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

[ashokr]

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

[ayprasad]

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.

[ashokr]

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!

[ashokr]

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. 

[Rob]

This is super cool, thanks for posting this!