# Backerkit

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/backerkit/  
**Website:** https://www.backerkit.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

BackerKit is a crowdfunding and pledge-management platform for professional creators. It began as backer-survey and data-management software that helps creators who funded projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo collect shipping addresses, sell add-ons and pre-orders, charge cards, and manage backer data for reward fulfillment. It has since grown into a full crowdfunding platform of its own, powering campaigns end to end and, in 2024, roughly one in every four dollars raised on Kickstarter. BackerKit is a Y Combinator company. It exposes integration API keys (API key, secret, and Store GUID) so creators can connect fulfillment services such as ShipStation, but it does not publish a public, self-serve developer API, OpenAPI definition, or SDKs; developer access is account-scoped and configured inside the BackerKit dashboard.

## Kin Score — 16.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 21.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Backerkit Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Crowdfunding, Pledge Management, Fulfillment, Creator Economy, Payments, E-Commerce, Y Combinator

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/backerkit/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.