Venue Authority

Venue Authority is a self-serve facility verification and monitoring API for payment facilitators, marketplaces, KYB providers and restaurant platforms working with food-service businesses. It matches a business name and street address to a supported regulator facility record, returns source-linked evidence for that match, and supports ongoing portfolio monitoring so a change at the regulator surfaces after onboarding rather than at the next manual review. The public contract is an OpenAPI 3.1 document of 12 paths and 15 operations, authenticated with a bearer API key, and the provider tags every operation into five groups — resolution and evidence, coverage, watchlists, webhooks and audit exports — which is how it is carried here as five per-resource documents. Coverage is enumerated by the API itself rather than described in prose, and the provider publishes an APIs.json, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Postman collection and a machine-readable error catalogue alongside the contract, plus MIT-licensed Node.js, Python and MCP client packages released on GitHub with checksummed build artifacts.

Venue Authority publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Audit Exports API, Coverage API, Resolution & Evidence API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Food Service, facility verification, Merchant Onboarding, regulator records, and Monitoring.

Venue Authority’s developer surface includes support and 16 more developer resources.

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44.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Food Servicefacility verificationMerchant Onboardingregulator recordsMonitoring KYBPayment FacilitatorsMarketplacesrestaurant platforms

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 44.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.9 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 3.9 / 10

Contract Governance 0.0 / 9

Discoverability 5.3 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Payments regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 5

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

Venue Authority Audit Exports API

Create and download workspace-scoped evidence exports.

Venue Authority Coverage API

Read supported sources, record counts, availability, and freshness.

Venue Authority Resolution & Evidence API

Resolve a merchant and retrieve its canonical regulator record and retained evidence.

Venue Authority Watchlists API

Manage workspace-owned facility watchlists and stable change history.

Venue Authority Webhooks API

MCP Servers 1

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

Venue Authority MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

PostmanDocumentation

PostmanDocumentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubRepository

SDKs

SDKs

GitHubRelease

PostmanWorkspace

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityPolicy

SecurityPolicy

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

APIsJSON

APIsJSON

Source (apis.yml)

