The Small Business Web: Companies

The Companies

The following companies have shown their support for The Small Business Web. Sign the Manifesto to add yourself to the list.

ActiveCampaign: Contact: Jason F. VandeBoom, Founder; API Documentation; We develop software for small businesses. From marketing, research, and customer service solutions. Helping small businesses improve their own customer service along with helping them succeed is our primary goal.

BatchBook: Contact: Michelle Riggen-Ransom, Director of Communications; API Documentation; The makers of BatchBook, a social CRM for small business owners, BatchBlue Software has a passion for technology and a commitment to making it useful and accessible for our customers. BatchBook is especially designed for growing businesses that have a limited budget, a need to collect specific information about their contacts, and want an easy-to-use contact management system with excellent customer support.

As a small business ourselves, we love small businesses and want to help them succeed. That's why we helped found the Small Business Web in 2009. Let's hook these tubes up and make them more useful for everyone!

Beanstalk: Contact: Chris Nagele, Founder; API Documentation; We want people to build cool stuff around Beanstalk and to have the opportunity for us to do the same. We already integrate with many products and feel it is a significant part of our success.

BigCommerce.com, Interspire: Contact: Mitchell Harper, Co-Founder and Product Manager; API Documentation; We love and implement exactly what you mention on the website: a passion for customer service, an excellent product, a solid business model and an API. We're planning to integrate with quite a few of the products in the small business web in our next major release so I think it makes great sense for us to join now :) Cheers! Mitch

billFLO: Contact: Ian Sweeeney, CEO; We already integrate with members of the group like Freshbooks and are talking to many more about integrating with them. The small business web seems to be all about what we do – connecting small business applications for the benefit of small businesses! Secondly, we’re also working on a new API which again fits the objectives of the group.

Blinksale: Contact: Brian Oberkirch, Managing Director; API Documentation; We want to help freelancers, web designers, stay-at-home-moms and small business owners alike with the easiest way to invoice online. Invoicing should be fun and we are looking forward to partnering with like-minds at the Small Business Web.

Bluefolder: Contact: Jeff Emrich, Co-founder & CTO; API Documentation; We are committed to providing the easiest web-based Service Management software for small and medium-sized service businesses. We share your emphasis for passionate customer service and products that have open APIs.

Habitsoft Inc. (Clarity Accounting): Contact: Dobes Vandermeer, Technical Director; API Documentation; We have the same vision – to empower small businesses by providing cost-effective yet powerful web applications that integrate with others and let them build the toolset they need without having their own big IT department.

Clarizen: Contact: Michal Wachstock, Director of Marketing; API Documentation; Our customers are SMBs who have embraced the SaaS platform. We envision offering our customers a suite of SaaS solutions to solve all their business needs.

Clear Books: Contact: Nick Braithwaite, Sales and Marketing Manager; API Documentation; We feel that Clear Books meets the needs of small business web, as a company we are passionate about our customers and our product is up there with the best in terms of online accounting. We want to work with other like minded companies which our software can compliment and together we hope to help cater for entrepreneurial small businesses that are the building blocks of economies across the globe. As a company we have been honest about our growth from the start and we have built the system based around what our customers are asking for. We look forward to hearing from you and hopefully being able to play a part in aiding small business growth through integration.

Contactology: Contact: Winston Bowden, Vice President of Marketing; API Documentation; Contactology’s business model focuses on small-to-medium size businesses. We believe our product offering will add significant value to the target audience of Small Business Web. Through our API, we provide other software-as-a-service entities with an easy means to leverage the power of email marketing. Our partners have added email marketing modules to their own products, which drive email marketing for thousands of small businesses, universities and nonprofits across the United States and beyond.

Internet Graphics Engine, The Cubicle Five Group: Contact: Joey Guerr, Principal; API Documentation; To get people to use our product and build our network.

edocr.com: Contact: Manoj Ranaweera, CEO; API Documentation; We are keen to integrate with other cool products such as CRM to provide an overall solution that meets the needs of the small business. From user point of view, see my blog post of today http://manojranaweera.com/2010/01/07/the-wrong-pricing-missed-opportunities through which I became aware of your organisation.

