Vendors / Adjacent encroachers — ordering, middleware & back-office
Paytronix
The broadest of the loyalty encroachers — loyalty plus gift, online ordering, kiosk, in-restaurant ordering and catering on one stack with 450+ integrations including 30+ POS, which is most of a POS's guest-facing surface without the terminal.
scored live legacy rubric
- Claims in scope
- 255
- Scored
- 36
- Assessed
- 29
- Unknown
- 226
- Not applicable
- 59
- Cells challenged
- 0
unknown, never as no.Identity
- Owner
- Paytronix Systems, Inc. — privately held. Site navigation links to The Access Group for support, which suggests a parent/affiliate relationship, but the About page 404s and no acquisition announcement was verified here. Treat ownership as unconfirmed.
- Who it is for
- Restaurant and convenience-store chains running loyalty, stored value/gift, online ordering, kiosk and catering on one guest-engagement stack
- Site
- https://www.paytronix.com/
Pricing
transparency: unknown · unit: unknown (quote-only) · processor lock-in: unknown
- Software
- No published pricing; demo/contact-sales only across the platform.
Capabilities
Every claim is binary and checkable. Grades: A primary documentation · B product documentation · C pricing or feature page · D marketing claim · E third-party reporting · F inference with no source. A yes on a differentiator claim requires A or B.
Menu, modifiers & pricing engine
menu-pricing-nested-modifiers
Ordering and kiosk modules require modifiers; nesting depth and min/max rules not published.
menu-pricing-modifier-price-by-parent-size
The size half is documented and is a real matrix: an Option Level carries an 'Extra Cost by Size' field that 'adds a fixed cost to the option price, based on the item size selected (e.g., adds $1 for Small items, $2 for Large items)', alongside Price Multiplier and a flat Extra Cost. Shortfall is the parent-item half: option groups are defined either on the individual menu item or category-wide, and the documented way to give one item a different option configuration is to tick 'Exclude from Category-Wide option' on that item and then edit the now-editable copy (help article 12582822, 'How to edit greyed out category wide options'). That is per-parent divergence by separating the definition, not one shared modifier carrying a parent-item price matrix. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12600801-how-to-set-up-option-levels · retrieved 2026-08-04
menu-pricing-fractional-placement differentiator
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menu-pricing-half-and-half-rule differentiator
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menu-pricing-topping-quantity-tiers
Option Levels are exactly this feature: 'Option levels allow customers to modify an individual option selection, such as specifying "double" for a topping/ingredient or "no" to exclude a given topping/ingredient', with worked examples 'Cheese on a Pizza: No, Easy, Normal, Extra' and 'Green Peppers on a Chef Salad: No, Easy, Normal'. Each level value carries: Level Value (name), 'Is Default Value?', 'Price Multiplier: Multiplies the option price by a given value (e.g., multiplies the cost by 2 for double price, or 0.5 for half price)', 'Extra Cost' (fixed add) and 'Extra Cost by Size'. Levels are created once under Menu > Option Levels and attached to an option group via a 'Levels' drop-down, so this is a tier applied to the modifier rather than adding the modifier twice. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12600801-how-to-set-up-option-levels · retrieved 2026-08-04
menu-pricing-size-style-matrix differentiator
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menu-pricing-included-allowance differentiator
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menu-pricing-combos
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menu-pricing-upsell-prompts differentiator
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menu-pricing-86-propagation
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menu-pricing-countdown-auto-86 differentiator
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menu-pricing-dayparting
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menu-pricing-channel-price-books
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menu-pricing-dual-pricing differentiator
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menu-pricing-versioning-effective-dates differentiator
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menu-pricing-franchise-hierarchy differentiator
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menu-pricing-allergen-nutrition
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menu-pricing-recipe-linkage differentiator
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menu-pricing-3p-menu-push
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menu-pricing-dynamic-pricing
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Payments & money movement
payments-processor-choice differentiator
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payments-published-rates differentiator
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payments-dual-pricing differentiator
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payments-surcharge-guardrails differentiator
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payments-emv-nfc
Payments and kiosks are named modules; EMV/NFC terminal specifics not documented on public pages.
