CardSpring

CardSpring was a card-linked offers and payments platform that provided an API for building card-linked applications, letting developers connect merchant point-of-sale systems and consumer payment cards to deliver digital coupons, loyalty rewards, and receipt-level offers. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Accel and DCVC and added to the API Evangelist network as a stub for enrichment. The company was acquired by Twitter in 2014 and subsequently wound down; as of this pass every path on cardspring.com (including the old /help/developer_faq.html) 307-redirects to an Afternic "cardspring.com is for sale" domain-sale lander, developer.cardspring.com fails TLS with no matching certificate, and no first-party CardSpring packages remain on npm or RubyGems. There is no live developer portal, documentation, API, or OpenAPI surface to enrich. Sector: payments.

CardSpring is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Card Linking, Offers, and Loyalty.

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0.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Payments Card Linking Offers Loyalty Commerce Defunct

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 0.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: cardspring
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
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  label: Unknown
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cardspring.png
name: CardSpring
description: 'CardSpring was a card-linked offers and payments platform that provided an API for building card-linked applications,
  letting developers connect merchant point-of-sale systems and consumer payment cards to deliver digital coupons, loyalty
  rewards, and receipt-level offers. It was surfaced as a portfolio company of Accel and DCVC and added to the API Evangelist
  network as a stub for enrichment. The company was acquired by Twitter in 2014 and subsequently wound down; as of this pass
  every path on cardspring.com (including the old /help/developer_faq.html) 307-redirects to an Afternic "cardspring.com is
  for sale" domain-sale lander, developer.cardspring.com fails TLS with no matching certificate, and no first-party CardSpring
  packages remain on npm or RubyGems. There is no live developer portal, documentation, API, or OpenAPI surface to enrich.
  Sector: payments.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cardspring/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- accel
- dcvc
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Card Linking
- Offers
- Loyalty
- Commerce
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: http://cardspring.com/
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