TouchBistro API
TouchBistro has an API but deliberately keeps it unpublished; the CEO has said this prevents competitors from onboarding its merchants. Third parties must approach the company directly for a manually issued key. No public developer portal exists.
Frequently asked questions
TouchBistro scores F on the API Report Card. TouchBistro has an API but deliberately keeps it unpublished; the CEO has said this prevents competitors from onboarding its merchants. Third parties must approach the company directly for a manually issued key. No public developer portal exists.
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.
TouchBistro is a cloud-based restaurant management platform and all-in-one POS. It spans front-of-house (point of sale, payments, customer-facing displays), back-of-house (inventory, labor, kitchen display, profit management), and guest engagement (loyalty, marketing, online ordering, reservations).
POS / Hospitality, Typically for full-service, fine dining, family-style, quick-service, fast casual restaurants, bars, breweries, and wineries, including multi-unit operators. Restaurants run daily service on the POS (orders, payments, table management), manage menus and inventory, track labor, and drive guest engagement (loyalty, online ordering, reservations), with select integrations to accounting, payroll, and delivery tools.
Powers 15,000+ restaurants across 100+ countries; award-winning iPad POS with an average merchant doing ~$800K annual revenue. Well-known brand in restaurant POS.
Yes, Holds restaurants' critical operating data: sales/transactions, menus and pricing, payments, inventory, and labor, the system of record for daily operations, trapped behind a login and a gated API.
Established iPad-based restaurant POS (founded ~2010). Modern cloud/hybrid architecture with ongoing feature expansion (payments, loyalty, online ordering).
API exists but is intentionally not publicly documented/promoted. Integration requires direct request and manual API-key issuance. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Toast, Square for Restaurants, Lightspeed Restaurant, Clover, Revel Systems. 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 TouchBistro API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write TouchBistro data. See the TouchBistro integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/touchbistro-api.