SpotOn Enterprise provides three different avenues for retrieving Orders from our system, each suited for different scenarios:

To best choose which product suits your needs, let's dive into how they work and what they provide.

Transactions API

Transactions API is a pull-based API that enables retrieval of individual orders and order batches filtered by properties like local_order_uuid, start_date, end_date, and retrieval_status.

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Optimal Uses

Retrieving a snapshot of completed orders in a given time range

Pulling large quantities of completed orders infrequently

Populating a data warehouse for long-term, aggregate reporting purposes

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Non-Optimal Uses

Real-time reporting or war room dashboards

Transactions PubSub

Transactions PubSub is a stream-based API that enables the retrieval of individual orders as they are entering our system.

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Optimal Uses

Real-time reporting

War Room dashboards

Event Day financial, loss prevention, and inventory insight

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Non-Optimal Uses

Historical order data retrieval

Reporting API

Reporting API is our legacy pull-based API that enables retrieval of individual orders and order batches.

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Optimal Uses

Event information

High level sales statistics

Legacy Item information

Reporting on orders using legacy items

Venue and vendor information

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Non-Optimal Uses

Real-time reporting or war room dashboards

Near real time reporting

Reporting on non legacy items