# Local Holdings Limited

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/local-holdings-limited/  
**Website:** https://uselocal.co  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Local (uselocal.co) is a Gulf Cooperation Council fintech and hospitality-technology company that replaces traditional card terminals with a single QR code guests scan to pay, order, and earn loyalty points instantly. Its pay-at-table, checkout, and remote payment-link flows serve 200+ restaurants, hotels, and hospitals across Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, capturing customer profiles from each transaction and feeding real-time revenue, table-turn, and staff-performance analytics back to venues. Local integrates with regional payment methods (BenefitPay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, all major cards) and POS platforms including Odoo, Oracle, Lightspeed, Square, and Invo. Local Holdings Limited was surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and added to the API Evangelist network; no public developer API, documentation, or SDK surface was found during enrichment.

## Kin Score — 9.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 21.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Local Holdings Limited Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Fintech, Payments, QR Payments, Hospitality, Loyalty, Point-of-Sale, Restaurant, GCC

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