Hike API
Hike publishes a self-serve REST API (v1.0) with free developer registration through its Partners program and OAuth 2.0 app authorization. Coverage spans 60+ endpoints across sales, products, inventory, customers, loyalty, and webhooks, with an OpenAPI index at docs.hikeup.com/llms.txt.
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Hike scores B+ on the API Report Card. Hike publishes a self-serve REST API (v1.0) with free developer registration through its Partners program and OAuth 2.0 app authorization. Coverage spans 60+ endpoints across sales, products, inventory, customers, loyalty, and webhooks, with an OpenAPI index at docs.hikeup.com/llms.txt.
Hike has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Solid API with minor gaps
Hike is a cloud-based omnichannel point-of-sale, payments, inventory and lightweight ecommerce platform built for retail and hospitality SMBs.
General-purpose SMB retail and light hospitality POS. Sweet spot is single- to multi-outlet specialty retail (apparel, jewelry, furniture, pet, homewares, bike, liquor, vape, books) and quick-service food (cafes, bakeries, food trucks). A store owner runs the Hike till app on an iPad, Windows or Mac terminal for checkout, returns, gift cards and customer lookup; a back-office user manages products (simple, variant, composite), suppliers, purchase orders, stock transfers and loyalty in the Hike web admin; ecommerce orders flow in from Shopify/WooCommerce/BigCommerce and sales sync to QuickBooks Online, Xero or MYOB.
Mid-tier within its niche. Trustpilot shows ~258 reviews under hikepos.com; Capterra carries ~80+ reviews in the mid-4 range; G2/Software Advice/Tekpon all profile it and routinely list it among 'best Vend alternatives' and 'best cloud POS for small retail' roundups.
Company: Hike (Australian; ABN 44 168 261 274), operating under hikeup.com (legacy: hikepos.com).
Founded in Australia and trading for ~10+ years (Hike has been comparison-listed against Vend since the mid-2010s).
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.