Crunchtime Information Systems
Crunchtime (Crunchtime Information Systems) is a Boston-based provider of AI-powered operations-management software for multi-unit restaurants, founded in 1995 and serving 850+ restaurant brands across 150,000+ locations. Its platform unifies inventory management, labor scheduling, kitchen/operations execution, and analytics. Crunchtime publishes a public developer hub for its Inventory & Labor and Cruise data-integration REST APIs, letting partners and customers push and pull employees, locations, budgets, products, recipes, sales/menu mix, purchase orders, inventory counts, time clock, and forecasting data. Backed by Battery Ventures.
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API Evangelist profiles Crunchtime Information Systems the way a machine reads it — 54 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
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How we profile Crunchtime Information Systems
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Crunchtime Information Systems. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 38
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Crunchtime Inventory & Labor APIs
REST data-integration API for Crunchtime's Inventory Management, Labor & Scheduling, and Cruise products. GET and POST operations move employees, locations, budgets, categories,...
Crunchtime Information Systems Application User Service API
The Application User service is used to create and retrieve user profiles where each user is assigned a unique User ID and password for logging in to Enterprise Manager, Net-Che...
Crunchtime Information Systems Authentication Service API
The Authentication Service is allowing to validate user access to a franchisee site using a username and password.
Crunchtime Information Systems Budget Service API
The Budgets Service allows you to create and retrieve budgets for each post period at each location. Budget figures for each General Ledger can be entered either as currency val...
Crunchtime Information Systems Category Service API
The Category Service allows you to create and retrieve product categories.
Crunchtime Information Systems Check Menu Mix Service API
The Check Menu Mix Service allows for the import of Check and Item based data from the POS system in order to deplete inventory according to the Recipe configuration in Enterpri...
Crunchtime Information Systems Commissary Order Service API
The Commissary Order Service allows you to retrieve commissary orders.
Crunchtime Information Systems Company Product Enhanced Service API
The Company Product Service allows you to create and retrieve the global, above store list of products that can be used elsewhere in the application, including recipe components...
Crunchtime Information Systems Confirm Receipt Standard Service API
The Confirm Receipt Standard Service allows you to create and retrieve confirmation receipts.
Crunchtime Information Systems Currency Ratio Service API
The Currency Ratios Service is used to enter the exchange rates that will to convert monetary values from one currency to another. The "toCurrencyCode" is equal to the base curr...
Crunchtime Information Systems Customer Order Enhanced Service API
The Customer Order Enhanced service allows you to create and retrieve customer orders.
Crunchtime Information Systems Customer Service API
The Customer Service can be used to create a “Customer” that is an establishment or outlet to which a Crunchtime Location sells or distributes products and/or produced Recipe it...
Crunchtime Information Systems Daily Prep Service API
The Daily Prep Service allows you to create, update, finalize, cancel, or retrieve daily prep transactions.
Crunchtime Information Systems Electronic Invoice Service API
The Electronic Invoice service enables you to upload e-invoice data into Crunchtime.
Crunchtime Information Systems Employee Service API
The Employee Service combines what used to be three Crunchtime Data Pump (CDP) imports into one API call with multiple arrays. The Employee Service is used to create or review a...
Crunchtime Information Systems General Ledger Service API
The General Ledger services allows the Crunchtime applications to be aligned with the company’s accounting and bookkeeping systems. General Ledger codes and descriptions are ass...
Crunchtime Information Systems Hierarchy Service API
The Hierarchy Service is used to group locations together for reporting purposes. For example, if the company is a national restaurant chain divided into six regions, setting up...
Crunchtime Information Systems Inventory Service API
The Inventory Service combines a series of get and post calls used to update and review the quantity and value of a location stock on hand including: -Inventory Adjustments (Was...
Crunchtime Information Systems Location Product Pricing Service API
The Location Product Pricing Service API from Crunchtime Information Systems — 6 operation(s) for location product pricing service.
Crunchtime Information Systems Location Service API
The Locations Service allows you to review and configure general information about each location (restaurant, venue etc.) such as the address and phone number, as well as detail...
Crunchtime Information Systems Nutrition Service API
The Nutrition Service is used to create and retrieve data for Nutrition Product records.
Crunchtime Information Systems Package Type Service API
The Package Type Service offers a way to create, update, and retrieve package type entries.
Crunchtime Information Systems Pbi Service API
The Purchase by Invoice Service is used to create and retrieve purchasing data that is not directly associated with products. Typically this Service is used to record expenses f...
Crunchtime Information Systems Projected Consumption Service API
The Projected Consumption service is used to get Consumption data that has been systematically calculated based on a Location's Suggested Order configuration, or post Projected ...
Crunchtime Information Systems Purchase Order Service API
The Purchase Order Service allows you to create and retrieve vendor order records.
Crunchtime Information Systems Recipe Enhanced Service API
The Recipe Service is used to create or extract recipe data including the header and component details. Recipes are created in Crunchtime for the purpose of inventory depletion....
Crunchtime Information Systems Recipe Location Service API
The Recipe Location Service allows you to create and retrieve location specific recipes.
Crunchtime Information Systems Sales Forecast Service API
The Sales Forecasts Service can be used to ensure that Sales Forecasting data aligns between Crunchtime and other systems. You can use the service to get Forecast data that has ...
Crunchtime Information Systems Sales Mix Service API
The Sales Mix Service is used to align Crunchtime with Daily Sales Information generated in a PointofSale system. The data includes: Sales, Sales Tax, Paid Outs, Non Cash Media,...
Crunchtime Information Systems Scheduled Export Service API
The Scheduled Export service is an API that Crunchtime customers can use to download export files that have been generated via Scheduled Events in Enterprise Manager and convert...
Crunchtime Information Systems Storage Location Service API
The Storage Location service offers viewing and managing data associated with primary and secondary storage locations.
Crunchtime Information Systems Supplemental Wage Service API
The Supplemental Wage Service allows you to get or post Lump Sum or Hourly values to individual employees/positions for various supplemental earnings, such as tip sharing, vacat...
Crunchtime Information Systems Time Clock Enhanced Service API
The Time Clock Enhanced service allows you to get or post employee time clock records that typically come from an external payroll or POS system. The post call will contain the ...
Crunchtime Information Systems Uda Service API
The User Defined Attributes (UDA) Service allows for the retrieval of the location and vendor User-Defined Attributes (UDAs). Location UDAs can be configured at the corporate le...
Crunchtime Information Systems Vendor Location Service API
The Vendor Location Service enables for quick setup of vendor locations for companies with large amounts of locationspecific information per vendor, such as payment terms, order...
Crunchtime Information Systems Vendor Payment Service API
The Vendor Payment service allows you to create and retrieve payment information that typically comes from an Accounts Payable system. The Post call will update reconciled Vendo...
Crunchtime Information Systems Vendor Product Pricing Service API
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Crunchtime Information Systems Vendor Service API
The Vendor Service is used to create/review records of all Vendors that can be used to record expenses in Crunchtime. Typically, a third-party system is the system of record for...
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Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Crunchtime Information Systems Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 9
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApplicationUserDetailsGet
JSON SCHEMAApplicationUserDetails
JSON SCHEMADailyPrepDto
JSON SCHEMAEmployeeGet
JSON SCHEMAGeneralLedgerDto
JSON SCHEMALocationDetailsGet
JSON SCHEMAPurchaseOrderHeaderDto
JSON SCHEMAScheduledBatchExportFiles
JSON SCHEMAVendorGetDto
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 9 ·
Security Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Crunchtime Information Systems — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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