Mapping menus API values to other Toast APIs and the menu data export

To create a stronger connection between the data returned by the menus API and the configuration options you see in Toast Web, the menus API uses updated names for some of the JSON values it returns, as compared to the names used by existing Toast APIs or the menu data export.

Important

A menu entity's GUID remains consistent between the APIs even if the names used by the APIs are different.

The menus API has also restructured and combined some menu data to make it easier to consume. For example, the menu data export uses twelve separate values to express when a menu is available (startTime, endTime, availableAllDays, daysAvailableString, and so on) while the menus API combines those separate elements into a single availability value.

The following sections provide mappings that show the menu-related configuration options in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those options in the Toast POS APIs and the menu data export.

Restaurant mappings

The menus API returns metadata about a restaurant in its Restaurant object. The restaurants API returns comparable data for some of these metadata values, as shown in the table below.

Toast Web Menus API Restaurants API

Restaurant GUID

restaurantGuid

guid (in the Restaurant object)

Publication Date

lastUpdated

-

Time Zone

restaurantTimeZone

timeZone

Menus

menus

-

Menu mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for menus in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

-

-

entityType

-

Name

name

name

name

Menu GUID

guid

guid

-

Number

multilocationId

-

-

Groups

menuGroups

groups

groups

Available at all times of the day

availability

availableAllTimes

-

Times available

availability

startTime

endTime

startTimeHHmm

endTimeHHmm

startTimeLocalStandardTime

endTimeLocalStandardTime

startTimeHHmmLocalStandardTime

endTimeHHmmLocalStandardTime

-

Available every day

availability

availableAllDays

-

Days available

availability

daysAvailableBits

daysAvailableString

-

Description

description

description

-

Image

image

imageLink

images

High Res Image

highResImage

-

-

Visibility

visibility

visibility

visibility

Orderable Online

visibility

orderableOnline

orderableOnline

Grubhub

visibility

-

-

-

-

idString

-

-

-

orderableOnlineStatus

-

Menu group mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for menu groups in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

-

-

entityType

-

Name

name

name

name

GUID

guid

guid

-

Number

multilocationId

-

-

Items

menuItems

items

items

Modifier Groups

-

-

optionGroups

Subgroups

menuGroups

subgroups

subgroups

Description

description

description

-

Image

image

imageLink

images

Visibility

visibility

visibility

visibility

Orderable Online

visibility

orderableOnline

orderableOnline

Grubhub

visibility

-

-

-

-

idString

-

-

-

-

menu

-

-

-

parent

inheritOptionGroups

-

-

inheritOptionGroups

Unit of Measure

-

-

unitOfMeasure

Inherit Unit of Measure

-

-

inheritUnitOfMeasure

Menu item mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for menu items in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

-

-

entityType

-

Name

name

name

name

GUID

guid

guid

-

Number

multilocationId

-

-

Price Level

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Pricing Strategy

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

-

-

Base Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Size Prices

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Menu Prices

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Time Prices

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Location Prices

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Portions

portions

-

-

Modifier Groups

modifierGroupReferences

optionGroups

optionGroups

Inherited Modifier Groups

-

-

inheritOptionGroups

Description

description

description

-

Calories

calories

calories

calories

Image

image

imageLink

images

Tags

itemTags

-

-

Visibility

visibility

visibility

visibility

Orderable Online

visibility

orderableOnline

orderableOnline

Grubhub Orderable

visibility

-

-

SKU

sku

-

sku

PLU

plu

-

plu

Sales Category

salesCategory

-

-

Can be discounted

isDiscountable

-

-

Applicable taxes

taxInfo

-

-

Unit of Measure

 -

unitOfMeasure

unitOfMeasure

Inherit Unit of Measure

-

-

inheritUnitOfMeasure

-

-

-

type

Modifier group mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for modifier groups in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

-

-

entityType

-

Name

name

name

name

GUID

guid

guid

-

Number

multilocationId

-

-

Required

requiredMode

-

-

Multi-select

isMultiSelect

-

-

Min # selections

minSelections

minSelections

minSelections

Max # selections

maxSelections

maxSelections

maxSelections

Pre-Modifier Group

premodifierGroupReferences

-

-

Select where pricing is set

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

pricingMode

-

Allow default modifiers to charge their configured price

defaultOptionsChargePrice

defaultOptionsChargePrice

-

Enable Substitution Pricing

defaultOptionsSubstitutionPricing

defaultOptionsSubstitutionPricing

-

Select pricing for all modifiers

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

-

-

Fixed Modifier Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

-

-

Sequence Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

pricingStrategy

pricingStrategyRules

-

Size Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

pricingStrategy

pricingStrategyRules

-

Size/Sequence Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

pricingStrategy

pricingStrategyRules

-

Modifiers

modifierOptionReferences

items

options

Visibility

visibility

visibility

-

Grubhub

visibility

-

-

ID string

-

idString

-

Note

While the menu data export contains JSON data for the premodifiers themselves, it does not contain data that defines the modifier groups that a premodifier applies to. The menus API has resolved this issue by including a premodifierGroupReferences value on each ModifierGroup object that defines which premodifiers apply to each modifier group.

Modifier option mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for modifier options in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

-

-

entityType

-

Name

name

name

-

GUID

guid

guid

-

Number

multilocationId

-

-

Enable duplicates of this modifier

allowsDuplicates

-

-

Default

isDefault

isDefaultMod

-

Visibility

visibility

visibility

-

Orderable Online

visibility

orderableOnline

-

Grubhub Orderable

visibility

-

-

Tax info

taxInfo

-

-

Sales Category

salesCategory

-

-

Calories

calories

calories

-

SKU

sku

sku

-

PLU

plu

plu

-

GUID (on the menu item details page)

-

itemGroupGuid

-

Option Groups

modifierGroupReferences

optionGroups

-

Price

pricingStrategy

pricingRules

price

-

Description

description

description

-

Item Tags

itemTags

-

-

-

-

maxSelections

-

-

jsonIdentifier

-

-

Portions

portions

-

-

Image

image

-

-

Premodifier group mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for premodifier groups in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

Name

name

name

name

GUID

guid

guid

-

Default

-

isDefault

isDefault

Members

premodifiers

premodifiers

Premodifier mappings

This section provides a mapping that shows the configuration options for premodifiers in Toast Web and the JSON values that represent those configuration options in the menu data export, the menus API, and the configuration API. If a configuration option is not represented in the data returned by an API or in the data export, it is marked with a dash (-).

Toast Web Menus API Menu data export Configuration API

Name

name

name

name

GUID

guid

guid

-

Base Price

fixedPrice

basePrice

basePrice

Scale Price

-

scalePrice

scalePrice

Scale Factor

multiplicationFactor

scaleFactor

scaleFactor

Display Mode

displayMode

displayMode

displayMode

Parent

-

-

parent