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Your Toast sales, turned into a growth team.

Connect Toast with your own API access, and Runner builds a team around what guests order.

Build my teamHow it works

Connects with

Shopify POS works through its orders CSV, and Clover follows once Clover approves Runner.

Or drop in a sales report from any POS.

Three steps. No setup.

  1. Step 1: Connect your POS

    In Toast Web, make a read-only Standard API access credential, then paste it into Runner.

    Prefer a file?

    In Toast Web:ReportsMenusProduct mixExportCSVToast’s guide (opens in a new tab)

  2. Step 2: Runner keeps up

    It reads what sells and when, through the day. Nothing changes in your POS.

  3. Step 3: Meet your team

    Pick the AI model it runs on. You set the goal and the limits.

Here’s what Runner reads

Best seller
Oat latte
Busiest day
Saturday
Quiet hours
Tue, 2–5 pm

Your shop’s growth plan

  • Google ads near your shopYou pick the area
  • Plans around your quiet hoursTue and Wed, 2–5 pm
  • Posts about what sellsOat latte, this week
  • Emails to customers who opted inInside your limits

Nothing goes out until you approve it or switch the team on, and then only inside the limits you set.

What your team does for your shop

  • Google ads near your shop

    Set them up from Runner’s Ads page on your own Google Ads account. You approve each one.

  • Plans around your quiet hours

    Your team knows your slow days and hours from your sales, and plans its work around them.

  • Posts about what sells

    Your team drafts posts around your best sellers, and again when a new one takes over.

  • Emails to customers who opted in

    Only to customers who agreed to hear from you, and only inside the limits you set.

Nothing goes out until you approve it or switch the team on, and then only inside the limits you set.

Easy to start. Easy to stop.

  • Read-only: nothing changes in your POS
  • No customer names, emails or card numbers kept
  • Disconnect anytime, and your synced sales are deleted

Works with the POS you already have.

Find yours

Check your POSTry the free sales report X-rayRunner for every POSCafés, restaurants, salons and boutiques

Questions about your POS and Runner

Do I have to hand over my POS password?

No. You sign in to your POS yourself, and it gives Runner read-only access. On Toss POS you enter Runner's service code instead, and on Toast you paste read-only API access you make in Toast Web. You can disconnect anytime.

What does Runner read?

What sold, how many, when, and at which location, plus your items and your stock where your POS reports them. It keeps totals and trends, never customer names, emails or card numbers.

How up to date is it?

Runner checks in every hour, and hears about a sale sooner when your POS sends updates as they happen.

Does it find my slow times?

Yes. Runner counts orders by day and hour, and your team plans around the quiet ones. From a sales report, it needs dates and times in the file.

Do I need a website or an app?

No. A shop with a POS is enough to start, plus the AI model your team runs on.

Which POS systems work?

Square, Lightspeed Retail, Toss Place and Toast connect directly. On Shopify POS, drop in your orders CSV. On Clover, sign in once Clover approves Runner. Any other POS works through a sales report, as CSV or Excel, with an Item column and a Qty or Sales column.

Your sales already tell the story. Give it a team.

Build my teamRead-only: nothing changes in your POS

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