Seed is Cantaloupe's cloud platform for self-service and unattended retail — vending, micro markets, office coffee and pantry, amusement, and laundry. The Seed family spans Seed Live (device management bundled with a Cantaloupe card reader), Seed Cashless+, Seed Pro (route, warehouse, planogram and analytics management), Seed Markets and Seed Delivery. The Seed API is Cantaloupe's integration surface for connecting third-party point-of-sale and self-service equipment to those cloud services: cashless payment acceptance across major card brands, digital and mobile wallets and NFC through a single gateway; consolidated billing that compiles transactions, fees and payments into one bill across business channels; and real-time sales data exposed as performance, payment-mix and profitability reporting across an operator's fleet. Cantaloupe publishes no public developer portal, API reference, base URL, authentication guide or machine-readable contract for the Seed API — access is arranged through Cantaloupe sales and support.
Seed publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Payments, Cashless Payments, Vending, Micro Markets, and Unattended Retail.
Seed’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, changelog, and 19 more developer resources.
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the
Payments regime, so
Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite.
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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
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Accept cashless payments through the Seed API — debit and credit cards, mobile and digital wallets, and NFC — with Cantaloupe acting as a single gateway to the major card brands...
Retrieve real-time sales data from the Seed cloud for analysis and reporting across an operator's vending, micro market, and office coffee fleet, including payment-mix and profi...
Compile transactions, fees, and payments into a single consolidated bill across vending, micro markets, and office coffee and pantry channels, and generate billing reports from ...
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/seed-platform/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Seed
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
specificationVersion: '0.23'
type: Index
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
description: 'Seed is Cantaloupe''s cloud platform for self-service and unattended retail — vending, micro markets, office
coffee and pantry, amusement, and laundry. The Seed family spans Seed Live (device management bundled with a Cantaloupe
card reader), Seed Cashless+, Seed Pro (route, warehouse, planogram and analytics management), Seed Markets and Seed Delivery.
The Seed API is Cantaloupe''s integration surface for connecting third-party point-of-sale and self-service equipment to
those cloud services: cashless payment acceptance across major card brands, digital and mobile wallets and NFC through a
single gateway; consolidated billing that compiles transactions, fees and payments into one bill across business channels;
and real-time sales data exposed as performance, payment-mix and profitability reporting across an operator''s fleet. Cantaloupe
publishes no public developer portal, API reference, base URL, authentication guide or machine-readable contract for the
Seed API — access is arranged through Cantaloupe sales and support.'
image: https://www.cantaloupe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/canLogo.png
tags:
- Payments
- Cashless Payments
- Vending
- Micro Markets
- Unattended Retail
- Self-Service Retail
- Point-of-Sale
- Sales Reporting
- Billing
- Office Coffee
tags_raw:
- Payments
- Cashless Payments
- Vending
- Micro Markets
- Unattended Retail
- Self-Service Retail
- Point of Sale
- Sales Reporting
- Billing
- Office Coffee
created: '2024-11-14'
modified: '2026-08-28'
maintainers:
- FN: API Evangelist
email: info@apievangelist.com
accessModel:
pricing: contact-sales
onboarding: sales-gated
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Contact Sales
confidence: high
source:
- https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- https://www.cantaloupe.com/pricing/
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: searched
common:
- type: About
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/company/about/
- type: Website
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Support
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/help-center/
- type: Community
url: https://community.cantaloupe.com/community-learn-more
- type: Blog
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/feed/
- type: Pricing
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/pricing/
- type: Login
url: https://www.mycantaloupe.com/login/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Cantaloupe-Website-Terms-of-Use.pdf
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/legal/cantaloupe-privacy-policy/
- type: StatusPage
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/status/
- type: ChangeLog
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/release-notes/
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/seed-platform-changelog.yml
- type: Compliance
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/legal/compliance/
- type: Security
url: security/seed-platform-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
url: security/seed-platform-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
url: security/seed-platform-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/seed-platform-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/seed-platform-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/seed-platform-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/seed-platform-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/seed-platform-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
url: packages/seed-platform-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/seed-platform-llms.txt
apis:
- aid: seed:payment-processing-api
name: Payment Processing
humanURL: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
description: Accept cashless payments through the Seed API — debit and credit cards, mobile and digital wallets, and NFC
— with Cantaloupe acting as a single gateway to the major card brands and wallet providers.
