Fourth API
A real developer portal at developer.fourth.com documents 15+ REST APIs across workforce, inventory, and platform services. Credentials are customer-linked: a mutual Fourth customer must request them, and live keys take 2 to 4 weeks. Rate limits stay undocumented.
Frequently asked questions
Fourth scores F on the API Report Card. A real developer portal at developer.fourth.com documents 15+ REST APIs across workforce, inventory, and platform services. Credentials are customer-linked: a mutual Fourth customer must request them, and live keys take 2 to 4 weeks. Rate limits stay undocumented.
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.
Fourth is an AI-powered workforce management, payroll, scheduling, and inventory platform purpose-built for the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality (restaurant + hotel workforce, payroll, and inventory). Demand-forecast-driven weekly schedule generation across hundreds-to-thousands of sites (HotSchedules).
8/10 within enterprise restaurant/hospitality back-office.
Yes - Fourth is the system of record for labor, scheduling, payroll, tips, and F&B inventory at ~100,000-120,000 restaurant and hotel sites globally.
~27 years old in legacy form (both Fourth and HotSchedules founded 1999); ~7 years old as the merged Fourth entity (July 2019).
Live API credentials take 2-4 weeks to provision and must be requested through a mutual Fourth customer, blocking trial/POC integration work. API surface is split across REST and SOAP depending on which legacy product the data lives in (Fourth vs HotSchedules vs Adaco vs MacromatiX), forcing partners to maintain two auth stacks. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Crunchtime, Restaurant365, 7shifts, Workforce.com, Toast (Payroll & Team Mgmt / Sling), Harri. 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 Fourth API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Fourth data. See the Fourth integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/fourth-api.