payments-softpos-tap-to-pay differentiator
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payments-pay-at-table
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payments-qr-guest-pay differentiator
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payments-tip-adjust
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payments-tip-pooling differentiator
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payments-offline-store-and-forward differentiator
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payments-offline-decline-liability differentiator
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payments-gift-cards
Stored value/gift is a founding Paytronix product line sold alongside loyalty across the chain's locations and channels. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
payments-house-accounts
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payments-split-tender
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payments-refund-void-controls
Role-based authorization exists for the transactions Paytronix owns: the Online Ordering permission table carries 'O&D - Refunds - Controls access to the ability to process refunds' and 'O&D - Refund Reasons - Controls access to the Refund Reasons page', assignable per custom permission group at Read/Write/Delete/New/Update level (help article 13731009), and Managing Completed Orders (12609529) requires a reason on every refund: 'Under Refund Reason, select a refund reason'. An attributed void trail exists for stored value: the Fraud Void Detail Report records Check No., Terminal ID and Cashier ID ('in the case of CSR adjustments, this is the Paytronix user number') and 'is updated in real time' (12582072). Shortfalls: no manager-PIN or second-approver flow is documented - authorization is a standing permission gate, not per-transaction approval; the online-ordering payment activity log shows 'charges, refunds, and adjustments' but no document attributes an online-order refund to the admin user who issued it (12603269); no document asserts any of these logs are immutable; and register-side voids, discounts and no-sales are enforced by the integrated POS, not Paytronix - the Aloha guide has the operator build access levels in Aloha CFC (12591641). https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12582332-online-ordering-permissions · retrieved 2026-08-04
payments-chargeback-tooling differentiator
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payments-card-on-file differentiator
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payments-payout-timing differentiator
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payments-multi-entity-routing differentiator
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payments-p2pe-pci4
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Delivery, dispatch & third-party channels
delivery-driver-roster
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
delivery-dispatch-board
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
delivery-route-map differentiator
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delivery-driver-tracking differentiator
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delivery-zones-polygon differentiator
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delivery-zone-pricing
Online ordering module may carry delivery settings; zone fee/minimum/promise-time configuration not documented.
delivery-address-validation
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delivery-driver-comp differentiator
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delivery-cash-reconcile
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delivery-daas-dispatch
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delivery-daas-fallback differentiator
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delivery-3p-direct-integration differentiator
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delivery-3p-injection
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delivery-menu-push
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delivery-86-sync
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delivery-store-pause
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delivery-3p-reconciliation differentiator
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delivery-injection-error-visibility differentiator
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delivery-tracking-page
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delivery-promise-time differentiator
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delivery-offline-behavior
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Digital ordering & guest-facing channels
digital-first-party-web
Online Ordering is a first-party platform module on the brand's own channels, sold alongside loyalty rather than as a marketplace. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
digital-menu-single-source
30+ POS integrations imply menu sync; single-source propagation not documented.
digital-native-app differentiator
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digital-account-saved-payment
Two of the three components are documented. Saved payment: 'Your customers can create an account through Paytronix Online Ordering, which can be used to store credit card details securely', 'stored credit card details are automatically populated' at checkout when logged in, and 'All stored credit card information is encrypted and is not viewable by Paytronix Online Ordering or any of its clients'. Reorder: 'Once you have an account, you'll be able to view your order history and re-order past orders', via a Past Orders button on the order confirmation screen, the Account > Orders tab, or a reorder link in the confirmation email (help article 12573473), and the branded mobile app performs 'the steps of a reorder' from item selection (12599051). Shortfall: saved delivery addresses are not documented anywhere in the help centre - searches for saved/stored addresses surface only delivery zones, AVS address verification and the delivery instructions field - and the docs say 'encrypted' rather than describing a tokenization scheme. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12600877-can-my-customers-save-their-credit-card-information-to-expedite-orders · retrieved 2026-08-04
digital-upsell-engine differentiator
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digital-scheduled-pacing
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digital-fulfillment-modes
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digital-qr-table
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digital-kiosk differentiator
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digital-group-ordering
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digital-catering-portal differentiator
