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Restaurant Software That Integrates with Toast POS

Toast is a dominant cloud POS for U.S. restaurants. Scheduling, inventory, invoice and ordering tools integrate with it to pull sales and labor data.

For this guide we tested and reviewed the platforms hands-on wherever a trial or demo was available, and verified each price against the vendor's own pricing page before publishing.

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2026
Last verified
Toast POS restaurant software integration
Integration depth across 9 vendors
1
Native
7
Certified
1
Marketplace
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Toast POS integration facts #

Category
Cloud POS
What it syncs
Sales, menu items, labor, orders
Sync direction
Varies (sales out; orders in)
Setup steps
Enable the Toast API connection or install from the partner's side
Auth
Toast API / partner authorization
Plan availability
Some pairings require Toast add-ons
Data residency
Cloud (Toast-hosted)
Limitations
Certain pairings require paid Toast modules

Overview #

Because so much runs on Toast, the real question for a back-office tool is how cleanly it reads Toast sales. xtraCHEF is the deepest pairing — it is Toast-owned, and its menu-item margin variance and AvT inventory reporting require Toast. MarginEdge connects via the Toast API (with a $50/mo Restaurant Management Suite), MarketMan pulls Toast sales for food-cost reporting, and Sling syncs employee data and exports timesheets to Toast Payroll. 7shifts compares Toast sales to scheduled labor, ChowNow routes online orders into Toast, and Resy syncs reservation and check data in real time.

Native integrations (1) #

Built-in, first-class. The platform ships with automated data sync and reconciliation, no marketplace install required.

xtraCHEF

xtraCHEF

Native
Toast-owned restaurant back office: invoice automation, recipe costing, and inventory
xtraCHEF by Toast — deep native pairing; margin-variance and AvT reporting require Toast.

Certified integrations (7) #

Vendor is in the Toast POS partner certification program. Tested connector, formal support contract.

7shifts

7shifts

Certified
Restaurant scheduling, time clocking, and labor-cost control that connects to your POS
7shifts compares Toast POS sales to scheduled labor.
ChowNow

ChowNow

Certified
Commission-free online ordering and marketing for independent restaurants
ChowNow online orders flow into the connected Toast POS.
MarketMan

MarketMan

Certified
Restaurant inventory, purchasing, and food-cost control that feeds your POS and accounting
MarketMan pulls Toast sales data for food-cost and variance reporting.
MarginEdge

MarginEdge

Certified
Flat-priced restaurant back office: invoice-to-food-cost, inventory, and daily P&L on top of your POS
MarginEdge connects via the Toast API ($50/mo Restaurant Management Suite).
Sling

Sling

Certified
Employee scheduling and labor-cost tracking for shift-based restaurants, now Sling by Toast
Sling syncs employee data and exports timesheets to Toast Payroll.
Craftable

Craftable

Certified
Hospitality back-office platform for inventory, recipe costing, and AP automation behind your POS
Toast listed among Craftable's POS integrations.
Resy

Resy

Certified
Reservations, table management and guest CRM with a booking network, backed by American Express
Resy syncs reservation and check data with Toast in real time.

Marketplace integrations (1) #

Available as an app listing or webhooks-level connector. Functional, but depth varies — confirm which data syncs (sales, menu items, labor), sync direction and supported record types before signing.

Lavu

Lavu

Marketplace
iPad restaurant POS with in-house Lavu Pay processing and direct online ordering
Lavu's Marty AI reads Toast data for insights — a compatibility/data-ingestion claim, not a two-way integration.

How Toast POS integration works #

Toast POS connects to restaurant platforms through one of three technical patterns: (1) native data feed built into the platform; (2) certified partner-marketplace connector installed by admins; or (3) webhook/API integration built via the vendor's REST API and file/data exchange.

The choice of pattern determines the depth of data sync, reconciliation and record mapping available. Native feeds ship in weeks; marketplace connectors deploy in days; API builds require engineering.

Common setup steps
  1. Verify vendor integration depth (native / certified / marketplace)
  2. Install connector from the vendor's integration directory or marketplace
  3. Complete OAuth 2.0 handshake or API key exchange
  4. Map menu items, sales and staff records to the platform schema
  5. Configure reconciliation and sync frequency for each data feed
  6. Test the sync with 5-10 real transactions
  7. Roll out to production in a phased pilot

Top 4 use cases for Toast POS + restaurant software #

  • ✓ Pull Toast sales and labor into scheduling to compare planned vs. actual cost
  • ✓ Automate invoice/AP coding against Toast menu and sales data
  • ✓ Export worked hours to Toast Payroll from a scheduling tool
  • ✓ Route first-party online orders into the Toast ticket flow

Limitations to verify before signing #

Some Toast pairings carry a fee: MarginEdge requires Toast\'s $50/mo Restaurant Management Suite, and xtraCHEF\'s margin-variance reporting works only with Toast. Lavu\'s Marty AI "reads" Toast data for insights — a compatibility claim, not a certified two-way integration.

Frequently asked questions #

From vendor research: xtraCHEF, MarginEdge, MarketMan, Sling, 7shifts, ChowNow, Resy, Craftable and (data-ingestion) Lavu.

xtraCHEF — it is Toast-owned, and its margin-variance and AvT reporting require Toast.

Yes — it uses the Toast API with Toast's $50/mo Restaurant Management Suite.

How we score depth. Native means the integration is built into the platform out of the box, with automated data sync. Certified means the vendor is in the Toast POS partner certification program. Marketplace means an app/marketplace listing or webhooks-level connector. Sources: vendor integration directories, partner-marketplace catalogs and vendor product documentation as of June 2026. If a depth score looks wrong, tell us and we will verify.
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