Citcon

Citcon is a global payment processing platform, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, that unifies 100+ local and global payment methods behind a single Universal Payment Interface (UPI) API. Merchants use Citcon to accept digital wallets (Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, China UnionPay, Kakao Pay, NaverPay, Line Pay, PayPay and more), cards, and Buy Now Pay Later, plus global payouts, pay-by-link, surcharging, dual pricing, and in-store/POS acceptance across 50+ countries and 10+ settlement currencies. The UPI API is a REST/JSON payments API using Bearer access-token authentication with charge, capture, refund, cancel, vault (tokenization), inquiry, and consult operations, IPN webhooks, and a sandbox environment. Citcon is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Sierra Ventures.

Citcon publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Cross-Border Payments, Digital Wallets, and Payment Gateway.

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

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

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49.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 42/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyPaymentsCross-Border PaymentsDigital WalletsPayment GatewayBNPLGlobal PayoutsFintech

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scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 49.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.8 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 42/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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

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APIs 1

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

Citcon Universal Payment Interface (UPI) API

Citcon's UPI is a REST/JSON payments API for accepting 100+ global payment methods. It uses Bearer access-token authentication and exposes charge, charge-confirm, capture, refun...

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

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

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: citcon
name: Citcon
description: Citcon is a global payment processing platform, founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Jose, California, that
  unifies 100+ local and global payment methods behind a single Universal Payment Interface (UPI) API. Merchants use Citcon
  to accept digital wallets (Alipay, WeChat Pay, PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, China UnionPay, Kakao Pay, NaverPay, Line Pay, PayPay
  and more), cards, and Buy Now Pay Later, plus global payouts, pay-by-link, surcharging, dual pricing, and in-store/POS acceptance
  across 50+ countries and 10+ settlement currencies. The UPI API is a REST/JSON payments API using Bearer access-token authentication
  with charge, capture, refund, cancel, vault (tokenization), inquiry, and consult operations, IPN webhooks, and a sandbox
  environment. Citcon is backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Sierra Ventures.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/citcon/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/6828b564a444ee6676dd6111/6828b564a444ee6676dd611d_citcon-logo.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
- sierra-ventures
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Cross-Border Payments
- Digital Wallets
- Payment Gateway
- BNPL
- Global Payouts
- Fintech
apis:
- name: Citcon Universal Payment Interface (UPI) API
  description: Citcon's UPI is a REST/JSON payments API for accepting 100+ global payment methods. It uses Bearer access-token
    authentication and exposes charge, charge-confirm, capture, refund, cancel, transaction inquiry, vault (tokenized payment
    methods), and consult operations, plus IPN webhooks for asynchronous payment-status notifications. A sandbox environment
    is available for testing.
  humanURL: https://www.citcon.com/dev/universal-payment-interface-upi---api
  baseURL: https://api.citconpay.com/v1/
  tags:
  - Payments
  - Cross-Border Payments
  - Digital Wallets
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/universal-payment-interface-upi---api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/universal-payment-interface-upi---api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/citcon-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/citcon-sandbox.yml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/citcon-upi-webhooks.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/citcon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://citcon.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/overview
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/universal-payment-interface-upi---api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/universal-payment-interface-upi---api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.citcon.com/dev/overview
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.citcon.com/resources/blogs-press-releases
- type: Support
  url: https://www.citcon.com/contact
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.citcon.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.citcon.com/terms-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.citcon.com/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/citcon
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.citconpay.com
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.citcon.com/resources/compliance
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/citcon-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/citcon-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/citcon-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/citcon-problem-types.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/citcon-sandbox.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/citcon-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/citcon-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/citcon-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/citcon-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/citcon-mcp.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/citcon-upi-webhooks.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/citcon-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Citcon

Kin Score

APIs 1

Citcon Universal Payment Interface (UPI) API

MCP Servers 1

citcon-mcp.yml

Event Specifications 1

Citcon Upi Webhooks

Security Posture 2

Citcon Authentication

Citcon Domain Security

Resources