Chowly

Chowly is a restaurant digital-ordering and delivery-integration platform that connects third-party delivery marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and 150+ others) and direct online ordering into a restaurant's point-of-sale (POS) system. The Chowly platform injects third-party orders directly into the POS, synchronizes menus across every channel, and manages locations. Its developer surface is a partner-gated POS integration API keyed per location; the most commonly referenced operations are menu retrieval and order creation/retrieval.

Chowly publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Menu API, Orders API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Restaurant, Online Ordering, Delivery, POS Integration, and Menu Sync.

The Chowly catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Chowly’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 8 more developer resources.

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26.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 18/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessEnterprise

1 published contract

Restaurant Online Ordering Delivery POS Integration Menu Sync Food and Beverage

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 26.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 15

Access Clarity 0.8 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.2 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 5.3 — up to +18.9 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 25.0 — up to +15.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 50.2 — up to +12.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Regulated Retail (cannabis track-and-trace, delivery marketplaces)	builds-on	51.7	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Chowly Integrations API

Connects third-party delivery marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and 150+ channels) and 50+ native POS systems (Toast, Square, SpotOn, Clover, and others). Marketplace ...

Chowly Menu API

Retrieve the menu synchronized across ordering channels.

Chowly Orders API

Create and retrieve orders injected into the restaurant POS.

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Chowly POS Integration Menu API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chowly POS Integration Menu Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chowly POS Integration API

OPEN COLLECTION

Chowly API pricing

Not yet checked against Chowly's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-21 from www.chowly.com; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Chowly Platform (custom quote) enterprise	—

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Rate limits

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Chowly Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Chowly Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Chowly

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Chowly Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Chowly API Rules

57 rules · 55 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Chowly Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Chowly Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Chowly Agentic Access

3 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: chowly
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/chowly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Chowly
kind: company
description: Chowly is a restaurant digital-ordering and delivery-integration platform that connects third-party delivery
  marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and 150+ others) and direct online ordering into a restaurant's point-of-sale
  (POS) system. The Chowly platform injects third-party orders directly into the POS, synchronizes menus across every channel,
  and manages locations. Its developer surface is a partner-gated POS integration API keyed per location; the most commonly
  referenced operations are menu retrieval and order creation/retrieval.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/chowly.png
tags:
- Restaurant
- Online Ordering
- Delivery
- POS Integration
- Menu Sync
- Food and Beverage
tags_raw:
- Restaurants
- Online Ordering
- Delivery
- POS Integration
- Menu Sync
- Food and Beverage
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-06-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: chowly:integrations
  name: Chowly Integrations API
  tags:
  - Integration
  - Marketplace
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Integrations
  - Marketplaces
  - Webhooks
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://partners.olo.com/partners/chowly/
  baseURL: https://api.chowlyinc.com
  properties:
  - url: https://www.chowly.com/solutions/order-integration/
    type: Documentation
  description: Connects third-party delivery marketplaces (DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub, and 150+ channels) and 50+ native
    POS systems (Toast, Square, SpotOn, Clover, and others). Marketplace and POS partners integrate through Chowly's partner
    program and webhook delivery rather than a documented public REST surface.
- aid: chowly:chowly-menu-api
  name: Chowly Menu API
  description: Retrieve the menu synchronized across ordering channels.
  humanURL: https://www.chowly.com/solutions/order-integration/
  baseURL: https://api.chowlyinc.com
  tags:
  - Menus
  tags_raw:
  - Menu
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chowly-menu-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chowly.com/solutions/order-integration/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/chowly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/chowly.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chowly.com/chowly-platform/
- aid: chowly:chowly-orders-api
  name: Chowly Orders API
  description: Create and retrieve orders injected into the restaurant POS.
  humanURL: https://www.chowly.com/solutions/order-integration/
  baseURL: https://api.chowlyinc.com
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/chowly-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chowly.com/solutions/order-integration/
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/chowly.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/chowly.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.chowly.com/chowly-platform/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/chowly-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/chowly-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/chowly-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Chowly
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chowly
- type: Website
  url: https://www.chowly.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://chowly.help/s/faqs
- type: Plans
  url: plans/chowly-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/chowly-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/chowly-finops.yml
- url: https://chowly.com/resources/blogs/
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Chowly API — frequently asked questions

Does Chowly have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Chowly, including Chowly Integrations API, Chowly Menu API and Chowly Orders API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Chowly API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for Chowly, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Chowly API?

Chowly uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Chowly Authentication.

How much does the Chowly API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Chowly, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Chowly API ready for AI agents?

Chowly has a Kin Score of 26.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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