Often category names differ between a POS/Inventory System and a client’s website. The job of this API is to maintain a list of the categories in the POS System. Once the category list exists, the client will be able to go into SiteManager and map each POS category to the corresponding website category.

Once categories are mapped, requests to the Product Import API can specify POS/Inventory System category names, and imported products will automatically be categorized into the appropriate website categories.

The basic functionality of the POS Category API is “delete all”, “recreate all”, “delete”, “get”, and “insert”.

Endpoints

All endpoints for this API follow this format:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a={ACTION}&authKey={AUTHKEY}

where {ACTION} is one of the below actions

ACTIONS

insert_pos_cats:

Description: Insert records representing categories in the POS/Inventory System.

Parameters

categories: A JSON array of one or more category objects, each with a numeric catID and a string catName representing the category’s name inside the POS system.
Type: POST Variable
Datatype: JSON

Example value:

[{"catID":1, "catName":"cat1"},{"catID":2,"catName":"cat2"},{"catID":3,"catName":"cat3"}]

Example Call:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a=insert_pos_cats&authKey={AUTHKEY}

recreate_all_pos_cats:

Description: Delete all existing POS cats, and recreate based on given JSON array of new categories. Note: to prevent the website owner from having to re-map, this should only be called the first time.

Parameters

categories: A JSON array of one or more category objects, each with a numeric catID representing the category’s ID and a string catName representing the category’s name inside the POS system.
Type: POST Variable
Datatype: JSON

Example value:

[{"catID":1, "catName":"cat1"},{"catID":2,"catName":"cat2"},{"catID":3,"catName":"cat3"}]

Example Call:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a=recreate_all_pos_cats&authKey={AUTHKEY}

delete_all_pos_cats:

Description: Delete all existing POS category records. Note: to prevent the website owner from having to re-map, this should only be called the first time.

Parameters: None
Call Type: POST

Example Call:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a=delete_all_pos_cats&authKey={AUTHKEY}

delete_pos_cat:

Description: Delete a single POS cat, and recreate based on given JSON array of new categories. This can be used to maintain cohesion between the categories in the POS system and the website.

Parameters

catID: A numeric value representing the category’s ID inside the POS system.
Type: POST Variable
Datatype: Integer

Example value:

100

Example Call:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a=delete_pos_cat&authKey={AUTHKEY}

get_all_pos_cats:

Description: List all existing POS category records. This can be used to synchronize the records between the POS System and the POS category records inside the website.

Parameters: None
Call Type: GET

Example Call:

https://{DOMAIN}/api/async.php?t=sitemanager&m=pos_cats&a=get_all_pos_cats&authKey={AUTHKEY}

Return Values

The API will return JSON in the format
{
”success”:true|false,
”error”:true|false
}

SUCCESS

The return value for success will contain true in the success property.

Example

{
    "success": true,
    "error": false,
    "msg": "4 rows created",
    "rowsCreated": 4
}

ERRORS

If the “error” property is true, a msg property will be included with clues as to what the error is.

Example

{
    "success": false,
    "error": true,
    "msg": "Missing parameter."
}