Buildertrend API
No public API. Buildertrend integrates through a curated marketplace (QuickBooks, Xero, HubSpot, Salesforce, Gusto); anything custom requires a partnership or hired freelancers. Builders wanting two-way sync with accounting or CRM systems resort to workarounds.
Frequently asked questions
Buildertrend scores F on the API Report Card. No public API. Buildertrend integrates through a curated marketplace (QuickBooks, Xero, HubSpot, Salesforce, Gusto); anything custom requires a partnership or hired freelancers. Builders wanting two-way sync with accounting or CRM systems resort to workarounds.
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.
Buildertrend is an all-in-one cloud-based construction project management platform for home builders, remodelers, and specialty contractors.
Construction Management, Typically for small to mid-sized residential home builders, remodelers, and specialty contractors managing multiple jobs with trade partners and clients. Centralized hub for managing construction projects end-to-end: scheduling via Gantt charts, creating estimates/proposals, tracking budgets and job costs, managing change orders and purchase orders, daily logs, client communication through a branded portal, photo documentation, and syncing financials to QuickBooks/Xero.
Leading residential construction management platform with 20,000+ customers. Claims to power over half of U.S. new home builds. Enlyft reports ~1,192 companies using it. Very strong in residential segment but smaller presence in commercial vs. Procore.
Yes, stores all project schedules, budgets, job cost data, client contracts, change orders, purchase orders, daily logs, photos, and financial records. This is core operating data for construction businesses managing their entire workflow.
~20 years old, founded 2006. Recently modernized UI and mobile app, added AI-powered client updates. Platform feels feature-rich but users report clunky UX with excessive clicks and no auto-save.
Users struggle to integrate outside lead sources with Buildertrend data. Companies hiring freelancers for custom two-way API sync (BT to accounting). Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Procore, CoConstruct (now Buildertrend), JobTread, Leap, Autodesk Construction Cloud. 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.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Buildertrend API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Buildertrend data. See the Buildertrend integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/buildertrend-api.