tags:
- Payments
- Cashless Payments
- Point-of-Sale
tags_raw:
- Payments
- Cashless Payments
- Point of Sale
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Website
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Support
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/help-center/
x-base-url-note: 'No baseURL recorded. Cantaloupe publishes no API reference or base URL for the Seed API on any public
page (probed 2026-08-28: sitemap of www.cantaloupe.com carries no developer/API-reference page). The prior value, https://api.cantaloupe.com/seed-api/v1/payment-processing,
was removed — that host does not resolve (NXDOMAIN, 2026-08-28). A live Cantaloupe-operated API host exists at https://api.seedlive.com
but is an AWS API Gateway that answers 403 "Missing Authentication Token" on every path, and no Cantaloupe document names
it as the Seed API base, so it is recorded as evidence rather than asserted as the base URL.'
- aid: seed:sales-tracking-api
name: Sales Tracking
humanURL: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
description: Retrieve real-time sales data from the Seed cloud for analysis and reporting across an operator's vending,
micro market, and office coffee fleet, including payment-mix and profitability views.
tags:
- Sales Reporting
- Analytics
- Vending
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Website
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Support
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/help-center/
x-base-url-note: No baseURL recorded — see the note on seed:payment-processing-api. The prior https://api.cantaloupe.com/seed-api/v1/sales-tracking
was removed as a non-resolving host (NXDOMAIN, 2026-08-28).
- aid: seed:billing-api
name: Billing
humanURL: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
description: Compile transactions, fees, and payments into a single consolidated bill across vending, micro markets, and
office coffee and pantry channels, and generate billing reports from the Seed cloud.
tags:
- Billing
- Payments
- Reconciliation
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Website
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
- type: Support
url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/help-center/
x-base-url-note: No baseURL recorded — see the note on seed:payment-processing-api. The prior https://api.cantaloupe.com/seed-api/v1/billing
was removed as a non-resolving host (NXDOMAIN, 2026-08-28).
x-attribution-corrections:
- date: '2026-08-28'
removed: 'common[] type: GitHubOrganization -> https://github.com/SEED-platform'
reason: Name-collision misattribution. github.com/SEED-platform is the Standard Energy Efficiency Data Platform, a U.S.
Department of Energy / NREL open-source building-energy data project (contact info@seed-platform.org, website energy.gov/eere/buildings/standard-energy-efficiency-data-platform).
It has no relationship to Cantaloupe's Seed. The pointer was added by an automated GitHub/LinkedIn sweep on 2026-05-19
that matched on the slug.
- date: '2026-08-28'
removed: apis[].humanURL / Documentation -> https://api.cantaloupe.com/seed-api/v1/*
reason: api.cantaloupe.com does not resolve (NXDOMAIN, verified 2026-08-28). The three URLs were scaffold values present
since the first commit and never named a real host.
- date: '2026-08-28'
note: No GitHubOrganization pointer emitted. github.com/Cantaloupe-Inc exists (HTTP 200) but is unverified, carries no description
or website, and has zero public repositories, so ownership cannot be established from the public record.
- date: '2026-08-28'
note: 'Catalog overlap: all/cantaloupe-seed-api/ profiles the same Cantaloupe Seed API surface. These two repos should be
reconciled by a catalog pass; this run left both in place and corrected the facts in this one.'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-28'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 8
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: gated
reason: sales-gate
detail: Cantaloupe markets the Seed API on a product page with no reference, no base URL and no sign-up — only "Contact
Us" and a phone number — and the live Cantaloupe-operated API host api.seedlive.com is an AWS API Gateway that answers
every anonymous request, /openapi.json included, with 403 {"message":"Missing Authentication Token"}.
evidence:
- url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/products/integrations/seed-api/
status: 200
- url: https://api.seedlive.com/openapi.json
status: 403
- url: https://api.cantaloupe.com/seed-api/v1/payment-processing
status: 0
- url: https://www.cantaloupe.com/sitemap_index.xml
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-28'
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