Native integration
QuickBooks
Native sync for invoices, customers, line items and payments. The deepest integration Housecall Pro ships, and the one with the most ways to go quietly wrong.
Housecall Pro integrations
Four different things get called an integration, and they are not equally good. Knowing which kind you are getting tells you in advance whether history comes with it, whether it flows both ways, and who is responsible when it stops.
To be clear about whose these are: this is a guide to the integrations Housecall Pro itself offers and what each one really does in practice. We do not supply any of them and we are not a party to them.
The four routes, and what each really means
| Route | What you get | What you own |
|---|---|---|
| Native integration | A first-party sync with its own settings and error reporting | Configuration, and watching for silent failures |
| App Store listing | A supported connection you enable from inside Housecall Pro | Usually just the setup |
| Automation platform | One-way event handoffs you assemble yourself | Everything: logic, errors, cost per event, and backfill |
| The public API | The whole surface, on the MAX plan, with a key you generate | Everything, with no ceiling on what you can ask |
Housecall Pro also has its own App Store, reachable in the app from My Apps → the grid icon → Go to App store. It is the right first place to look, because a native connection beats one you maintain.
App by app
Via automation platform
Zapier
The general-purpose bridge. Housecall Pro publishes a Zapier app, which reaches several thousand other services without any code.
Native integration
Stripe
Card processing behind Housecall Pro payments. Listed among the native integrations rather than something you wire up yourself.
Via automation platform
Xero
Reached through an automation platform rather than a native sync. Workable, but it is not the QuickBooks-grade integration.
Via automation platform
HubSpot
No native integration. Connected through an automation platform, usually to push new customers or jobs into the CRM.
Housecall Pro App Store
Google Calendar
Schedule visibility outside Housecall Pro, for people who do not live in the dispatch board.
Via the public API
Make
No native Housecall Pro app that we have confirmed. Reachable through its generic HTTP module against the public API.
What none of them can do
All of these move events around. A job closes, so something gets written somewhere else. That is most of what a home service company actually needs, and where these tools are pointed they work.
What they cannot answer is a question about the book itself. Which of your price book items are the same item typed four ways? Which customers can you no longer reach? Nothing "happens" to make either of those true, so no trigger fires and no automation notices. The same goes for anything historical: an automation starts working the day you build it, and last year stays exactly as unexamined as it was.
And some of it is not a lookup at all. Two price book entries with similar names might be one item duplicated or a base item and a legitimate variant of it, and telling those apart is a judgement about your business rather than a field mapping.
That is the gap the API fills, and it is why the MCP and the skills exist. Zapier or the MCP? is the same question answered directly.
If we have an integration wrong
These pages mark what we have confirmed ourselves and what we have not. Report an integration that behaves differently on your account at hello@hcpapi.com.