Connect SmartSchank Without Constraints

The SmartSchank connector is built and maintained by IntelliPaaS against the SmartSchank cash API, a REST interface that replaces the serial protocols beverage dispensing equipment traditionally relied on. It works with two resources: credits, which carry an order to a dispensing station — article, count, table, place, station and customer — and debits, which come back once a pour completes, carrying the article name, amount and price. Because the API is served by the controller on the venue's own network, the connector runs where the equipment is, and pushes reconciled results outward. Built alongside our ROLLER adapter, it lets a drinks package sold at the point of booking arrive at the tap as an authorised pour.

SmartSchank integration capabilities

• →Create a credit on a dispensing station to authorise a drink order.
• →Populate the order with article, count, table, place, station and customer identifiers.
• →Retrieve credits to check what remains authorised against a guest or table.
• →Cancel or delete a credit when a booking is amended or a guest leaves.
• →Pull debits back as pours complete, with article name, amount and price.
• →Post consumption and revenue data outward to booking, POS and finance systems.

These capabilities close the loop between what a guest has paid for and what the dispensing equipment will actually pour, removing the manual tab management and end-of-night reconciliation that eat into venue margins. IntelliPaaS handles station addressing, article mapping and retry on transient network failures automatically.

Common integration scenarios

• →Authorise a drinks allowance on the dispensing station when a guest books a package in ROLLER.
• →Release pours against the correct bay, table or station for the duration of a booking.
• →Cancel remaining allowance automatically when a booking is amended or cut short.
• →Post completed pours back to the booking record as consumption and revenue.
• →Export pour and article data to Power BI for stock variance and margin reporting.

These scenarios address the gap between where drinks are sold and where they are poured — packages bought online that staff then have to honour manually, pours that never make it onto the guest's record, and stock variance discovered days later — by automating the flow between booking, tap and ledger.

Deployment & security

Flexible deployment matters more here than almost anywhere else: the SmartSchank cash API is served by the dispensing controller on the venue's own network, so the connector runs on-site and pushes reconciled data outward rather than reaching in. IntelliPaaS supports private cloud and on-premise deployments with full regional data sovereignty, and the same integration definition can be deployed across every venue in an estate. All deployment modes receive the same feature set, connector library and support tier.

Why IntelliPaaS

• →No-code to pro-code flexibility for all integration needs.
• →On-site deployment that reaches the dispensing controller on its own network, with no inbound exposure.
• →Multi-venue ready, with one integration definition deployed across an estate.
• →Enterprise-grade observability with monitoring, alerting and audit logging.

Frequently connected apps

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