Yellow Dog API
Yellow Dog documents a REST JSON Fetch API with 90+ endpoints and a partner Postman collection. Access requires Yellow Dog Hosted (no on-premise), a paid integration SOW with certification, and possible per-client monthly fees. Auth is the deprecated OAuth2 password grant with 1-hour tokens.
Frequently asked questions
Yellow Dog scores D+ on the API Report Card. Yellow Dog documents a REST JSON Fetch API with 90+ endpoints and a partner Postman collection. Access requires Yellow Dog Hosted (no on-premise), a paid integration SOW with certification, and possible per-client monthly fees. Auth is the deprecated OAuth2 password grant with 1-hour tokens.
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.
Yellow Dog Software (Yellow Dog Inventory, also marketed as the Fetch platform) is a Virginia Beach-based inventory management platform purpose-built for hospitality and sports/entertainment venues.
Vertical: POS / Hospitality (inventory subdomain). Maintaining a unified item master across multiple revenue centers (retail shops, restaurants, bars, concessions) and pushing items down to multiple POS systems.
6/10 within hospitality/venue inventory.
Yes - within its niche, Yellow Dog is the system of record for venue inventory, recipe/plate cost, vendor catalogs, purchase orders, receiving and three-way match, physical-count and stand-sheet results, theoretical vs. actual usage, transfers, and COGS that feeds the GL.
~20+ years old, founded in the early 2000s, headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
API access is gated behind a paid Third-Party Integration SOW and a partner certification process, blocking lightweight integrations. API is only available to clients on Yellow Dog Hosted; on-premise customers cannot use it, forcing a hosting migration before any integration work. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Crunchtime, Restaurant365, MarketMan, Craftable (Foodager / House), Compeat (now part of R365), Optimum Control. 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 Yellow Dog API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Yellow Dog data. See the Yellow Dog integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/yellow-dog-api.