MarginEdge

MarginEdge is a restaurant back-office platform that automates invoice processing, inventory, recipe costing, and bill payment, syncing daily food cost and sales data into a restaurant's accounting system. Founded in 2015, it serves over 7,000 restaurants across all 50 states. For developers, MarginEdge publishes a public API through a dedicated developer portal that lets authorized parties programmatically retrieve invoice and product data from the restaurants they are permitted to access. Typical consumers include multi-unit operators building custom reporting, accounting groups, and business intelligence providers contracting with MarginEdge customers to deliver data services.

MarginEdge publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Categories API, Orders API, Products API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Restaurant, Back Office, Invoices, Inventory, and Accounting.

The MarginEdge catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

MarginEdge’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, support, engineering blog, and 11 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Restaurant Back Office Invoices Inventory Accounting Reporting

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Composite quality — 39.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.8 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 2.8 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 56/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 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 does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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):

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
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Well-Known Catalog +4 pts — common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog

1 more unmet check in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Developer Ergonomics scores 29.8 — up to +14.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 5.3 — up to +12.3 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
Restaurants and POS	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 4

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MarginEdge MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.marginedge.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

MarginEdge API pricing

Not yet checked against MarginEdge's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-06-02 from www.marginedge.com/pricing/; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
MarginEdge subscription	—
MarginEdge + Freepour subscription	—
Toast Restaurant Management Suite Add-On subscription	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Public API requests (per API key): not publicly published; enforced by AWS API Gateway throttling — see developer.marginedge.com requests per second
Collection page size: server-determined page size; iterate with the nextPage cursor to retrieve all results varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against MarginEdge's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Billed by: location-month · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Marginedge Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Marginedge Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

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

MarginEdge

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Marginedge Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Marginedge Context

10 classes · 67 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

MarginEdge — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

MarginEdge API Rules

43 rules · 10 errors 22 warnings 11 info

SPECTRAL

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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2 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 3

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

Marginedge Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Marginedge Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Marginedge Trust Center

SOC 2, PCI DSS

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Marginedge Agentic Access

10 operations

10 operations · 0 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

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

SpectralRules

SpectralRules

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: marginedge
name: MarginEdge
description: MarginEdge is a restaurant back-office platform that automates invoice processing, inventory, recipe costing,
  and bill payment, syncing daily food cost and sales data into a restaurant's accounting system. Founded in 2015, it serves
  over 7,000 restaurants across all 50 states. For developers, MarginEdge publishes a public API through a dedicated developer
  portal that lets authorized parties programmatically retrieve invoice and product data from the restaurants they are permitted
  to access. Typical consumers include multi-unit operators building custom reporting, accounting groups, and business intelligence
  providers contracting with MarginEdge customers to deliver data services.
type: Index
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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/marginedge.png
tags:
- Restaurant
- Back Office
- Invoices
- Inventory
- Accounting
- Reporting
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/marginedge/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-02'
modified: '2026-06-02'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: marginedge:marginedge-categories-api
  name: MarginEdge Categories API
  description: Accounting categories
  humanURL: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  baseURL: https://api.marginedge.com/public
  tags:
  - Categories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/marginedge-categories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us/articles/28081506932499-MarginEdge-Public-API
- aid: marginedge:marginedge-orders-api
  name: MarginEdge Orders API
  description: Invoices/orders processed in MarginEdge
  humanURL: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  baseURL: https://api.marginedge.com/public
  tags:
  - Order
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/marginedge-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us/articles/28081506932499-MarginEdge-Public-API
- aid: marginedge:marginedge-products-api
  name: MarginEdge Products API
  description: Products tracked in a restaurant
  humanURL: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  baseURL: https://api.marginedge.com/public
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/marginedge-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us/articles/28081506932499-MarginEdge-Public-API
- aid: marginedge:marginedge-restaurant-units-api
  name: MarginEdge Restaurant Units API
  description: Restaurants, groups, and group categories you can access
  humanURL: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  baseURL: https://api.marginedge.com/public
  tags:
  - Restaurant Units
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/marginedge-restaurant-units-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us/articles/28081506932499-MarginEdge-Public-API
- aid: marginedge:marginedge-vendors-api
  name: MarginEdge Vendors API
  description: Vendors and their items and packaging
  humanURL: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  baseURL: https://api.marginedge.com/public
  tags:
  - Vendors
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/marginedge-vendors-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us/articles/28081506932499-MarginEdge-Public-API
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/marginedge/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/marginedge-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/marginedge-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/marginedge-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/marginedge-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.marginedge.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.marginedge.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.marginedge.com/pricing/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.marginedge.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.marginedge.com/blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/marginedge
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/marginedge-spectral-rules.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/marginedge-vocabulary.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/marginedge-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/marginedge-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/marginedge-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

MarginEdge API — frequently asked questions

Does MarginEdge have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from MarginEdge, including MarginEdge Categories API, MarginEdge Orders API and MarginEdge Products API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the MarginEdge API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for MarginEdge, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the MarginEdge API?

MarginEdge documents its authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Marginedge Authentication.

How much does the MarginEdge API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for MarginEdge, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does MarginEdge have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for MarginEdge: Remote MCP server at mcp.marginedge.com over HTTP.

Is the MarginEdge API ready for AI agents?

MarginEdge has a Kin Score of 39.6 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 56.4 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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