Headless CMS POS Integration Service
A restaurant POS / digital-menu platform
Overview
A Strapi-based headless CMS service that acts as an integration layer for a restaurant POS / digital-menu platform, modeling orders and exposing them through Strapi’s auto-generated APIs and admin.
Why It Exists
To bridge the POS platform with a flexible, admin-managed content/data layer, giving the team a configurable place to model order data, manage users and permissions, and handle uploads and notifications without bespoke backend code for every entity.
What We Built
A Strapi v3 application with a custom order content type and the standard Strapi plugin set: content-type-builder, content-manager, users-permissions, email, and upload. Data is persisted through the Bookshelf connector over Knex and SQLite. The project includes Strapi’s admin build, extensions, and a Node setup script (nodesource_setup.sh) for provisioning. Activity through 2023 indicates ongoing maintenance as an integration point in the platform.
Technologies & Approach
Strapi was chosen to provide a configurable headless CMS, auto-generated REST APIs, an admin panel, role-based permissions, and file/email plugins, reducing the custom code needed to model and expose order data for POS integration.
Outcome / Impact
Provided a maintainable, admin-driven integration and content layer for order data, complementing the platform’s primary AdonisJS API.
Capabilities Demonstrated
- Headless CMS setup and customization with Strapi
- Content-type modeling and auto-generated REST APIs
- Role-based users & permissions, upload, and email plugins
- Database integration via Bookshelf/Knex