Butterpayments

Butter Payments is a payment recovery and involuntary-churn platform that uses machine learning to recover revenue from failed subscription payments. Its Recover product ingests real-time transaction and payment-method events, optimizes retry timing, and reports outcomes back to merchants via HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks; Dispute (powered by Verifi) intercepts chargebacks and runs Rapid Dispute Resolution; PaymentScore identifies recoverable failed payments; and a PCI DSS Level 2 Card Vault secures card data behind a secure-iframe element. Butter integrates turnkey with Stripe Billing, Braintree, and Recharge, or directly through the Recover Enterprise API.

Butterpayments publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Payment Recovery, Subscription, and Dunning.

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

Butterpayments’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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46.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyPaymentsPayment RecoverySubscriptionDunningInvoluntary ChurnDispute PreventionChargebacksCard VaultFintechMachine-Learning

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 46.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.9 / 17

Access Clarity 6.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 7.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 29/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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

Recover Enterprise API

Source-agnostic payment-event ingestion API for payment recovery. Merchants POST standardized successful and failed payment events and payment-method updates; Recover optimizes ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Webhooks

Components

DataModel

Conformance

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: butterpayments
name: Butterpayments
description: Butter Payments is a payment recovery and involuntary-churn platform that uses machine learning to recover revenue
  from failed subscription payments. Its Recover product ingests real-time transaction and payment-method events, optimizes
  retry timing, and reports outcomes back to merchants via HMAC-SHA256 signed webhooks; Dispute (powered by Verifi) intercepts
  chargebacks and runs Rapid Dispute Resolution; PaymentScore identifies recoverable failed payments; and a PCI DSS Level
  2 Card Vault secures card data behind a secure-iframe element. Butter integrates turnkey with Stripe Billing, Braintree,
  and Recharge, or directly through the Recover Enterprise API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/butterpayments/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6570760e6e7b5aa59f8f2452/657b7105d992d17f87a2d0e2_hero-img-m.avif
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Payment Recovery
- Subscription
- Dunning
- Involuntary Churn
- Dispute Prevention
- Chargebacks
- Card Vault
- Fintech
- Machine-Learning
tags_raw:
- Company
- Payments
- Payment Recovery
- Subscriptions
- Dunning
- Involuntary Churn
- Dispute Prevention
- Chargebacks
- Card Vault
- Fintech
- Machine Learning
apis:
- name: Recover Enterprise API
  description: Source-agnostic payment-event ingestion API for payment recovery. Merchants POST standardized successful and
    failed payment events and payment-method updates; Recover optimizes retry timing and reports retry outcomes and end-of-dunning
    back through signed webhooks.
  humanURL: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.butterpayments.com
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Payment Recovery
  - Dunning
  properties:
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/api-reference
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/butterpayments-authentication.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/butterpayments-webhooks.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/butterpayments-data-model.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/butterpayments-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://butterpayments.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.services.butterpayments.com/integration-guide
- type: Blog
  url: https://butterpayments.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://butterpayments.com/faq
- type: Pricing
  url: https://butterpayments.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://butterpayments.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://butterpayments.com/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/butterpayments-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/butterpayments-conventions.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/butterpayments-webhooks.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/butterpayments-components.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/butterpayments-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/butterpayments-data-model.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/butterpayments-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/butterpayments-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/butterpayments-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://security.butterpayments.com/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/butterpayments-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/butterpayments-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/butterpayments-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Butterpayments

Kin Score

APIs 1

Recover Enterprise API

MCP Servers 1

Butterpayments MCP Server

Event Specifications 1

Butterpayments Webhooks

Security Posture 3

Butterpayments Authentication

Butterpayments Domain Security

Butterpayments Trust Center

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