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ACI Worldwide

ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) is a US-headquartered payment-software company that builds real-time payment, card, merchant/eCommerce, and bill-payment technology for banks, processors, merchants, and billers around the world. Its enterprise portfolio spans BASE24 card and ATM switching, the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform for real-time and ISO 20022 account-to-account rails, and ACI Speedpay bill payment — most of which ship as licensed, on-premise or hosted software rather than public self-serve APIs. ACI's genuinely API-native surface is the ACI Open Payment Platform (the PAY.ON global payment gateway): a unified RESTful API documented at docs.aciworldwide.com that lets merchants and PSPs accept and manage card and alternative-payment transactions through Server-to-Server, COPYandPAY, Mobile SDK, BackOffice, and Pay By Link integrations, authenticated with an Authorization Bearer access token plus a channel entityId and complemented by PAYMENT and REGISTRATION webhook notifications. Its home market is the United States, inside the deep, fragmented, API-native US payments landscape.

ACI Worldwide publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Payments, United States, Payment Gateway, Payment Processing, and Acquiring.

The ACI Worldwide catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

ACI Worldwide’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, changelog, and 19 more developer resources.

50.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
5 APIs 1 MCP Servers
PaymentsUnited StatesPayment GatewayPayment ProcessingAcquiringCard PaymentsE-CommerceFraudTokenization3D SecureBill PaymentsReal-Time PaymentsISO 20022

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 50.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 9.6 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 12.1 / 17
Access Clarity 4.9 / 17
Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11
Contract Governance 1.9 / 10
Discoverability 6.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 10.3 / 15
Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ACI Open Payment Platform — Server-to-Server API

The core RESTful payment API of the ACI Open Payment Platform (PAY.ON gateway). Server-to-Server integration lets merchants and PSPs run end-to-end payment workflows — preauthor...

ACI COPYandPAY

COPYandPAY is ACI's secure, PCI-friendly embedded payments widget for merchants and integrators. It renders a hosted card and alternative-payment form that tokenizes and submits...

ACI BackOffice API

BackOffice operations on the Open Payment Platform let integrators process and manage previously authorized transactions — captures, refunds, reversals, and related post-authori...

ACI Pay By Link API

Pay By Link lets merchants create secure, customizable hosted payment link pages and collect payments without a full checkout integration, built on the Open Payment Platform gat...

ACI Mobile SDK

The ACI Mobile SDK lets developers accept payments inside native mobile apps, wrapping the Open Payment Platform's card and alternative-payment flows with device-side tokenizati...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Aci Worldwide Authentication