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digital-voice-ai-phone differentiator
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digital-drivethru-ai
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digital-sms-ordering
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digital-google-order differentiator
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digital-apple-business-connect
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digital-loyalty-attach
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digital-subscriptions
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digital-promo-parity
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digital-guest-data-ownership differentiator
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digital-checkout-pci-sca
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digital-surcharge-transparency differentiator
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Guest data, loyalty & marketing
guest-loyalty-unified-profile
450+ integrations including 30+ POS feed one guest record across ordering, kiosk and in-store; documented dedup/merge behaviour not public. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
guest-loyalty-thirdparty-identity-attach differentiator
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guest-loyalty-accrual-models
Marketed as "the most core design options in the industry" for custom programme design; specific accrual models are not enumerated. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
guest-loyalty-tiers differentiator
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guest-loyalty-offline-behavior differentiator
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guest-loyalty-offer-stacking-rules differentiator
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guest-loyalty-targeted-offers differentiator
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guest-loyalty-rfm-segmentation differentiator
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guest-loyalty-lifecycle-automation
Marketing automation and segmentation are listed as suite solutions; named always-on birthday/win-back campaigns not documented on the platform page. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
guest-loyalty-native-email-sms differentiator
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guest-loyalty-consent-management
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guest-loyalty-10dlc-registration
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guest-loyalty-campaign-attribution differentiator
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guest-loyalty-data-export-portability differentiator
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guest-loyalty-cdp-event-api differentiator
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guest-loyalty-review-capture-routing differentiator
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guest-loyalty-referral-program
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guest-loyalty-wallet-pass differentiator
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guest-loyalty-privacy-rights-tooling
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guest-loyalty-redemption-fraud-controls
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guest-loyalty-ai-offer-recommendation differentiator
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guest-loyalty-stored-value-gift
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Labor & workforce
labor-clock-in-at-pos
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
labor-photo-punch-verification differentiator
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labor-geofenced-mobile-punch
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labor-offline-time-punch differentiator
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labor-granular-rbac
Roles are genuinely custom, not fixed tiers: 'Permission Groups are collections of access rights and privileges... Each merchant can have multiple permission groups tailored to different roles', created via User Administration > Manage Permission Groups, and each web-page permission can be granted at Read / Write / Delete / New / Update level. The Online Ordering permission table (help article 12582332) enumerates ~50 discrete permissions including 'O&D - Refund Reasons', 'O&D - Add / Remove Items', 'O&D - Edit Items' and one permission per report page. Location scoping exists: 'Each user can only view data for the stores they are authorized to see. This is enforced automatically' (help article 15723331). Shortfall: the permissions govern the Paytronix merchant portal and Order & Delivery back office, not the register — void, comp, discount approval, drawer open and price change at the terminal are configured in the integrated POS (the Aloha guide, help article 12591641, has the operator build a Jobcode and POS Access Level in Aloha CFC for Paytronix functions). Elevated Analytics roles are also not self-service: 'Restricted Querier access... contact Paytronix Support.' https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/13731009-creating-managing-custom-permission-groups · retrieved 2026-08-04
labor-manager-override-audit
There is an attributed, queryable trail for the transactions Paytronix owns. The Fraud Void Detail Report 'contains information about all stored value void transactions that have been processed by the Paytronix servers. The transactions usually come through the POS, but some come directly through the web via a CSR action', and carries Check No., Terminal ID and 'Cashier ID - the cashier who was logged in to the terminal when the transaction took place; in the case of CSR adjustments, this is the Paytronix user number.' It is queryable by date range, single store, store group or all stores, and 'This report is updated in real time.' Companion Fraud Cashier Activity Detail/Summary and General Manager Card Activity Detail reports do the same for card activity. Shortfalls: attribution is to the terminal's logged-in cashier, not to a separately identified approving manager; coverage is Paytronix stored-value and loyalty transactions only, not POS voids, comps or discounts generally; and no Paytronix document asserts the trail is immutable. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12582072-fraud-void-detail-report · retrieved 2026-08-04
labor-native-scheduling differentiator
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labor-demand-labor-forecast differentiator
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labor-realtime-labor-percent differentiator
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labor-overtime-prevention differentiator
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labor-break-compliance-by-state differentiator
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labor-fair-workweek-support
