JobBOSS API
Integration runs through a downloadable Windows/.NET SDK: a JBRequestProcessor class takes JBXML request envelopes with a SessionID, not a REST API. There is no public developer portal, OAuth, or sandbox; docs ship inside the SDK via ECI's customer portal.
Frequently asked questions
JobBOSS scores D on Supergood's API Report Card. Integration runs through a downloadable Windows/.NET SDK: a JBRequestProcessor class takes JBXML request envelopes with a SessionID, not a REST API. There is no public developer portal, OAuth, or sandbox; docs ship inside the SDK via ECI's customer portal.
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. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
JobBOSS is a shop management / ERP platform built specifically for small-to-mid-sized job shops and make-to-order discrete manufacturers.
Vertical: Enterprise/HR/ERP, specifically job shop and make-to-order discrete manufacturing ERP. Shop owners, estimators, schedulers, planners, buyers, shop-floor operators, quality inspectors, shippers, and bookkeepers all use JobBOSS as the daily system of record.
JobBOSS is one of the most recognized brand names in the small-shop / job-shop ERP segment in North America, with a long installed base measured in the thousands of shops and decades of penetration in U.S. machine shops and contract manufacturing.
Yes, for a JobBOSS customer, the platform is the canonical operational system of record.
JobBOSS is one of the longest-tenured job-shop ERPs in North America, with origins as a Windows-client shop management system dating to the 1990s under Exact Software, later acquired by ECI Solutions (which is itself a private-equity-backed manufacturing/distribution software roll-up owned by Leonard Green & Partners and Apax).
"Customer support for using XML extremely limited. Poor documentation on using it.", the JBXML/SDK surface is the primary integration path but is underdocumented. SDK requires a Windows / .NET runtime and a JBRequestProcessor COM-style class, not a modern HTTPS REST API, making cross-platform and serverless integrations difficult. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Epicor Kinetic, Global Shop Solutions, ECI M1, E2 Shop System (Shoptech / ECI), ProShop ERP, Fulcrum. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
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 JobBOSS 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. JobBOSS 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.