RentCafe API
RentCafe API v2 is real and widely used, covering availability, pricing, leads and tours, but it is partner-gated: vendors sign a Yardi API Access Agreement, pay per-transaction fees and get no public reference. Clients then mint vendor tokens in Site Manager.
Frequently asked questions
RentCafe scores D on Supergood's API Report Card. RentCafe API v2 is real and widely used, covering availability, pricing, leads and tours, but it is partner-gated: vendors sign a Yardi API Access Agreement, pay per-transaction fees and get no public reference. Clients then mint vendor tokens in Site Manager.
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.
RentCafe is Yardi Systems' marketing, leasing and resident services suite for residential portfolios.
Real Estate & Property: multifamily marketing, leasing CRM and resident portal, with affordable, student, senior and military variants. Residents pay rent, submit work orders and sign renewals in the Resident Portal; prospects search RentCafe.com, apply online and schedule tours; leasing agents work leads in CRM IQ; marketers manage property websites and campaigns; administrators use Site Manager to configure properties, tour types, appointment limits and vendor API tokens.
Yardi reported 4.7 million licensed RentCafe units in 2017 (up 34 percent), RentCafe CRM at 3.1 million units in 2019, and CRM IQ above 1 million units in 2025. Yardi says more than 300 interface vendors use its APIs across its product suite.
Prospect guest cards and lead sources, tour appointments, unit availability and revenue-management pricing, floorplans and property marketing content, online applications (SSNs, income and screening data), resident portal payment methods (PCI), maintenance requests, call center records and reviews.
RentCafe has been a Yardi product for more than a decade (4.7 million units by 2017). api.rentcafe.com is served through Cloudflare over IIS (x-svr-iis and x-version general_v26.7 response headers).
Vendors must have clients open a Yardi Client Central case or ask a Yardi representative to obtain the vendor token and company code. Legacy integrations juggle a Web Services API Token, a username and password, and a separate Marketing API Key, each requested from a RentCafe CSM or Technical Support. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Entrata, RealPage, AppFolio, Funnel Leasing, Knock CRM. 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.
Not that we could find. There is no official RentCafe 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. RentCafe 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.