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labor-minor-labor-rules
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labor-tip-pooling-rules
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labor-tip-distribution-audit-trail
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labor-qualified-tips-w2-reporting differentiator
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labor-native-payroll differentiator
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labor-payroll-export-formats
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labor-shift-swap-workflow differentiator
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labor-digital-onboarding-i9
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labor-server-performance-metrics differentiator
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Inventory, purchasing & cost control
inventory-recipe-bom-costing
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
inventory-unit-conversion-yields
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
inventory-theoretical-vs-actual differentiator
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inventory-realtime-depletion differentiator
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inventory-86-auto-sync differentiator
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inventory-count-modes
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
inventory-mobile-count-offline
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inventory-vendor-catalogs-edi differentiator
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inventory-invoice-ocr differentiator
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inventory-price-change-alerts differentiator
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inventory-par-auto-suggest differentiator
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inventory-waste-logging
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inventory-transfers
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inventory-commissary
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inventory-lot-traceability
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inventory-shelf-life-expiry
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inventory-bar-partial-bottle
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inventory-cogs-gl-export
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inventory-native-not-partner differentiator
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inventory-menu-margin-linkage differentiator
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Reporting, BI & data access
reporting-realtime-dashboard
The live-sales half is documented outright: 'All reporting for sales and orders is presented in real-time in the Reporting section of your Paytronix Online Ordering account dashboard.' Store-level dashboards carry Most Recent Data Sync, Orders Over Time, Sales Over Time, Submitted Orders, Average Check and Sales By Day (help article 12609750), and the Fraud Void Detail report is likewise 'updated in real time'. Shortfall: browser only. The only off-premise mobile access Paytronix documents for the back office is a web shortcut - 'save the Paytronix Online Ordering backoffice link to your homescreen' via iPhone Share > Add to Home Screen or Chrome > Add to homescreen (help article 12573540). Paytronix's native mobile apps in the help centre are guest-facing loyalty/ordering apps; no manager reporting app is documented. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12601037-is-reporting-done-in-real-time · retrieved 2026-08-04
reporting-eod-closeout
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
reporting-pmix-modifier-level
Ordering-channel item mix likely exists; POS-wide modifier-level PMIX is out of scope.
reporting-comps-voids-audit
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reporting-cash-over-short
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reporting-labor-productivity
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reporting-server-scorecards differentiator
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reporting-channel-profitability differentiator
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reporting-multiloc-drilldown differentiator
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reporting-custom-report-builder differentiator
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reporting-scheduled-delivery
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reporting-raw-warehouse-export differentiator
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reporting-public-api differentiator
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reporting-webhooks differentiator
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reporting-api-not-upcharged differentiator
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reporting-tier-paywall differentiator
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reporting-history-retention differentiator
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reporting-anomaly-alerts differentiator
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reporting-nl-query
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reporting-guest-cohorts differentiator
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reporting-sales-forecast differentiator
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reporting-tip-tax-compliance
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Multi-location, franchise & enterprise governance
multi-location-org-hierarchy
One named grouping level exists between merchant and store, and reporting can be scoped to it. Store Groups 'allow you to create, and edit groups of stores used in promotions and reporting', carry a category of Concept, Region, Franchisee or Other, are built by checkbox selection or file upload, and can be Fixed or Auto-add for new stores. Reports honour them - the Fraud Void Detail Report is queryable by 'single store, store group or all stores' (help article 12582072) - and Enterprise Settings Management groups 'align stores with similar settings, such as taxes, order types offered... or payment types accepted' for bulk changes (12591900). Shortfalls: the structure is one flat grouping level, not a hierarchy - no document describes nesting groups (region > district > store) and ESM groups are overlapping many-to-many labels ('you may assign multiple sites to multiple groups'); and user permission scoping is documented per individual store, not per group: 'Each user can only view data for the stores they are authorized to see' (15723331). https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12609161-store-group-maintenance · retrieved 2026-08-04
multi-location-central-menu-publish
Its ordering menus are chain-managed, but publish/version history is not documented.
