# Forage

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/forage/  
**Website:** https://www.joinforage.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 49.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 49.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 42.7 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 51.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 32.8 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **Forage docs MCP server** — Official Forage documentation MCP server. Exposes the Forage Payments API surface to AI tools and can execute live API calls against the real Forage API with OAuth credentials.

## Security (3)

- **Forage Authentication** — oauth2/http · 2 schemes
- **Forage Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Forage Trust Center** — trust center published

## Tags

Company, Payments, EBT, SNAP, EBT Cash, HSA/FSA, Fintech, Government Benefits, Grocery, Checkout, Financial-Services

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