Vend

Vend was a cloud-based retail point-of-sale and inventory management software company founded in Auckland, New Zealand, backed by investors including Point Nine. Lightspeed announced its acquisition of Vend in March 2021 for approximately US$350 million, and the product lives on as Lightspeed Retail (X-Series). vendhq.com redirects to lightspeedhq.com/vend/, and the former Vend API is documented today at x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com. The X-Series API surface is profiled in the API Evangelist network under the Lightspeed provider, so this profile records the acquired Vend brand rather than duplicating that API.

Vend is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Point of Sale, Commerce, and Inventory.

Vend’s developer surface includes documentation and 4 more developer resources.

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8.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyRetailPoint of SaleCommerceInventoryAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 8.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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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Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vend
name: Vend
description: Vend was a cloud-based retail point-of-sale and inventory management software company founded in Auckland, New
  Zealand, backed by investors including Point Nine. Lightspeed announced its acquisition of Vend in March 2021 for approximately
  US$350 million, and the product lives on as Lightspeed Retail (X-Series). vendhq.com redirects to lightspeedhq.com/vend/,
  and the former Vend API is documented today at x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com. The X-Series API surface is profiled in the
  API Evangelist network under the Lightspeed provider, so this profile records the acquired Vend brand rather than duplicating
  that API.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/vend.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vend/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- point-nine
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-acquired-by: lightspeed
x-acquired-date: '2021-03-11'
x-successor: lightspeed:retail-x-series
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Point of Sale
- Commerce
- Inventory
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.vendhq.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://x-series-api.lightspeedhq.com/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/vend-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/vend-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vend-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1