Toast API
Toast has a comprehensive REST API, but it is not open: credentials require a vetted integration partnership or a case-by-case grant for customers with dev teams. Individual restaurants have no self-serve path to their own transaction data.
Frequently asked questions
Toast scores F on the API Report Card. Toast has a comprehensive REST API, but it is not open: credentials require a vetted integration partnership or a case-by-case grant for customers with dev teams. Individual restaurants have no self-serve path to their own transaction data.
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.
Toast is a cloud-based, all-in-one restaurant management platform that provides point-of-sale (POS), payment processing, online ordering, payroll, staff management, marketing, and back-of-house operations tools.
Financial Services (Restaurant Payments & POS), Typically for restaurants of all sizes including quick-service, full-service, bars, and cafes needing integrated POS and payment processing. Restaurants use Toast as their central operating system: taking orders (dine-in, online, delivery), processing payments, managing menus, tracking inventory, running payroll, scheduling staff, and analyzing sales reports.
Toast holds approximately 16% of the $962 billion U.S. restaurant payments volume (per UBS data), making it one of the dominant players in restaurant technology. It continues to gain market share across SMB restaurant markets.
Yes, Toast stores all transaction data, payment processing records, sales history, employee payroll data, customer information, menu configurations, and online ordering data. This is core financial and operational data for every restaurant using the platform.
~14 years old, founded 2012 in Boston. Modern cloud-native architecture built on Android. Went public (NYSE: TOST) in September 2021. Regularly ships new features and has a modern UI.
API access is not open; requires partnership application and approval. Individual restaurants cannot easily get API credentials without going through partnership process. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Square (Block), Clover (Fiserv), SpotOn, Lightspeed Restaurant, Aloha Cloud (NCR Voyix). 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 Toast API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Toast data. See the Toast integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/toast-api.