Enthusem: Contact: Steve Tingiris, Founder; API Documentation; Internet applications need an easy way to send printed postal communications like letters, invoices, greeting cards, postcards, etc. Our service and does that. Currently we offer one printed format (a greeting card) but postcards, letters are soon to come.

entreprise-facile: Contact: Guillaume Besse, Founder & CEO; API Documentation; Because we believe in the model of small companies working together. That’s why we do what we do. We want to help the individual or small entrepreneur to use best practices in a simple way. So Small Business Web we like.

Expensify: Contact: David Barrett, Founder, CEO; API Documentation; I was referred to the group by Sunir Shah from Freshbooks. Expensify's all about small business, so this is the place to be!

Free Agent Central: Contact: Ed Molyneux, CEO; API Documentation; We believe getting started and running your own small business is too hard right now, and we‘re utterly committed to making it easier. The Small Business Web is completely in line with our vision to use web technologies to change things for the better.

FreshBooks: Contact: Sunir Shah, Chief Handshaker; API Documentation

FormSite.com: Contact: Randy Vroman, President; API Documentation; We currently integrate with some companies that are members of your organization and we are in the process of integrating with other members that are listed. A substantial part of our customer base is small business and we hope to better serve small business by becoming an active member. Thank you.

FormSpring: Contact: John Wechsler, President; API Documentation; We share the vision of Small Business Web — we’re committed to helping small businesses succeed through easy-to-use, cost-effective tools. Many of our customers are running their business on FormSpring — we love that they’re able to do so, and want to help them grow by expanding their use of web-based products with like-minded companies.

Get Satisfaction: Contact: Thor Muller, CTO; API Documentation; We’re big believers in open, hackable, easily integratable and affordable web apps for businesses of all sizes.

Handset Detection: Contact: Richard Uren, Chief Detector; API Documentation; We believe in the software as a service philosophy and believe in providing outstanding service to our customers.

Huddle.net: Contact: Andy McLoughlin, Co-founder; API Documentation; All of our friends are there and we feel left out.

Ifbyphone.com: Contact: Phil Seguin, Sales Engineering Manager; API Documentation; Outstanding Customer Service? Yes! Excellent Products? Yes! Solid Business Model? Yes! An API? Yes! We're striving to democratize telephone applications for businesses of any size.

Infusionsoft: Contact: Joseph Manna, Community Manager; API Documentation; We’d like to let the world know that we stand together by having an open and embracing stance for how small businesses manage their data and liberate them from painful implementations of CRM and email marketing apps. Data is yours, live with it freely.

iWantMyName: Contact: Timo Reitnauer, CMO; API Documentation; iWantMyName helps small businesses to configure their domain names for web applicactions such as Google Apps, TypePad, PBworks or Ning. Our “Domains for Apps” offering currently supports 17 apps that can be used under your company domain name.

Javelin CRM: Contact: Duncan Stockdill, Co-founder; API Documentation; We believe in the same principles. We’re passionate about creating high quality and easy to use solutions for small business, and a big part of that is ensuring small businesses can choose a suite of applications that work well together.

KashFlow Software Ltd: Contact: Duane Jackson; API Documentation; To integrate with the products listed that we're not already integrated with.

LessAccounting: Contact: Steven Bristol, President; API Documentation; We want to be cool like you.

Litmus: Contact: Paul Farnell, CEO; API Documentation; We’ve recently built an API for Litmus, and I’d love to figure out ways that we can connect Litmus to other small business applications (and vice versa).

MailChimp: Contact: Ben Chestnut, Co-founder; API Documentation

MerchantOS: Contact: Justin Laing, Co-Founder and Product Manager; API Documentation; We want to integrate our application with other complimentary applications to make a powerful suite of tools for small businesses. Until now only enterprise vendors could offer this level of integrated solutions. -- We are in the process of developing our API, but I noticed other participants are as well. We'd like to participate in the discussion while we work on our own API. We've already completed or are in development of integrations with FreshBooks, MailChimp, Shopify, Zendesk, and more to come.

