talech API
A thin REST API gated behind the merchant: an owner generates a token in Account Settings and hands it to a named developer. No portal, OAuth, or sandbox exists; the primary reference is a reseller-hosted PDF, and middleware like HexaSync wraps the token API for everything else.
Frequently asked questions
talech scores D+ on the API Report Card. A thin REST API gated behind the merchant: an owner generates a token in Account Settings and hands it to a named developer. No portal, OAuth, or sandbox exists; the primary reference is a reseller-hosted PDF, and middleware like HexaSync wraps the token API for everything else.
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.
talech is an iPad-based cloud point-of-sale platform aimed at small-to-mid restaurants, bars, cafes, salons/services, and specialty retailers. Founded in Palo Alto in 2012, acquired by U.S. Bank in 2019, and now distributed primarily through Elavon (U.S. Bank's merchant-services subsidiary).
POS / Hospitality (with a secondary footprint in small specialty retail and appointment-based services). Staff use talech on iPads (and the newer talech Terminal hardware) to: open and manage checks/tables, take orders and modifiers, split and merge tickets, apply discounts and gratuity, fire to kitchen printers or KDS, process EMV/NFC payments and tips, manage clock-in/out, run end-of-day close, and ring up retail items by SKU/barcode.
Mid-sized footprint in the SMB iPad-POS segment. Not in the top tier with Toast, Square, or Clover, but a real installed base courtesy of U.S. Bank/Elavon distribution.
Yes - talech is the system of record for a merchant's day-to-day operating data: live orders, check/ticket detail, menu/product/inventory state, EMV/NFC payment and tip records, employee time and permissions, customer history, gift cards, appointments, and end-of-day sales/tax reporting.
~13 years old (founded 2012, Palo Alto).
No public developer portal or self-serve key issuance - access requires a merchant to manually generate and hand off an API token. API tracker lists talech but reports no documented auth, base URL, SDKs, rate limits, or pricing. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Square for Restaurants / Square POS, Toast, Clover (Fiserv), Lightspeed Restaurant / Retail, TouchBistro, SpotOn. 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 talech API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write talech data. See the talech integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/talech-api.