Fishbowl API
Fishbowl Advanced serves a REST/JSON API from the customer's own server (default port 2456) with bearer-token auth and coverage across inventory, orders, and manufacturing. There are no native webhooks or official SDKs, and the quirky legacy JSON/CSV API is still widely deployed.
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Fishbowl scores C on Supergood's API Report Card. Fishbowl Advanced serves a REST/JSON API from the customer's own server (default port 2456) with bearer-token auth and coverage across inventory, orders, and manufacturing. There are no native webhooks or official SDKs, and the quirky legacy JSON/CSV API is still widely deployed.
Fishbowl has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Fishbowl is an inventory and manufacturing management platform built primarily for small and mid-sized businesses that run QuickBooks (Desktop or Online) or Xero as their accounting system of record.
Primary vertical bucket: misc (Inventory Management / Manufacturing / SMB). A distributor or light manufacturer sets up parts and products with SKUs, UOMs, reorder points, vendor mappings, and BOMs; configures multiple warehouses, locations, and bins; and connects QuickBooks Desktop/Online or Xero plus sales channels (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, eBay, Magento, WooCommerce) and shipping carriers (FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL via ShipStation).
Mid-high within its segment.
Fishbowl is the system of record for on-hand quantities, lot/serial/expiry tracking, reorder points, landed cost, BOMs, work orders, purchase orders, and the bidirectional product/inventory/order bridge between sales channels (Shopify, BigCommerce, Amazon, eBay, Magento, WooCommerce), shipping (FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL via ShipStation), and accounting (QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Online, Xero, Reckon).
Founded in 2001 by Chuck and Beverly Hale; CEO David K. Williams brought the QuickBooks-integrated inventory product to market in 2004; management/employee buyout in 2011 (Zions Bank financed); acquired by Diversis Capital in December 2021.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Yes, via a managed API layer. Supergood builds REST APIs and MCP servers for authenticated enterprise web apps, so AI agents and internal tools can read and write data programmatically. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official Fishbowl MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Fishbowl doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.