{"id":5244,"date":"2019-07-30T06:39:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T11:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2019-07-30T07:36:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:36:08","slug":"shift4-launches-marketplace-could-become-envy-of-vars-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/30\/shift4-launches-marketplace-could-become-envy-of-vars-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Shift4 Launches Marketplace, Could Become Envy of VARs Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shift4, a payments rollup and what we've termed one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/09\/the-new-four-horsemen-of-hospitality-pos\/\">four horsemen of restaurant POS<\/a>, has once again proven its willingness to innovate. This time through the investment of R&amp;D into a centralized, unified API endpoint to all of its POS systems.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Termed Marketplace, third party solutions now have a way to establish bidirectional communication with Future POS, Harbortouch, Harbortouch Bar &amp; Restaurant, POSitouch, and Restaurant Manager - the restaurant POS assets under the Shift4 portfolio. <strong>The implication of this effort cannot be understated.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/log-in\/\">log in<\/a> to read the rest of this content.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shift4, a payments rollup and what we&#8217;ve termed one of the four horsemen of restaurant POS, has once again proven its willingness to innovate. This time through the investment of R&amp;D into a centralized, unified API endpoint to all of its POS systems. Termed Marketplace, third party solutions now have a way to establish bidirectional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions","category-merchants","category-pos","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p81nA2-1mA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reformingretail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-30-at-4.57.05-AM.png?fit=2124%2C1118&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5295,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reformingretail.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}