Beam Checkout

Beam is a Thailand-focused payments platform that lets businesses accept payments across in-person and online channels. Its products include Beam Checkout (online payments for social media, websites, and apps via hosted payment links and a Charges API), Beam Bolt (an in-person payment device), and Beam Bridge (embedded payments for partner platforms). Beam supports cards, e-wallets, QR PromptPay, installments, and Alipay+, with card authorization/capture, refunds, tokenization, 3DS, and CIT/MIT recurring flows. The v1 REST API uses HTTP Basic auth (merchantId:apiKey), idempotency keys, HMAC-signed webhooks, and a playground sandbox. Beam states it is PCI DSS compliant and compliant with Bank of Thailand regulations. Backed by Peak XV, Partech, and SeaX Ventures.

Beam Checkout publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Financial Services, Payments, Checkout, and Card Payments.

The Beam Checkout catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Beam Checkout’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, changelog, sandbox, pricing, and 21 more developer resources.

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48.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyFinancial ServicesPaymentsCheckoutCard PaymentsWebhooksThailandFintech

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 48.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 5.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 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

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APIs 1

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

Sandbox

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

DataModel

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Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

DeclineCodes

DeclineCodes

Postman

Postman

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: beam-checkout
name: Beam Checkout
description: Beam is a Thailand-focused payments platform that lets businesses accept payments across in-person and online
  channels. Its products include Beam Checkout (online payments for social media, websites, and apps via hosted payment links
  and a Charges API), Beam Bolt (an in-person payment device), and Beam Bridge (embedded payments for partner platforms).
  Beam supports cards, e-wallets, QR PromptPay, installments, and Alipay+, with card authorization/capture, refunds, tokenization,
  3DS, and CIT/MIT recurring flows. The v1 REST API uses HTTP Basic auth (merchantId:apiKey), idempotency keys, HMAC-signed
  webhooks, and a playground sandbox. Beam states it is PCI DSS compliant and compliant with Bank of Thailand regulations.
  Backed by Peak XV, Partech, and SeaX Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/beam-checkout/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- partech
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: pipeline-enriched
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.beamcheckout.com/assets/beam-thumbnail.jpg
tags:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Payments
- Checkout
- Card Payments
- Webhooks
- Thailand
- Fintech
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Beam API v1
  description: Beam's v1 REST payments API — payment links, charges, refunds, transactions, card authorizations (auth/capture/cancel),
    network tokenization, and Beam Bolt in-person payments.
  humanURL: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/v1/api
  baseURL: https://api.beamcheckout.com/api/v1/
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/v1/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/beam-checkout-authentication.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.beamcheckout.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/v1/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/get-started/quickstart
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/beam-checkout-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/beam-checkout-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/beam-checkout-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/beam-checkout-problem-types.yml
- type: DeclineCodes
  url: errors/beam-checkout-decline-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/beam-checkout-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.beamcheckout.com
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://docs.beamcheckout.com/get-started/migrating-from-v0
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/beam-checkout-changelog.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/beam-checkout-sandbox.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/beam-checkout-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/beam-checkout-conformance.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/beam-checkout-webhooks.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/beam-checkout-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/beam-checkout-llms.txt
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/beam-checkout-data-model.yml
- type: Postman
  url: postman/beam-checkout-playground.postman_collection.json
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/beam-checkout-domain-security.yml
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.beamcheckout.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.beamcheckout.com/getstarted
- type: Support
  url: https://guides.beamcheckout.com/hc/en
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.beamcheckout.com/tncs
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.beamcheckout.com/privacy
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Beam Checkout

Kin Score

APIs 1

Beam API v1

Postman Collections 1

[For merchant test] Playground (SANDBOX) version 1.14.0

MCP Servers 1

beam-checkout-mcp.yml

Event Specifications 1

Beam Checkout Webhooks

Security Posture 2

Beam Checkout Authentication

Beam Checkout Domain Security

Resources