# Lavu

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lavu/  
**Website:** https://lavu.com  
**APIs profiled:** 4

Lavu is a cloud-based iPad restaurant point-of-sale system, now positioned as an AI-powered restaurant intelligence platform, serving restaurants, bars, and hospitality businesses with POS, payments, inventory, and reporting. Lavu promotes an open API that lets developers and restaurants extend the point of sale, build peripheral components, and create tailored integrations without waiting on vendor roadmaps. The POSLavu API is a POST-based interface where a single request server accepts form-encoded credentials (dataname, key, token) plus a table selector and returns XML rows; documented tables include menu_groups, menu_categories, menu_items, tables, orders, order_contents, order_payments, ingredients, and ingredient_usage. Records can be written with cmd=insert and an XML contents payload. Credentials are retrieved from the API tab of the POSLavu Control Panel, and the developer documentation is published at admin.poslavu.com; API access comes with an active Lavu account.

## Kin Score — 26.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 21.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 39.5 |
| Access Clarity | 39.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 26.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Paid · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **Lavu Inventory API** — Ingredients and ingredient usage.
- **Lavu Menu API** — Menu groups, categories, and items.
- **Lavu Orders API** — Orders, order contents, and payments.
- **Lavu Tables API** — Restaurant floor table layout.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lavu Agentic Access** — 2 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Lavu Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Lavu Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Lavu Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Restaurant, Point-of-Sale, Payments, Inventory, Menu Management

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lavu/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.