http/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Aci Worldwide Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: aci-worldwide
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aci-worldwide/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: ACI Worldwide
kind: company
description: 'ACI Worldwide (NASDAQ: ACIW) is a US-headquartered payment-software company that builds real-time payment, card,
  merchant/eCommerce, and bill-payment technology for banks, processors, merchants, and billers around the world. Its enterprise
  portfolio spans BASE24 card and ATM switching, the ACI Enterprise Payments Platform for real-time and ISO 20022 account-to-account
  rails, and ACI Speedpay bill payment — most of which ship as licensed, on-premise or hosted software rather than public
  self-serve APIs. ACI''s genuinely API-native surface is the ACI Open Payment Platform (the PAY.ON global payment gateway):
  a unified RESTful API documented at docs.aciworldwide.com that lets merchants and PSPs accept and manage card and alternative-payment
  transactions through Server-to-Server, COPYandPAY, Mobile SDK, BackOffice, and Pay By Link integrations, authenticated with
  an Authorization Bearer access token plus a channel entityId and complemented by PAYMENT and REGISTRATION webhook notifications.
  Its home market is the United States, inside the deep, fragmented, API-native US payments landscape.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-11'
  method: derived
image: https://www.aciworldwide.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-android-chrome-512x512-1-192x192.png
tags:
- Payments
- United States
- Payment Gateway
- Payment Processing
- Acquiring
- Card Payments
- E-Commerce
- Fraud
- Tokenization
- 3D Secure
- Bill Payments
- Real-Time Payments
- ISO 20022
tags_raw:
- Payments
- United States
- Payment Gateway
- Payment Processing
- Acquiring
- Card Payments
- eCommerce
- Fraud
- Tokenization
- 3D Secure
- Bill Payment
- Real-Time Payments
- ISO 20022
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: aci-worldwide:open-payment-platform-server-to-server
  name: ACI Open Payment Platform — Server-to-Server API
  description: The core RESTful payment API of the ACI Open Payment Platform (PAY.ON gateway). Server-to-Server integration
    lets merchants and PSPs run end-to-end payment workflows — preauthorization, debit, capture, refund, and reversal — across
    cards and alternative payment methods. Requests are authenticated with an Authorization Bearer access token plus a channel
    entityId. Production host is https://eu-prod.oppwa.com and test host is https://eu-test.oppwa.com.
  humanURL: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/server-to-server
  baseURL: https://eu-prod.oppwa.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Server-to-Server
  - Card Payments
  - REST
  tags_raw:
  - Payments
  - Server to Server
  - Card Payments
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/server-to-server
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/widget
- aid: aci-worldwide:copyandpay
  name: ACI COPYandPAY
  description: COPYandPAY is ACI's secure, PCI-friendly embedded payments widget for merchants and integrators. It renders
    a hosted card and alternative-payment form that tokenizes and submits sensitive data directly to the Open Payment Platform,
    reducing the merchant's PCI scope while running on the same oppwa.com gateway and access-token/entityId authentication
    as the Server-to-Server API.
  humanURL: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/widget
  baseURL: https://eu-prod.oppwa.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Embedded Checkout
  - PCI
  - E-Commerce
  tags_raw:
  - Payments
  - Embedded Checkout
  - PCI
  - eCommerce
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/widget
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
  - type: Components
    url: components/aci-worldwide-components.yml
- aid: aci-worldwide:backoffice
  name: ACI BackOffice API
  description: BackOffice operations on the Open Payment Platform let integrators process and manage previously authorized
    transactions — captures, refunds, reversals, and related post-authorization actions — via the same RESTful oppwa.com gateway
    and bearer-token/entityId authentication.
  humanURL: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/backoffice
  baseURL: https://eu-prod.oppwa.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Refunds
  - Transaction Management
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/backoffice
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
- aid: aci-worldwide:pay-by-link
  name: ACI Pay By Link API
  description: Pay By Link lets merchants create secure, customizable hosted payment link pages and collect payments without
    a full checkout integration, built on the Open Payment Platform gateway.
  humanURL: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/paybylink
  baseURL: https://eu-prod.oppwa.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Payment Links
  - E-Commerce
  tags_raw:
  - Payments
  - Payment Links
  - eCommerce
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/paybylink
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
- aid: aci-worldwide:mobile-sdk
  name: ACI Mobile SDK
  description: The ACI Mobile SDK lets developers accept payments inside native mobile apps, wrapping the Open Payment Platform's
    card and alternative-payment flows with device-side tokenization and 3-D Secure support against the same oppwa.com gateway.
  humanURL: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/mobile-sdk
  baseURL: https://eu-prod.oppwa.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Mobile SDK
  - In-App Payments
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/mobile-sdk
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/agentic/mcp-server
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aci-worldwide-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aciworldwide.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/parameters
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/integrations/widget
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/support
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.aciworldwide.com/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.aciworldwide.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.aciworldwide.com/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aci-worldwide-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/aci-worldwide-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/aci-worldwide-result-codes.yml
- type: DeclineCodes
  url: errors/aci-worldwide-decline-codes.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/aci-worldwide-webhooks.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/aci-worldwide-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.aciworldwide.com/reference/release-notes
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/aci-worldwide-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/aci-worldwide-sandbox.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/aci-worldwide-components.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/aci-worldwide-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/aci-worldwide-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/aci-worldwide-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/aci-worldwide-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/aci-worldwide-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com