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Paperless Parts

Paperless Parts, Inc. is a Boston-based manufacturing software company founded in 2017 that builds a secure, ITAR-compliant cloud quoting and sales platform for custom part manufacturers — job shops, contract manufacturers and rapid-prototype businesses working in CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, Swiss screw machining, wire EDM, waterjet and additive manufacturing. A patented geometry engine analyses uploaded CAD to automate costing, and the P3L pricing language lets a shop encode its own pricing logic. The company publishes a public REST API in two live versions (v1 and v2) at api.paperlessparts.com, covering quotes, quote items, orders, jobs, parts, processes, contacts and accounts, custom pricing tables, purchased components, and a managed integrations framework with a poll-based Streaming API for reacting to platform events. A first-party Python SDK is published on GitHub under the part-os organization.

Paperless Parts publishes 12 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Contacts API, Custom Tables API, Customers API, and 9 more. Tagged areas include Company, Manufacturing, Quoting, CNC Machining, and Sheet Metal.

The Paperless Parts catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Paperless Parts’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 32 more developer resources.

54.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 49/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-01 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →
2 published contracts 4 Agent Skills
CompanyManufacturingQuotingCNC MachiningSheet MetalERPCRMJob ShopsAerospace and DefensePricingEstimatingIndustrial

What this lets a business do 3

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Customer Relationship Management
BC-420
ContactsCustomers
POST /contacts/public GET /accounts/public GET /billing_addresses/public/{billingAddressId} GET /accounts/public/{accountId}/billing_addresses
Sales Management
BC-410
Quote ItemsQuotes
PATCH /quotes/public/{quoteNumber} PATCH /quotes/public/{quoteNumber}/status_change POST /quotes/public POST /quotes/public/items
Supply Chain Management
BC-520
Orders

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Industrial Automation and Robotics long-tail 5.6 - -

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

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APIs 12

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Paperless Parts Contacts API

Paperless Parts includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality to make it easy to send quotes to new and existing customers, while keeping data consistent with th...

Paperless Parts Custom Tables API

Endpoints for managing custom tables used by Operations to compute pricing.

Paperless Parts Customers API

Paperless Parts includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality to make it easy to send quotes to new and existing customers, while keeping data consistent with th...

Paperless Parts Events API

Endpoints for viewing communications between Paperless Parts and ERP integrations

Paperless Parts Integration Actions API

Endpoints for interacting with ERP integrations

Paperless Parts Jobs API

Endpoints for managing Jobs

Paperless Parts Orders API

Endpoints for identifying newly placed orders and pulling all information related to a particular order. Also, a new order can be created via open API to turn an existing quote ...

Paperless Parts API

Endpoints for managing Parts

Paperless Parts Processes API

Endpoints for managing Processes, Operation Definitions, and Add on Definitions

Paperless Parts Purchased Components API

Endpoints for managing purchased components and purchased components columns.

Paperless Parts Quote Items API

Endpoints for creating and managing line items on a quote.

Paperless Parts Quotes API

Endpoints for identifying newly sent quotes, pulling all information related to a particular quote, and updating a quote's status.

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Agent Skills 4

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Paperless Parts Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

OpenAPI Overlays 2

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Paperless Parts V1 Overlay

3 actions · update · paperless-parts-v1-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Paperless Parts V2 Overlay

3 actions · update · paperless-parts-v2-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Paperless Parts Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Paperless Parts Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Paperless Parts Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: paperless-parts
name: Paperless Parts
description: Paperless Parts, Inc. is a Boston-based manufacturing software company founded in 2017 that builds a secure,
  ITAR-compliant cloud quoting and sales platform for custom part manufacturers — job shops, contract manufacturers and rapid-prototype
  businesses working in CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, Swiss screw machining, wire EDM, waterjet and additive manufacturing.
  A patented geometry engine analyses uploaded CAD to automate costing, and the P3L pricing language lets a shop encode its
  own pricing logic. The company publishes a public REST API in two live versions (v1 and v2) at api.paperlessparts.com, covering
  quotes, quote items, orders, jobs, parts, processes, contacts and accounts, custom pricing tables, purchased components,
  and a managed integrations framework with a poll-based Streaming API for reacting to platform events. A first-party Python
  SDK is published on GitHub under the part-os organization.
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://paperlessparts.com/wp-content/uploads/paperless-parts-full-logo-2022.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paperless-parts/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-26'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Manufacturing
- Quoting
- CNC Machining
- Sheet Metal
- ERP
- CRM
- Job Shops
- Aerospace and Defense
- Pricing
- Estimating
- Industrial
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-contacts-api
  name: Paperless Parts Contacts API
  description: 'Paperless Parts includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality to make it easy to send quotes
    to new and existing customers, while keeping data consistent with third-party CRM and ERP systems. Typical use cases for
    these endpoints are to bulk import customers from an existing customer database and to synchronize new customers or changes
    from another system.


