Post data

To send generic data to CashLantern, use this API endpoint.

To use this API endpoint, you will need to receive an API key from SprintQuip. This API endpoint is specially developed to accept generic data for reporting with CashLantern.
If you wish to send POS data, we will encourage you to use the POS post endpoint documented here.

POST /api_v1/post_data

The request body should be time series data. There are some mandatory fields that are required:

TransactionDate - this should be in the format DD/MM/YYYY
TransactionTime - this should be in the format HH:MM:SS
Timezone - this must be the TZ database name. For Sydney, Australia the TZ database name is Australia/Sydney. This link has a full list of TZ database names.

You may also send any number of optional fields, such as:

Firstname
Lastname
OperatorID
Location
TotalCashValue

Request and Response formats are in JSON.

You must include the Authorization api-key in the header.
The header key to use is Authorization and the value is in the format api-key:<apikey>

Here is an example of what the body would look like, if you sent the mandatory fields and the optional fields listed above:

{
        "transactiondate": "28/08/2018",
        "transactiontime": "14:03:56",
        "timezone": "Australia/Sydney",
        "firstname": "Jane",
        "lastname": "Doe",
        "operatorid": "O1934",
        "location": "slot_machine",
        "totalcashvalue": "720.00"
}

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