Bread Financial (formerly Alliance Data Systems) is a US consumer financial services company providing branded and co-brand credit cards, private-label and general-purpose lending, and point-of-sale buy-now-pay-later financing under the Bread Pay brand. Its developer surface, Bread Pay, exposes a REST API platform for merchants to embed installment and revolving financing into online and in-store checkout: the next-generation BreadPay Platform API (api.platform.breadpayments.com) manages buyers, merchant accounts, payment options, pricing, and the transaction lifecycle (authorize, capture, cancel, refund), secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials and JWT access tokens; a legacy Bread Classic Merchant API manages checkout carts and transactions; and browser (JavaScript) plus native iOS and Android SDKs render placements, prequalification (RTPS), and the Bread checkout modal on merchant storefronts. Bread also ships e-commerce platform plugins (Shopify, Magento 2, BigCommerce, WooCommerce, Miva, Volusion, Salesforce Commerce Cloud) and a partner sandbox. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bessemer Venture Partners.
Bread Financial publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including BreadPay Checkout API, BreadPay Merchant Operations API, BreadPay Servicing API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Payments, Buy Now Pay Later, and Lending.
The Bread Financial catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.
Bread Financial’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, sandbox, and 17 more developer resources.
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Next-generation Bread Pay REST API for managing buyers, merchant accounts, personalized payment options and pricing, and the merchant transaction lifecycle (authorize, capture, ...
The Bread Pay API enables merchants to integrate installment financing options into online and in-store checkout flows. Supports creating financing applications, retrieving loan...
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SplitPay is Bread's short-term, card-funded split-payment product for retail merchants. It is delivered through the same BreadPay Platform contracts and the same hosted SDK as i...
The buyer's post-purchase journey — payment agreements, balances and ledger breakdowns, autopay enrollment, scheduled and ad-hoc payments, refunds, fee and principal waivers, pr...
Registration, lookup and management of buyers and their contacts, credit-report data, status and authorized third parties, with fraud-management capabilities around allow-listin...
Stored payment methods and their access and transient tokens, ACH account unblocking, network token retrieval, payment execution and audit, refunds and payment reversal. 21 oper...
Self-service webhook subscription management — create, update and delete subscriptions with NONE, BASIC or static-bearer subscriber auth, list delivered events by status, replay...
Management of public programs, payment products and the policies that determine system behaviour and execution. Only one operation is published (getPaymentProductEnrollmentByMer...
Streamlines the upgrade / trade-in flow for the Apple program — upgrade elections, trade-in payments, and linking an upgradeable loan to a payment agreement. 6 operations.
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