Aldelo API
Aldelo Express ships a public REST Open API at doc.aldelo.io with a developer dashboard, sandbox, and self-serve development keys. Production access is gated on manual partner certification via integrations@aldelo.com. Docs run thin on auth and rate limits; the legacy on-prem product is not covered.
Frequently asked questions
Aldelo scores D+ on the API Report Card. Aldelo Express ships a public REST Open API at doc.aldelo.io with a developer dashboard, sandbox, and self-serve development keys. Production access is gated on manual partner certification via integrations@aldelo.com. Docs run thin on auth and rate limits; the legacy on-prem product is not covered.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Aldelo is a restaurant point-of-sale (POS) and integrated payments vendor headquartered in Pleasanton, California.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality. Target market is small-to-mid independent restaurants - full-service restaurants, quick-service restaurants, specialty/ethnic restaurants, cafes, pizzerias, and bars. Order entry on iPad/Android POS for dine-in, takeout, delivery, and bar tabs. Tableside ordering, table layout/seating management, and check splitting.
2/10 within the broader US restaurant POS market. Aldelo Express is a long-tail player with roughly 0.01% market share of the POS systems category per 6sense, dwarfed by Square (~28%), Toast (~23%), and Clover.
Yes - for restaurants that run on Aldelo Express, Aldelo is the system of record for orders, payments, menus, modifiers, pricing, inventory, employee time/shift data, and end-of-day sales.
Aldelo, L.P. has been operating for 20+ years (Pleasanton, CA), originally as a Windows-based on-premise restaurant POS (Aldelo for Restaurants / Aldelo PRO).
Public API documentation at doc.aldelo.io is thin on auth, rate limiting, and endpoint specifics relative to peers like Toast and Square, requiring partner-side outreach to integrations@aldelo.com for production access. Production access gated through manual partner certification and Aldelo's integrations team - no self-serve production keys, slowing time-to-integration. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Toast, Square for Restaurants, Clover, Lightspeed Restaurant, TouchBistro, SpotOn Restaurant. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Aldelo API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Aldelo data. See the Aldelo integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/aldelo-api.