---
title: "API & MCP"
description: "Connect your systems and compatible AI tools to Ordering.co with the public API reference, webhooks, and MCP for developers."
canonical: https://www.ordering.co/developers/api-mcp/
---

# Connect your systems and AI tools to Ordering.co.

Use the Ordering.co API to build integrations and custom experiences, send events to your systems with webhooks, and connect compatible AI tools to your account through MCP.

[Connect your AI assistant](https://docs.ordering.co/docs/developers/mcp/)[Explore the API reference](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/)

- API included in every plan
- Webhooks
- MCP for compatible AI tools

Request

```
GET https://api.ordering.co/v400/en/example-project/orders?page=1&page_size=2&params=id,business_id
X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY
```

Response200

```
{
  "error": false,
  "result": [
    { "id": 1841, "business_id": 12 },
    { "id": 1840, "business_id": 12 }
  ]
}
```

## What you can connect.

### API

Build on the Ordering.co API with keys managed by user level. The public reference documents operations, parameters, schemas, and responses.

### Webhooks

Send order and platform events to your own systems.

### MCP

Ask your assistant who you are, check your latest five orders, find open businesses, or review a sales summary. Copy the connection prompt from the guide, sign in, and connect detected MCP clients with the quickstart. Access follows your role and the selected operation catalog.

### Plugins and Zapier

Extend the platform with plugins, or connect thousands of apps through Zapier.

Start with MCP read. Supported changes need write scope, allowed fields, and your confirmation. The optional REST credential has broad user permissions and no expiry; MCP read does not restrict it. You can exclude REST when connecting.

## 5 features, included in every plan.

[Open in the feature catalog](https://www.ordering.co/features/all-features/?product=api-mcp#feature-catalog)

9 more features work across the whole platform. The [feature catalog](https://www.ordering.co/features/all-features/?product=api-mcp#feature-catalog) lists them all.

### Integrations and developer tools

Connections, APIs, and ways to extend the platform.

5 features

- #### API access

  Build on the Ordering.co API with keys managed by user level.

- #### MCP access

  Connect Claude Code or Codex to supported Ordering.co operations through MCP, with a personal key and your user permissions.

- #### [Custom frontend experiences](https://www.ordering.co/features/custom-frontend-experiences/)

  Build your own ordering experiences on the Ordering.co API and MCP.

- #### [Webhooks](https://www.ordering.co/developers/#webhooks)

  Send order and platform events to your own systems.

- #### [Plugins](https://www.ordering.co/integrations/plugins/)

  Extend the platform with plugins.

Headless architecture

## Keep your storefront and your backend independent.

The API separates what customers see from the ordering, catalog, and order logic underneath, so a frontend can change without touching that backend.

- ### Build your own frontend

  Use the API to build a fully custom storefront instead of only customizing the included frontend, while Ordering.co keeps running the catalog, orders, payments, and delivery behind it.

- ### Connect the tools you already use

  Integrate CRM and marketing automation platforms with your Ordering.co data through the API, webhooks, or Zapier.

- ### One backend, several storefronts

  Web, mobile, and other customer-facing channels can read and write to the same catalog, cart, and order data through the API.

## Developer resources

- [API referenceOperations, parameters, schemas, and responses.](https://docs.ordering.co/api-reference/)
- [MCP setup guideCopy the connection prompt, sign in, choose permissions, wait for the installer, and verify a query in your client. Quickstart installs MCP; the optional plugin adds platform knowledge. The guide covers compatibility, renewal, and manual setup.](https://docs.ordering.co/docs/developers/mcp/)
- [Developers overviewHow to frame an integration before agreeing its scope.](https://www.ordering.co/developers/)
- [Source code licenseThe open-source frontend code, included with every product.](https://www.ordering.co/developers/source-code-license/)

## See it working with your operation.

Tell us how you sell and deliver, and we will walk through the products and features that fit.

Product guide: [Connect Claude Code or Codex with MCP](https://docs.ordering.co/docs/developers/mcp/)

[Talk to Ordering.co](https://www.ordering.co/contact/)[See pricing](https://www.ordering.co/pricing/)