takepayments

takepayments (a trading name of Payzone UK Limited) is a United Kingdom payment gateway and merchant-services provider that lets businesses accept card payments online, in person, and over the phone. Its online payment gateway offers Hosted (redirect) and Direct (server-to-server) integrations for e-commerce checkouts, delivered as SOAP v1.1 XML and HTTPS form-POST requests authenticated with a merchant ID and a pre-shared-key signature hash, alongside ready-made shopping-cart plugins and backend SDK code packs. Its newer Terminal API is a modern REST/JSON surface hosted on Azure API Management, secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials via Microsoft Azure AD, that pairs and drives card machines (Move5000, PAX A920 Pro) for Start-Transaction, Pairing, Split Bill & Gratuity, and Pay at Table flows. takepayments runs a real public developer portal at developer.takepayments.com but does not publish a downloadable OpenAPI/Swagger definition; its API reference is documentation-only, and merchant onboarding is sales-led rather than open self-serve.

takepayments publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Payments, United Kingdom, Payment Gateway, Payment Processing, and Card Payments.

takepayments’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, SDKs, engineering blog, support, pricing, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

35.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 33/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
PaymentsUnited KingdomPayment GatewayPayment ProcessingCard PaymentsCard MachinesIn-Person PaymentsEcommercePSPAcquiring

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 35.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 33/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 1

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

takepayments Terminal API

A REST/JSON API hosted on Azure API Management for pairing and driving takepayments card machines (Move5000, PAX A920 Pro) from an integrated app or POS. Documented operations i...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Security Posture 2

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

Takepayments Authentication

oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Takepayments Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: takepayments
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/takepayments/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: takepayments
kind: company
description: takepayments (a trading name of Payzone UK Limited) is a United Kingdom payment gateway and merchant-services
  provider that lets businesses accept card payments online, in person, and over the phone. Its online payment gateway offers
  Hosted (redirect) and Direct (server-to-server) integrations for e-commerce checkouts, delivered as SOAP v1.1 XML and HTTPS
  form-POST requests authenticated with a merchant ID and a pre-shared-key signature hash, alongside ready-made shopping-cart
  plugins and backend SDK code packs. Its newer Terminal API is a modern REST/JSON surface hosted on Azure API Management,
  secured with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials via Microsoft Azure AD, that pairs and drives card machines (Move5000, PAX A920
  Pro) for Start-Transaction, Pairing, Split Bill & Gratuity, and Pay at Table flows. takepayments runs a real public developer
  portal at developer.takepayments.com but does not publish a downloadable OpenAPI/Swagger definition; its API reference is
  documentation-only, and merchant onboarding is sales-led rather than open self-serve.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Payments
- United Kingdom
- Payment Gateway
- Payment Processing
- Card Payments
- Card Machines
- In-Person Payments
- Ecommerce
- PSP
- Acquiring
created: '2026-07-24'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: takepayments:takepayments-terminal-api
  name: takepayments Terminal API
  description: A REST/JSON API hosted on Azure API Management for pairing and driving takepayments card machines (Move5000,
    PAX A920 Pro) from an integrated app or POS. Documented operations include Authentication, Start a Transaction, Pairing
    a Terminal, Split Bill & Gratuity, and Pay at Table. Authentication is OAuth 2.0 client-credentials issued by Microsoft
    Azure AD, with the JWT passed as an Authorization Bearer header. Sandbox and production base URLs are published on the
    developer portal; no downloadable OpenAPI/Swagger is provided.
  humanURL: https://developer.takepayments.com/apis
  baseURL: https://takepayments-integrated-prod-apim.azure-api.net/
  tags:
  - Terminal API
  - In-Person Payments
  - Card Machines
  - Pay at Table
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.takepayments.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.takepayments.com/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://developer.takepayments.com/documentation/authentication
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.takepayments.com/documentation/Start-Transaction
  - type: SDK
    url: https://developer.takepayments.com/online-sdk
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/takepayments-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.takepayments.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/developer-support/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.takepayments.com/apis
- type: SDK
  url: https://developer.takepayments.com/online-sdk
- type: Plugins
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/developer-support/shopping-carts/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/takepayments
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/takepayments-limited/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/partner-support/
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/contact-us/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/card-machines/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/takepayments-authentication.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/takepayments-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/takepayments-conventions.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/takepayments-sandbox.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/takepayments-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/takepayments-packages.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/takepayments-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.takepayments.com/pci-compliance/
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/takepayments-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/takepayments-lifecycle.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/takepayments-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/takepayments-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com