FrontApp
Front is a customer service and communication platform that combines the efficiency of a help desk with the familiarity of email, giving teams a shared inbox across email, SMS, chat, and social channels. The Front Core API is a REST API (base https://api2.frontapp.com) exposing 340+ endpoints across conversations, messages, drafts, comments, contacts, accounts, inboxes, channels, tags, teammates, teams, knowledge bases, shifts, analytics, links, message templates, and signatures. It supports API-token and OAuth 2.0 authentication with 50+ granular scopes, cursor pagination, per-company rate limiting with standard headers, webhooks and application triggers for events, and an official hosted MCP server for AI agents. Front is a portfolio company of Battery Ventures.
FrontApp publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Communication, Customer Service, Shared Inbox, and Email.
The FrontApp catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
FrontApp’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.
1 APIs
1 MCP Servers
0 Features
CompanyCommunicationCustomer ServiceShared InboxEmailMessagingCollaborationHelp Desk
The Front Core API is a REST API over Front's shared-inbox platform. It exposes conversations, messages, drafts, comments, contacts, accounts, inboxes, channels, tags, teammates...
aid: frontapp
name: FrontApp
description: Front is a customer service and communication platform that combines the efficiency of a help desk with the familiarity
of email, giving teams a shared inbox across email, SMS, chat, and social channels. The Front Core API is a REST API (base
https://api2.frontapp.com) exposing 340+ endpoints across conversations, messages, drafts, comments, contacts, accounts,
inboxes, channels, tags, teammates, teams, knowledge bases, shifts, analytics, links, message templates, and signatures.
It supports API-token and OAuth 2.0 authentication with 50+ granular scopes, cursor pagination, per-company rate limiting
with standard headers, webhooks and application triggers for events, and an official hosted MCP server for AI agents. Front
is a portfolio company of Battery Ventures.
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/frontapp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/frontapp/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Communication
- Customer Service
- Shared Inbox
- Email
- Messaging
- Collaboration
- Help Desk
apis:
- aid: frontapp:frontapp-core-api
name: Front Core API
humanURL: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference/introduction
baseURL: https://api2.frontapp.com
tags:
- Conversations
- Messages
- Contacts
- Inboxes
- Communication
description: The Front Core API is a REST API over Front's shared-inbox platform. It exposes conversations, messages, drafts,
comments, contacts, accounts, inboxes, channels, tags, teammates, teams, knowledge bases, shifts, analytics, links, message
templates, and signatures, with API-token and OAuth 2.0 authentication, cursor pagination, and webhooks for events.
properties:
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com
type: DeveloperPortal
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/welcome
type: Documentation
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference
type: APIReference
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/core-api-getting-started
type: GettingStarted
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/authentication
type: Authentication
- url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/webhooks-1
type: Webhooks
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://dev.frontapp.com
- type: Documentation
url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/welcome
- type: APIReference
url: https://dev.frontapp.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
url: https://dev.frontapp.com/docs/core-api-getting-started
- type: HelpCenter
url: https://help.front.com
- type: Support
url: https://community.front.com
- type: Blog
url: https://front.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/frontapp
- type: Pricing
url: https://front.com/pricing
- type: Login
url: https://app.frontapp.com
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://front.com/legal/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://front.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Postman
url: https://www.postman.com/frontapp
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.frontapp.com
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/frontapp-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/frontapp-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
url: well-known/frontapp-security.txt
- type: MCPServer
url: https://mcp.frontapp.com/mcp
name: MCP Server
description: Front's official hosted MCP server (open beta) exposes conversations, messages, comments, tags, contacts, accounts,
and organization tools to MCP clients over Streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE; agents inherit the authorizing teammate's
permissions.
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/frontapp-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/frontapp-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/frontapp-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/frontapp-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/frontapp-changelog.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/frontapp-rate-limits.yml
- type: Webhooks
url: asyncapi/frontapp-webhooks.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/frontapp-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/frontapp-packages.yml
- type: Components
url: components/frontapp-components.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/frontapp-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/frontapp-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/frontapp-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
url: https://front.com/security
- type: TrustCenter
url: security/frontapp-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
url: https://trust.front.com/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence