Zettle

Zettle by PayPal is a cloud-based point-of-sale platform (formerly iZettle) that provides REST APIs for managing product inventory, processing card payments, tracking purchases, handling refunds, and accessing merchant financial and account data.

Zettle publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: accounts API and payout API. Tagged areas include Point of Sale, POS, Payments, Inventory, and Finance.

The Zettle catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Zettle’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

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49.0/100 developing ▼ -6.0 Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessSelf serve

8 APIs

Point of SalePOSPaymentsInventoryFinancePayPalCard PaymentsMerchant Services

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 49.0/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready

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 7 / 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 8

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Zettle Rate Limits

6 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 3

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

Examples 3

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Zettle Scopes

1 scope · authorizationCode

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Zettle Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zettle
name: Zettle
description: Zettle by PayPal is a cloud-based point-of-sale platform (formerly iZettle) that provides REST APIs for managing
  product inventory, processing card payments, tracking purchases, handling refunds, and accessing merchant financial and
  account data.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: 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/zettle.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zettle/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: 2026-06-13
modified: 2026-06-13
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- Point of Sale
- POS
- Payments
- Inventory
- Finance
- PayPal
- Card Payments
- Merchant Services
apis:
- name: Zettle OAuth API
  description: OAuth 2.0 authentication and authorisation for Zettle APIs. Supports authorisation code grant with PKCE for
    mobile and partner-hosted apps.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/oauth/overview
  baseURL: https://oauth.zettle.com
  tags:
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  - Authorization
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/oauth/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/oauth/api-reference
- name: Zettle Purchase API
  description: Retrieve purchase transaction history, individual purchase records, and refund data for a merchant account.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/purchase/overview
  baseURL: https://purchase.izettle.com
  tags:
  - Purchases
  - Transactions
  - Refunds
  - Sales
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/purchase/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/purchase/api-reference-md
- name: Zettle Product Library API
  description: Manage the merchant product catalogue including products, variants, prices, and categories.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/product-library/overview
  baseURL: https://products.izettle.com
  tags:
  - Products
  - Catalog
  - Inventory
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/product-library/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/product-library/api-reference
- name: Zettle Inventory API
  description: Track stock levels and inventory movements across merchant locations. Default rate limit is 4 requests per
    second.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/inventory/overview
  baseURL: https://inventory.izettle.com
  tags:
  - Inventory
  - Stock
  - Locations
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/inventory/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/inventory/api-reference
- name: Zettle Image API
  description: Upload and manage product images used in the Zettle product library and POS display.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/image/overview
  baseURL: https://image.izettle.com
  tags:
  - Images
  - Media
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/image/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/image/api-reference
- name: Zettle Giftcard API
  description: Issue, redeem, and manage gift cards for Zettle merchants.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/giftcard/overview
  baseURL: https://giftcard.izettle.com
  tags:
  - Gift Cards
  - Payments
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/giftcard/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/giftcard/api-reference
- aid: zettle:zettle-accounts-api
  name: Zettle accounts API
  description: The accounts API from Zettle — 2 operation(s) for accounts.
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/oauth/overview
  baseURL: https://oauth.zettle.com
  tags:
  - accounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zettle-accounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/finance/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/finance/api-reference
- aid: zettle:zettle-payout-api
  name: Zettle payout API
  description: The payout API from Zettle — 1 operation(s) for payout.
  humanURL: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/oauth/overview
  baseURL: https://oauth.zettle.com
  tags:
  - payout
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/zettle-payout-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/finance/overview
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/api/finance/api-reference
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/zettle-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zettle-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/zettle-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/zettle-scopes.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.zettle.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.zettle.com/docs/get-started
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/izettle
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zettle/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.zettle.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.zettle.com/gb/pricing
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.zettle.com/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/Zettle
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zettle-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zettle-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zettle-finops.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com