Getting Started

Panoptes is a production-based restaurant operating system. Its API reaches every action a user can take in the dashboard — POS, kitchen display, menu and catalog, inventory and production, purchasing, delivery channels, cash and loss control, accounting, HR and payroll, and reports — and tells you about every change through signed webhooks.

1. Create an API key

1. Sign in to the Panoptes dashboard as an owner (or a user with manage_api_keys).
2. Open Developers → API keys and choose New key.
3. Pick the scopes the integration needs. Prefer a module preset (preset:pos, preset:inventory, …) over preset:full.
4. Copy the key. It looks like pnp_live_1a2b3c4d.<secret> and is shown once.

2. Pick an environment

Build and test against staging first. Keys are per install — a staging key does not work in production.

3. Make a call

curl -s "https://staging-api.panoptesos.com/api/v1/public/items?limit=10" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: pnp_test_1a2b3c4d.YOUR_SECRET"

{ "ok": true, "data": [{ "id": "…", "name": "Chicken shawarma", "price": 4500 }], "total": 42 }

4. Go further

• Console routes (/api/v1/console/**) are the full API. A key calls any of them when it holds the matching cap:<capability> scope — see Permissions & Scopes.
• Webhooks push every audited change to your endpoint — see Webhooks.
• MCP lets an AI agent read facts and perform actions — see MCP / AI Agents.
• Use the Try it console on any endpoint in the API Reference, or import the Postman collection.