Heartland Retail API
Heartland Retail offers a documented REST API at dev.retail.heartland.us covering inventory, sales, purchasing, accounting, and admin, with webhooks. Bearer tokens are generated in-app and OAuth2 covers third-party apps. Rate limits and sandbox details are not published.
Frequently asked questions
Heartland Retail scores C on Supergood's API Report Card. Heartland Retail offers a documented REST API at dev.retail.heartland.us covering inventory, sales, purchasing, accounting, and admin, with webhooks. Bearer tokens are generated in-app and OAuth2 covers third-party apps. Rate limits and sandbox details are not published.
Heartland Retail has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood. Site terms may apply to any integration approach, and how they apply is a determination each team makes for itself.
Heartland Retail is a cloud-based, omnichannel point-of-sale and retail management platform owned by Global Payments and sold under the Heartland brand.
Mid-market specialty retail, with a clear bias toward apparel, footwear, accessories and lifestyle brands; also used by sporting goods, home goods, multi-brand boutiques and chain specialty retailers. A store associate rings sales on an iPad-based register; managers and buyers use the web back office to manage SKUs, stock transfers, purchase orders, vendors, receiving, sales orders/special orders, and customer profiles; HQ/merchandising runs cross-location reporting, allocation and replenishment.
Mid. Heartland Retail reported ~1,500 locations at the time of the Global Payments acquisition (2020) and has continued to grow under the Heartland brand. 6sense data places it around 501 customers in the POS segment.
Parent: Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN); acquired Heartland Payment Systems in 2016 for ~$4.3B and Springboard Retail (now Heartland Retail) in March 2020.
Springboard Retail launched in the early 2010s as a cloud-native, iPad-first POS targeting omnichannel specialty retail; Heartland and Springboard partnered in 2015 for an integrated POS+payments bundle, and Global Payments acquired Springboard in March 2020, rebranding it as Heartland Retail.
Supergood's grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? Supergood checks six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and rolls them into a letter grade. Supergood re-verifies grades, and they only move on evidence.
Not that we could find. As of August 2026 there is no official Heartland Retail MCP server in any public registry, and no maintained community server we're aware of. We re-verify this periodically — report an inaccuracy below if we missed one.
Not natively. Heartland Retail doesn't publish an MCP server, so MCP clients like Claude, Cursor, and Codex have nothing to connect to out of the box. If that changes, this page will reflect it.