# Vend

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vend/  
**Website:** https://www.vendhq.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 7.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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).

## Security (1)

- **Vend Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Retail, Point-of-Sale, Commerce, Inventory, Acquired

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