Optimum Control API
Optimum Control has no public, self-serve API. TracRite ships packaged connectors for 17 POS systems, foodservice suppliers, and desktop accounting packages; API plumbing surfaces only in dealer-managed integration guides. Custom access means contacting TracRite support.
Frequently asked questions
Optimum Control scores D on the API Report Card. Optimum Control has no public, self-serve API. TracRite ships packaged connectors for 17 POS systems, foodservice suppliers, and desktop accounting packages; API plumbing surfaces only in dealer-managed integration guides. Custom access means contacting TracRite support.
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.
Optimum Control is a Windows-based restaurant inventory management suite from TracRite Software Inc., a Winnipeg, Manitoba company that has been in market since the late 1990s and now goes to market as 'Optimum Control by Back Office.' The product line - OC Pro, OC Enterprise, and OC Premier - covers inventory entry and counts, recipe and menu costing, IDEAL vs. Actual variance reporting, supplier order management, multi-location consolidated reporting, and a companion OC Mobile app for handheld counts and invoice capture.
POS / Hospitality - back-of-house cost control for restaurants, bars, golf courses, casinos, and other food-and-beverage operators. Operators install OC Pro/Enterprise/Premier on a back-office Windows PC (Premier ships with SQL Express for multi-workstation/multi-revenue-center setups).
Niche, long-tail brand in restaurant inventory.
Yes - for operators that run Optimum Control, it holds the restaurant's full back-of-house book of record: vendor catalogs and supplier price history, invoice-level AP detail, on-hand inventory counts and valuations, recipe/sub-recipe cost structures, menu/plate costs, IDEAL vs. Actual COGS variance, waste/transfer logs, purchase orders, rebate-eligible purchase data, and POS sales-by-item depletions.
Mature/legacy. TracRite Software has been selling Optimum Control since the late 1990s and the product remains a Windows desktop application (Premier tier ships with SQL Express).
No public REST API, developer portal, or SDKs documented on tracrite.net - integrations are an enumerated partner list rather than an open platform. API access (where it exists) is dealer/partner-gated via integration guides such as the Heartland Restaurant 'Optimum Control Dealer Integration Guide,' not customer-self-serve. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include MarketMan, Restaurant365, MarginEdge, xtraCHEF (by Toast), Craftable, Crunchtime. 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 Optimum Control API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Optimum Control data. See the Optimum Control integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/optimum-control-api.