# Commerce Layer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/commerce-layer/  
**Website:** https://commercelayer.io  
**APIs profiled:** 148

Commerce Layer is the headless, multi-market commerce API used by global brands to sell everywhere — web, mobile, in-store, chatbot, AI agent, and IoT. The company exposes a JSON:API-compliant Core API with 130+ top-level resources covering orders, line items, SKUs, bundles, prices, markets, stores, inventory, customers, payments (Adyen, Stripe, Braintree, PayPal, Klarna, Checkout.com), tax calculation (Avalara, TaxJar, Vertex, Stripe Tax), shipping, promotions, subscriptions, returns, and webhooks. The platform also ships a Provisioning API for organizations/SSO/credentials and a Metrics API for analytics (with a local MCP server for AI agents), plus hosted micro-frontends, dashboard apps, a CLI, CMS integrations, and SDKs for JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, React, and drop-in.js.

## Kin Score — 72.3 / 100 (exemplar)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.9 from 70.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 74.9 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 71.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 78.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 92.1 |
| Access Clarity | 92.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 46.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 46.8 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (148)

- **Commerce Layer addresses API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer adjustments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer adyen_gateways API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer adyen_payments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer analysis API** — Operations with analysis resource
- **Commerce Layer api_credentials API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer application API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer application_memberships API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer attachments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer authorizations API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer avalara_accounts API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer axerve_gateways API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer axerve_payments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer bing_geocoders API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer braintree_gateways API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer braintree_payments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer bundles API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer buy_x_pay_y_promotions API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer captures API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer carrier_accounts API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer carts API** — Operations with carts resource
- **Commerce Layer checkout_com_gateways API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer checkout_com_payments API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer cleanups API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer coupon_codes_promotion_rules API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer coupon_recipients API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer coupons API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer custom_promotion_rules API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customer_addresses API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customer_groups API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customer_password_resets API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customer_payment_sources API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customer_subscriptions API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer customers API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer delivery_lead_times API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer discount_engine_items API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer discount_engines API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer easypost_pickups API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer event_callbacks API** — resource type
- **Commerce Layer event_stores API** — resource type
- …and 108 more, listed in full on the page.

## MCP servers (1)

- **MCP Server for Metrics API**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Commerce Layer Agentic Access** — 1334 operations · 371 acting · 3 human-in-the-loop

## Security (3)

- **Commerce Layer Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Commerce Layer Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Commerce Layer Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS

## Plans (1)

- **Commerce Layer Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Headless Commerce, Composable Commerce, API-First, E-Commerce, JSON:API, Authentication, Multi-Market, Multi-Currency, B2C, B2B, Subscription, Promotions, Inventory, Order Management, Checkout

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/commerce-layer/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.