Groupon

name: Groupon
aid: groupon
specificationVersion: '0.23'
kind: contract
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groupon.png
created: '2026-03-24'
modified: '2026-09-04'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/groupon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
description: 'Groupon is a local-commerce marketplace, founded in Chicago in 2008, where people discover and book discounted
  experiences, services, goods and travel — things to do, food and drink, beauty and spas, health and fitness, home and auto
  services, retail goods, getaways and retailer coupons. Its developer surface is a partner and merchant integration programme
  rather than a public product API: the Groupon Developer Platform publishes REST contracts for Bookable Appointments, Tours
  and Attractions, Goods Marketplace inventory and point-of-sale redemption, which partner booking and reservation systems
  implement so Groupon can poll availability, create reservations and signal redemptions. A separate Groupon-operated API
  gateway runs at api.groupon.com and requires a client_id on every request. The Groupon Partner Network affiliate reporting
  APIs were permanently closed on 2022-06-15.'
tags:
- Fortune 1000
- Local Commerce
- Marketplace
- E-Commerce
- Deals
- Bookings
- Reservations
- Travel
- Retail
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: none-published
  onboarding: partner-signup
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Partner / merchant signup; no published API pricing or self-serve key issuance
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - https://www.groupon.com/developers/signup
  - plans/groupon-plans-pricing.yml
  generated: '2026-09-04'
  method: searched
apis:
- aid: groupon:groupon-api
  name: Groupon API
  description: 'Groupon''s own public API gateway. Live and Groupon-operated (responses carry x-brand: groupon and Envoy/GCP
    upstream headers), but gated: every path, including /v2/deals.json, /graphql and /.well-known/*, returns HTTP 401 with
    {"error":{"httpCode":401,"message":"''client_id'' is invalid"}} until a valid client_id query parameter is supplied. Because
    the gateway returns the same 401 for paths that do not exist, its operation set could not be enumerated anonymously and
    no OpenAPI has been derived for it.'
  humanURL: https://www.groupon.com/developers
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groupon.png
  baseURL: https://api.groupon.com
  tags:
  - Deals
  - Local Commerce
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://www.groupon.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/groupon-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/groupon-problem-types.yml
- aid: groupon:groupon-bookable-appointments-api
  name: Groupon Bookable Appointments API
  description: REST contract for wellness, beauty and services booking systems. Groupon polls the partner's system roughly
    every 60 minutes to cache merchants, services, staff and availability, performs a real-time availability check before
    checkout, creates the booking, propagates cancellations initiated on Groupon's side, and updates booking status on redemption.
    Groupon publishes the OpenAPI and CONSUMES the contract — the endpoints run on the partner's own host, so there is no
    Groupon-hosted base URL for this API and none has been invented.
  humanURL: https://www.groupon.com/developers-docs/bookable-appointments
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groupon.png
  tags:
  - Bookings
  - Appointments
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.groupon.com/developers-docs/bookable-appointments
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.groupon.com/developers/api-reference
- aid: groupon:groupon-tours-and-attractions-api
  name: Groupon Tours and Attractions API
  description: REST contract connecting a tours, activities and attractions reservation system to Groupon's point of sale,
    covering availability, reservation creation and retrieval, cancellation and redemption. As with Bookable Appointments,
    Groupon publishes the OpenAPI and consumes the contract; the endpoints are hosted by the partner, so no Groupon base URL
    applies.
  humanURL: https://www.groupon.com/developers-docs/tours-and-attractions
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/groupon.png
  tags:
  - Bookings
  - Reservations
  - Travel
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.groupon.com/developers-docs/tours-and-attractions
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.groupon.com/developers/api-reference
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.groupon.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.groupon.com/developers
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.groupon.com/developers/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.groupon.com/developers/api-reference
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.groupon.com/developers/signup
- type: Support
  url: https://www.groupon.com/faq
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.groupon.com/legal/termsofservice
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://privacy.groupon.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/groupon-eng
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://medium.com/feed/groupon-eng
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/groupon
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/groupon
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/groupon-llms.txt
- type: ContentSignal
  url: well-known/groupon-robots.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/groupon-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/groupon-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/groupon-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/groupon-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/groupon-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/groupon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/groupon-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/groupon-conformance.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/groupon-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/groupon-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/groupon-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-04'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v3