Restaurant365 API
Restaurant365 exposes a REST/JSON API plus an OData read connector, both publicly documented. Neither is self-serve: access starts with an email to support and customer sign-off. Auth is username/password bearer tokens, there are no webhooks, and sales queries cap at 31 days.
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Restaurant365 scores A+ on the API Report Card. Restaurant365 exposes a REST/JSON API plus an OData read connector, both publicly documented. Neither is self-serve: access starts with an email to support and customer sign-off. Auth is username/password bearer tokens, there are no webhooks, and sales queries cap at 31 days.
Restaurant365 has a workable official integration path. Most engineering teams can build against it directly. Open API: self-serve, documented, with SDKs
Restaurant365 (R365) is the restaurant-industry-vertical cloud ERP - a single platform that unifies accounting (GL, AP automation, bank reconciliation, fixed assets, budgeting, financial reporting), inventory and recipe management, purchasing and commissary operations, scheduling and labor/sales forecasting, payroll and HR (hiring, onboarding, tax filing, EWA), and an AI layer (R365 AI / R365 Intelligence) that sits across the full restaurant P&L.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality (restaurant-vertical ERP / back-office). Target market spans single-location independents up through 1,000+ unit enterprise chains and multi-brand franchise groups. Daily Sales Summary (DSS) auto-import from 70+ POS systems (Toast, Square, Aloha NCR, Micros/Oracle Simphony, Brink, Revel, Lightspeed, SpotOn, Qu, PAR, Clover, Shift4, etc.) into the GL with location, daypart, and menu-item level detail.
8/10 within restaurant back-office / vertical ERP.
Yes - Restaurant365 is the canonical financial and operational system of record at 40,000+ restaurant locations.
~14 years old, founded 2011 in Irvine, CA by Tony Smith and John Moody specifically to be a cloud, restaurant-vertical ERP.
API access requires emailing R365 Support and getting customer-side approval before credentials are issued - no self-serve developer portal. Authentication is username/password against an "API Managed User" with a bearer token - no OAuth 2.0, no scoped client credentials, no rotation tooling, creating credential-sprawl and rotation pain for partners. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include MarginEdge, Crunchtime, Compeat (now R365), Sage Intacct (with restaurant template), NetSuite (Oracle), QuickBooks Online / QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise. 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.