Ciloo

Ciloo is a Rotterdam-headquartered global platform for branded products and promotional merchandise. Enterprises run a branded Ciloo store — business cards, apparel, stationery, signage, corporate gifts and sales collateral — and every order placed in it is produced on demand by a vetted production partner near the recipient, which Ciloo positions as cutting cost, waste and shipping distance while keeping brand control central. The platform is used by manufacturing, medical-device, professional- services and franchise organisations, and integrates with digital asset management (Frontify, Bynder, Canto, Aprimo, Papirfly, Brandfolder, Marvia), procurement and ERP (SAP Ariba, S/4HANA, Proactis, Proqura, Exact), SSO, and WooCommerce. Ciloo documents two APIs on its own knowledge centre at api.cilooprint.com: a per-brand-store Cart API secured with OAuth 1.0a, and a bidirectional Printer API integration that pushes orders to production partners and receives production and shipping status callbacks in return.

Ciloo is listed with 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Cart API, Authentication API, Customers API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Printing, Branded Merchandise, Promotional Products, and Print on Demand.

The Ciloo catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Ciloo’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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32.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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4 APIs 2 Agent Skills

Company Printing Branded Merchandise Promotional Products Print on Demand E-Commerce Digital Asset Management Procurement Fulfillment Marketing

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 32.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 4.1 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.0 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

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 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

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

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
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 21.8 — up to +19.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Procurement and B2B Buying (source-to-pay suites, spend management)	undeclared	-	-	-

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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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 4

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

Ciloo Cart API

OAuth 1.0a (HMAC-SHA1) REST API on the ciloo/v1 namespace of a Ciloo brand store. Read, add, update and remove cart items; mint per-customer OAuth credentials from admin credent...

Ciloo Printer API Integration

Bidirectional order integration between Ciloo and its production partners. Ciloo POSTs a print order — items, print components with artwork paths and substrate attributes, and s...

Ciloo Authentication API

OAuth key provisioning and auto-login token issuance.

Ciloo Customers API

Customer lifecycle via the WooCommerce REST API v3 namespace, as documented by Ciloo.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Ciloo Cart API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Integrate a production partner with Ciloo order callbacks

AGENT SKILL

Provision a Ciloo customer and fill their cart

AGENT SKILL

Ciloo API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ciloo Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Ciloo Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Ciloo Printer Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Ciloo API Rules

58 rules · 54 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Ciloo Cart Api Overlay

7 actions · update · ciloo-cart-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Ciloo Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ciloo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Webhooks

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Postman

Postman

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Contact

Contact

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CaseStudies

CaseStudies

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ciloo
name: Ciloo
description: 'Ciloo is a Rotterdam-headquartered global platform for branded products and promotional merchandise. Enterprises
  run a branded Ciloo store — business cards, apparel, stationery, signage, corporate gifts and sales collateral — and every
  order placed in it is produced on demand by a vetted production partner near the recipient, which Ciloo positions as cutting
  cost, waste and shipping distance while keeping brand control central. The platform is used by manufacturing, medical-device,
  professional- services and franchise organisations, and integrates with digital asset management (Frontify, Bynder, Canto,
  Aprimo, Papirfly, Brandfolder, Marvia), procurement and ERP (SAP Ariba, S/4HANA, Proactis, Proqura, Exact), SSO, and WooCommerce.
  Ciloo documents two APIs on its own knowledge centre at api.cilooprint.com: a per-brand-store Cart API secured with OAuth
  1.0a, and a bidirectional Printer API integration that pushes orders to production partners and receives production and
  shipping status callbacks in return.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://ciloo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Ciloo-Logo-2021.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ciloo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:marketing-integration-graph
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Printing
- Branded Merchandise
- Promotional Products
- Print on Demand
- E-Commerce
- Digital Asset Management
- Procurement
- Fulfillment
- Marketing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Printing
- Branded Merchandise
- Promotional Products
- Print On Demand
- eCommerce
- Digital Asset Management
- Procurement
- Fulfillment
- Marketing
apis:
- aid: ciloo:ciloo-cart-api
  name: Ciloo Cart API
  description: OAuth 1.0a (HMAC-SHA1) REST API on the ciloo/v1 namespace of a Ciloo brand store. Read, add, update and remove
    cart items; mint per-customer OAuth credentials from admin credentials; and issue one-hour auto-login tokens that drop
    a customer straight into the store's cart or order history. Customer records are created and updated through the WooCommerce
    wc/v3 namespace on the same host. Requests are form-encoded — the provider documents that a JSON content type breaks the
    signature.
  humanURL: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://{store_domain}/wp-json/ciloo/v1
  tags:
  - Cart
  - Customers
  - Authentication
  - Print on Demand
  tags_raw:
  - Cart
  - Customers
  - Authentication
  - Print On Demand
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/#api-endpoints-reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/#authentication-setup
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ciloo-cart-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/ciloo-cart-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Postman
    url: collections/ciloo-cart-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/ciloo-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/ciloo-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/ciloo-data-model.yml
- aid: ciloo:ciloo-printer-api
  name: Ciloo Printer API Integration
  description: Bidirectional order integration between Ciloo and its production partners. Ciloo POSTs a print order — items,
    print components with artwork paths and substrate attributes, and shipments with carrier and destination — to the partner's
    own order endpoint; the partner POSTs production-status and shipping callbacks, with tracking, back to a Ciloo-owned inbound
    callback URL. Authentication is agreed per partner rather than published.
  humanURL: https://api.cilooprint.com/printer-api-integration/
  baseURL: https://dashboard.cilooprint.com/ciloo-order-callback/printer-inbound
  tags:
  - Order
  - Webhook
  - Fulfillment
  - Printing
  tags_raw:
  - Orders
  - Webhooks
  - Fulfillment
  - Printing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.cilooprint.com/printer-api-integration/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/ciloo-printer-webhooks.yml
- aid: ciloo:ciloo-authentication-api
  name: Ciloo Authentication API
  description: OAuth key provisioning and auto-login token issuance.
  humanURL: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://{store_domain}/wp-json/ciloo/v1
  tags:
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ciloo-authentication-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ciloo:ciloo-customers-api
  name: Ciloo Customers API
  description: Customer lifecycle via the WooCommerce REST API v3 namespace, as documented by Ciloo.
  humanURL: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/
  baseURL: https://{store_domain}/wp-json/ciloo/v1
  tags:
  - Customers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ciloo-customers-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://ciloo.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.cilooprint.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.cilooprint.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/#api-endpoints-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api.cilooprint.com/ciloo-cart-api-documentation/#authentication-setup
- type: Support
  url: https://support.ciloo.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://ciloo.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://ciloo.com/feed/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://ciloo.com/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://ciloo.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Contact
  url: https://ciloo.com/contact/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://ciloo.com/integrations-partners/
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://ciloo.com/case-studies/
- type: Postman
  url: collections/ciloo-cart-api.postman_collection.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ciloo-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ciloo-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ciloo-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ciloo-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ciloo-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ciloo-data-model.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/ciloo-printer-webhooks.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/ciloo-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ciloo-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ciloo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ciloo-rate-limits.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ciloo-domain-security.yml
x-vouched-by:
- Brandfolder
- Frontify
x-vouch-count: 2
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Ciloo API — frequently asked questions

Does Ciloo have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Ciloo, including Ciloo Cart API, Ciloo Printer API Integration and Ciloo Authentication API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Ciloo API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Ciloo, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Ciloo API?

Ciloo uses bearer-token authentication (http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Ciloo Authentication.

Is the Ciloo API ready for AI agents?

Ciloo has a Kin Score of 32.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.5 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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