MOO.COM: Contact: Lisa Rodwell, VP Marketing & Product; API Documentation; MOO helps small businesses stand out from the crowd and get remembered. As a small business, we know how important that first impression can be. That’s why we created easy-to-use online tools to make high quality, remarkable business cards and other print marketing materials at affordable prices.

OfficeClip LLC: Contact: SK Dutta, Architect; API Documentation; We want to mash services from other providers within OfficeClip.

Ogogo Internet Limited: Contact: Finbarr McCarthy, CEO; API Documentation; Our mission is to provide small and medium businesses in Ireland with simple to use, affordable and robust technology solutions to everyday business problems. We believe we share many of the same values with ”The Small Business Web“.

Outright: Contact: Paul O’Brien, VP of Marketing

PipelineDeals: Contact: JP Werlin, Co-Founder; API Documentation; I believe in what Michelle, Sunir and Amy have put together and want to help them extend and broaden the message.

Printfection: Contact: Casey Schorr, Co-Founder/ CEO; API Documentation; Being a small, self-funded internet business ourselves, we already utilize a lot of the other services represented here. Furthermore, we've got a killer API and would love better integration across the small business web!

ProofHQ: Contact: Mat Atkinson, CEO; API Documentation; ProofHQ’s clients run most of their business using web apps. Those people want to navigate and move data seamlessly between their apps and not have that data in silos.

Rackspace Email & Apps: Contact: Cameron Nouri, Evangelist; API Documentation; We help small businesses by turning complex software applications into easy to use services backed by Fanatical Support. Today our focus is on providing easy to use email hosting services for businesses around the world.

Recurly: Contact: Tim Van Loan, Co-founder; API Documentation; We would love to join the Small Business Web alliance because we share the alliance's focus on helping small businesses succeed while remaining open and collaborative. We would love to work closer with and compliment several of the companies currently in the Small Business Web such as Zendesk and Freshbooks. For instance, we would love to be able to integrate our SaaS billing features with freshbooks to offer our customers an easy way to create invoices and track expenses. We feel that together, we can work to better serve the needs of small businesses everywhere- and we would jump at the chance to join you and the rest of the Small Business Web team. If you have any questions whatsoever, please don't hesitate to ask me at tim@recurly.com.

RightSignature: Contact: Daryl Bernstein, CEO; RightSignature is the easiest, fastest way to get documents signed. We believe in simple, elegant, powerful online software. RightSignature and our integration partners empower small businesses to reduce expenses, boost revenues, increase sales conversions, and impress customers.

Saasu: Contact: Marc Lehmann, CEO; API Documentation; We believe that small businesses provide an essential service – they are vital to the health of most economies and to employment (often 50% or more of the workforce) – and can play a positive role in society and the environment.

SAManage: Contact: Doron Gordon, CEO; API Documentation; We want to integrate with other members in the hub and share our open API.

ScreenSteps Live, Blue Mango Learning Systems: Contact: Greg DeVore, CEO; API Documentation; Our ScreenSteps Live product helps small businesses create visual knowledge bases that decrease customer support requests and improve business efficiency. Our solution consists of a desktop application (ScreenSteps Desktop) for creating visual step by step guides, couple with a hosted solution (ScreenSteps Live) for publishing, distribution and collaboration. We have an extensive API that lets users integrate the content that is created on ScreenSteps Live with third party web and desktop applications, allowing them to manage their visual knowledge base on ScreenSteps Live but have the content accessible from wherever they need it. We have full API documentation at the link below. We also distribute some pre-built integrations for Zendesk and WordPress. You can see examples of those here: http://bmls.screenstepslive.com/spaces/screenstepslive/manuals/api.

ServiceSidekick: Contact: Zack Chandler, Co-founder; API Documentation; The Small Business Web manifesto is exactly what we are all about. Our passion really is helping customers find online solutions to their business needs. We also truly aim to provide superior customer support to all of our customers. Many of the companies who are already part of the list have been a huge inspiration for me personally while growing our business.