    An account represents a single company or account to which you would send quotes. An account has zero or more Contacts,
    each of which represents a person at that company and is identified uniquely by their email address. An account also has
    facilities and billing addresses. Facilities represent destinations to which orders can be shipped and BillingAddresses
    represent the bill to address for and order.'
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Contacts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-contacts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-custom-tables-api
  name: Paperless Parts Custom Tables API
  description: Endpoints for managing custom tables used by Operations to compute pricing.
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Custom Tables
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-custom-tables-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-customers-api
  name: Paperless Parts Customers API
  description: 'Paperless Parts includes Customer Relationship Management (CRM) functionality to make it easy to send quotes
    to new and existing customers, while keeping data consistent with third-party CRM and ERP systems. Typical use cases for
    these endpoints are to bulk import customers from an existing customer database and to synchronize new customers or changes
    from another system.


    An account represents a single company or account to which you would send quotes. An account has zero or more Contacts,
    each of which represents a person at that company and is identified uniquely by their email address. An account also has
    facilities and billing addresses. Facilities represent destinations to which orders can be shipped and BillingAddresses
    represent the bill to address for and order.'
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-events-api
  name: Paperless Parts Events API
  description: Endpoints for viewing communications between Paperless Parts and ERP integrations
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-integration-actions-api
  name: Paperless Parts Integration Actions API
  description: Endpoints for interacting with ERP integrations
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Integration Actions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-integration-actions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-jobs-api
  name: Paperless Parts Jobs API
  description: Endpoints for managing Jobs
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Job
  tags_raw:
  - Jobs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-jobs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-orders-api
  name: Paperless Parts Orders API
  description: Endpoints for identifying newly placed orders and pulling all information related to a particular order. Also,
    a new order can be created via open API to turn an existing quote into order.
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-parts-api
  name: Paperless Parts API
  description: Endpoints for managing Parts
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Parts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-parts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-processes-api
  name: Paperless Parts Processes API
  description: Endpoints for managing Processes, Operation Definitions, and Add on Definitions
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Processes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-processes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-purchased-components-api
  name: Paperless Parts Purchased Components API
  description: Endpoints for managing purchased components and purchased components columns.
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Purchased Components
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-purchased-components-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-quote-items-api
  name: Paperless Parts Quote Items API
  description: Endpoints for creating and managing line items on a quote.
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Quote Items
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-quote-items-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- aid: paperless-parts:paperless-parts-quotes-api
  name: Paperless Parts Quotes API
  description: Endpoints for identifying newly sent quotes, pulling all information related to a particular quote, and updating
    a quote's status.
  humanURL: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  baseURL: https://api.paperlessparts.com/v2
  tags:
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/paperless-parts-quotes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
common:
- url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: License
  name: LGPL-3.0
  url: https://github.com/part-os/core-python/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/paperless-parts-capability-edges.yml
  name: Paperless Parts Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/paperless-parts-v2-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/paperless-parts-v1-overlay.yaml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/paperless-parts-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/api/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.paperlessparts.com/v2
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://help.paperlessparts.com/s/article/integration-development-guide
- type: Support
  url: https://help.paperlessparts.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/part-os
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/pricing/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/demo/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.paperlessparts.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://help.paperlessparts.com/s/article/general-terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/security/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/product-updates/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/integrations/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/paperless-parts-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/paperless-parts-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/paperless-parts-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/paperless-parts-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/paperless-parts-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/paperless-parts-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/paperless-parts-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/paperless-parts-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/paperless-parts-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/paperless-parts-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/paperless-parts-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/paperless-parts-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/paperless-parts-rate-limits.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.paperlessparts.com/vulnerability-disclosure-policy/
- type: Events
  url: asyncapi/paperless-parts-events.yml
- type: MCP
  url: mcp/paperless-parts-mcp.yml
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/part-os/core-python
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-26'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 28
  pass: local-v1

Paperless Parts API — frequently asked questions

Does Paperless Parts have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 12 APIs from Paperless Parts, including Paperless Parts Contacts API, Paperless Parts Custom Tables API and Paperless Parts Customers API, and 9 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Paperless Parts API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 12 OpenAPI specifications for Paperless Parts, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Paperless Parts API?

Paperless Parts documents its authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Paperless Parts Authentication.

Is the Paperless Parts API ready for AI agents?

Paperless Parts has a Kin Score of 54.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 36.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-01.

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