Houzz API
No public developer API. Integration is a curated set of first-party connectors: QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Google tools, and a Zapier connection that is one-way inbound and gated to the Custom enterprise tier. A legacy Marketplace seller API exists but is not openly documented.
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Houzz scores F on the API Report Card. No public developer API. Integration is a curated set of first-party connectors: QuickBooks Online, Gusto, Google tools, and a Zapier connection that is one-way inbound and gated to the Custom enterprise tier. A legacy Marketplace seller API exists but is not openly documented.
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.
Houzz is a home design and renovation platform founded in February 2009 by Adi Tatarko and Alon Cohen in Palo Alto, California, after a frustrating personal home remodel.
Construction, specifically residential remodelers, design-build firms, interior designers, architects, kitchen and bath specialists, landscape contractors, and home builders. Designers and contractors capture leads from the Houzz marketplace, Gmail (via Chrome extension), or Zapier-imported sources, qualify them in CRM, build 3D floor plans and mood boards, generate takeoffs and itemized estimates, send branded proposals and change orders for e-signature, collect deposits and milestone payments online, schedule crews and tasks, log daily site reports and time, invoice clients, and sync approved financial documents (estimates, proposals, invoices, retainers, change orders, payments) to QuickBooks Online on a five-minute cadence.
Very high among residential design/remodel professionals and U.S. homeowners researching renovations. Houzz reports 70M+ homeowners and 3M+ industry professionals globally, and reached 65M monthly users by January 2022. Revenue is reported at roughly $379M.
For a Houzz Pro subscriber, the platform holds the operational backbone of the business: every inbound lead and its source attribution, full client/contact CRM with conversation history, 3D floor plans and design files, material takeoffs and selections, estimates and itemized line items, signed proposals and change orders, e-signature records, retainers and milestone invoices, online payment transactions and payout records, project schedules and daily logs, crew time entries (and Gusto-synced payroll), and QuickBooks-synced books.
Mature. Houzz launched in 2009, making it 17 years old.
Zapier integration is one-way inbound only, you can pipe leads and projects into Houzz Pro, but you cannot export data out of Houzz Pro to other systems, trapping CRM/financial records inside the platform. Zapier access is gated to the Custom (enterprise) plan, blocking smaller pros from any automation. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Buildertrend, Procore, JobNimbus, Jobber, Contractor Foreman, AccuLynx. 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.