Setster: Contact: Edward Lujan, CEO; API Documentation; To support collaboration between Business web application developers.

Shipwire: Contact: Nate, VP Bus Dev; API Documentation; We help small businesses. We have an API for merchants to get data in and out of Shipwire and we are compatible with a lot of SMB products already.

Shoeboxed: Contact: Sonny Byrd, Head of Marketing; API Documentation

Shopify: Contact: Tobias Lütke, CEO; API Documentation; We built Shopify for small businesses. We create big business features for small businesses that want a powerful and well-designed e-commerce solution.

Six Apart: Contact: Claire Alcock, Marketing Manager; API Documentation; Blogging software – particularly well suited to small businesses looking to increase traffic to their website and build a profile for themselves in their field. Our Pro level account offering at $14.95 a month is a great marketing vehicle.

Norada Corporation (Solve360): Contact: Steve Ireland, Founder; API Documentation; We are passionate about the success of our small business clients and the development of a new IT solution stack that provides more agile and cost effective business solutions based on the integration of services from the most suitable applications.

SurveyGizmo: Contact: Derek Scruggs, Partner; API Documentation; We already have several hundred small business customers. A important reason they choose is not just our technology, but also our commitment to customer support regardless of the size of the customer.

Tactile CRM: Contact: Jake Stride, CEO; API Documentation; Integration between web apps is key for users. One of the main selling points for SaaS apps is the low TCO and be integrating between us we can cut out one of the big costs for none web-based apps.

Teambox: Contact: Pablo Villalba, Founder; API Documentation; The Small Business WebBeing a project management and collaboration tool, we'd like to integrate our API with more services. We've just launched Teambox 2 this week, and we're re-designing our API. I'd like to talk about it with you before we publish the new one.

TeamSupport.com: Contact: Eric Harrington, COO; API Documentation; We believe companies need the best of breed when it comes to their needs. While there are many solutions that try to do it all, we feel smart integrating and data exchange will allow for specific departments to use tools designed for their operation but at the same time break down any silos that may stand in the way for maximum efficiency.

VendorRisk: Contact: Al Shaw; API Documentation; We are a three-man web design and development shop that recently released a web-based vendor management app, targeted towards the proverbial Fortune 5,000,000. I love the idea of your website's ideals and hope to be a part of it.

ViaPost: Contact: Simon Campbell, CEO; API Documentation; ViaPost allows smaller businesses to access the wholesale postal market, which was previously only accessible to very large companies sending tens or hundreds of thousands of letters at at time.

WBP SYSTEMS: Contact: Ben Smith, CSA; API Documentation; We already hook into many of these apps, this would just formalize it.

WebSimplify: Contact: Art Vigil, CEO; API Documentation; Our mission is to simplify the web presences of the SMB market.

Wufoo by Infinity Box Inc.: Contact: Chris Campbell, Co-Founder; API Documentation; We like and use a lot of the companies who are part of the Small Business Web and we plan on integrating with a number of their products in the near future. We also believe in what you are doing and hope to add to your success.

WORKetc CRM: Contact: Daniel Barnett, Founder; API Documentation; 1) Small business powers the economy, but 2) Government consistently fails to recognise and reward this 3) Instead governments around the world continue to offer incentives such as tax breaks and “red-tape” leniency to large corporates, all the while making it tougher for small business owners to get ahead. It is time small business owners got their due recognition!

Xero: Contact: Tony Rule, Development Product Manager; API Documentation; Working together we can make life easier and grow productivity for millions of small businesses around the world.

youcalc: Contact: Rasmus Madsen, CEO; youcalc is being used by more than 4000 small businesses to report and analyze on their SaaS data. We already have a significant number of users on a number of "Small Business Web" vendors, incl. MailChimp, Zendesk, and we plan to add support for more of your systems.

Zen: Contact: Nate Kohari, CTO; API Documentation; Our business is built on providing a great user experience and excellent customer support. We also believe strongly that our customers’ information belongs to them, and they should be free to do with it what they choose.

Zendesk: Contact: Michael F. Hansen, VP of Sales; API Documentation

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