Payworks

Payworks was a Munich-based payment-infrastructure company backed by Speedinvest, building a mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) payment-gateway platform that let acquirers, PSPs and ISVs turn commodity smartphones and tablets into card-accepting terminals via a developer SDK and gateway. It was acquired by Visa in 2019 and its technology was folded into Visa's acceptance/CyberSource stack, after which the independent Payworks brand was wound down. As of this enrichment pass the company operates no active independent public developer surface — its primary domains are dormant (payworks.com resolves to a parked AWS S3 redirect bucket with no website configuration; payworks.de is a domain-for-sale parking page) and no docs/developer/api subdomains resolve — so there is no live OpenAPI, SDK, or documentation surface to harvest into the network. This profile is retained as a historical Speedinvest portfolio record.

Payworks is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Point of Sale, Payment Gateway, and Fintech.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyPaymentsPoint of SalePayment GatewayFintechmPOSAcquired

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Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: payworks
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/payworks.png
name: Payworks
description: Payworks was a Munich-based payment-infrastructure company backed by Speedinvest, building a mobile point-of-sale
  (mPOS) payment-gateway platform that let acquirers, PSPs and ISVs turn commodity smartphones and tablets into card-accepting
  terminals via a developer SDK and gateway. It was acquired by Visa in 2019 and its technology was folded into Visa's acceptance/CyberSource
  stack, after which the independent Payworks brand was wound down. As of this enrichment pass the company operates no active
  independent public developer surface — its primary domains are dormant (payworks.com resolves to a parked AWS S3 redirect
  bucket with no website configuration; payworks.de is a domain-for-sale parking page) and no docs/developer/api subdomains
  resolve — so there is no live OpenAPI, SDK, or documentation surface to harvest into the network. This profile is retained
  as a historical Speedinvest portfolio record.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/payworks/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- speedinvest
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: dormant
x-status-detail: Acquired by Visa (2019); primary domains parked/for-sale, no live developer surface as of 2026-07-20.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Point of Sale
- Payment Gateway
- Fintech
- mPOS
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  note: Dormant/acquired company (Visa, 2019); domains parked, no live API/docs/SDK surface to harvest. Identity hygiene only.