# Bold Commerce

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bold-commerce/  
**Website:** https://boldcommerce.com  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 37.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.4 from 38.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 50.1 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 26.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 21.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Paid (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: paid, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Bold Commerce Agentic Access** — 29 operations · 18 acting

## Security (3)

- **Bold Commerce Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Bold Commerce Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Bold Commerce Trust Center** — PCI DSS, GDPR

## Plans (1)

- **Bold Commerce Plans Pricing**

## Tags

E-Commerce, Subscription, Checkout, Pricing, Headless Commerce, Shopify

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