Vantiv

Vantiv was a leading American payment processing and technology provider that merged with Worldpay in 2018, forming Worldpay from FIS. Vantiv provided integrated payment processing solutions for merchants, financial institutions, and businesses across eCommerce, in-store, and omni-channel payment scenarios. Their cnpAPI (formerly litleAPI) supported credit card authorizations, captures, sales, refunds, voids, tokenization, chargebacks, and recurring billing.

Vantiv publishes 10 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Authorizations API, Captures API, Chargebacks API, and 7 more. Tagged areas include Payments, Payment Processing, eCommerce, Finance, and FinTech.

The Vantiv catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Vantiv’s developer surface includes authentication, developer portal, sandbox, documentation, and 12 more developer resources.

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47.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-05 · rubric v0.9.1
AccessPaidSelf serve
10 APIs
PaymentsPayment ProcessingeCommerceFinanceFinTechFortune 1000

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Composite quality — 47.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 10

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

Vantiv Authorizations API

Card authorization and fund verification

Vantiv Captures API

Capture previously authorized transactions for settlement

Vantiv Chargebacks API

Chargeback dispute retrieval and response management

Vantiv Credits API

Refunds and credits to cardholder accounts

Vantiv Documents API

Evidence document upload and management for chargebacks

Vantiv eCheck API

ACH and electronic check payment processing

Vantiv Recurring API

Recurring and subscription billing

Vantiv Sales API

Combined authorization and capture transactions

Vantiv Tokenization API

Card data tokenization via Vantiv Vault

Vantiv Voids API

Cancel pending unsettled transactions

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Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Vantiv Chargeback API

OPEN COLLECTION

Vantiv CNP API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vantiv Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Vantiv Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Vantiv Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Vantiv Context

17 classes · 13 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Vantiv API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Vantiv API Rules

8 rules · 1 errors 6 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 1

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

Vantiv Transaction

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Vantiv Transaction Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Examples 2

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Vantiv Create Sale Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Vantiv Register Token Example

2 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

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

Vantiv Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Vantiv Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Vantiv Agentic Access

16 operations · 13 acting

16 operations · 13 acting

AGENTIC

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

Investments

2026-05-25

Vantiv News & Media

2026-05-25

IDEMIA/WORLDPAY | Business Wire

2026-05-25

Vantiv Embraces Apple Pay on Web, Lures Its Developers

2026-05-25

Vantiv and Worldpay Complete Combination to Form ...

2026-05-25

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal
Portal
 Sandbox
Sandbox

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 8

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs
 SDKs
SDKs

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vantiv
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vantiv/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Vantiv
tags:
- Payments
- Payment Processing
- eCommerce
- Finance
- FinTech
- Fortune 1000
kind: company
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vantiv.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-05-03'
modified: '2026-05-19'
description: Vantiv was a leading American payment processing and technology provider that merged with Worldpay in 2018, forming
  Worldpay from FIS. Vantiv provided integrated payment processing solutions for merchants, financial institutions, and businesses
  across eCommerce, in-store, and omni-channel payment scenarios. Their cnpAPI (formerly litleAPI) supported credit card authorizations,
  captures, sales, refunds, voids, tokenization, chargebacks, and recurring billing.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-authorizations-api
  name: Vantiv Authorizations API
  description: Card authorization and fund verification
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Authorizations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-authorizations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-captures-api
  name: Vantiv Captures API
  description: Capture previously authorized transactions for settlement
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Captures
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-captures-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-chargebacks-api
  name: Vantiv Chargebacks API
  description: Chargeback dispute retrieval and response management
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Chargebacks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-chargebacks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-credits-api
  name: Vantiv Credits API
  description: Refunds and credits to cardholder accounts
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Credits
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-credits-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-documents-api
  name: Vantiv Documents API
  description: Evidence document upload and management for chargebacks
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-documents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-echeck-api
  name: Vantiv eCheck API
  description: ACH and electronic check payment processing
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - eCheck
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-echeck-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-recurring-api
  name: Vantiv Recurring API
  description: Recurring and subscription billing
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Recurring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-recurring-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-sales-api
  name: Vantiv Sales API
  description: Combined authorization and capture transactions
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Sales
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-sales-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-tokenization-api
  name: Vantiv Tokenization API
  description: Card data tokenization via Vantiv Vault
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Tokenization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-tokenization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
- aid: vantiv:vantiv-voids-api
  name: Vantiv Voids API
  description: Cancel pending unsettled transactions
  humanURL: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  baseURL: https://payments.vantivprelive.com/vap/communicator/online
  tags:
  - Voids
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vantiv-voids-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/point-of-sale/pages/documentation
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/vantiv-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vantiv-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vantiv-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vantiv
- name: Developer Community
  url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce
  type: Portal
- name: eCommerce SDKs
  url: https://developer.vantiv.com/community/ecommerce/pages/sdks
  type: SDKs
- name: Sandbox Documentation
  url: https://developer.vantiv.com/docs/DOC-1347
  type: Sandbox
- name: GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv
  type: SDKs
- name: Java SDK
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/cnp-sdk-for-java
  type: SDKs
- name: Python SDK
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/vantiv-sdk-for-python
  type: SDKs
- name: PHP SDK
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/cnp-sdk-for-php
  type: SDKs
- name: .NET SDK
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/cnp-sdk-for-dotnet
  type: SDKs
- name: Ruby SDK
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/cnp-sdk-for-ruby
  type: SDKs
- name: Chargeback SDK Java
  url: https://github.com/Vantiv/cnp-chargeback-sdk-java
  type: SDKs
- name: Worldpay Developer Hub
  url: https://developer.worldpay.com
  type: Documentation
- name: Website
  url: https://www.vantiv.com
  type: Website