Shoptech API
ECI markets a JobBOSS2 'public API' handling XML, JSON, and CSV, plus an SDK distributed through its resource portal, but nothing is self-serve: no developer signup, no public OpenAPI, no published auth model. Customers route through their account manager or VAR for credentials and docs.
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Shoptech scores D+ on the API Report Card. ECI markets a JobBOSS2 'public API' handling XML, JSON, and CSV, plus an SDK distributed through its resource portal, but nothing is self-serve: no developer signup, no public OpenAPI, no published auth model. Customers route through their account manager or VAR for credentials and docs.
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.
Shoptech Software Corp. is the legacy brand behind the E2 Shop System (a.k.a. E2 SHOP, E2 MFG), a job-shop ERP for custom manufacturers that the company built and sold since the late 1990s out of Greenwood Village, Colorado.
Primary vertical: Enterprise / HR / ERP, specifically job-shop and make-to-order manufacturing ERP. A 30-person CNC shop runs JobBOSS²/E2 to quote new parts from RFQs, convert accepted quotes into jobs and routings, schedule those jobs across machines with drag-and-drop, issue purchase orders for raw stock, track inventory and WIP, capture shop-floor labor and machine time on tablets via DCMobile, post completed jobs to QuickBooks for invoicing, and run job-costing and profitability reports at month-end.
Moderate inside the North American job-shop segment.
JobBOSS² (formerly E2 Shop) holds the data that runs a job shop: open quotes and won orders, job routings and operation schedules, raw-material inventory and reorder points, purchase orders and vendor commitments, real-time shop-floor labor and machine time, job-cost actuals versus estimates, work-in-process valuation, completed-job revenue posted to QuickBooks, customer-specific pricing and contract terms, and quality records (CAPA, calibration, document control).
The E2 Shop System lineage dates to the late 1990s; JobBOSS itself traces back to the 1980s. JobBOSS² is the post-2022 merger of these two legacy codebases under ECI.
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 Shoptech API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Shoptech data. See the Shoptech integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/shoptech-api.