SpotOn API
SpotOn documents REST APIs with OAuth2 at developers.spoton.com, split across restaurant and enterprise surfaces. There is no self-serve key provisioning: citing its financial nature, SpotOn sets developers up only through a sales rep or CSM, partitioned per API and venue.
Frequently asked questions
SpotOn scores C on the API Report Card. SpotOn documents REST APIs with OAuth2 at developers.spoton.com, split across restaurant and enterprise surfaces. There is no self-serve key provisioning: citing its financial nature, SpotOn sets developers up only through a sales rep or CSM, partitioned per API and venue.
SpotOn 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.
SpotOn is a restaurant management and payments platform spanning POS software and hardware, online ordering, reservations, labor scheduling, AI profitability analysis, and payment processing, plus a separate small-business POS for retail/services.
POS / Hospitality, Typically for restaurants (casual, fine dining, bars, QSR, fast-casual, cafes) and some retail/services SMBs. Restaurants run orders, payments, online ordering, reservations, and labor/scheduling through SpotOn POS and use its reporting/analytics to manage profitability.
Well-funded (a16z, Dragoneer, DST, Franklin Templeton), repeatedly ranked #1 POS on G2 by restaurants; large and growing install base.
Yes, Holds restaurant sales/transactions, orders, payments, menu, labor, and reservations, the merchant's core operating data.
Founded 2017; modern cloud-native POS with proprietary hardware and active developer center.
No self-serve key provisioning; sales-gated onboarding. Access partitioned by API + venue. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed, TouchBistro. 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 SpotOn API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write SpotOn data. See the SpotOn integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/spoton-api.