# Howler

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/howler/  
**Website:** https://www.howler.co.za/  
**APIs profiled:** 17

Howler is a South African event technology platform that consolidates ticketing, RFID cashless payments, and vendor and access-control management into a single system for event organisers and attendees. Founded out of the Barclays Accelerator powered by Techstars (2017) and Techstars-backed, Howler has processed over R1.5 billion in transactions across thousands of events. Its public Howler API v3 consumer portal exposes 67 operations for authentication (OAuth2, JWT, email OTP, third-party OAuth), tickets (buy, assign, transfer), cashless RFID tags, top-ups, and cashout to bank accounts, and a Howler Webhooks v1 surface pushes ticket, event, and payment events to partner endpoints.

## Kin Score — 42.7 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 42.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 49.6 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 44.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 54.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (17)

- **Howler Artists API** — The Artists API from Howler — 1 operation(s) for artists.
- **Howler Assign Ticket API** — The Assign Ticket API from Howler — 1 operation(s) for assign ticket.
- **Howler Bank Account API** — The Bank Account API from Howler — 3 operation(s) for bank account.
- **Howler Basic Authentication API** — The Basic Authentication API from Howler — 4 operation(s) for basic authentication.
- **Howler Cashless Tags API** — The Cashless Tags API from Howler — 2 operation(s) for cashless tags.
- **Howler Cashout API** — The Cashout API from Howler — 4 operation(s) for cashout.
- **Howler Email OTP API** — The Email OTP API from Howler — 2 operation(s) for email otp.
- **Howler Events API** — The Events API from Howler — 2 operation(s) for events.
- **Howler OAuth API** — The OAuth API from Howler — 4 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Howler Third Party OAuth API** — The Third Party OAuth API from Howler — 5 operation(s) for third party oauth.
- **Howler Tickets API** — The Tickets API from Howler — 7 operation(s) for tickets.
- **Howler Top Up API** — The Top Up API from Howler — 1 operation(s) for top up.
- **Howler Top Up Cashless Tag API** — The Top Up Cashless Tag API from Howler — 7 operation(s) for top up cashless tag.
- **Howler Top Up Ticket API** — The Top Up Ticket API from Howler — 7 operation(s) for top up ticket.
- **Howler Topupables API** — The Topupables API from Howler — 1 operation(s) for topupables.
- **Howler Transfer Ticket API** — The Transfer Ticket API from Howler — 2 operation(s) for transfer ticket.
- **Howler User API** — The User API from Howler — 4 operation(s) for user.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Howler MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Howler Agentic Access** — 67 operations · 37 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Howler Authentication** — apiKey/http/oauth2 · 5 schemes
- **Howler Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Event, Ticketing, Payments, Cashless, RFID, Event Management, Fintech, South Africa

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