SPS Commerce

SPS Commerce (Minneapolis, MN) is a retail supply-chain network and cloud services company offering EDI, sales and item data solutions that connect suppliers, retailers, distributors, 3PLs and logistics providers across 300,000+ trading relationships. Its Dev Center (developercenter.spscommerce.com) exposes OAuth-secured API services such as the Transaction API, Shipping Doc API and Trading Partner Submission API, plus MCP documentation, and the company publishes its open SPS API Standards and Spectral ruleset on GitHub.

SPS Commerce publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Trading Partner Submission API, Inventory API, Import API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, EDI, Retail, Supply Chain, and Commerce.

The SPS Commerce catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

SPS Commerce’s developer surface includes sandbox, authentication, getting-started guide, documentation, signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 34 more developer resources.

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59.8/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 2 Agent Skills

Company EDI Retail Supply Chain Commerce Trading Partners API Standards

What this lets a business do 2

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Inventory Management

BC-530

ImportInventory

Supplier Management

BC-510

Submission

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 59.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 14.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 17

Access Clarity 8.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 6.7 / 11

Contract Governance 3.6 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 50.0 — up to +10.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 58.9 — up to +8.2 composite points
Contract Quality scores 67.9 — up to +8.0 composite points

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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
Commerce Platform Ecosystems (Shopify, WooCommerce, Stripe Apps)	gravity	51.8	-	-
Consumer Goods (product data and retail supply chain)	gravity	51.8	-	-
Data Marketplaces (data providers on cloud data platforms)	gravity	51.8	-	-
MACH & Headless Commerce	gravity	51.8	-	-
Amazon Seller Ecosystem (Selling Partner Appstore, Amazon Ads partners)	gravity	51.8	-	-

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.

APIs 5

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

SPS Commerce Trading Partner Submission API

The Trading Partner Submission API allows Community Buying Organizations to automate the submission of new vendors to their Community program with SPS Commerce (create trading-p...

SPS Commerce Inventory API

Inventory API for listing and reading items by SPS item ID and creating inventory imports. Its OpenAPI is published on the SPS Dev Center CDN, but the Dev Center service catalog...

SPS Commerce Transaction API

Transaction API (v5) for creating, filtering, getting and deleting EDI/XML transaction files and viewing interaction history across the SPS retail network. Documented in Dev Cen...

SPS Commerce Shipping Doc API

Shipping Doc API for retrieving shipping label and packing slip schemas and samples, and rendering labels (PDF/ZPL) and packing slips individually or in batches. Documented in D...

SPS Commerce Import API

The Import API from SPS Commerce — 1 operation(s) for import.

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

sps-commerce-community-vendor-submission

AGENT SKILL

sps-commerce-inventory-lookup

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sps Commerce Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sps Commerce Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Sps Commerce Context

25 classes · 172 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

SPS Commerce API Rules

17 rules · 15 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 2

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.

Sps Commerce Inventory Api Overlay

4 actions · documentation · sps-commerce-inventory-api-openapi.json

GENERATED

Sps Commerce Submission Api Overlay

4 actions · update · sps-commerce-submission-api-openapi.json

GENERATED

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

inline_response_200

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

InventoryImportRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubmissionFormOutput

29 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SubmissionFormsResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TradingPartnerInput

34 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TradingPartnerResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Sps Commerce Authentication

http/oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Sps Commerce Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Sps Commerce Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Sps Commerce Agentic Access

6 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 5

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Sandbox

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIStyleGuide

APIStyleGuide

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

DataModel

Conventions

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

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Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

