# Green Dot Corporation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/green-dot/  
**Website:** https://www.greendot.com  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Green Dot Corporation (NYSE: GDOT) is a US fintech and bank holding company whose subsidiary Green Dot Bank is a chartered, FDIC-insured member bank. Its Green Dot Arc embedded-finance / Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform lets brands and fintech partners embed banking and payments — account enrollment, KYC/KYB, DDA and prepaid accounts, ACH, transfers, bill pay, card issuing, cash deposits, mobile check deposit, disbursements, and P2P — through a REST API surface. The public developer portal (developer.greendot.com) documents 300+ JSON/OAuth2 endpoints; production access, credentials, and the full Swagger definition are provisioned per-partner after a commercial onboarding.

## Kin Score — 37.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 37.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 45.1 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 30.3 |
| Access Clarity | 30.3 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 60.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 40.4 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 |

## Access

Partner-gated · Contact sales — onboarding: unknown, pricing: paid, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (17)

- **Green Dot Enrollments API** — The Enrollments API is typically the first API used in a partner integration and establishes the initial banking relationship for a new end user. It covers account creation, ide...
- **Green Dot Accounts & Users API** — Account and user management endpoints for the BaaS platform: retrieve and update account details, manage account status and terms acceptances, manage users on an account, joint ...
- **Green Dot Transaction History API** — Transaction history and enrichment endpoints for retrieving posted and pending transactions on an account, transaction events, and transaction categorization. Used by partner ap...
- **Green Dot Transfers & Money Movement API** — Transfers APIs enable customers to move funds to and from internal accounts, purses, and external bank accounts. Includes single- and multi-phase transfers, instant transfer ser...
- **Green Dot ACH API** — ACH APIs support ACH transfers into and out of BaaS accounts, including retrieval and filtering of ACH transfers by status and date range, external account linking, and ACH tran...
- **Green Dot BillPay API** — The BillPay API enables bill payment functionality within partner applications, allowing end users to pay billers from their embedded account. Covers payee/biller management, pa...
- **Green Dot Payment Instruments API** — Payment Instruments APIs manage the cards and tokens tied to an account — issuing and managing payment instruments, custom card options, PCI data access (Full PCI Data Access V2...
- **Green Dot External Card Management API** — External Card Management APIs let account holders link, list, and remove external debit or credit cards, and support card-funded flows. Used to attach outside cards to a BaaS ac...
- **Green Dot Disbursements API** — The Disbursements API supports paying out funds to recipients — creating recipients, linking payee accounts, executing single-phase transfers with webhook confirmation, and quer...
- **Green Dot Cash Deposits & eCash API** — Cash Deposits and Payments APIs — Green Dot's retail cash network capability — let end users add cash or make cash payments at retail locations. Covers eCash, barcode generation...
- **Green Dot MRDC (Mobile Check Deposit) API** — MRDC (Mobile Remote Deposit Capture) APIs manage mobile check deposits — submitting checks, retrieving MRDC transfers and lists, check images, on-hold transfers, MRDC funding, a...
- **Green Dot Closed Loop P2P API** — Closed Loop P2P (Peer-to-Peer) APIs move money between two account holders within the same program. Endpoints retrieve individual and listed P2P transfers, track states (accepte...
- **Green Dot Webhooks & Event Notifications** — Webhooks provide asynchronous event notifications to partner systems for account updates, transactions, and money-movement events. Documented with webhook samples, transaction w...
- **Green Dot Interest Rate & Accrued Interest API** — Interest Rate APIs add and manage interest rates on primary and savings purses and process accrued-interest calculations for a program, including interest-bearing statement deta...
- **Green Dot Cashback Rewards API** — Cashback Rewards APIs manage cashback rewards programs on partner accounts — creating and managing rewards, plus related eGift capability. Lets partners layer loyalty and reward...
- **Green Dot Customer Care API** — Customer Care APIs create and manage customer support cases, customize UI for customer support, and enable customers to open support cases directly. Includes dispute automation ...
- **Green Dot ATM & Retail Locators API** — ATM & Retail Locator APIs locate nearby ATMs and Green Dot retail locations for cash deposits, withdrawals, and reload, returning geospatial location and store data. Used to sur...

## Security (2)

- **Green Dot Authentication** — oauth2/http · 2 schemes
- **Green Dot Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Green Dot Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Fintech, Banking as a Service, Embedded Finance, Prepaid Cards, Banking, Payments, Money Movement, United States

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