Moneris
Moneris (Moneris Solutions Corporation) is Canada's largest payment processor and merchant-acquiring company, founded in December 2000 as a joint venture equally owned by Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Bank of Montreal (BMO). It is a payment-technology and card-acquiring company rather than a deposit-taking Schedule I bank, sitting in the payments-infrastructure layer of Canadian financial services: it serves roughly 325,000 points of commerce, processes close to five billion transactions a year, and handles on the order of one in three Canadian card transactions. In 2025-2026 RBC and BMO explored a sale of the venture, with Francisco Partners (owner of Verifone) reported as the lead buyer. Unlike its bank owners, Moneris is not subject to Canada's coming Consumer-Driven Banking framework; its "open" surface is a commercial, self-serve first-party developer program. Moneris runs a real, public developer portal at developer.moneris.com documenting the Moneris Unified API (REST, OpenAPI 3.0.3, hosts api.moneris.io production / api.sb.moneris.io sandbox) covering payments, tokenized payment methods, refunds, recurring billing/subscriptions, 3-D Secure, Kount fraud/risk, disputes, multi-currency pricing, and third-party merchant onboarding, secured with OAuth 2.0 client credentials and API keys, with a published Postman workspace.
Moneris publishes 15 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including 3D Secure API, Customers API, Disputes API, and 12 more. Tagged areas include Financial Services, Payments, Payment Processing, Card Payments, and Merchant Services.
The Moneris catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Moneris’ developer surface includes authentication, sandbox, getting-started guide, changelog, signup flow, documentation, engineering blog, and 29 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 4
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MACH & Headless Commerce | mixed | 56.9 | - | - |
| Canada RPAA Payment Service Providers (Bank of Canada registry + Payments Canada) | mixed | 56.9 | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 3
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 15
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Moneris 3D Secure API
Perform 3D Secure authentications against payment methods
Moneris Customers API
Perform and Manage customers
Moneris Disputes API
Perform and Manage Disputes
Moneris Installments API
Perform and Manage Installments
Moneris Kount API
Perform and Manage Kount risk assessment inquiries
Moneris Merchant Onboarding API
Manage Merchants onboarding
Moneris Multi-Currency Pricing Rate Lookup API
Retrieve Multi-Currency Pricing Rate Lookups
Moneris Payment Methods API
Create and Manage payment methods
Moneris Payments API
Perform and Manage payments
Moneris Products API
Product recommendations
Moneris Refunds API
Perform and Manage payment refunds
Moneris Subscriptions API
Perform and Manage Subscriptions
Moneris Surcharge Lookup API
The Surcharge Lookup API from Moneris — 1 operation(s) for surcharge lookup.
Moneris Terminal & Service Orders API
Manage Moneris Terminal & Service Orders
Moneris Validations API
Perform and Manage card validations
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Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Moneris API
OPEN COLLECTIONMCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Agent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Create a customer and charge them
AGENT SKILLCreate and manage a recurring subscription
AGENT SKILLMoneris API pricing
Prices published by Moneris, read 2026-10-28 from www.moneris.com/en/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Moneris Flat Rate Pricing — Card-present | 2.65% + $0.10 per successful credit card transaction Includes: Interac ® Debit: $0.12 per successful debit transaction; fraud prevention tools (Kount, 3DS, Tokeniz |
| Moneris Flat Rate Pricing — Card-not-present | 2.85% + $0.30 per successful credit card transaction Includes: Interac ® Debit: $1.00 per successful debit transaction |
| Moneris Simplified Pricing | Contact sales team per transaction Includes: Based on business type and total volume processed; Interchange and Network Assessment fees increment |
Plan details, limits and sources →
Billed by: successful credit card transaction · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Service Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
Moneris
SLAFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Moneris Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Moneris Subscriptions Webhooks
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Moneris API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 1
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Moneris Unified Api Overlay
DERIVEDSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Moneris API — frequently asked questions
Does Moneris have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 15 APIs from Moneris, including Moneris 3D Secure API, Moneris Customers API and Moneris Disputes API, and 12 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Moneris API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 15 OpenAPI specifications for Moneris, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Moneris API?
Moneris uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Moneris Authentication.
How much does the Moneris API cost?
Moneris publishes its prices; its Moneris Flat Rate Pricing — Card-present plan is 2.65% + $0.10 per successful credit card transaction as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Moneris, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Moneris have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Moneris: Remote MCP server at mcp.moneris.io over HTTP; 19 tools listed.
Is the Moneris API ready for AI agents?
Moneris has a Kin Score of 65.7 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 55.2 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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