Restaurant closeoutHour and business dates

The restaurant API's closeoutHour determines your restaurant's businessDate value in other Toast APIs. The closeoutHour is a value from 0-12 (midnight (0) to noon (12)), which represents your restaurant's Business Day Cutoff configuration in Toast Web. For example, if your restaurant's Business Day Cutoff field is set to 4 AM, the closeoutHour value will be 4. The time zone for the Business Day Cutoff is determined by your restaurant's Time Zone configuration in Toast Web.

Note

Your restaurant's Business Day Cutoff and Time Zone configurations can only be updated by Toast Support.

Toast Web business closeout operations

When your restaurant's closeoutHour time has been reached, the following operations occur in Toast Web:

  • Any employees who are still clocked in are automatically clocked out.

  • Card payments that have not been captured yet are automatically captured. This is typically the entire day's card payments.

Note

The Toast platform will not close unpaid orders. Unpaid orders remain open until they are resolved either by being paid or voided.

Toast API business closeout operations

When your restaurant's closeoutHour time has been reached, the following operations occur in Toast APIs.

Orders API 

  • closeDate: The closeDate value is set to a time after the closeoutHour.

  • modifiedDate: The modifiedDate value is set to a time after the closeoutHour.

For more information about the orders API, see Toast orders API.

Labor API 

  • outDate: Any time entries without an outDate value are automatically closed and the outDate value is set to the business cut-off time.

  • modifiedDate: The modifiedDate value is set to the business cut-off time for any time entries closed at the business cut-off time.

For more information about the labor API, see Toast labor API.