# SpotOn

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/spoton/  
**Website:** https://www.spoton.com  
**APIs profiled:** 15

SpotOn is an all-in-one restaurant point-of-sale and management platform that combines POS, online ordering, reservations, payments, labor, and reporting for restaurants and hospitality businesses. For developers and integration partners, SpotOn offers the Restaurant POS Export API, a location-centric REST API that delivers close-to-realtime data export from the SpotOn Restaurant POS System. It exposes resources such as orders, menu items, modifiers, employees, taxes, surcharges, payment options, labor reports, and time clock entries. Authentication uses an API key supplied via the x-api-key request header, with access granted on a per-location basis. SpotOn also publishes the Reserve API (powered by SeatNinja) for its reservations and waitlist product.

## Kin Score — 42.3 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 28.9 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 32.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 34.4 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 24.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (15)

- **SpotOn Availability API** — Available reservation times and wait-time lookups.
- **SpotOn Cash Deposits API** — Cash deposit records recorded at a location.
- **SpotOn Employees API** — Employee records and their job positions for a location.
- **SpotOn Job Positions API** — Job position definitions for a location.
- **SpotOn Locations API** — Location details for the SpotOn POS organization.
- **SpotOn Menu Items API** — Menu item catalog for a location.
- **SpotOn Order Types API** — Order type definitions for a location, such as Dine In or Takeout.
- **SpotOn Orders API** — Order and check data export, including items, modifiers, payments, and taxes.
- **SpotOn Paid In Outs API** — Cash paid in and paid out records for a location.
- **SpotOn Payment Options API** — Payment methods configured at a location.
- **SpotOn Report Categories API** — Hierarchical report categories used to group menu items.
- **SpotOn Reservations API** — Create and manage guest reservations.
- **SpotOn Restaurants API** — Restaurants accessible with the API key.
- **SpotOn Time Clock Entries API** — Employee shift clock-in and clock-out records.
- **SpotOn Waitlist API** — Add guests to a restaurant waitlist.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Spoton Agentic Access** — 26 operations · 2 acting

## Security (3)

- **Spoton Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Spoton Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Spoton Trust Center** — SOC 2, PCI DSS

## Plans (1)

- **Spoton Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Accounting and Reconciliation** — Export orders, payments, and cash deposits to reconcile against statements and accounting systems.
- **Business Intelligence** — Pull POS sales and labor data into a warehouse for analytics and dashboards.
- **Payroll Integration** — Export time clock entries and pay rates to drive payroll processing.
- **Menu Synchronization** — Keep third-party ordering and inventory systems in sync with the POS menu catalog.
- **Guest Booking Experiences** — Build reservation and waitlist flows using the Reserve API and its JavaScript SDK.

## Tags

Restaurant, Point-of-Sale, Payments, Online Ordering, Reservations, Reporting

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