SecurityTxt

Authentication

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

Deprecation

StatusPage

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Hosts

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sps-commerce
name: SPS Commerce
description: SPS Commerce (Minneapolis, MN) is a retail supply-chain network and cloud services company offering EDI, sales
  and item data solutions that connect suppliers, retailers, distributors, 3PLs and logistics providers across 300,000+ trading
  relationships. Its Dev Center (developercenter.spscommerce.com) exposes OAuth-secured API services such as the Transaction
  API, Shipping Doc API and Trading Partner Submission API, plus MCP documentation, and the company publishes its open SPS
  API Standards and Spectral ruleset on GitHub.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sps-commerce/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.spscommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/sps_logo_only.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:spectral-ruleset-web
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-10-09 (modular-v1; was harvest)
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-10-09'
modified: '2026-10-09'
tags:
- Company
- EDI
- Retail
- Supply Chain
- Commerce
- Trading Partners
- API Standards
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/sps-commerce-capability-edges.yml
  name: SPS Commerce Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/sps-commerce-agentic-access.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sps-commerce-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/sps-commerce-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/sps-commerce-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/sps-commerce-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sps-commerce-data-model.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sps-commerce-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/sps-commerce-sandbox.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.spscommerce.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/sps-commerce-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sps-commerce-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sps-commerce-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sps-commerce-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/sps-commerce-inventory-api-overlay.yaml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sps-commerce-llms.txt
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/sps-commerce-status-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sps-commerce-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/sps-commerce-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/sps-commerce-vendors.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.spscommerce.com/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/press/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sps-commerce-authentication.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/sps-commerce-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sps-commerce-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/getting-started
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/partners/developers/dev-center/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/login/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/customer-support/support/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/community/articles/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SPSCommerce
- type: APIStyleGuide
  url: https://spscommerce.github.io/sps-api-standards/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.spscommerce.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/about/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.spscommerce.com/about/privacy-policy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sps-commerce/
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/user/SPSCommerce
apis:
- name: SPS Commerce Trading Partner Submission API
  description: The Trading Partner Submission API allows Community Buying Organizations to automate the submission of new
    vendors to their Community program with SPS Commerce (create trading-partner leads, list and read submission forms). OAuth
    2.0 bearer tokens issued through Dev Center.
  humanURL: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/trading-partner-submission-api
  baseURL: https://api.spscommerce.com/submissions
  tags:
  - Trading Partners
  - Supplier Onboarding
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sps-commerce-submission-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted)
    url: https://api.spscommerce.com/submissions/openapi.json
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted, integration environment)
    url: https://integration.api.spscommerce.com/submissions/openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/trading-partner-submission-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-trading-partner-input-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-submission-form-output-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-trading-partner-response-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-submission-forms-response-schema.json
  aid: sps-commerce:sps-commerce-trading-partner-submission-api
- name: SPS Commerce Inventory API
  description: Inventory API for listing and reading items by SPS item ID and creating inventory imports. Its OpenAPI is published
    on the SPS Dev Center CDN, but the Dev Center service catalog marks the service inactive (active false) and it is not
    linked from the Dev Center navigation.
  humanURL: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/
  baseURL: https://api.spscommerce.com
  tags:
  - Inventory
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sps-commerce-inventory-api-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: OpenAPI (provider-hosted)
    url: https://cdn.prod.spsc.io/web/inventory-api/api/inventory-api-docs/1.30.0/swaggerhub/openapi.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-inventory-import-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/sps-commerce-inline-response-200-schema.json
  aid: sps-commerce:sps-commerce-inventory-api
- name: SPS Commerce Transaction API
  description: Transaction API (v5) for creating, filtering, getting and deleting EDI/XML transaction files and viewing interaction
    history across the SPS retail network. Documented in Dev Center; no machine-readable contract is published (api.spscommerce.com/transactions/v5/openapi.json
    answers 401).
  humanURL: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/transaction-api
  baseURL: https://api.spscommerce.com/transactions/v5
  tags:
  - EDI
  - Transaction
  tags_raw:
  - EDI
  - Transactions
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/transaction-api
  aid: sps-commerce:sps-commerce-transaction-api
- name: SPS Commerce Shipping Doc API
  description: Shipping Doc API for retrieving shipping label and packing slip schemas and samples, and rendering labels (PDF/ZPL)
    and packing slips individually or in batches. Documented in Dev Center; no machine-readable contract is published (api.spscommerce.com/label/v1/openapi.json
    answers 401).
  humanURL: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/shipping-doc-api
  baseURL: https://api.spscommerce.com/label/v1
  tags:
  - Shipping
  - Labels
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/shipping-doc-api
  aid: sps-commerce:sps-commerce-shipping-doc-api
- aid: sps-commerce:sps-commerce-import-api
  name: SPS Commerce Import API
  description: The Import API from SPS Commerce — 1 operation(s) for import.
  humanURL: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/trading-partner-submission-api
  baseURL: https://api.spscommerce.com/submissions
  tags:
  - Import
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/sps-commerce-import-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-09'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 41
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: 'Enriched 2026-10-09: website and identity verified (resolved) from the provider''s own pages; probed URLs below.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/SPSCommerce
    status: null
  - url: https://developercenter.spscommerce.com/#/docs/getting-started
    status: 200
  - url: https://trust.spscommerce.com/
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.spscommerce.com/blog/
    status: 200

SPS Commerce API — frequently asked questions

Does SPS Commerce have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from SPS Commerce, including SPS Commerce Trading Partner Submission API, SPS Commerce Inventory API and SPS Commerce Transaction API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SPS Commerce API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for SPS Commerce, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the SPS Commerce API?

SPS Commerce uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2 · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Sps Commerce Authentication.

Is the SPS Commerce API ready for AI agents?

SPS Commerce has a Kin Score of 59.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 41.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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