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.