aid: venueauthority
name: Venue Authority
description: Venue Authority is a self-serve facility verification and monitoring API for payment facilitators, marketplaces,
  KYB providers and restaurant platforms working with food-service businesses. It matches a business name and street address
  to a supported regulator facility record, returns source-linked evidence for that match, and supports ongoing portfolio
  monitoring so a change at the regulator surfaces after onboarding rather than at the next manual review. The public contract
  is an OpenAPI 3.1 document of 12 paths and 15 operations, authenticated with a bearer API key, and the provider tags every
  operation into five groups — resolution and evidence, coverage, watchlists, webhooks and audit exports — which is how it
  is carried here as five per-resource documents. Coverage is enumerated by the API itself rather than described in prose,
  and the provider publishes an APIs.json, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Postman collection and a machine-readable error catalogue
  alongside the contract, plus MIT-licensed Node.js, Python and MCP client packages released on GitHub with checksummed build
  artifacts.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
image: https://venueauthority.com/venue-authority-mark.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/venueauthority/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-08-21'
modified: '2026-08-21'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Food Service
- facility verification
- Merchant Onboarding
- regulator records
- Monitoring
- KYB
- Payment Facilitators
- Marketplaces
- restaurant platforms
tags_raw:
- food service
- facility verification
- merchant onboarding
- regulator records
- monitoring
- KYB
- payment facilitators
- marketplaces
- restaurant platforms
apis:
- aid: venueauthority:venueauthority-audit-exports-api
  name: Venue Authority Audit Exports API
  description: Create and download workspace-scoped evidence exports.
  humanURL: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  baseURL: https://venueauthority.com
  tags:
  - Audit Exports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/venueauthority-audit-exports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/venueauthority.postman_collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/venueauthority-error-catalog.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: docs/venueauthority-quick-start.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://venueauthority.com/openapi.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: Signup
    url: https://venueauthority.com/sign-up
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/webhook-delivery
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
- aid: venueauthority:venueauthority-coverage-api
  name: Venue Authority Coverage API
  description: Read supported sources, record counts, availability, and freshness.
  humanURL: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  baseURL: https://venueauthority.com
  tags:
  - Coverage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/venueauthority-coverage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/venueauthority.postman_collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/venueauthority-error-catalog.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: docs/venueauthority-quick-start.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://venueauthority.com/openapi.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: Signup
    url: https://venueauthority.com/sign-up
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/webhook-delivery
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
- aid: venueauthority:venueauthority-resolution-evidence-api
  name: Venue Authority Resolution & Evidence API
  description: Resolve a merchant and retrieve its canonical regulator record and retained evidence.
  humanURL: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  baseURL: https://venueauthority.com
  tags:
  - Resolution & Evidence
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/venueauthority-resolution-evidence-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/venueauthority.postman_collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/venueauthority-error-catalog.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: docs/venueauthority-quick-start.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://venueauthority.com/openapi.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: Signup
    url: https://venueauthority.com/sign-up
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/webhook-delivery
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
- aid: venueauthority:venueauthority-watchlists-api
  name: Venue Authority Watchlists API
  description: Manage workspace-owned facility watchlists and stable change history.
  humanURL: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  baseURL: https://venueauthority.com
  tags:
  - Watchlist
  tags_raw:
  - Watchlists
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/venueauthority-watchlists-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/venueauthority.postman_collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/venueauthority-error-catalog.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: docs/venueauthority-quick-start.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://venueauthority.com/openapi.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: Signup
    url: https://venueauthority.com/sign-up
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/webhook-delivery
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
- aid: venueauthority:venueauthority-webhooks-api
  name: Venue Authority Webhooks API
  description: Register endpoints and inspect delivery attempts.
  humanURL: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  baseURL: https://venueauthority.com
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/venueauthority-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/venueauthority.postman_collection.json
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/venueauthority-error-catalog.json
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: docs/venueauthority-quick-start.md
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://venueauthority.com/openapi.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
  - type: Signup
    url: https://venueauthority.com/sign-up
  - type: Webhooks
    url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/webhook-delivery
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
common:
- type: APIsJSON
  url: https://venueauthority.com/apis.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: https://venueauthority.com/llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://venueauthority.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://venueauthority.com/developers
- type: Plans
  url: https://venueauthority.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://venueauthority.com/status
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://venueauthority.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://venueauthority.com/privacy
- type: SecurityPolicy
  url: https://venueauthority.com/trust/api-key-and-tenant-security
- type: Support
  url: https://venueauthority.com/support
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/kingymon1/venue-authority-api
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/kingymon1/venue-authority-api/tree/main/packages/node-sdk
- type: SDKs
  url: https://github.com/kingymon1/venue-authority-api/tree/main/packages/python-sdk
- type: MCPServer
  url: https://github.com/kingymon1/venue-authority-api/tree/main/packages/mcp-server
- type: GitHubRelease
  url: https://github.com/kingymon1/venue-authority-api/releases/tag/clients-v0.1.0
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kingymon11-8337942/venue-authority/overview
- type: PostmanDocumentation
  url: https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/57620096/2sBYArVYPE
maintainers:
- FN: Venue Authority
  url: https://venueauthority.com
x-provenance:
  added: '2026-08-21'
  method: searched
  source: https://github.com/api-search/inbox/issues/12
  note: 'Submitted by the provider on the api-search/inbox issue tracker with a complete artifact list. Every declared URL
    was fetched and confirmed 2xx before being recorded here, against a control probe of two invented paths that returned
    real 404s, so the 200s are genuine routes and not a catch-all. The live API was exercised anonymously: /api/v1/coverage
    returned real regulator records, /api/v1/resolve returned 405 (it is POST-only) and /api/v1/facilities/{id} returned 401.
    Nothing in this record is derived or modelled.'
x-evidence:
  amended: '2026-08-21'
  source: https://github.com/api-search/inbox/issues/12
  note: 'The provider reported two changes on the original issue and both were re-verified live before anything here moved.
    FIRST, the contract is now tagged: the published OpenAPI declares five tags and all fifteen operations carry one, where
    the version harvested on 2026-08-21 declared none. Diffed against the archived original, the operation set is byte-identical
    — same 12 paths, same 15 operationIds, nothing added, removed or renamed — so the change is purely additive and the single
    document was re-split into five per-resource documents with 1.00x duplication and zero dangling references. The pre-tag
    upstream is kept at openapi/_original/venueauthority-openapi-2026-08-21-untagged.json. SECOND, the client packages exist:
    packages/node-sdk, packages/python-sdk and packages/mcp-server are present in the repository, each carrying its own MIT
    LICENSE, and release clients-v0.1.0 publishes four build artifacts whose SHA-256 digests are computed by GitHub rather
    than supplied by the provider. The MCP package''s declared dependencies resolve on npm at the pinned versions. npm and
    PyPI return 404 for these package names, which matches the provider''s own statement that no registry-availability claim
    is being made; no registry pointer is recorded here. Every URL added to common[] was fetched against a control probe of
    four plausible-but-absent paths (/openapi.yaml, /sdk, /docs/changelog.json, /.well-known/security.txt) that all returned
    real 404s, so the 200s are genuine routes.'
  not_recorded:
  - The provider's apis.json declares maintainers[0].organizationName "Zupa Print", which does not match any other Venue Authority
    surface. Left out of maintainers here pending confirmation from the provider rather than recorded as the operating entity.
  - https://venueauthority.com/.well-known/apis.json returns 404. The apis.json copy held under well-known/ in this repo is
    a harvest of https://venueauthority.com/apis.json, not evidence of a .well-known catalog, and is not scored as one.

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