Zip

Zip is an AI-powered procurement orchestration platform that provides a REST API for managing the full intake-to-pay lifecycle. The API enables developers to build custom integrations that extract, create, and update procurement data including intake requests, vendor onboarding, approval workflows, and contract management. Authentication is handled via API keys passed as Basic Auth credentials, with separate sandbox and production environments available. Zip's platform serves enterprise customers by creating a single front door for all corporate purchase requests and routing them through configurable approval chains before connecting to ERPs and financial systems. The API supports webhook callbacks for async event notifications when procurement workflows complete, enabling deep integration with existing enterprise toolchains.

Zip is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network: Procurement API. Tagged areas include Procurement, Spend Management, Intake to Pay, Approval Workflows, and Vendor Management.

The Zip catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Zip’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, pricing, and 13 more developer resources.

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25.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 14/100 agent aware Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 75/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessEnterprise

1 API

Procurement Spend ManagementIntake to PayApproval Workflows Vendor Management Contract Management Enterprise Software Fintech

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 25.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 8.2 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 2.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 14/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →

11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 11.9 — up to +17.6 composite points Ask about this →
Contract Quality scores 38.7 — up to +15.3 composite points Ask about this →
Access Clarity scores 23.4 — up to +15.3 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Procurement and B2B Buying (source-to-pay suites, spend management)	long-tail	2.5 (thin)	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

Zip Procurement API

The Zip Procurement API is a REST-based interface for automating and integrating enterprise procurement workflows. It provides endpoints for managing intake requests, vendor onb...

Zip API pricing

Not yet checked against Zip's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure.

Plan	Price
Enterprise	—

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Zip Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Zip Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

Compliance 1

Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.

Zip

3 quoted statements, read from Zip's own page on 2026-11-10.

COMPLIANCE

FinOps 1

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

Zip Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

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

Zip Context

11 classes · 26 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

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

Zip Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Zip Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLDContext

JSONLDContext

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Blog

Blog

BlogPosts

BlogPosts

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Attestations

Attestations

Source (apis.yml)

aid: zip
name: Zip
description: Zip is an AI-powered procurement orchestration platform that provides a REST API for managing the full intake-to-pay
  lifecycle. The API enables developers to build custom integrations that extract, create, and update procurement data including
  intake requests, vendor onboarding, approval workflows, and contract management. Authentication is handled via API keys
  passed as Basic Auth credentials, with separate sandbox and production environments available. Zip's platform serves enterprise
  customers by creating a single front door for all corporate purchase requests and routing them through configurable approval
  chains before connecting to ERPs and financial systems. The API supports webhook callbacks for async event notifications
  when procurement workflows complete, enabling deep integration with existing enterprise toolchains.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/zip.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zip/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Procurement
- Spend Management
- Intake to Pay
- Approval Workflows
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Enterprise Software
- Fintech
tags_raw:
- Procurement
- Spend Management
- Intake to Pay
- Approval Workflows
- Vendor Management
- Contract Management
- Enterprise Software
- FinTech
apis:
- aid: zip:zip-procurement-api
  name: Zip Procurement API
  description: The Zip Procurement API is a REST-based interface for automating and integrating enterprise procurement workflows.
    It provides endpoints for managing intake requests, vendor onboarding, approval routing, contract lifecycle management,
    and spend visibility. The API uses API key authentication via Basic Auth and supports webhook callbacks for asynchronous
    notifications on workflow completions.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://zip.com
  baseURL: https://api.ziphq.com
  tags:
  - Procurement
  - Intake Requests
  - Approval Workflows
  - Vendor Onboarding
  - Contract Management
  - Spend Visibility
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.ziphq.com
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://docs.ziphq.com
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/zip-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zip-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://zip.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.ziphq.com
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/ziphq
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/theziphq/
- type: Blog
  url: https://zip.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://zip.com/contact
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.zip.com
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/theziphq
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zip-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zip-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/zip-finops.yml
- type: BlogPosts
  url: blogs/blogs.json
- type: JSONLDContext
  url: json-ld/zip-context.jsonld
- type: Attestations
  url: compliance/zip-compliance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Zip API — frequently asked questions

Does Zip have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Zip, including Zip Procurement API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Zip API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Zip, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Zip API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Zip, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Zip API ready for AI agents?

Zip has a Kin Score of 25.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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