Shoptech API
Shoptech is the maker of the E2 Shop System (now JobBOSS²), a manufacturing ERP for job shops and custom manufacturers covering quoting, scheduling, shop floor control, inventory, purchasing, job costing, and accounting. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull jobs, work orders, quotes, parts, inventory, customers, vendors, and invoices—and push updates like new quotes, work orders, purchase orders, and inventory adjustments back into the system.
What is Shoptech?
Shoptech is the maker of the E2 Shop System, a manufacturing ERP built for job shops and custom, make-to-order manufacturers. The product spans the full manufacturing lifecycle—quoting and estimating, scheduling, shop floor control, inventory and materials management, purchasing, job costing, quality, and accounting. Since Shoptech was acquired by ECi Software Solutions in 2021, E2 Shop System has been restructured and is offered as JobBOSS², a cloud-based ERP used by machine shops, fabrication shops, tool and die shops, and metal stamping and screw shops to run shop floor operations and surface business insights.
Core product areas include:
- Quoting & Estimating (generate quotes, convert to production orders, AI BOM Builder from PDFs/Excel/CSV)
- Scheduling & Shop Floor Control (drag-and-drop calendar scheduling, load balancing, real-time capacity, mobile time tracking)
- Inventory & Materials Management (real-time tracking by location, material forecasting, low-stock alerts, reorder automation)
- Purchasing (automated PO creation from job requirements, material forecast utility)
- Job Costing & Accounting (estimated vs. actual cost comparison, customer and job profitability, QuickBooks integration)
- Quality Management (equipment calibration, document control, CAPA workflows, uniPoint integration)
Common data entities:
- Quotes, Estimates, Bills of Materials (BOMs)
- Jobs, Work Orders, Routings, Operations
- Parts, Inventory, Lots/Serials, Bin Locations
- Customers, Vendors, Purchase Orders
- Invoices, Payments, Job Costs
- Time Tracking entries, Calibration and Quality records
The Shoptech Integration Challenge
Manufacturers run mission-critical shop floor operations on E2/JobBOSS² every day, but turning portal- and shop-floor-driven workflows into API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Mixed deployment models: Cloud and on-premise installations expose different surfaces, so a single generic integration breaks across customer environments
- Platform transition: The E2 to JobBOSS² rebrand under ECi means object models, screens, and data access vary by version and migration state
- Shop-floor-bound data: Time tracking, scheduling, and capacity data often live in mobile apps and shop floor terminals rather than an open API
- Accounting handoffs: Financial data frequently flows through QuickBooks integration rather than a first-class API, fragmenting where records live
- Job-to-cash spread: Quotes, jobs, work orders, inventory, purchasing, and invoicing each carry their own IDs and lifecycle states that must be stitched together
- Authentication friction: Per-user logins and session handling complicate reliable headless automation across tenants
How Supergood Creates Shoptech APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated browser and shop floor flows across the E2 Shop System and JobBOSS² to deliver a resilient API layer for your Shoptech tenant—covering quoting, jobs, inventory, purchasing, and invoicing.
- Handles username/password and session continuity securely with automated refresh
- Adapts to both cloud and on-premise deployments, and to E2 versus JobBOSS² versions
- Normalizes responses across Quotes, Jobs, Work Orders, Inventory, Purchasing, and Invoicing so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
- Preserves shop-specific part numbers, routings, and custom fields rather than forcing a generic schema
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your edition (E2 or JobBOSS²), deployment model, and authentication setup.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready Shoptech adapter tailored to your shop's configuration and data entities.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Shoptech and JobBOSS² evolve.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a Shoptech E2/JobBOSS² tenant and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Quoting
/quotesList quotes and estimates with filters for customer, part, status, and date range.
Quoting
/create_quoteCreate a new quote or estimate, including line items and bill of materials, and optionally convert it to a job.
Jobs
/work_ordersRetrieve jobs and work orders with routings, operations, status, and estimated vs. actual cost data.
Inventory
/inventoryPull parts and on-hand inventory by location, including lot/serial detail and reorder levels.
Purchasing
/create_purchase_orderCreate a purchase order against a vendor and job requirement, mirroring automated PO generation.
Use Cases
Sync quotes, jobs, and work orders into your systems
- Pull quotes and estimates as they are created and stream them to CRM and CPQ tools - Sync jobs, work orders, routings, and operation status into a central warehouse - Compare estimated vs. actual costs per job for profitability reporting
Automate inventory and purchasing workflows
- Pull real-time on-hand inventory by location into planning and forecasting tools - Trigger purchase orders when parts fall below reorder levels - Reconcile vendor, PO, and receipt data with downstream supply chain systems
Reconcile invoicing and job costing with finance
- Sync invoices, payments, and job costs into general ledger and AR systems - Bridge data between E2/JobBOSS² and QuickBooks without manual exports - Surface customer and job profitability to dashboards and BI tools
Stream shop floor and scheduling data to BI
- Pull shop floor time tracking and capacity data from mobile and terminal entry - Stream scheduling, load, and bottleneck signals to operations dashboards - Surface quality, calibration, and CAPA records alongside production data
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Username/password handled in a managed session with automated refresh
Connectivity
Authenticated browser and shop floor flows across E2 Shop System and JobBOSS², cloud and on-premise
Response format
Normalized JSON across Quotes, Jobs, Inventory, Purchasing, and Invoicing objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your tenant to avoid system-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, login replay handling, and credential rotation
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for jobs, inventory, and quotes with optional scheduled batch syncs
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks for quote creation, job status changes, inventory adjustments, and invoicing
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting quotes, jobs, and purchase orders
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to multi-job-shop volume across quoting, production, and purchasing
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for job, inventory, and purchase order transactions
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of E2/JobBOSS² releases and per-shop configuration drift
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Shoptech's E2 Shop System was restructured as JobBOSS² after the 2021 ECi acquisition. Supergood adapts to both editions and to migration states in between, normalizing data across whichever version your shop runs.
Yes. Supergood works against authenticated surfaces for both cloud and on-premise installations, with network configuration tuned to your environment so the same normalized API is available regardless of deployment model.
Yes. Real-time on-hand inventory by location, reorder levels, vendor records, and purchase orders are exposed through the normalized API, so you can drive forecasting and reorder automation from your own systems.
Invoices, payments, and job costs are exposed directly through the API rather than only via QuickBooks export, so you can sync finance data into your general ledger and BI tools without manual handoffs.
Each shop is profiled against its configured parts, routings, and custom fields. Supergood preserves your part numbers, lifecycle states, and shop-specific data rather than forcing a generic schema.