# Commerce Layer

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/commercelayer/  
**Website:** https://commercelayer.io  
**APIs profiled:** 12

Commerce Layer is a headless, composable commerce platform that exposes a JSON:API-compliant REST API for building omnichannel storefronts and order management. The Core API serves SKUs, prices, stock, orders, line items, customers, addresses, shipments, payment methods, markets, and promotions, with OAuth2 authentication, market-scoped access tokens, and real-time webhooks.

## Kin Score — 39.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 39.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 54.6 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 47.4 |
| Access Clarity | 47.4 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| 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 (12)

- **Commerce Layer Addresses API** — Billing and shipping addresses.
- **Commerce Layer Customers API** — Customer accounts.
- **Commerce Layer Line Items API** — Line items belonging to an order.
- **Commerce Layer Markets API** — Markets binding price list, inventory model, and merchant.
- **Commerce Layer Orders API** — Shopping carts and orders and their checkout lifecycle.
- **Commerce Layer Payment Methods API** — Payment methods available for orders.
- **Commerce Layer Prices API** — Prices belonging to price lists, associated with SKUs.
- **Commerce Layer Promotions API** — Discounts, free shipping, free gifts, and other promotions.
- **Commerce Layer Shipments API** — Order shipments and fulfillment.
- **Commerce Layer SKUs API** — Stock keeping units describing the product variations being sold.
- **Commerce Layer Stock Items API** — Stock quantities for a SKU at a given stock location.
- **Commerce Layer Webhooks API** — Event subscriptions delivering signed callbacks.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Commercelayer Agentic Access** — 55 operations · 31 acting

## Security (3)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Commercelayer Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Commerce, Headless, Composable, E-Commerce, JSON:API, Order

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