multi-location-local-override-policy differentiator
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multi-location-price-zones
Central per-group price management exists, but not as price zones on a single item record. Enterprise Settings Management lets an operator 'make the same edit to multiple locations at once' by selecting a restaurant group or All, publishing immediately or on a schedule, and 'Store hours, prices, and promo codes are just a few examples of settings that support batch editing'; Individual Settings Management bulk-edits location-specific values from one view. The underlying architecture is per-store menu copies: Synchronizing Menus in a Merchant Account (help article 12591916) propagates a source store's menu to destination stores, where 'Syncing menus is typically better than copying menus because it keeps the menu id intact and, therefore, does not break repeat orders.' Shortfalls: per-location-group divergence is achieved by batch-editing each store's own menu copy, not by a price tier on one shared item; no per-order-channel price dimension is documented; and the daypart mechanism (Advanced Menu Management - Daily Specials, 12601898) schedules availability only - 'if your item is only available on certain days, check the Not available on all other days' - with no time-based price. https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12581918-enterprise-settings-management · retrieved 2026-08-04
multi-location-scheduled-publish differentiator
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multi-location-new-store-template differentiator
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multi-location-corp-vs-franchisee-roles differentiator
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multi-location-royalty-calculation differentiator
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multi-location-royalty-collection
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multi-location-consolidated-reporting
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multi-location-normalized-item-rollup differentiator
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multi-location-cross-location-giftcard
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multi-location-cross-location-loyalty
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multi-location-multi-brand differentiator
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multi-location-multi-tax-jurisdiction
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multi-location-multi-currency-locale
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multi-location-config-audit-log differentiator
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multi-location-enterprise-sso differentiator
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multi-location-enterprise-api differentiator
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multi-location-central-labor-policy
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Integrations, API & extensibility
extensibility-public-api-docs
REPLACES an undated first-pass placeholder that said '450+ integrations advertised; no self-serve public API reference located at check time' -- while extensibility-oauth-partner-apps sits at no A in this same record citing this very page, retrieved 2026-08-04. developers.paytronix.com serves 'Integrating to Paytronix 26.6 documentation' with no robots.txt (404, allowed under RFC 9309) and returns HTTP 200 anonymously with the reference body rendered server-side. Its contents page is a complete public API reference: a 'Paytronix Server API Reference' section enumerating roughly forty services by name -- Action to Load (ATL), Balance Transfer, Campaign Feedback, Challenge, Check, Checkin, Coupon, CSR, Enrollment, Geolocation, Gift, Guest Authentication, Guest Management, Message, OAuth, One Time Password, Payment, Push Messaging, Sale, Store, Subscription, Survey, Transaction and Web Sale Order Lookup among them -- plus 'JSON Encoding Details', 'API Authentication', an 'API Change Log', an 'Errors Overview', and functional guides for guest website and mobile registration, login, SSO flows, Apple Passbook and push messaging. Nothing on the path required a signed agreement, NDA or sales call. https://developers.paytronix.com/pxs_api_reference/authentication.html · retrieved 2026-09-01
extensibility-api-access-cost differentiator
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extensibility-partner-revshare
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extensibility-free-sandbox differentiator
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extensibility-oauth-partner-apps
The API reference enumerates the partner-app auth mechanism and it is a static shared secret: 'All API calls to Paytronix require that an integration identifier and secret, essentially a username and password for your integration, be sent as part of the request', sent 'with every API call in an HTTP Basic authorization header (formatted as the base64-encoded representation of identifier:secret)', with 'the identifier and secret values will be provided by the Paytronix integrations team once the integration process has begun.' Paytronix does run OAuth 2.0, but the OAuth Service page scopes it to guests, not partners - 'OAuth Service for REST allows for an integrator to authenticate a guest in a merchant program', with grants (password, OTP, authorization code, refresh, user fields) and scopes (user_read, user_write, account_read, account_write, register) that are all about a guest's own account. There is no operator-facing consent screen, no per-app scope grant and no operator-side revocation documented; de-authorising an integrator means rotating a secret issued by Paytronix. https://developers.paytronix.com/pxs_api_reference/authentication.html · retrieved 2026-08-04
extensibility-webhooks-push
Push exists and is real: 'Paytronix Online Ordering supports order injection via webhooks, where an HTTP POST notification with order information is sent to the third-party integrator upon order submission', configurable integrator-level (one URL for all merchants and stores) or store-level, authenticated with a per-webhook shared secret sent as 'Authorization: Bearer <SHARED_BEARER_TOKEN>'. Shortfall: the documented Request Types table is only four actions - new_order, validate_order, is_online (POS health check) and order_dsp_event (third-party delivery status). There is no modified, paid, voided, refunded or cancelled event; downstream state is acknowledged back to Paytronix through the POS Acknowledgement and POS Confirmation APIs rather than pushed out. Setup is also not self-service: 'Currently, webhooks must be configured by the Paytronix Online Ordering support team', with the only merchant-side control an undocumented-in-nav 'Webhook Endpoint' field reached by appending /advanced to the General Settings URL (help article 12599659). Note this host serves the docs over HTTP only; HTTPS did not complete. http://docs.opendining.net/pages/webhooks_v2.html · retrieved 2026-08-04
extensibility-webhook-reliability differentiator
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extensibility-order-injection-api
