Epicor Eagle API
Eagle has no public API. A licensed Eagle API exists, requested through Epicor account management or a certified VAR, alongside ODBC database access and Compass exports. Ecommerce integration is effectively outsourced to Modern Retail's tiered packages.
Frequently asked questions
Epicor Eagle scores F on the API Report Card. Eagle has no public API. A licensed Eagle API exists, requested through Epicor account management or a certified VAR, alongside ODBC database access and Compass exports. Ecommerce integration is effectively outsourced to Modern Retail's tiered packages.
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.
Epicor Eagle (also marketed as Eagle N Series, Eagle for the Aftermarket, and Eagle for Pharmacy) is an integrated point-of-sale, inventory, and back-office retail management system (RMS) sold by Epicor Software Corporation to independent specialty retailers across North America.
POS / Hospitality - specifically specialty and hardware retail. Store staff use Eagle at the front lane for ringing transactions, looking up SKUs by UPC or part number, applying customer-specific pricing and house-charge AR accounts, processing EMV/contactless payments through the Epicor Payment Gateway, and printing receipts.
8/10 within its niches. Epicor reports nearly 8,000 retail locations across North America and the Caribbean running Epicor for Retail (the umbrella that includes Eagle), and the Epicor Payment Gateway processes over 1 million transactions per day from more than 10,000 locations.
Yes.
30+ years old. Eagle traces its lineage to Triad Systems in the late 1980s/early 1990s as a hardware/lumber retail system, became part of Activant Solutions in the 2000s, and joined Epicor in the 2008 Activant acquisition.
No public, self-serve developer portal or sandbox for Eagle; access is account-managed and requires going through Epicor or a certified VAR. Eagle ecommerce integrations are effectively outsourced to Modern Retail's tiered packages (Bronze/Silver/Gold/Enterprise, separate B2B and B2C SKUs) - additional vendor, additional contract, additional cost on top of the Eagle license. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include RockSolid MAX (ECI Solutions), Epicor Propello, Epicor BisTrack, Spruce (ECI Solutions), Paladin POS, Lightspeed Retail. 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 Epicor Eagle API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Epicor Eagle data. See the Epicor Eagle integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/epicor-eagle-api.