicing regime, and it does not produce an accountant-facing export in a national standard format.
Install in Claude Code (plugin)
The quickest path — installs the remote server as a plugin, no manual config file.
/plugin marketplace add miniaccountant/mcp-setup
/plugin install mini-accountant@miniaccountant
/reload-plugins
Then run /mcp and complete the OAuth sign-in when prompted. That's it — the
mini-accountant tools are now available in your session.
Prefer not to use the marketplace? Add the server directly:
claude mcp add --transport http mini-accountant https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta
Connect from other clients
Same remote URL, same OAuth sign-in — only the config location differs.
Claude Desktop / claude.ai connectors
Add a custom connector pointing at the server URL:
- Open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector (claude.ai) or the equivalent in Claude Desktop.
- Name:
Mini Accountant - URL:
https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta - Save, then connect and sign in with your Mini Accountant account when prompted.
Cursor
Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) or .cursor/mcp.json (per-project):
{
"mcpServers": {
"mini-accountant": {
"url": "https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"
}
}
}
Reload Cursor, then authorize the server when Cursor opens the OAuth prompt.
VS Code (GitHub Copilot / MCP) and other clients
Any client that supports remote/streamable-HTTP MCP servers works with the same endpoint. Use the client's HTTP-server form:
{
"servers": {
"mini-accountant": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/v1beta"
}
}
}
Authentication
The server implements OAuth 2.1 / OpenID Connect with:
- Authorization Code grant + PKCE (S256), refresh tokens.
- Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) — clients register automatically.
- Discovery documents:
https://mcp.miniaccountant.app/.well-known/oauth-authorization-serverhttps://mcp.miniaccountant.app/.well-known/oauth-protected-resourcehttps://mcp.miniaccountant.app/.well-known/openid-configuration
Compliant MCP clients discover these automatically — you only need the server URL. Tokens are issued to your account; the assistant can only see and change your data.
Troubleshooting
401 Unauthorized/ prompted to sign in again — the access token expired (1h TTL). Re-run the client's connect/authorize action.- Tools don't appear — confirm the client finished the OAuth flow (in Claude
Code, run
/mcpand check the server shows connected). - Wrong workspace — sign out of the connector and reconnect with the correct Mini Accountant account.
Support
- Website: https://ad.miniaccountant.app
- Support: [email protected]
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