For developers
Build on what’s on the shelf.
You can look up a flight, a route or a package in a few lines of code. Ask what’s in the store on the corner and there’s nothing to call. A whole category of software hasn’t been written because the question has nowhere to go.
Tell us what you’re buildingask “sparkling water, lime, 12 oz”
near 94607, seen this week
- product
- Sparkling water, lime, 12 oz
- stores seen
- 14 within 2 mi
- last sold
- 9 minutes ago, $1.99
- confidence
- 0.91
- not known
- how many are left
One way to ask, whatever the register.
Integrating with independent retail today means a different vendor for each register, and most stores aren’t reachable at all. The point is that you never have to care.
Standard products.
Not whatever a receipt called them. A scanner drops digits and a register abbreviates. That mess is ours to clean up.
Answers that show their work.
How recent, how sure, and what isn’t known. Your software can decide what to do with “probably”.
No register vendor in the way.
The signal comes from the counter, so a store on an old system answers the same way as a store on a new one.
Within what stores agreed to.
What you can read depends on what each store has agreed to share and the rules for each category.
The same signal answers other questions too
Tell us what you’d build.
Name the product, store and place your software needs to know about. That’s where we’ll go next.