Tradify has no public API or self-serve API key. How access is arranged, and how to connect Tradify to other software through reports and exports.
Who this is for
Trade business owners and operations managers who went looking for a Tradify API key so they could connect Tradify to payroll, reporting or other software.
Question this answers
Can I get a Tradify API key, and if not, how do I get my Tradify data into my other systems?
What you'll leave with
No. Tradify does not offer a public API that you can sign up for and use. There is no developer portal, no published documentation listing what the API can do, and no API key sitting in your Tradify settings waiting to be copied.
An API (application programming interface) is the channel one piece of software uses to read and write data in another. Some platforms let any customer switch one on. Tradify is not one of them.
If you were told to look in Settings for your API key, that advice is wrong. An earlier version of this guide said the same thing. It was not accurate, and this page has been rewritten to correct it.
If your business needs deeper programmatic access, the only route is to ask Tradify. Contact Tradify support, or your account manager if you have one, and request API access for your organisation.
Access is discussed case by case. It is not a standard feature of any plan, and there is no promise it will be granted. Integration specialists who have built on it arranged the access directly with Tradify for a specific client.
You will get a clearer answer if you go in with specifics:
Before building anything, check whether a built-in integration already does the job. Tradify connects directly to:
A plumbing business that only needs invoices in Xero does not need an API, a developer or this guide. Switch on the Xero integration in Tradify and you are done.
The gap usually shows up somewhere else: timesheets that need to reach a payroll system Tradify does not connect to, job margins that the owner wants on one screen alongside figures from other systems, or supplier pricing that changes every month.
Tradify lets you download most of your data as a CSV file, which is a plain spreadsheet file that opens in Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers. This is the foundation of connecting Tradify to anything the built-in integrations do not reach.
From the Reports page, you can download the Job Sheet Report, Job Financial Report, Productivity Report and Timesheet Report.
From around the app, you can export jobs, quotes, invoices, purchase orders and bills, customers, suppliers and your full price list.
Going the other way, Tradify accepts spreadsheet imports for customers, customer sites, suppliers, supplier price lists and supplier bills.
Tradify's own help centre walks through each one, starting with downloading reports and exports as CSV files and exporting your data from Tradify.
An export on its own is just a file. The useful part is what happens to it next. A report-based integration takes the file Tradify gives you and does the retyping, checking and matching that someone in the office would otherwise do by hand.
Three examples of what that looks like in practice:
The same approach works for customer lists coming from a CRM (customer relationship management system), bills from a supplier portal, and reporting that pulls Tradify data together with data from other software.
Tradify does not have an official Zapier app. Automation tools like Zapier, Make and n8n normally connect to software through its public API, and Tradify does not have one for them to connect to.
They can still be useful further along the chain. Once a Tradify export is saved to Google Drive, Dropbox or an email inbox, an automation tool can pick up the file and pass it on. The weak point is the same as any report-based approach: it only runs when a fresh export arrives, and nobody is told when one does not.
The built-in integrations handle this. Switch them on in Tradify.
This is exactly the manual work a report-based integration removes, with checks on every row.
Matching jobs, customers and staff across systems that name them differently is where most of the effort goes.
Different suppliers, different layouts, every month.
A clear written request, covering what data moves and why, gives it the best chance, and the build can start on exports while you wait.
Getting every job, customer and price list out cleanly is its own project.
The honest summary: you cannot get a Tradify API key the way you can for some other platforms, and you usually do not need one. Between the built-in integrations and the reports and exports Tradify already provides, most trade businesses can connect Tradify to the rest of their software today.
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