2TouchPOS’ DataKey provides customers with real time access to their data on any device from anywhere.

Great news for the DataKey API, we have released a new version that

• Includes real time data
• Includes open food and custom modifiers
• Is 2Touch version agnostic
• Is Faster
• Adds REST support

Snap Shot

Real Time Data
Summary data about sales and staffing is available every 5 minutes.  We have used this API to create a basic dashboard on our website but you can do more such as trending, analysis, and rollup displays.

Open Food and Custom Modifiers
This API returns non-inventory items; open beer, open food, open liquor, open wine, and custom modifiers.  The identifiers, LRI, LRN, and ERN, will be null as these are not inventory identifiable.  This data is historically available for every customer starting July 1, 2015.

2Touch Version Agnostic
The endpoints have V4 in the path but don't let that fool you; you can use this API regardless of the customer's version!  The API simply returns null when the data hasn't been provided.

Faster
All of our methods return results faster with the greatest improvement seen on methods returning large, complex data such as ticket details.

REST
All services now support a REST API that returns JSON formatted data.

Implementation Impact
We strive to keep the API stable.  In this release, we felt the benefits from improving the consistency of the API outweighed the changes required.  We separated the API into three services, tickets, time clock, and real time and improved the naming of several items. It took me less than an hour to update the Data Browser tool we provide.  Naturally, your experience will vary based on your toolset and testing regimen.

Download the documentation.