Can PoyntOS app call ("pull") from external Web API?

Developers PoyntOS and SDK
#1

Before diving into PoyntOS development, I seek to confirm that calling an external web API from a PoyntOS on-terminal app is technically possible.

My goal is to discount orders at PoyntOS terminals, using offers from a third-party platform. Here follows a diagram of the scenario.

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From the material at poynt.github.io/developer, I think my shown sequence is not technically available. Rather, it appears the PoyntOS model requires a “push” from external services to on-terminal apps through Poynt Cloud Messages. If I am correct in this judgement, I strain to see how the Poynt Cloud Message-based approach can serve my shown intent. The best I can come up with is

  1. give the messages a really long TTL and/or
  2. send messages regularly and often during merchant business hours.

Hope the foregoing is clear enough.

Thanks,

GV

#2

Hi there,

I can confirm that you app running on our terminal can call an external web API.

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#3

Thank you @dennis.

With that assurance I’ll review the SDK docs more intently.

Meanwhile, I will appreciate Poynt references, if any, that could help with my goal.

Best,

GV