# Toast

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/toast/  
**Website:** https://pos.toasttab.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 23

Toast is a restaurant technology platform providing cloud-based point-of-sale, payment processing, and business management tools for the restaurant industry. The Toast platform exposes REST APIs enabling technology partners to build integrations for orders, menus, labor management, restaurant configuration, inventory/stock management, authentication, and partner ecosystem access. APIs use OAuth 2.0 client credentials authentication with GUIDs for resource identification. Toast serves 120,000+ restaurant locations and offers both partner integrations (requiring formal partnership) and custom integrations via the developer portal.

## Kin Score — 38.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.5 from 37.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 66.3 |
| Governance | 28.8 |
| Contract Governance | 28.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 26.3 |
| Access Clarity | 26.3 |

## Agent readiness — 34.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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

Enterprise · Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: enterprise, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (23)

- **Toast Configuration API** — The Toast Configuration API returns information about the configuration of a restaurant and its menus, such as menu items and alternate payment types, plus physical configuratio...
- **Toast Analytics API** — The Toast Analytics API provides an enterprise reporting and analytics service with operations that retrieve data for all or a subset of restaurants in a management group, creat...
- **Toast Cash Management API** — The Toast Cash Management API provides information about cash operations that add cash to or remove cash from a restaurant cash drawer, separately from cash transaction payments.
- **Toast Kitchen API** — The Toast Kitchen API returns information about kitchen operations for a restaurant, supporting kitchen display and fulfillment workflow integrations.
- **Toast Credit Cards API** — The Toast Credit Cards API is a simple, single-request, synchronous API to authorize credit card transactions associated with a Toast Orders API order.
- **Toast Menus V3 API** — The Toast Menus V3 API is the next-generation menu retrieval API, returning structured menu, item, modifier, and pricing data for a restaurant in an updated catalog-oriented mod...
- **Toast Gift Cards Integration API** — The Toast Gift Cards integration specification is an outbound API. The partner hosts an HTTPS endpoint that accepts POST requests from the Toast platform to process gift card tr...
- **Toast Loyalty Integration API** — The Toast Loyalty integration specification is an outbound API. The partner hosts an HTTPS endpoint that accepts POST requests from the Toast platform to handle loyalty program ...
- **Toast Tender Integration API** — The Toast Tender integration specification is an outbound API. The partner hosts an HTTPS endpoint that accepts POST requests from the Toast platform to receive tender transacti...
- **Toast Authentication API** — The Authentication API from Toast — 1 operation(s) for authentication.
- **Toast ConnectedRestaurants API** — The ConnectedRestaurants API from Toast — 1 operation(s) for connectedrestaurants.
- **Toast Discounts API** — Related to price reduction applied to restaurant orders. For example, a restaurant might apply a discount for a promotion.
- **Toast Employees API** — The Employees API from Toast — 6 operation(s) for employees.
- **Toast Groups API** — The Groups API from Toast — 1 operation(s) for groups.
- **Toast Jobs API** — The Jobs API from Toast — 3 operation(s) for jobs.
- **Toast Menus API** — The Menus API from Toast — 1 operation(s) for menus.
- **Toast Metadata API** — The Metadata API from Toast — 1 operation(s) for metadata.
- **Toast Orders API** — Related to orders made by restaurant guests. For example, a restaurant guest orders items from a menu. Toast platform orders include one or more guest check.
- **Toast Payments API** — Related to guests' payments for restaurant orders. Toast platform payments apply to a check in an order.
- **Toast Restaurants API** — The Restaurants API from Toast — 2 operation(s) for restaurants.
- **Toast Shifts API** — The Shifts API from Toast — 2 operation(s) for shifts.
- **Toast Stock API** — The Stock API from Toast — 3 operation(s) for stock.
- **Toast Time entries API** — The Time entries API from Toast — 2 operation(s) for time entries.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Toast Agentic Access** — 46 operations · 26 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Toast Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Toast Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Toast Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published

## Plans (1)

- **Toast Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (6)

- **Online Ordering Integration** — Connect third-party online ordering platforms to Toast POS for order injection and menu sync.
- **Payroll and Labor Integration** — Sync Toast employee and shift data with payroll systems using the Labor API.
- **Reporting and Analytics** — Pull order and payment data via bulk orders API for custom reporting and business intelligence.
- **Inventory Management** — Integrate restaurant inventory systems with Toast Stock API for real-time stock tracking.
- **Loyalty and Gift Cards** — Build loyalty program and gift card integrations using Toast outbound webhook APIs.
- **Multi-Location Management** — Partner integrations managing hundreds of restaurant locations via Partners API.

## Tags

Food Service, Point-of-Sale, Restaurant, Hospitality

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