Dubsado API
Dubsado publishes no developer portal, OpenAPI spec, or sandbox; tokens for Zapier, Make, and n8n are the de facto API. Token generation is restricted to the Premier plan, and webhook triggers cover only a handful of events, so payments and bookings require polling.
Frequently asked questions
Dubsado scores D on the API Report Card. Dubsado publishes no developer portal, OpenAPI spec, or sandbox; tokens for Zapier, Make, and n8n are the de facto API. Token generation is restricted to the Premier plan, and webhook triggers cover only a handful of events, so payments and bookings require polling.
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.
Dubsado is a cloud-based client management / business management suite (often described as a CRM for creative service providers) that bundles lead capture forms, proposals, e-signed contracts, invoicing and recurring payments, scheduling, client portals, project management, time tracking, automated email/task workflows, branded forms and questionnaires, and basic reporting into one platform.
Vertical: horizontal client-relationship / business-management software for creative service providers (no industry-specific compliance layer). A creative business owner sets up branded lead capture forms on their website that pipe inquiries into Dubsado as projects.
Dubsado advertises 120,000+ creative entrepreneurs as customers, 3M+ contracts signed, $4B+ in payments processed, and ~6M invoices paid.
Yes, for the creative business owners who run on it, Dubsado is the system of record for the entire client lifecycle: the lead database (with source attribution and lead capture form submissions), the full project list with statuses and custom fields, every signed contract and sub-agreement (legally binding e-signatures, 3M+ across the platform), the invoice and payment ledger (Stripe-backed, $4B+ processed and ~6M invoices paid through Dubsado Payments), recurring billing schedules, scheduled appointments and session history, branded proposals with selected packages and pricing, client-portal correspondence and uploaded files, time-tracking entries, and the workflow audit trail showing what automated action fired against which project.
Founded in 2016 in California by Becca and Jake Berg, originally built to solve their own studio management problems. The company has remained private and bootstrapped/small with no widely reported venture funding.
No publicly documented REST API, OpenAPI spec, SDK, or developer portal, integration patterns are word-of-mouth or via third-party middleware. Zapier is the de-facto API for non-developer customers, which adds per-task Zapier costs on top of Dubsado subscriptions for any meaningful automation. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include HoneyBook, 17hats, Bonsai (hellobonsai.com), Sprout Studio, Tave, Iris Works. 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 Dubsado API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Dubsado data. See the Dubsado integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/dubsado-api.