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Bold Commerce

Bold Commerce builds modular e-commerce apps and headless commerce APIs for subscriptions, checkout, and pricing. Merchants and developers integrate Bold Subscriptions (recurring orders and branded customer portals), Bold Checkout (a headless, fully customizable checkout across Frontend, Backend, and Admin surfaces), and Bold Price Rules (discounts, promotions, and dynamic pricing), alongside supporting Products, Customers, and Shops APIs. Requests are made against api.boldcommerce.com and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0 access token (public integrations) or a scoped API access token (private integrations), passed as a Bearer token.

Bold Commerce publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Checkout API, Customers API, Price Rules API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include E-Commerce, Subscriptions, Checkout, Pricing, and Headless Commerce.

Bold Commerce’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

38.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9
AccessPaidSelf serveFree trial⚡ Free to try
6 APIs
E-CommerceSubscriptionsCheckoutPricingHeadless CommerceShopify

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scored 2026-08-03 · rubric v0.9
Composite quality — 38.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 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
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APIs 6

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

Bold Commerce Checkout API

Headless storefront checkout order operations.

Bold Commerce Customers API

Customer records tied to a shop.

Bold Commerce Price Rules API

Discounts, promotions, and dynamic pricing.

Bold Commerce Products API

Product catalog for a shop.

Bold Commerce Shops API

Shop configuration and shop_identifier lookup.

Bold Commerce Subscriptions API

Recurring orders, intervals, and subscription management.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Bold Commerce API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bold Commerce Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 3

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

Bold Commerce Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Bold Commerce Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Bold Commerce Trust Center

PCI DSS, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bold Commerce Agentic Access

29 operations · 18 acting

29 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: bold-commerce
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bold-commerce/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Bold Commerce
kind: company
description: Bold Commerce builds modular e-commerce apps and headless commerce APIs for subscriptions, checkout, and pricing.
  Merchants and developers integrate Bold Subscriptions (recurring orders and branded customer portals), Bold Checkout (a
  headless, fully customizable checkout across Frontend, Backend, and Admin surfaces), and Bold Price Rules (discounts, promotions,
  and dynamic pricing), alongside supporting Products, Customers, and Shops APIs. Requests are made against api.boldcommerce.com
  and authenticated with an OAuth 2.0 access token (public integrations) or a scoped API access token (private integrations),
  passed as a Bearer token.
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/bold-commerce.png
tags:
- E-Commerce
- Subscriptions
- Checkout
- Pricing
- Headless Commerce
- Shopify
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-checkout-api
  name: Bold Commerce Checkout API
  description: Headless storefront checkout order operations.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Checkout
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-checkout-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-customers-api
  name: Bold Commerce Customers API
  description: Customer records tied to a shop.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-price-rules-api
  name: Bold Commerce Price Rules API
  description: Discounts, promotions, and dynamic pricing.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Price Rules
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-price-rules-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-products-api
  name: Bold Commerce Products API
  description: Product catalog for a shop.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-shops-api
  name: Bold Commerce Shops API
  description: Shop configuration and shop_identifier lookup.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Shops
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-shops-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
- aid: bold-commerce:bold-commerce-subscriptions-api
  name: Bold Commerce Subscriptions API
  description: Recurring orders, intervals, and subscription management.
  humanURL: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  baseURL: https://api.boldcommerce.com/subscriptions/v1
  tags:
  - Subscriptions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bold-commerce-subscriptions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/subscriptions
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/bold-commerce.opencollection.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/checkout
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/guides/checkout/quick-start
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/price-rules
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/products
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/customers
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com/api/shops
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bold-commerce-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/bold-commerce-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bold-commerce-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bold-commerce-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bold-commerce
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bold-commerce
- type: Website
  url: https://boldcommerce.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.boldcommerce.com
- type: Plans
  url: plans/bold-commerce-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bold-commerce-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/bold-commerce-finops.yml
- url: https://boldcommerce.com/blog
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
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