Security and retainer deposits held per client, applied to the invoices the invoice server already holds. It records a deposit when the money arrives, in minor units and in the currency it arrived in, then answers for it: what is held per client and per currency, since when, and what has already gone. Applying a deposit to an invoice writes the payment onto that invoice under both locks, adding to what was already paid rather than replacing it, and it can never pay out more than the deposit still holds or more than the invoice still owes. Refunds hand the money back without touching the invoice, and the statement is one client in one currency, as text or as an A4 PDF that matches the invoice and credit note beside it.
deposit_list, deposit_balance, deposit_statement_text and deposits_report are reads and safe to auto-approve; keep deposit_record, deposit_apply and deposit_refund behind a click, since deposit_apply writes a payment onto an invoice in the other server and deposit_record spends one of the month's five free ones and burns a DEP id that is never reused.
| You say | Tool |
|---|---|
| Record a 500 euro security deposit from Nordic Print, received today. | deposit_record |
| Apply 300 of that deposit to INV-2026-0001. | deposit_apply |
| How much are we holding for Nordic Print, and since when? | deposit_balance |
deposit_apply ADDS to the invoice's amount paid rather than setting it. Measured through a real client on 2026-09-05: an invoice already carrying a EUR 200.00 bank transfer ended at paid_minor 50000 after a EUR 300.00 deposit was applied, reported as paid EUR 500.00 of EUR 1,230.00 with EUR 730.00 due. Writing this server against the same field is what surfaced that invoice_mark_paid was assigning rather than adding, which silently lost the earlier payment; the invoice server was fixed the same day and now adds too.
The file is mcp.json, and the key inside it is mcpServers.
| Scope | Path |
|---|---|
| Cline CLI | ~/.cline/mcp.json |
| The editor extension | opened from the Cline panel, not by path; the documentation deliberately calls it the MCP settings JSON used by the extension |
{
"mcpServers": {
"deposits": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@theluckystrike/mcp-deposits"],
"disabled": false,
"autoApprove": []
}
}
}No full-app restart. The MCP settings actions include restarting an unresponsive server if its tools do not appear.
The npm publish of @theluckystrike/mcp-deposits is pending; until then use the .mcpb bundle or a clone and build from the latest release.
There is no hosted endpoint for this one yet. MCP Deposits runs locally over stdio with the config above, which is also the only form in which it reads and writes files on your own disk. Three of the servers in this collection are served at https://mcp.zovo.one/mcp/<name> over MCP streamable HTTP: time-tracker, price-tracker and invoice.
Cline is the one client here with an unsafe transport default. `type` selects it, and omitting `type` falls back to the legacy sse transport, so a streamable HTTP endpoint needs it written in or you will debug a server that is fine. Local entries carry "disabled" and an "autoApprove" array.
Free: 5 deposits recorded a calendar month, counted by received date. Applying to invoices, refunds, lists, balances and the text statement are unlimited on every tier: a cap that trapped a client's deposit would be a limit on their money rather than on yours. Pro is $19 once, verified offline.
The CLI reads ~/.cline/mcp.json. For the extension, do not hunt for a path: MCP Servers icon, Configure tab, Configure MCP Servers. cline mcp opens a wizard, and cline config mcp --json is the non-interactive form.
Set the transport explicitly. Omitting type falls back to the legacy sse transport, so streamable HTTP needs "type": "streamableHttp" written in. It is the one default here that sends you debugging a server that works.
Approve the read-only ones and leave the writing ones behind a click: each entry carries an autoApprove array and a disabled flag.
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