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Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

ashokr — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 06:02:28 GMT

I'm a command line junkie :-). I have some scripts that can perform sales analysis and employee timecard tasks on the command line.

Works well on macOS and Linux.
For Windows, I think the best is to install WSL for a Linux environment.
I have a cron job set up that can simply email me the timing for each employee. Every Sunday since our pay dates are Sunday - Saturday. And flexible to do different things for different employees if you don't have the same schedule.

If there is interest, I can post the scripts here or give a pointer to a git repo.

Ashoks-Air:toast-menu-generator araj$ ./sales.py -
--all --file --last-year --this-year -h
--compare --help --range --today
--date --last-month --this-month --yesterday
--debug --last-week --this-week -d

(venv) Ashoks-Air:toast-menu-generator araj$ ./emptime.py -h
usage: emptime.py [-h] [-t] [-s START] [-e END] [-d]

Toast API Time Logs Manager

============================================================
TIME LOG SUMMARY (2025-08-17 to 2025-08-23)
============================================================
Emp1:
Regular Hours: 40.00
Overtime Hours: 14.80
Total Hours: 54.80
Entries: 11

Emp2
Regular Hours: 27.55
Overtime Hours: 0.00
Total Hours: 27.55
Entries: 6

Detailed time log entries saved to time_logs_detailed_2025-08-17_to_2025-08-23.json
Total detailed entries: 17

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-t, --time-logs Get time logs for employees (uses previous week:
Sunday to Saturday)
-s START, --start START
Start date (YYYY-MM-DD) - must be used with -e
-e END, --end END End date (YYYY-MM-DD) - must be used with -s
-d, --debug Enable debug output showing detailed API responses

Cheers, Ashok

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

ayprasad — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:01:06 GMT

very nice! I haven't looked into these yet, but I would like to be able to calculate employee reliability (time scheduled vs actual clock in times) so they can see it and so I can use it for performance reviews and reward the team members that are reliable.
we use sling for scheduling which integrates with Toast.

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

Rob — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:11:07 GMT

This is super cool, thanks for posting this!

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

ashokr — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:54:22 GMT

That sounds like a great idea.. I assume you have Toast Payroll then? Ot just sling for scheduling? Is there a benefit between using sling vs Toast for scheduling?

This is good, I'll look into it for sure. Does Slack has any API's to get data like Toast? If you have a reference would help the hunt!

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

josh212 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:26:58 GMT

So you have two options… one you can have data exports enabled which allows you to connect to an aws data warehouse sftp container for your location each day … the other is you can request ready only permission for some of the scopes including configuration api, labor api, menus api, menus v2 api, payments api, orders api,, restaurant api, and inventory api. You can learn about more of This through doc.toasttab.com , you will also be able to download the most recent postman collection and create sandbox credentials which will allow you to receive a bearer token authorizing you for a read only scope

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

www — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 02:20:02 GMT

Hi @ashokr

Thanks for sharing your knowledge of Toast API access with us 😁

I believe we have Standard API access already. We are interested in seeing if we can pull Loyalty data (since normal web search is so slow).

But based on this chart, it seems to suggest that the Loyalty API is only available to Toast Partners and Custom integrations?

https://doc.toasttab.com/doc/devguide/apiOverview.html

Do you know if that's the case?

Re: Any interest in knowing how to work with API's?

ashokr — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:15:00 GMT

Well, the difference between a single developer and a big company. I just finished my prototype and its mostly functional at this time. But Toast beat me to it LOL.

This is how my interface looks.

My version of sales support !!!Official Toast Version. The results are identical to how my version works.