Tekion is a cloud-native, AI-native automotive retail platform whose flagship Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) is a modern dealer management system (DMS) spanning sales, service, parts, inventory, F&I, accounting, and CRM for franchise dealerships and OEMs. Tekion exposes its data and workflows to technology partners through the Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) - an open, OpenAPI-standard partner API program with REST APIs and webhooks that give approved partners near real-time access to a dealership's sales, service, inventory, and parts data. APC is partner-gated: developers register at the APC portal, submit a use case, and are reviewed (typically within ~48 hours) before the API documentation dashboard, credentials, and endpoints are unlocked. Access is tiered (Standard, Enterprise/Elevated, Premium/Strategic) with different API scopes, rate limits, and read/write capabilities. Because the technical reference is behind partner authentication, the APIs below are honestly modeled by data domain rather than transcribed from a public spec.
Tekion publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Automotive, Dealership, DMS, Automotive Retail Cloud, and Partner API.
Tekion’s developer surface includes documentation, developer portal, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.
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Near real-time access to a dealership's sales and deal data - deal jackets, desking, F&I products, and sold-vehicle records - through the Automotive Partner Cloud. Concrete path...
Access to new and used vehicle inventory - stock, VIN-level detail, pricing, and availability - exposed to approved partners via APC standard open APIs and webhooks. Exact endpo...
Fixed-operations and service data - repair orders, service appointments, labor operations, and status updates - available to approved partners through APC APIs and webhooks for ...
Parts inventory, catalog lookup, pricing, and ordering data (including electronic parts catalog / EPC integration) exposed to approved partners via APC. Concrete endpoints are p...
Customer and CRM records - contact, ownership, and relationship data tied to sales and service activity - made available to approved partners through APC, subject to the dealer'...
Server-to-endpoint webhooks that keep partner systems in sync as dealership data changes across sales, service, inventory, and parts. Webhooks POST event payloads to a partner-r...
aid: tekion
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tekion/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Tekion
kind: company
description: 'Tekion is a cloud-native, AI-native automotive retail platform whose flagship Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC)
is a modern dealer management system (DMS) spanning sales, service, parts, inventory, F&I, accounting, and CRM for franchise
dealerships and OEMs. Tekion exposes its data and workflows to technology partners through the Automotive Partner Cloud
(APC) - an open, OpenAPI-standard partner API program with REST APIs and webhooks that give approved partners near real-time
access to a dealership''s sales, service, inventory, and parts data. APC is partner-gated: developers register at the APC
portal, submit a use case, and are reviewed (typically within ~48 hours) before the API documentation dashboard, credentials,
and endpoints are unlocked. Access is tiered (Standard, Enterprise/Elevated, Premium/Strategic) with different API scopes,
rate limits, and read/write capabilities. Because the technical reference is behind partner authentication, the APIs below
are honestly modeled by data domain rather than transcribed from a public spec.'
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
accessModel:
pricing: paid
onboarding: approval
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Paid · Requires approval
confidence: medium
source:
- plans
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tekion.png
tags:
- Automotive
- Dealership
- DMS
- Automotive Retail Cloud
- Partner API
- Sales
- Services
- Inventory
- Parts
- Webhook
- Gated
tags_raw:
- Automotive
- Dealership
- DMS
- Automotive Retail Cloud
- Partner API
- Sales
- Service
- Inventory
- Parts
- Webhooks
- Gated
created: '2026-07-10'
modified: '2026-07-10'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tekion:tekion-sales-deals-api
name: Tekion Sales and Deals API
tags:
- Sales
- Deals
- F&I
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Near real-time access to a dealership's sales and deal data - deal jackets, desking, F&I products, and sold-vehicle
records - through the Automotive Partner Cloud. Concrete paths and schemas are published inside the gated APC API documentation
dashboard after partner approval; this API is modeled by the sales/deals data domain that Tekion advertises, not transcribed
from a public reference.
- aid: tekion:tekion-inventory-api
name: Tekion Inventory API
tags:
- Inventory
- Vehicles
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Access to new and used vehicle inventory - stock, VIN-level detail, pricing, and availability - exposed to
approved partners via APC standard open APIs and webhooks. Exact endpoints live behind the partner-gated documentation;
this entry is modeled from Tekion's advertised inventory data domain.
- aid: tekion:tekion-service-api
name: Tekion Service API
tags:
- Services
- Repair Orders
- Fixed Ops
- Gated
tags_raw:
- Service
- Repair Orders
- Fixed Ops
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Fixed-operations and service data - repair orders, service appointments, labor operations, and status updates
- available to approved partners through APC APIs and webhooks for near real-time sync. Endpoint paths and schemas are
documented inside the gated APC dashboard; this API is modeled from Tekion's advertised service data domain.
- aid: tekion:tekion-parts-api
name: Tekion Parts API
tags:
- Parts
- Catalog
- EPC
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Parts inventory, catalog lookup, pricing, and ordering data (including electronic parts catalog / EPC integration)
exposed to approved partners via APC. Concrete endpoints are published in the gated partner documentation; this entry
is modeled from Tekion's advertised parts data domain rather than a public spec.
- aid: tekion:tekion-customers-api
name: Tekion Customers API
tags:
- Customers
- CRM
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Customer and CRM records - contact, ownership, and relationship data tied to sales and service activity - made
available to approved partners through APC, subject to the dealer's data-sharing authorizations in the Integration Hub.
Endpoints are documented behind partner authentication; this API is modeled from Tekion's advertised customer data domain.
- aid: tekion:tekion-webhooks-api
name: Tekion Webhooks
tags:
- Webhook
- Event
- Real-Time
- Gated
tags_raw:
- Webhooks
- Events
- Real-Time
- Gated
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://tekion.com/products/apc
baseURL: https://api.tekioncloud.com
properties:
- url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
type: Documentation
- url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
type: SignUp
description: Server-to-endpoint webhooks that keep partner systems in sync as dealership data changes across sales, service,
inventory, and parts. Webhooks POST event payloads to a partner-registered HTTP endpoint (not a WebSocket). Event catalog,
payload schemas, and subscription management are documented inside the gated APC dashboard; modeled here from Tekion's
stated APIs-plus-webhooks delivery model.
common:
- type: TrustCenter
url: security/tekion-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/tekion-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tekion
- type: Website
url: https://tekion.com
- type: Documentation
url: https://tekion.com/products/apc
- type: Portal
url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com
- type: SignUp
url: https://apc.tekioncloud.com/user/register
- type: Plans
url: plans/tekion-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/tekion-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
url: finops/tekion-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
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