CDW

CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education, and healthcare customers. CDW offers eProcurement integration capabilities including a Catalog API, PunchOut (cXML/OCI), electronic purchase ordering, and electronic invoicing to enable procurement system integration with partners such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, and Jaggaer.

CDW is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include B2B, Catalog, eProcurement, IT Distribution, and Punchout.

CDW’s developer surface includes documentation and 9 more developer resources.

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11.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 1/100 human only Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 14/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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2 APIs

B2B Catalog eProcurement IT Distribution Punchout Technology Fortune 500

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 11.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.6 / 17

Access Clarity 2.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 1/100 · 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 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 13.2 — up to +17.4 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Procurement and B2B Buying (source-to-pay suites, spend management)	distribution	19.2 (thin)	-	-
UK G-Cloud Suppliers (UK public-sector cloud procurement)	distribution	19.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OCI

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

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

CDW Catalog API

The CDW Catalog API uses JSON to deliver customers real-time pricing and inventory status alongside any special pricing or catalog restrictions. It supports integration with ePr...

CDW eProcurement Integration

CDW eProcurement integration supports PunchOut and Roundtrip catalogs via cXML or OCI, electronic purchase order submission via cXML, EDI, or flat file, and electronic invoicing...

CDW API pricing

Not yet checked against CDW's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-cust...; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
CDW Customer Integration (No Direct API Fee) enterprise	—

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Rate limits

Catalog API rate / quota: see CDW integration onboarding varies
PunchOut session rate: see CDW integration onboarding varies
cXML / EDI purchase-order throughput: see CDW integration onboarding varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against CDW's documentation. Rate-limit details →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cdw Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cdw Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Cdw Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Cdw Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Cdw Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, HIPAA

SECURITY

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

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Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overview

Overview

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cdw
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cdw/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: CDW
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cdw.png
tags:
- B2B
- Catalog
- eProcurement
- IT Distribution
- Punchout
- Technology
- Fortune 500
tags_raw:
- B2B
- Catalog
- eProcurement
- IT Distribution
- PunchOut
- Technology
- Fortune 500
created: '2024-01-15'
modified: '2026-04-23'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
description: CDW is a leading multi-brand provider of information technology solutions to business, government, education,
  and healthcare customers. CDW offers eProcurement integration capabilities including a Catalog API, PunchOut (cXML/OCI),
  electronic purchase ordering, and electronic invoicing to enable procurement system integration with partners such as SAP
  Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, and Jaggaer.
apis:
- aid: cdw:cdw-catalog-api
  name: CDW Catalog API
  tags:
  - Catalog
  - Inventory
  - Pricing
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-custom-catalogs.html
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-custom-catalogs.html
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://www.cdw.com/integrations/custompage/v2/6FB6697BBE2441968349584A24C5C459
    type: Overview
  description: The CDW Catalog API uses JSON to deliver customers real-time pricing and inventory status alongside any special
    pricing or catalog restrictions. It supports integration with eProcurement platforms for current product availability.
- aid: cdw:cdw-eprocurement-api
  name: CDW eProcurement Integration
  tags:
  - EDI
  - eProcurement
  - Punchout
  - cXML
  tags_raw:
  - EDI
  - eProcurement
  - PunchOut
  - cXML
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-custom-catalogs.html
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-custom-catalogs.html
    type: Documentation
  description: CDW eProcurement integration supports PunchOut and Roundtrip catalogs via cXML or OCI, electronic purchase
    order submission via cXML, EDI, or flat file, and electronic invoicing via XML or EDI. Orders can be submitted via HTTP,
    SFTP, API, and EDI connections.
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cdw-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cdw-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/cdw-finops.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/cdw-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cdw-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cdwlabs
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cdw
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cdw.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.cdw.com/content/cdw/en/services/eprocurement-and-custom-catalogs.html
- type: Overview
  url: https://www.cdw.com/integrations/custompage/v2/6FB6697BBE2441968349584A24C5C459
- type: Integrations
  url: https://www.cdw.com/integrations/
integrations:
- name: CDW
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

CDW API — frequently asked questions

Does CDW have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from CDW, including CDW Catalog API and CDW eProcurement Integration.

How much does the CDW API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for CDW, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the CDW API ready for AI agents?

CDW has a Kin Score of 11.0 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 0.6 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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