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extensibility-menu-write-api differentiator
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extensibility-data-symmetry differentiator
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extensibility-published-rate-limits
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extensibility-doordash-preferred differentiator
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extensibility-first-party-delivery-integrations differentiator
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extensibility-middleware-compatibility
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extensibility-accounting-connectors
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extensibility-payroll-export
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extensibility-bi-data-warehouse differentiator
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extensibility-app-marketplace
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extensibility-custom-fields-scripting
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extensibility-headless-embedded
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extensibility-api-versioning-deprecation
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extensibility-data-portability-exit differentiator
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Reliability, offline & operations
reliability-offline-order-entry
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
reliability-offline-card-auth differentiator
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reliability-offline-decline-liability differentiator
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reliability-lan-degraded-multi-terminal differentiator
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reliability-local-transaction-engine differentiator
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reliability-offline-kds-printing
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
reliability-printer-fallback
Migrated from the 2026-08-01 research pass; no source URL was recorded.
reliability-sync-conflict-handling
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reliability-offline-feature-matrix
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reliability-public-status-page
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reliability-contractual-uptime-sla differentiator
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reliability-incident-postmortems
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reliability-247-live-support
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reliability-onsite-install differentiator
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reliability-menu-build-service differentiator
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reliability-hardware-replacement-sla
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reliability-backup-restore
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reliability-pci-dss-4-attestation
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reliability-mfa-role-based-access
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reliability-self-serve-training
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reliability-failover-terminal-role differentiator
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reliability-cellular-backup
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Commercial, compliance & data ownership
commercial-month-to-month-contract differentiator
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commercial-no-early-termination-fee differentiator
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commercial-autorenew-terms-published
Enumerated rather than merely not-found. paytronix.com/sitemap.xml lists exactly four legal documents: /cookie-policy, /privacy-policy/, /merchant-privacy-policy/, /service-provider-privacy-policy/, plus /terms-and-conditions/ and its single child /terms-and-conditions/data-processing-agreement/. /terms-of-service, /terms, /legal and /master-services-agreement all return 404. The /terms-and-conditions/ page itself renders no contract body - the only prose above boilerplate navigation is a marketing line - and the 62k-character Data Processing Agreement contains no occurrence of 'renew', 'initial term' or a cancellation notice period. On the operator side the help centre's Billing collection holds one article (deposit/withdrawal reconciliation), the online-ordering billing article covers only pass-through Twilio/fax/Spreedly per-unit rates, and the cancellation article says only that 'the account deactivation process can be initiated by emailing us at support', stating no notice window. No auto-renewal term or cancellation notice window is published anywhere on the vendor's own domains. https://www.paytronix.com/terms-and-conditions/ · retrieved 2026-08-04
commercial-processing-not-bundled differentiator
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commercial-interchange-plus-published differentiator
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commercial-rate-increase-clause differentiator
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commercial-pricing-published
Platform page shows no prices and routes to demo requests. https://www.paytronix.com/platform · retrieved 2026-08-01
commercial-module-unbundling differentiator
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commercial-hardware-purchase-outright
Kiosks are sold, but purchase-versus-lease terms and prices are not published.
commercial-hardware-not-locked differentiator
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commercial-implementation-fee-published
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commercial-data-export-self-serve
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commercial-export-customer-and-loyalty differentiator
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commercial-post-termination-export-window differentiator
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commercial-data-ownership-clause differentiator
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commercial-source-available-selfhost
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commercial-pci-p2pe-tokenization
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commercial-pci-dss-4-controls
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commercial-soc2-attestation
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commercial-privacy-dsar-tooling
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commercial-wcag-kiosk-accessibility differentiator
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commercial-dual-pricing-compliant differentiator
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Adversarial verification
An independent pass was instructed to refute this record, defaulting to downgrade when uncertain. It challenged 12 values — 0 upheld, 0 downgraded, 0 upgraded. This is published in full because a reader who can see which values were contested, on what evidence, and which way they moved has something no affiliate-funded comparison offers.
