Kickserv API
Kickserv has a documented public Developer API, but it is XML over HTTP with Basic Auth via an employee token. Any account can integrate without a partner program or fee. The design is dated: no OAuth, no official SDKs, only a community Ruby wrapper.
Frequently asked questions
Kickserv scores C on the API Report Card. Kickserv has a documented public Developer API, but it is XML over HTTP with Basic Auth via an employee token. Any account can integrate without a partner program or fee. The design is dated: no OAuth, no official SDKs, only a community Ruby wrapper.
Kickserv 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.
Kickserv is field service management software for home-service businesses: customer management, estimates, job scheduling, dispatch, invoicing, mobile workforce tools, and payments. It serves plumbing, HVAC, electrical, restoration, landscaping, and similar trades. It is part of EverCommerce.
Field Service Management, Typically for small-to-midsize home-service contractors (plumbing, HVAC, electrical, landscaping) managing jobs, scheduling, and invoicing. Service businesses manage customers, create estimates, schedule and dispatch jobs to field techs, capture work in a mobile app, invoice, and collect payment, syncing with QuickBooks/Stripe.
700+ reviews across G2/Capterra/Software Advice/Google, established SMB brand, owned by EverCommerce (large vertical-SaaS roll-up).
Yes, Holds the contractor's own jobs, customers, estimates, schedules, and invoices, system-of-record operating data the business depends on and that is otherwise trapped in the app.
~17 years old (developer API blog post dates to 2009). Mature/legacy stack; XML-based API reflects its age, though still actively sold under EverCommerce.
API is XML-over-HTTP with Basic Auth (dated design). Only a community Ruby wrapper; no official SDKs. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Jobber, Housecall Pro, ServiceTitan, FieldEdge, Service Fusion. 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 Kickserv API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Kickserv data. See the Kickserv integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/kickserv-api.