# Tab

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tab/  
**Website:** https://www.tab.travel  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Tab (tab.travel) is a London-based payment platform built specifically for independent tourism and hospitality businesses — hotels, hostels, tour operators, retreat centers and activity providers. It lets these merchants take card payments wherever their guests are, from in-advance deposits and online booking pages to in-person, on-the-move transactions via a mobile app, and to plug into an existing booking engine, PMS or OTA ecosystem. Tab natively handles 140+ currencies, pays out weekly in the merchant's local currency, and advertises transparent pricing from 2.9% per transaction with no hidden fees. Founded in 2015 by Mark Datta and backed by Y Combinator (W2015), Tab also operates a consumer-facing social-commerce guide for discovering and booking travel. This profile is maintained by the API Evangelist network; Tab does not currently publish a public developer API, SDKs or API documentation.

## Kin Score — 13.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 12.5 (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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Payments, Travel, Tourism, Hospitality, Fintech, Marketplace, Booking

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