Shortcuts API
Shortcuts is a salon, spa, and barbershop management platform serving the hair, beauty, and barbering industries with appointment booking, client management, point of sale, inventory, reporting, and integrated payments. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull appointments, clients, services, staff, inventory, and sales transactions—and push updates like new bookings, client records, and checkouts back into Shortcuts.
What is Shortcuts?
Shortcuts is a salon management software provider serving the hair, beauty, barbershop, and spa industries globally. Businesses use Shortcuts to manage appointment booking, client records, staff performance, inventory, point of sale, online booking, reporting, and integrated payments across single-site and multi-location operations. The company reports serving over 14,000 businesses across regions including Australia/New Zealand, North America, and the United Kingdom.
Core product families:
- Fusion — the flagship platform with appointment booking, client management, staff performance tracking, inventory management, and advanced reporting
- Aire — a lightweight solution for freelance professionals and small teams with essential point-of-sale and appointment scheduling
- ShortcutsPay — integrated payment processing for deposits, service payments, tips, and next-business-day payouts within Fusion
Common data entities:
- Appointments, Bookings, Online Bookings, Waitlist entries
- Clients, Client History, Service Recommendations
- Services, Staff/Stylists, Rosters, Performance metrics
- Sales transactions, Payments, Deposits, Tips, Payouts
- Inventory, Retail products, Stock levels
- Reports, Revenue analytics, Location/Site records
The Shortcuts Integration Challenge
Salons and barbershops run their day-to-day operations on Shortcuts, but turning its portal- and POS-driven workflows into API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- No public developer API: Shortcuts does not publish a general-purpose REST API, so data lives behind the booking, POS, and reporting interfaces
- Multiple product surfaces: Fusion, Aire, and ShortcutsPay each expose different workflows, object models, and entitlements depending on the plan
- Multi-location complexity: Multi-site beauty businesses spread clients, staff rosters, and sales across locations that must be reconciled into a single view
- Authentication and sessions: Logging into the salon portal and maintaining a session for headless automation is fragile without managed credential handling
- Payment data entanglement: ShortcutsPay deposits, tips, and payouts are tied to checkout flows and need careful reconciliation against sales transactions
- Reporting export friction: Revenue and performance data is surfaced in dashboards and exports rather than a queryable, automatable interface
How Supergood Creates Shortcuts APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers the authenticated browser and POS flows behind Fusion, Aire, and ShortcutsPay to deliver a resilient API layer for your Shortcuts account—without waiting on a public developer program.
- Handles salon portal login and any MFA challenges securely in a managed session
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes responses across appointments, clients, services, staff, inventory, and sales so you integrate once against consistent objects
- Reconciles data across multiple locations and product surfaces into a unified view
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your products (Fusion, Aire, ShortcutsPay), locations, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready Shortcuts adapter tailored to your account configuration and entitlements.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Shortcuts evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a Shortcuts account using salon portal credentials and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Scheduling
/appointmentsList appointments and bookings with filters for date range, location, staff member, and status.
Scheduling
/create_appointmentCreate a new appointment or online booking for a client against a service and staff member.
Clients
/clientsRetrieve client records, contact details, and visit history across locations.
Point of Sale
/salesPull sales transactions, payments, deposits, tips, and ShortcutsPay payouts with date and location filters.
Inventory
/inventoryList retail products, stock levels, and inventory movements across sites.
Use Cases
Sync appointments and bookings to downstream systems
- Pull appointments, online bookings, and waitlist entries into a single calendar or warehouse - Stream new and changed bookings to marketing and reminder tools - Reconcile staff rosters and availability across multiple locations
Unify client records across locations
- Pull client profiles, contact details, and visit history into a central CRM - Push new client records and updates back into Shortcuts - Surface service recommendations and rebooking opportunities to retention workflows
Reconcile sales, payments, and ShortcutsPay payouts
- Sync sales transactions, deposits, tips, and payments into accounting and BI systems - Match ShortcutsPay payouts against daily takings for each location - Flag discrepancies and refunds for finance review
Automate inventory and reporting
- Pull stock levels and retail product sales to trigger reorders - Aggregate revenue and staff performance reporting across sites - Feed normalized metrics into dashboards without manual exports
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Salon portal credentials and any MFA challenges handled in a managed session
Connectivity
Authenticated browser and POS flows behind Fusion, Aire, and ShortcutsPay
Response format
Normalized JSON across appointments, clients, services, staff, inventory, and sales objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your account to avoid platform-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, MFA replay handling, and credential rotation
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for appointments, clients, and sales with optional scheduled batch syncs
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks for new bookings, cancellations, checkouts, and payout events
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting bookings and checkouts
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to multi-location appointment and sales volume
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for bookings, payments, and inventory updates
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of Shortcuts releases and configuration drift across products
Frequently asked questions
Shortcuts does not publish a general-purpose public developer API. Supergood builds a resilient API layer over the authenticated Fusion, Aire, and ShortcutsPay surfaces so you can integrate without a public program.
Yes. Supergood profiles your account and exposes data across the products you use—appointments and clients from Fusion or Aire, and payments, deposits, tips, and payouts from ShortcutsPay—through one normalized API surface.
Yes. Multi-site businesses are reconciled into a unified view, with clients, staff rosters, inventory, and sales normalized across every location.
Yes. Beyond reading appointments, clients, sales, and inventory, you can push updates such as new bookings, client records, and checkouts back into Shortcuts.
Supergood continuously monitors Shortcuts releases and configuration changes, automatically adapting the adapter so your integration keeps working without manual maintenance.