Capability claims
| Claim | As first scored | Verdict | What the verifier found |
|---|---|---|---|
| menu-pricing-modifier-price-by-parent-size | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | The size dimension is documented as a real matrix rather than duplication: Option Levels carry an 'Extra Cost by Size' field that 'adds a fixed cost to the option price, based on the item size selected (e.g., adds $1 for Small items, $2 for Large items)'. The parent-item dimension is not a matrix - options live on the item or category-wide, and per-item divergence is achieved by ticking 'Exclude from Category-Wide option' and editing the item's own copy. Partial on the size half. source |
| menu-pricing-topping-quantity-tiers | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-yes | Option Levels are the named feature: 'No, Easy, Normal, Extra' level values with a per-level 'Price Multiplier: Multiplies the option price by a given value (e.g., multiplies the cost by 2 for double price, or 0.5 for half price)', an 'Is Default Value?' flag, and Extra Cost / Extra Cost by Size. Levels are defined once and attached to an option group via a Levels drop-down, which is explicitly not adding the modifier twice. Grade B vendor admin documentation, sufficient for a yes on a table-stakes claim. source |
| labor-granular-rbac | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | Custom Permission Groups are documented with Read/Write/Delete/New/Update levels per web-page permission, ~50 discrete Order & Delivery permissions (Refund Reasons, Add/Remove Items, Edit Items, per-report access), and automatic per-user store scoping - so not fixed tiers, and location-aware. Held short of yes because the permissions cover the merchant portal and back office, not the register: void, comp, discount approval and drawer open are configured as Aloha Jobcodes and POS Access Levels in the integrated POS, and Restricted Querier elevation requires contacting Paytronix Support. source |
| labor-manager-override-audit | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | The Fraud Void Detail Report covers 'all stored value void transactions that have been processed by the Paytronix servers', including CSR web adjustments, with Check No., Terminal ID and a Cashier ID that becomes 'the Paytronix user number' for CSR actions; it is queryable by date range and store and 'updated in real time'. Short of yes on three counts: the actor recorded is the terminal's logged-in cashier rather than a distinct approving manager, coverage is stored-value and loyalty transactions only rather than POS overrides generally, and immutability is asserted nowhere in the documentation. source |
| reporting-realtime-dashboard | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | 'All reporting for sales and orders is presented in real-time in the Reporting section of your Paytronix Online Ordering account dashboard' settles the live-sales half at grade B, corroborated by store dashboards carrying Orders Over Time / Sales Over Time / Most Recent Data Sync. The claim also requires off-premise mobile app access, and the only mobile path Paytronix documents for the back office is adding the web link to a phone home screen; the native apps in the help centre are guest-facing. Partial, shortfall named as browser-only. source |
| extensibility-oauth-partner-apps | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-no | Positive evidence of absence, not merely a failure to find it: the API reference enumerates the partner authentication mechanism and it is a static shared secret issued by the Paytronix integrations team, sent as HTTP Basic identifier:secret on every call. The OAuth 2.0 service exists but its own page scopes it to authenticating a guest in a merchant program, with guest-account scopes (user_read, user_write, account_read, account_write, register). No operator-granted, individually revocable app authorization is documented anywhere in the developer portal. source |
| extensibility-webhooks-push | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | Order-submission push is documented with bearer-token auth and integrator-level or store-level endpoint configuration, so this is not polling-only. But the Request Types table enumerates exactly four actions - new_order, validate_order, is_online, order_dsp_event - with no modified, paid, voided, refunded or cancelled event; downstream state flows back via the POS Acknowledgement and Confirmation APIs instead. Configuration is also gated: 'webhooks must be configured by the Paytronix Online Ordering support team'. source |
| commercial-autorenew-terms-published | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-no | Enumerated the vendor's published legal corpus rather than merely searching: paytronix.com/sitemap.xml yields only cookie policy, three privacy policies, /terms-and-conditions/ and its single child Data Processing Agreement; /terms-of-service, /terms, /legal and /master-services-agreement all 404. The terms-and-conditions page renders no contract body and the 62k-character DPA contains no 'renew' or 'initial term'. Operator-side, the billing article covers pass-through per-unit rates only and the cancellation article says deactivation is initiated by emailing support, with no notice window. The auto-renewal term and cancellation notice window are not publicly published. source |
