AppFolio API
AppFolio's Stack partner API uses OAuth 2.0 and has real docs, but access requires partner registration, a 50-unit minimum, and monthly spend commitments. Rent payments, tenant screening, and renters insurance are excluded; third party tools like Skywalk exist to work around the gate.
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AppFolio scores F on the API Report Card. AppFolio's Stack partner API uses OAuth 2.0 and has real docs, but access requires partner registration, a 50-unit minimum, and monthly spend commitments. Rent payments, tenant screening, and renters insurance are excluded; third party tools like Skywalk exist to work around the gate.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
AppFolio is a cloud property-management platform for residential (multifamily, single-family, student, affordable), community associations (HOA), commercial real estate, and investment management.
Real Estate (Property Management), Typically for property managers and owners running portfolios from hundreds to tens of thousands of units. Property managers run accounting and rent collection, lease and applicant workflows, maintenance/work orders, owner/tenant portals, and reporting as their day-to-day system of record.
Publicly traded (NASDAQ: APPF), tens of thousands of customers managing millions of units, one of the dominant U.S. property-management platforms; strong G2/Capterra footprint.
Yes, Holds the property manager's own portfolio: properties, leases, tenants, ledgers, payments, and maintenance, critical system-of-record data trapped behind a login and a restrictive partner gate.
Founded 2006, ~19 years old. Modern cloud platform, actively developed with AI features, but its integration program is deliberately restrictive.
API excludes key data categories and requires partner approval. Restrictive access drives reliance on third-party API tools. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Yardi, RealPage, Buildium, Entrata, Rent Manager. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.