Receipt printing API
Cloud receipt printing
that never drops a job
Free for your first 20 receipts every month. No credit card required.
→ 201 Created
· printed in 1.4s
RECEIPTFUL
ORDER #1284
2× Flat White
$9.00
1× Croissant
$4.50
TOTAL
$13.50
printed in 1.4s
Use cases
One API, whatever the paper
An order ticket, a receipt, a pick list and a badge are the same request with different HTML.
EAT-TAXI
#4471
19:42 · ASAP
1× Pizza Margherita
2× Tiramisu
PAID ONLINE
24.50
Food delivery
Turn the checkout webhook you already have into a ticket on the restaurant's counter, in under two seconds. Every kitchen pairs its own printer — no tablet to babysit, no hardware to ship.
See how
LE BON CAFE
Cafe creme
1.50
Croissant
1.20
TOTAL
2.70
Card ****4417
Point of sale
Print from wherever the sale actually happens: your backend, a phone, or a WhatsApp thread. Works on the 58mm and 80mm printers the shop already owns — no terminal, no lease.
See how
PICK LIST
ORD-2291
A3-04 Sneakers
× 1
B1-12 Socks
× 3
C7-02 Laces
× 2
3 SKUS
6 UNITS
E-commerce
Send the pick list to the warehouse the moment an order is paid, bin locations and all. It travels with the parcel instead of living in a browser tab somebody has to keep refreshing.
See how
PROOF OF DELIVERY
TRK 8842 991 03
Delivered
14:06
Recipient
M. Diallo
Logistics and labels
Print proof of delivery at the door, from the driver's phone over Bluetooth. Out of range, the job waits for the printer to come back, then expires rather than printing a stale drop.
See how
Also printing with Receiptful:
Integration
Four calls to paper
No drivers, no print server, no SDK. Watch a job go out and come back as paper, then read the whole integration.
Real hardware, nothing sped up. 1:28, no sound.
1
Get an API key
POST /v1/users
2
Register a printer
POST /v1/printers
3
Pair the Android app
one-time, ~1 min
The only step that touches hardware.
4
POST /v1/printers/{id}/jobs
Read the full quickstart
Reliability
Built so it actually prints.
99.98%
delivery success
<1.5s
median print time
48.2K
receipts printed
99.99%
uptime
Works with every receipt printer
Connect any thermal printer over Bluetooth, USB or Ethernet/IP — whatever the vendor or model. We handle the connection quirks, paper-width variations, per-model encoding and device-specific behaviour so you don't have to.
Bluetooth
USB
58mm · 80mm
Every job says where it got to
Follow a job from created to completed as it prints. Subscribe to status changes and you always know where it stands.
created
printing
completed
failed
Live printer status
See that a printer is online and ready before you send a job. We check in regularly, so you always know what's reachable.
printer_42 · online
No print team required
No hardware engineers, no driver maintenance, no on-site IT. Your backend and frontend get the same real-time status — everything your code needs to act on, and everything your users need to see.
POST /jobs
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Customer copy
From the teams printing every day
Our merchants sell on WhatsApp. They don't have a POS terminal and they don't want one. Receiptful means a receipt prints at the counter from a chat, and we never had to touch a printer driver.
WAFRIQ
WhatsApp POS · Cameroon
An order reaches the restaurant as printed paper within seconds of checkout. That used to be the part of the flow we worried about. Now it's the part we don't think about.
EAT-TAXI
Food delivery · Germany
We added receipt printing to the platform in an afternoon. Four API calls, and it worked on the printers our merchants already had.
COMPARO
E-commerce · Francophone Africa
We were quoted weeks to build a print stack for a client. We shipped it with Receiptful in two days and bill nobody for maintaining it.
DEVSUIT GMBH
Built EAT-TAXI · Germany
Pay per receipt
Pricing that reads like a receipt
Start free. Only pay for the printers you run and the receipts you print.
No lock-in
Almost nothing in the path is ours.
We deliver the job and run the fleet. The bytes, the markup and the hardware stay yours, so leaving costs you a hostname, not a rewrite.
The wire format
standard ESC/POS
The input
plain HTML
The printers
ones you already own
The template language
there isn't one
See the raw ESC/POS endpoint
your bytes, unchanged
printed exactly as sent
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