BentoBox API
No public or self-serve developer API; getbento.com publishes no docs, SDKs, or keys. Integration runs through a closed catalog of roughly 50 prebuilt partners, deepest on Clover POS; custom work goes through BentoBox or Clover partner channels.
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BentoBox scores D on the API Report Card. No public or self-serve developer API; getbento.com publishes no docs, SDKs, or keys. Integration runs through a closed catalog of roughly 50 prebuilt partners, deepest on Clover POS; custom work goes through BentoBox or Clover partner channels.
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.
BentoBox is an all-in-one restaurant marketing and commerce platform that gives restaurants a branded website plus commission-free online ordering, takeout/delivery, catering, reservations, waitlist, events, gift cards, eCommerce merchandise, QR-code order & pay, email/SMS marketing, loyalty, and menu management.
POS / Hospitality - specifically restaurant marketing and digital commerce. Restaurant operators use BentoBox to: spin up and maintain a branded website with photo galleries, menus, hours, locations, and SEO; accept commission-free pickup, delivery, and catering orders directly on their own domain; manage reservations and waitlists; sell gift cards and merchandise via a hosted eCommerce store; run email/SMS marketing campaigns from a built-in Diner Database CRM; manage menu items centrally and sync to Google listings, DoorDash, and POS; accept payments via Clover or Square; and surface reporting on web traffic, conversion, and revenue.
Well-known mid-market brand in restaurant websites and direct online ordering. ~7,500 restaurant concepts / ~14,000 locations on BentoBox itself; combined Clover restaurant book is ~200,000 merchants.
Yes, but consumer/SMB-hospitality flavored: full restaurant website content + menus, online order history (pickup, delivery, catering), reservation and waitlist records with guest contact info, gift card balances, eCommerce merchandise orders and inventory, Diner Database CRM records (PII, contact, order history, marketing opt-ins), payment/transaction data through Clover or Square, and marketing campaign performance.
~13 years old, founded 2013 in NYC by Krystle Mobayeni. Acquired by Fiserv November 2021 and folded into Clover. Currently being rebranded as 'Clover Hospitality by BentoBox' (launched May 2025 at NRA Show).
No public REST/GraphQL API or developer portal - restaurants and third-party tool builders cannot programmatically extract menus, orders, reservations, guests, or sales data. Integration catalog is closed-list - if a restaurant needs to push data to a tool not on the ~50 partner list (custom analytics, niche loyalty/CRM, accounting), there is no supported path. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Toast, Olo, Square for Restaurants, ChowNow, Popmenu, Lunchbox. 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 BentoBox API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write BentoBox data. See the BentoBox integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/bentobox-api.