Tick Mark Books

com.tickmarkbooksPublished by tickmarkbooks.comOfficial publisherv1.0.0Updated Nov 5, 2026

Look up what bookkeeping software costs a small business a month, ledger included.

Overview

AI-generated overview

Tick Mark Books lets an assistant search, read and compare researched small-business software listings, with pricing, API details and sourced answers.

What you can do
  • Search and read listings: full-text search over published tools, then fetch one tool as answer-first markdown with sourced answers
  • Browse the taxonomy: list categories with live listing counts
  • Compare and shortlist: put two tools side by side, or get a ranked best-of list for a category
  • Submit a tool: send a URL for review, with owner site verification before listing
  • Manage owned listings: see status, numbers and AI answers for listings an account owns
  • Send enquiries and subscribe: pass a buyer-intent lead to a tool or category, or add an email to the digest
When to use it
Useful when someone is choosing bookkeeping or other small-business software and wants researched prices, API availability and sourced comparisons rather than marketing copy. Also relevant for vendors who want to submit a tool or check their listing status.
Requirements
Remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no package or local runtime. Read tools are keyless. submit_listing and my_listings need a signed-in account with verified email, passed as a session Cookie header or an agent key from the account dashboard. Network access to the service.
Before you install
submit_listing and my_listings require account credentials (session Cookie header or agent key) that should be treated as secrets. Submitting a listing requires proving ownership of the tool's site domain, and publication depends on research and a quality gate. send_lead and subscribe_newsletter send real emails and personal data (name, email, message) to the service and to listing owners; leads are idempotent per email and target. Read data is licensed under the service's terms, which permit…

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Tick Mark Books in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/com.tickmarkbooks%2Fmcp/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tick-mark-books": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://tickmarkbooks.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

9

search_listings

Search listings

Full-text search over Tick Mark Books's Published tools. Returns compact records (name, slug, tagline, url). Fetch depth with get_listing.

Parameterslimitqueryrequired

get_listing

Get one listing

One tool in full, as answer-first markdown: the summary, then every question on the sheet with its answer, the vendor's own words for it and the URL that proves it. Identical to /{slug}.md and to the HTML page.

Parametersslugrequired

list_categories

List categories

Tick Mark Books's categories with their live listing counts, 0 for one with none yet.

Takes no parameters.

compare_listings

Compare two listings

Two tools side by side, as markdown: taglines, pricing, API availability, tags — the researched compare facts, honest about unknowns.

Parametersarequiredbrequired

get_best_of

Best of a category

The Published tools in one category, in the order its category page prints (ranked by what we can confirm: a public price, an API and docs, independent sources, stated limits), as a markdown answer sheet. Payment never moves a row.

Parameterscategoryrequired

submit_listing

Submit a listing

Submit a tool to Tick Mark Books: the url alone; we write its name and description from its own pages. Requires an existing signed-in account with verified email; send its session Cookie header on the MCP request, or an agent key the account made at https://tickmarkbooks.com/dashboard/agents as Authorization: Bearer. Identity and email come only from that session or key. Sign in or explicitly create an account at https://tickmarkbooks.com/login?next=%2Fsubmit and verify its email before retrying. This tool creates no account and sends no verification email. Returns {httpStatus:201, id, slug, status:'Draft'}; research + the quality gate decide publication. Your own (url, session email) replay within 24h returns httpStatus:200. The fit check starts at once and usually answers within a minute: poll GET https://tickmarkbooks.com/api/submissions/{id} and wait the Retry-After seconds it sends while fit is "checking". fit then reads "accepted" (it goes live, and the account is mailed), "rejected" (mailed with the reason) or "undecided" (a person looks within 2 days). No session: {httpStatus:401, error:'sign_in_required', message, loginUrl}. Unverified session: {httpStatus:403, error:'email_unverified', message, email, remediation}. The owner must prove the site before anything is listed: the account's address, or an address it proved with a code, must be on the submitted website's domain. Otherwise the answer is the pending state {httpStatus:403, error:'domain_unverified', status:'awaiting_owner_proof', listed:false, message, domain, proveWith, ownerUrl, ownerStep, remediation}: nothing is listed or queued. proveWith names who can receive the 6-digit code (any address at the domain; for a GitHub or other shared-host project, its listed addresses or a one-line file). Submitting for someone else? Give the owner ownerUrl (the submit page with the site filled in): they enter the code there and the listing goes in once proven. With a mailbox at the domain yourself: POST /api/do

Parametersurlrequired

send_lead

Send a lead

Send a buyer-intent enquiry (lead) to a tool or a whole category on Tick Mark Books. Keyless. Requires consent:true, a real name, a permanent (non-disposable) email, a message of at least 20 chars, and a target (listingSlug OR categorySlug). Returns { ok, delivered }. Idempotent by (email, target) within 7 days. Nothing here changes a listing's rank, tier or copy.

ParametersnamerequiredemailrequiredcompanyconsentrequiredmessagerequiredlistingSlugcategorySlug

my_listings

Read your listings

What the Tick Mark Books owner dashboard shows about the listings an account owns: each one's status (`status.kind`: review with the expected date, accepted with `liveOn` and `paid` ('express' | 'featured' | null: the paid way that releases it, Featured including VIP listing), live, refused with the reason, or archived), the listing as it shows, 30 days of real numbers with the 30 before, where AI answers named the product or cited its page, and what it can buy here at this site's prices. Only for the account itself: send its session Cookie header, or its agent key with "Read your listings" as Authorization: Bearer. Same answer as GET https://tickmarkbooks.com/api/owner/listings. Read-only: corrections go through the dashboard's request form.

Parametersslug

subscribe_newsletter

Subscribe to the digest

Subscribe an email to the Tick Mark Books digest of new and freshly re-verified tools. Provide an email; returns { ok }. The address is on the list at once and gets one welcome mail. Every mail carries a one-click unsubscribe.

Parametersemailrequiredsource

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.0LatestNov 5, 2026

Score

83% of the applicable checks met

How complete this listing is, computed from the registry entry, the endpoint and public sources. Not a rating of the server and not a statement that it is safe or working today: reachability is a dated check, and no installs or reviews go into the score.

  • Reached in the last 30 daysRequired25 pts
  • Auth declaredRequired10 pts
  • Tools listedRequired15 pts
  • DescriptionRequired15 pts
  • Logo10 pts
  • Documentation15 pts

    Declare a GitHub repository with a README, or serve resource_documentation in the OAuth protected-resource metadata.

  • LicenseNot applicable

    A hosted service is used under its provider's terms, so no license is expected here. This check is left out of the percentage.