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PayActiv

Payactiv is a Milpitas, California financial-worktech company that provides Earned Wage Access (EWA), a digital wallet, Visa prepaid and payroll cards, savings and financial-wellness services to hourly workers through their employers. Its developer-facing product, Access-as-a-Service, packages that platform as modular APIs so HCM, HRIS, payroll and benefits platforms can embed earned wage access, card issuance and transactions, instant payouts and workforce-data workflows under their own brand. The API surface is documented as OpenAPI-based inside a developer portal at developer.payactiv.com, which also carries the platform change log and sandbox environments; the portal requires an account, so no public specification, reference or sandbox values are reachable anonymously. Payactiv is registered with NMLS (ID 2591928) and holds state EWA licenses, and publishes a Trust Center citing SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and CCPA.

PayActiv publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Financial-Services, Earned Wage Access, Payments, and Payroll.

PayActiv’s developer surface includes documentation, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 13 more developer resources.

26.5/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
CompanyFinancial-ServicesEarned Wage AccessPaymentsPayrollHuman ResourcesCardsFinancial WellnessFintech

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Payactiv Access-as-a-Service API

Access-as-a-Service is Payactiv's API-driven infrastructure for embedding Earned Wage Access, debit and payroll card programs, instant payouts, and HCM workforce-data workflows ...

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Payactiv Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Payactiv Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, CCPA, Visa Service Provider, Certified B Corporation

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: payactiv
name: PayActiv
description: Payactiv is a Milpitas, California financial-worktech company that provides Earned Wage Access (EWA), a digital
  wallet, Visa prepaid and payroll cards, savings and financial-wellness services to hourly workers through their employers.
  Its developer-facing product, Access-as-a-Service, packages that platform as modular APIs so HCM, HRIS, payroll and benefits
  platforms can embed earned wage access, card issuance and transactions, instant payouts and workforce-data workflows under
  their own brand. The API surface is documented as OpenAPI-based inside a developer portal at developer.payactiv.com, which
  also carries the platform change log and sandbox environments; the portal requires an account, so no public specification,
  reference or sandbox values are reachable anonymously. Payactiv is registered with NMLS (ID 2591928) and holds state EWA
  licenses, and publishes a Trust Center citing SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and CCPA.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://payactiv.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-siteicon-192x192.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/payactiv/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-04'
modified: '2026-08-04'
tags:
- Company
- Financial-Services
- Earned Wage Access
- Payments
- Payroll
- Human Resources
- Cards
- Financial Wellness
- Fintech
tags_raw:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Earned Wage Access
- Payments
- Payroll
- Human Resources
- Cards
- Financial Wellness
- Fintech
apis:
- aid: payactiv:payactiv-access-as-a-service-api
  name: Payactiv Access-as-a-Service API
  description: Access-as-a-Service is Payactiv's API-driven infrastructure for embedding Earned Wage Access, debit and payroll
    card programs, instant payouts, and HCM workforce-data workflows into a partner platform under the partner's own brand.
    Payactiv documents the surface as authentication, orchestration, webhooks and sandbox environments, with an OpenAPI-based
    reference, change log and sandbox samples published inside the developer portal. The specification is not served anonymously.
  humanURL: https://payactiv.com/developers/
  baseURL: https://api.payactiv.com
  tags:
  - Earned Wage Access
  - Payouts
  - Cards
  - Payroll
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Earned Wage Access
  - Payouts
  - Cards
  - Payroll
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://developer.payactiv.com/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://payactiv.com/developers/
  - type: SignUp
    url: https://developer.payactiv.com/#/signup
  - type: Login
    url: https://developer.payactiv.com/#/login
  x-evidence:
    fetched: '2026-08-04'
    baseURL_probe:
      url: https://api.payactiv.com/
      http_status: 500
      note: Host resolves to an AWS ELB named api-v2 fronting Microsoft-IIS/10.0 (ASP.NET 4.0); the root path returns an ASP.NET
        runtime-error page, so the host is live but exposes no anonymous route.
    reference_probe:
      url: https://apidevelopergatewayservice.payactiv.com/users/modules/1
      http_status: 401
      note: The developer portal (Angular SPA, meta robots noindex,nofollow) loads its OpenAPI documents from this gateway
        endpoint and renders them with swagger-ui-dist / redoc. Anonymous requests return 401, so the specification cannot
        be harvested without portal credentials.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://payactiv.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.payactiv.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://payactiv.com/developers/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developer.payactiv.com/#/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://developer.payactiv.com/#/login
- type: Support
  url: https://payactiv.com/help/
- type: Blog
  url: https://payactiv.com/blog/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://payactiv.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://payactiv.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://payactiv.com/trust-center/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.payactiv.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/payactiv-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/payactiv-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/payactiv-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/payactiv-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/payactiv-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/payactiv-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-04'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: partner-login
  detail: Payactiv markets an OpenAPI-based Access-as-a-Service reference, change log and sandbox, but the portal at developer.payactiv.com
    is an Angular SPA marked noindex,nofollow that loads every spec from apidevelopergatewayservice.payactiv.com/users/modules/{id},
    which returns 401 without portal credentials.
  evidence:
  - url: https://apidevelopergatewayservice.payactiv.com/users/modules/1
    status: 401
  - url: https://developer.payactiv.com/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.payactiv.com/openapi.json
    status: 500
  - url: https://payactiv.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-04'

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