Tave API
Tave, now VSCO Workspace, ships a public REST API at workspace.vsco.co/api/v2 with self-generated API keys. Documentation lives in a help-center article, not a developer portal. There are no webhooks, no published rate limits or SLA, and the base URL has moved with each rebrand.
Frequently asked questions
Tave scores C on the API Report Card. Tave, now VSCO Workspace, ships a public REST API at workspace.vsco.co/api/v2 with self-generated API keys. Documentation lives in a help-center article, not a developer portal. There are no webhooks, no published rate limits or SLA, and the base URL has moved with each rebrand.
Tave 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.
Tave (stylized 'Táve,' originally Táve Studio Manager) is a cloud-based studio management and CRM platform for professional photographers and other event-based creative businesses.
Vertical: vertical-SaaS CRM / clientflow for professional photographers and event-based creative studios (categorized as 'misc' because it sits horizontally across many photography sub-niches, weddings, portraits, families, newborns, commercial, real estate, events, rather than a single regulated industry). A photography studio embeds a Tave contact form on its website (or wires a Zapier flow from another lead source).
Tave is a well-known and respected name inside the professional-photographer community and is consistently named as one of the top three studio-management CRMs (alongside HoneyBook and Dubsado), but absolute scale is modest: ~37 verified Capterra reviews at 4.3/5, a similarly sized footprint on G2 and SoftwareSuggest, and public statements that the platform serves 'thousands of studios' rather than the 100K+ that HoneyBook claims.
Yes, for the photography studio that runs on Tave/VSCO Workspace, this is the operational and financial system of record: every lead and inquiry source, the full client database, every job and its pipeline stage, every signed contract, every invoice and its payment history (with Stripe/Square as the payment rail), every questionnaire response, every scheduled shoot, every automated workflow's execution history, and every message and file exchanged through the client portal.
Táve has been in market since the late 2000s as an independent photographer-CRM product (founder Tave Davenport, based in the US).
Users report intermittent API reliability problems, 'not-working APIs' cited alongside contact-form bugs and a 'half-implemented' Stripe gateway. API documentation is buried inside the customer-facing help center rather than published as a developer portal with OpenAPI specs or SDKs. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include HoneyBook, Dubsado, 17hats, Studio Ninja, Sprout Studio, Pixifi. 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 Tave API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Tave data. See the Tave integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/tave-api.