Paladin's e-commerce REST API covers three endpoints: inventory reads, completed invoice posting, and OAuth 2.0 tokens. The spec is a PDF in a GitHub repo, the sandbox is an Excel file, and Paladin Support must enable access store by store; items only sync when flagged per SKU.
Paladin Data Corporation scores D+ on the API Report Card. Paladin's e-commerce REST API covers three endpoints: inventory reads, completed invoice posting, and OAuth 2.0 tokens. The spec is a PDF in a GitHub repo, the sandbox is an Excel file, and Paladin Support must enable access store by store; items only sync when flagged per SKU.
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.
Paladin Data Corporation (paladinpos.com, redirects to paladinpointofsale.com) is a 45-year-old, privately held retail technology company headquartered in Bend, Oregon, with additional offices in Mesa and Chandler, Arizona.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality, specifically specialty retail POS for independent operators. Target buyers are owner-operated single-store and small multi-store independents in: Hardware stores and home centers (the core franchise). Cashiering and checkout on Windows-based touchscreen terminals at the front counter.
3/10.
Yes - Paladin is the system of record for daily retail operations at thousands of independent hardware, lumber, pharmacy, feed & seed, and pet retailers.
45+ years old. Founded in 1980 in Bend, Oregon, Paladin began as a custom-coded POS for retail and added EDI integration with hardware distributors by the mid-1980s and inventory management in 1990.
No public OpenAPI spec - the API contract lives in a PDF inside a GitHub repo and is updated infrequently. Integration enablement is manual - Paladin Support must turn on each store's API access after the integrator builds against the spec, no self-serve developer signup. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Epicor Eagle / Eagle for the Aftermarket, Epicor Catapult, ECi Spruce, ECi RockSolid MAX, Rapid Garden POS (Rapid POS), Liberty POS / Resaleworld. 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 Paladin Data Corporation API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Paladin Data Corporation data. See the Paladin Data Corporation integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/paladin-data-corporation-api.