xtraCHEF API
No true public API. Toast's own docs count two real integrations, Toast and QuickBooks; the other 25+ are CSV file exchanges requiring manual customer action. There is no developer portal, REST reference, OAuth flow, sandbox, or webhooks; connectors are enabled by emailing support.
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xtraCHEF scores D on the API Report Card. No true public API. Toast's own docs count two real integrations, Toast and QuickBooks; the other 25+ are CSV file exchanges requiring manual customer action. There is no developer portal, REST reference, OAuth flow, sandbox, or webhooks; connectors are enabled by emailing support.
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.
xtraCHEF is automated restaurant back-office software covering invoice/AP automation, food cost management, recipe and menu engineering, inventory counts, procurement, and budgeting.
POS / Hospitality - restaurant back-office and accounting automation. GMs, executive chefs, F&B controllers, and outsourced restaurant accountants use xtraCHEF to: snap-and-upload supplier invoices (Sysco, US Foods, PFG, local distributors), review/correct OCR-extracted line items, map vendor SKUs to internal recipe ingredients, push coded invoices to QuickBooks/Sage Intacct/R365/Xero, run food cost reports, get alerts when key ingredient prices spike, build and cost recipes, run periodic inventory counts on mobile, manage par levels, and (with the Toast integration) reconcile theoretical food cost against actual POS sales.
Mid-tier presence in the restaurant back-office segment. Well known inside the Toast ecosystem (cross-sold to Toast's ~100K+ restaurant locations) and listed on every restaurant-tech 'best of' alternative roundup vs. Restaurant365, MarginEdge, MarketMan, and Craftable.
Yes - xtraCHEF holds restaurants' supplier invoice ledger, AP coding, food cost, recipe formulas, inventory counts, vendor price history, and (via the Toast link) ingredient-level COGS tied to sales.
~11 years old (founded 2015 in Philadelphia). Cloud-native SaaS from day one with mobile invoice capture, OCR, and REST-style integrations to accounting/POS.
No public/developer API documented - integrations require contacting xtraCHEF support to enable, blocking ISV self-serve. Only 2 'true' real-time integrations (Toast + QuickBooks); everything else (Sage Intacct, R365, Xero, NetSuite, Oracle EBS, etc.) is CSV file exchange that requires manual customer action. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Restaurant365, MarginEdge, MarketMan, Craftable (Bevager/Foodager), Crunchtime, Compeat (now R365). 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 xtraCHEF API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write xtraCHEF data. See the xtraCHEF integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/xtrachef-api.