# Shopkeep

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shopkeep/  
**Website:** https://www.shopkeep.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

ShopKeep was a cloud-based iPad point-of-sale (POS) platform for independent retailers, restaurants, and quick-serve businesses, offering register, inventory, employee management, payments, and analytics. Founded in 2008 and backed by Canaan Partners, ShopKeep was acquired by Lightspeed Commerce in 2020 and its product and brand have since been folded into the Lightspeed Retail (S-Series) line. The marketing domain shopkeep.com now redirects to lightspeedhq.com/shopkeep, and support has migrated to shopkeep-support.lightspeedhq.com. ShopKeep never shipped a publicly documented developer API — a private "API beta" existed circa 2015 and the app backend at api.shopkeep.com remains live as a session-authenticated, undocumented internal service. No public OpenAPI, SDKs, developer portal, or API reference are published, so this profile is identity-only.

## Kin Score — 2.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 9.4 (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)

- **Shopkeep Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Point-of-Sale, Retail, Payments, Small Business, iPad, Lightspeed

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