Forage
Forage is a mission-driven payments company and one of only three payment processors approved by the USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to accept SNAP EBT and EBT Cash online. Forage gives grocery retailers, marketplaces, and platforms the API, SDKs, and regulatory expertise to add government-benefit tender (SNAP, EBT Cash, and HSA/FSA) to online and in-store checkout. The Forage Payments API tokenizes EBT cards, runs PIN-secured balance inquiries, and creates, captures, voids, and refunds EBT payments and orders, backed by JavaScript, iOS, Android, and POS Terminal SDKs, webhooks for order/payment/refund events, and daily CSV reconciliation reports.
Forage publishes 13 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including EBT SNAP Payments API, Bearer Tokens API, Card Details API, and 10 more. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, EBT, SNAP, and EBT Cash.
The Forage catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Forage’s developer surface includes sandbox, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, and 40 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
APIs 13
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Forage EBT SNAP Payments API
REST API to tokenize EBT cards, run PIN-secured balance inquiries, and create, capture, void, and refund EBT SNAP, EBT Cash, and HSA/FSA payments and orders for online and in-st...
Forage Bearer Tokens API
The Bearer Tokens API from Forage — 4 operation(s) for bearer tokens.
Forage Card Details API
The Card Details API from Forage — 1 operation(s) for card details.
Forage Custom Sessions API
The Custom Sessions API from Forage — 3 operation(s) for custom sessions.
Forage Deferred Capture API
The Deferred Capture API from Forage — 1 operation(s) for deferred capture.
Forage Fully Hosted Sessions API
The Fully Hosted Sessions API from Forage — 1 operation(s) for fully hosted sessions.
Forage Order Payments API
The Order Payments API from Forage — 3 operation(s) for order payments.
Forage Order Refunds API
The Order Refunds API from Forage — 4 operation(s) for order refunds.
Forage Orders API
The Orders API from Forage — 2 operation(s) for orders.
Forage Payment Methods API
The Payment Methods API from Forage — 2 operation(s) for payment methods.
Forage Payment Refunds API
The Payment Refunds API from Forage — 3 operation(s) for payment refunds.
Forage Reports API
The Reports API from Forage — 4 operation(s) for reports.
Forage Sandbox Testing API
The Sandbox Testing API from Forage — 2 operation(s) for sandbox testing.
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Agent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Accept an EBT SNAP payment (SDK / Custom)
AGENT SKILLRun a Fully Hosted EBT checkout
AGENT SKILLRefund an EBT SNAP payment
AGENT SKILLPricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Forage Plans Pricing
PLANSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Forage Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Forage Webhooks
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Forage Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Forage API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 6
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ErrorResponseObject
JSON SCHEMAOrderAndTaxesReportResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrderPaymentResponse
JSON SCHEMAOrderRefundResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentRefundResponse
JSON SCHEMAPaymentResponse
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 11
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 6
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 5
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Forage API — frequently asked questions
Does Forage have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 13 APIs from Forage, including Forage EBT SNAP Payments API, Forage Bearer Tokens API and Forage Card Details API, and 10 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Forage API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 13 OpenAPI specifications for Forage, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Forage API?
Forage documents its authentication (oauth2/http · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Forage Authentication.
How much does the Forage API cost?
APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Forage, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing Plans on this page.
Is the Forage API ready for AI agents?
Forage has a Kin Score of 73.3 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 48.0 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.
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