| payments-refund-void-controls | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | The permission gate is documented: 'O&D - Refunds - Controls access to the ability to process refunds' in the Online Ordering permission table, assignable per custom permission group at five access levels, and every refund requires a selected Refund Reason (Managing Completed Orders). Stored-value voids carry an attributed real-time trail (Fraud Void Detail Report, Cashier ID / Paytronix user number for CSR adjustments). Held at partial because no per-transaction manager approval flow is documented, no document attributes an online-order refund to the issuing admin user or asserts immutability, and register voids/discounts/no-sales are enforced in the integrated POS rather than by Paytronix. source |
| digital-account-saved-payment | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | Saved payment and reorder are both documented at grade B: accounts 'can be used to store credit card details securely' with details 'automatically populated' at checkout and stored 'encrypted', and past orders are reorderable from the confirmation screen's Past Orders button, the Account > Orders tab, or the confirmation email, with the branded app performing 'the steps of a reorder'. Held at partial because the claim also requires saved addresses, and no help-centre article documents guests saving delivery addresses - searches surface only delivery zones, AVS verification and the delivery instructions field. source |
| multi-location-org-hierarchy | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | Store Groups are a real named middle level with Concept/Region/Franchisee/Other categories, Fixed or Auto-add membership, and reporting scope (Fraud Void Detail is queryable by single store, store group or all stores); Enterprise Settings Management groups bulk-apply settings to store sets. Held at partial because it is one flat grouping level - no nesting is documented, ESM groups are overlapping many-to-many labels - and permission/data scoping for users is documented per individual store ('Each user can only view data for the stores they are authorized to see'), not per group. source |
| multi-location-price-zones | unknown / grade F, placeholder rationale (never examined) | resolve-to-partial | Central group-scoped price management is documented - Enterprise Settings Management batch-edits 'Store hours, prices, and promo codes' across a restaurant group or All locations, immediately or scheduled. Held at partial because the architecture is per-store menu copies kept aligned by the menu sync/copy tool (menu ids kept intact so repeat orders survive), so per-group divergence is batch-edited copies rather than a price tier on one shared item record; no per-order-channel price dimension is documented; and Daily Specials scheduling controls availability only, not time-based price. source |
Sources
Every URL this record cites. 31 in total.
- https://www.paytronix.com/platform
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12600801-how-to-set-up-option-levels
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12580045-how-do-i-configure-pizza-options-in-my-online-ordering-menu
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12582822-how-to-edit-greyed-out-category-wide-options
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/13731009-creating-managing-custom-permission-groups
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12591477-user-administration
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12582332-online-ordering-permissions
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/15723331-analytics-permissions-and-user-roles
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12591641-aloha-pos-paytronix-manager-user-definition-for-gift-cards
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12582072-fraud-void-detail-report
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12609513-general-manager-card-activity-detail
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12601037-is-reporting-done-in-real-time
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12609750-what-online-ordering-reports-and-dashboards-are-available-in-online-ordering
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12573540-saving-paytronix-online-ordering-link-to-your-phone
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12599659-adding-a-third-party-webhook-url-to-your-restaurant
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12583274-how-am-i-billed-for-services-and-usage-for-online-ordering
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12601412-how-do-i-delete-deactivate-my-paytronix-online-ordering-account
- https://developers.paytronix.com/pxs_api_reference/authentication.html
- https://developers.paytronix.com/pxs_api_reference/oauth.html
- http://docs.opendining.net/pages/webhooks_v2.html
- https://www.paytronix.com/terms-and-conditions/
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12609529-managing-completed-orders
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12603269-viewing-online-ordering-payment-activity
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12600877-can-my-customers-save-their-credit-card-information-to-expedite-orders
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12573473-can-a-customer-reorder-a-previous-order
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12609161-store-group-maintenance
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12591900-how-to-create-and-edit-groups-in-enterprise-settings-management
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12581918-enterprise-settings-management
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12591916-synchronizing-menus-in-a-merchant-account
- https://help-paytronix.theaccessgroup.com/en/articles/12601898-advanced-menu-management-daily-specials