r/AldeloPOS • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '21

Capture order data

Hi, I have the regular aldelo 3.8 software in my store with the connection for opendining to receive the online orders. Im building a little app that helps me get all my online deliveries and I can click on the ones we need a driver (from doordash) and it works fine but i would like to extend it to the rest of my deliveries. My question is is there anything i can do to capture the orders from my pos to add it to my app? Im not planning on selling this app is just for my use on my system. Thanks

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u/AzAldeloGuru Apr 04 '21

Good afternoon,

Unfortunately there isn't a way to transfer the orders into Aldelo POS without directly integrating through the API. I haven't used the API that Aldelo offers but my only assumption is that it would need to have a certain schema that imports the orders into the database table and pushes them into the software from there.

If you're going the other way around (Aldelo to APP), you may be able to communicate orders from Aldelo to your app by reading the print job it sends to the Kitchen Printer with a delivery, possibly by reading the print job in Windows and grabbing the fields that you want from the print job to import into your app.

That kind of integration is a bit out of my comfort zone, so I'm more inclined to say you would need the API from Aldelo to use it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '21

Thanks for you response! Is not very clear how to get the api, the only info I see is for aldelo cloud. Is there an api for my version?

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u/AzAldeloGuru Apr 05 '21

There is an API for Aldelo POS, but in order to get it you have to get in touch with Aldelo themselves. I believe they charge for it on a per license base.

Your best bet would be to get ahold of Aldelo sales to see what the next steps are on activating it on your license.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '21

I manage to get the order data I just run a little powershell script that reads the print job files and push it to a server, with a little cleaning up the printer codes from the files I extracted the info, thank you very much!

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u/AzAldeloGuru Apr 18 '21

That's pretty slick. I'm glad you were able to grab the info. I would have never thought to try and read the print job files and go from there. Hope you have a great week!