WELCOME TO
Better, Faster, Stronger: Building to Revel’s API
Chris Ciabarra – Co-Founder and CTO
Will Greene – VP of Engineering
Justin White – Head of Strategic Partnerships & Business Development
September 8th, 2016
“API” is an Ancient Greek word meaning,
“pretty awesome”
• The strategic value of a well designed API
• The evolution of Revel’s API
• The future of Revel’s API
Partnerships across Revel’s merchants’ ISV ecosystem
are the key to happy customers and long-term victory
Revel API Today
• Revel’s API supports these subject spaces
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Loyalty management
Online Ordering/ Ecommerce
Product and ingredient Inventory management
Employee and scheduling management
Reporting
Gift Cards
Product Management
Big Data
Revel API Roadmap 2017 and Beyond
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Core updates
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Support for higher burst transaction volume
Throttling and response codes for improved API interactions
Async updates with callback registration for notification on status
More documentation with more examples to fully empower developers
(Larger) Batch push and pull support
New features
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Adapters into a broader range of loyalty systems
Buyer and Seller connectivity within Social
Advanced Reporting, Insights, and Machine Learning Capabilities
Real time event processing
Data subscriptions
Final thoughts…
• Partner enablement is dramatically easier with the API
• Revel’s API is committed to creating a customer journey
– Capacity to understand behaviors and personalities
– Support for continuous delightful interactions
– Enabling your integration to be a part of the buyer’s Life
Q&A
Introducing a strategic API partner, Repeat Returns