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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50.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyFinancial ServicesPaymentsCheckoutCard PaymentsWebhooksThailandFintech

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

Composite quality — 50.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 11.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.7 / 17

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.2 / 11

Governance 1.3 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

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

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.

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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