Yellow Dog API
Yellow Dog Software is a back-office inventory management platform for hospitality, retail, and concessions—covering food & beverage, retail, and concessions inventory with 300+ POS, vendor, accounting, and e-commerce integrations. An unofficial API lets you pull items, inventory counts, purchase orders, vendors, transfers, and store/location data—and push updates like sales, receivings, and item changes back into Yellow Dog.
What is Yellow Dog?
Yellow Dog Software is a back-office inventory management platform built for hospitality, retail, and concessions operations—restaurants, sports and entertainment venues, resorts, clubs, gaming, and attractions. Operators use Yellow Dog to manage food & beverage, retail, and concessions inventory across single and multi-location sites, with 300+ integrations spanning point-of-sale, vendors, accounting, and e-commerce systems.
Core product areas include:
- Food & Beverage Inventory (recipes, costing, ordering, and counts for restaurants and bars)
- Retail Inventory (SKU management, purchasing, and stock control for retail and "restail" operations)
- Concessions Inventory (high-volume stand and venue inventory for sports and entertainment)
- Mobile Inventory Apps (physical counts, receivings, and transfers from the floor)
- Integrations platform (300+ POS, vendor/EDI, accounting/AP, and e-commerce connections)
Common data entities:
- Items, SKUs, Recipes, Modifiers, Categories
- Inventory Counts, On-Hand Quantities, Par Levels
- Purchase Orders, Receivings, Vendors, Vendor Items
- Transfers, Stores, Locations, Multi-Site Hierarchy
- Sales Transactions, Depletions, Cost of Goods
The Yellow Dog Integration Challenge
Operators run mission-critical inventory and ordering workflows on Yellow Dog daily, but turning its back-office and mobile-driven processes into reliable API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Partner-gated API access: Yellow Dog's REST/JSON API requires an API Agreement and Statement of Work, and third-party integrations may carry a monthly access fee before credentials are issued
- Per-client configuration: Item structures, categories, and store hierarchies are tailored per operator—generic integrations break across tenants
- Mobile-first counts: Much of the day-to-day data (physical counts, receivings, transfers) originates in the mobile apps, not a web portal
- Bidirectional POS flows: "Pull Items" and "Submit Sales" semantics differ across the 300+ POS, vendor, and accounting endpoints
- Multi-location spread: Concessions, retail, and F&B sites under one operator each carry their own stores, pars, and counts
- Auth and session handling: Token-based authentication and session continuity must be managed for headless, scheduled syncs
How Supergood Creates Yellow Dog APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated flows and Yellow Dog's REST/JSON Fetch and Auth APIs to deliver a resilient API layer for your Yellow Dog environment—across food & beverage, retail, and concessions inventory.
- Handles token-based authentication and session refresh securely
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes responses across Items, Inventory, Purchase Orders, Vendors, and Sales so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
- Aligns with operator-specific item structures, store hierarchies, and entitlements to ensure compliant access
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your modules, locations, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready Yellow Dog adapter tailored to your configuration and entitlements.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Yellow Dog evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a Yellow Dog environment with API credentials and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Inventory
/itemsList items, SKUs, recipes, and categories with filters for store, vendor, and category.
Inventory
/inventoryRetrieve on-hand quantities, counts, and par levels across stores and locations.
Purchasing
/purchase_ordersPull purchase orders, receivings, and vendor item data with status and date filters.
Purchasing
/create_purchase_orderCreate a purchase order against a vendor with line items, quantities, and delivery store.
Sales
/submit_salesSubmit POS sales transactions to deplete inventory and update cost of goods.
Use Cases
Sync items and inventory across locations
- Pull items, SKUs, and recipes from food & beverage, retail, and concessions into a single catalog - Stream on-hand counts and par levels across stores into BI and forecasting tools - Reconcile multi-location inventory under one operator hierarchy
Automate purchasing and receiving
- Pull purchase orders and receivings into procurement and AP workflows - Create POs against vendors without back-office clicks - Match vendor items and pricing against accounting systems
Feed POS sales into inventory depletion
- Submit POS sales transactions to deplete on-hand quantities - Update cost of goods and margins per item and location - Surface variance between theoretical and actual usage to managers
Keep vendor and transfer data in sync
- Sync vendors, vendor items, and pricing across systems - Push and pull inter-store transfers to balance stock - Trigger reorder workflows when counts fall below par
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Token-based API credentials handled in a managed session
Connectivity
Authenticated flows plus Yellow Dog's REST/JSON Fetch and Auth APIs where exposed to the operator
Response format
Normalized JSON across Items, Inventory, Purchase Orders, Vendors, and Sales objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your environment to avoid vendor-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, token rotation, and credential vaulting
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for items, counts, 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 purchase orders, receivings, count changes, and sales postings
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting POs and sales
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to high-volume concessions and multi-location retail
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for purchase orders, receivings, and sales submissions
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of Yellow Dog API releases and operator-specific configuration drift
Frequently asked questions
Yellow Dog offers a REST/JSON API, but access is partner-gated: existing clients request access for their own data, and third-party integrations require an API Agreement and Statement of Work, sometimes with a monthly access fee. Supergood works within your existing entitlements and authenticated sessions.
Yes. Supergood normalizes items, counts, purchase orders, and sales across food & beverage, retail, and concessions modules, so you integrate the entities once across all of an operator's inventory types.
Each store and location is profiled against the operator's hierarchy, pars, and counts. Supergood preserves the multi-site structure rather than flattening it into a single warehouse.
Yes. The API supports bidirectional flows—submitting sales transactions to deplete inventory and pulling items, counts, and purchase orders back out—mirroring Yellow Dog's POS integration patterns.
Supergood adapts to each operator's configured item structures, categories, and store hierarchies, preserving custom fields and entitlements rather than forcing a generic schema.