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 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, EBT, SNAP, and EBT Cash.

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

Forage’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 27 more developer resources.

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49.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company PaymentsEBTSNAPEBT CashHSA/FSAFintech Government Benefits Grocery Checkout Financial-Services

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 49.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.1 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.0 / 17

Access Clarity 8.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 5.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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 Surface 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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...

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

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 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Idempotency

Conventions

Components

Webhooks

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

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Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

DeclineCodes

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: forage
name: Forage
description: 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.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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://framerusercontent.com/assets/ZoPlyiuvY1BwAuHbWMWp7HW8UmE.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/forage/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- EBT
- SNAP
- EBT Cash
- HSA/FSA
- Fintech
- Government Benefits
- Grocery
- Checkout
- Financial-Services
tags_raw:
- Company
- Payments
- EBT
- SNAP
- EBT Cash
- HSA/FSA
- Fintech
- Government Benefits
- Grocery
- Checkout
- Financial Services
apis:
- name: Forage EBT SNAP Payments API
  description: 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-store checkout.
  humanURL: https://docs.joinforage.app/reference/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.joinforage.app
  tags:
  - Payments
  - EBT
  - SNAP
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.joinforage.app/docs/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.joinforage.app/reference/introduction
  - type: Sandbox
    url: https://api.sandbox.joinforage.app
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/forage-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.joinforage.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.joinforage.app/docs/overview
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.joinforage.app/docs/overview
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.joinforage.app/reference/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.joinforage.app/docs/setup
- type: Support
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/get-in-touch
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/teamforage
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/get-in-touch
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/pages/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.joinforage.com/pages/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.joinforage.app
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/forage-changelog.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/forage-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/forage-lifecycle.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/forage-authentication.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/forage-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/forage-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: https://docs.joinforage.app/reference/request-limits
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/forage-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/forage-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/forage-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/forage-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/forage-components.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/forage-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/forage-problem-types.yml
- type: DeclineCodes
  url: errors/forage-decline-codes.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/forage-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/forage-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.joinforage.app/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/forage-trust-center.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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