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.
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Heartland Retail scores C on the 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.
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.
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.