aid: lavu
name: Lavu
description: >-
  Lavu is a cloud-based iPad restaurant point-of-sale system, now positioned as
  an AI-powered restaurant intelligence platform, serving restaurants, bars, and
  hospitality businesses with POS, payments, inventory, and reporting. Lavu
  promotes an open API that lets developers and restaurants extend the point of
  sale, build peripheral components, and create tailored integrations without
  waiting on vendor roadmaps. The POSLavu API is a POST-based interface where a
  single request server accepts form-encoded credentials (dataname, key, token)
  plus a table selector and returns XML rows; documented tables include
  menu_groups, menu_categories, menu_items, tables, orders, order_contents,
  order_payments, ingredients, and ingredient_usage. Records can be written with
  cmd=insert and an XML contents payload. Credentials are retrieved from the API
  tab of the POSLavu Control Panel, and the developer documentation is published
  at admin.poslavu.com; API access comes with an active Lavu account.
type: Index
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Restaurant
  - Point of Sale
  - Payments
  - Inventory
  - Menu Management
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lavu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-02'
modified: '2026-06-02'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: lavu:rest-api
    name: Lavu (POSLavu) API
    description: >-
      A POST-based data API for the Lavu restaurant POS. A single request server
      accepts form-encoded dataname, key, token, and table parameters and returns
      XML rows; reads support column/value exact-match filters, value_min/value_max
      range filters, and limit (offset,count) pagination, while cmd=insert writes
      XML row payloads. Documented tables include menu_groups, menu_categories,
      menu_items, tables, orders, order_contents, order_payments, ingredients, and
      ingredient_usage. Credentials come from the API tab of the POSLavu Control
      Panel.
    tags:
      - Point of Sale
      - Orders
      - Menu
      - Inventory
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://admin.poslavu.com/cp/areas/api_doc.html
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://lavu.com/integrations/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/lavu-poslavu-api.yml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/poslavu-api-menu.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/poslavu-api-tables.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/poslavu-api-orders.yaml
      - type: NaftikoCapability
        url: capabilities/poslavu-api-inventory.yaml
common:
  - type: Website
    url: https://lavu.com
  - type: Blog
    url: https://lavu.com/blog/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://lavu.com/pricing/
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lavu-inc
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/lavu-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/lavu-rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: finops/lavu-finops.yml
  - type: Rules
    url: rules/lavu-spectral-rules.yml
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/lavu-vocabulary.yaml
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/lavu-poslavu-api-context.jsonld
x-common:
  features:
    - name: Open API
      description: >-
        POST-based table query and insert API for extending the POS and building
        peripheral components and integrations.
    - name: Menu Management
      description: >-
        Read menu groups, categories, and items, and insert new menu items.
    - name: Order Management
      description: >-
        Read orders, line items, and payments, and insert new orders, order
        contents, and payments.
    - name: Floor Layout
      description: >-
        Read the restaurant floor table layout (coordinates, shapes, names).
    - name: Inventory
      description: >-
        Read ingredients and ingredient usage data.
    - name: Payment Processing
      description: >-
        Integrated card payment processing with dual-pricing / cash-discount
        options to offset card fees.
  useCases:
    - name: Sales Reporting and Reconciliation
      description: >-
        Pull orders, order_contents, and order_payments to reconcile sales and
        payment volume against the POS and accounting systems.
    - name: Custom Online Ordering
      description: >-
        Read menu structure and insert orders to power a custom or third-party
        online ordering experience on top of Lavu.
    - name: Inventory and Recipe Costing
      description: >-
        Read ingredients and ingredient_usage to feed inventory tracking and
        recipe-costing tools.
    - name: Peripheral Integrations
      description: >-
        Build tailored integrations and peripheral components against the open
        POSLavu API without waiting on vendor roadmaps.
  integrations:
    - name: QuickBooks
      description: Accounting integration.
    - name: Xero
      description: Accounting integration.
    - name: Restaurant365
      description: Restaurant accounting and operations integration.
    - name: DoorDash
      description: Online ordering and delivery integration.
    - name: Grubhub
      description: Online ordering and delivery integration.
    - name: Uber Eats
      description: Online ordering and delivery integration.
    - name: Otter
      description: Online ordering aggregation integration.
    - name: Chowly
      description: Online ordering aggregation integration.
    - name: OpenTable
      description: Reservations and loyalty integration.
    - name: Marketman
      description: Inventory management integration.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com