Zippin

Zippin (vCognition Technologies Inc.) builds a checkout-free, cashierless retail platform that uses computer vision, sensor fusion and machine learning to let shoppers enter a store with an app, credit card or campus credential, take what they want and leave without a checkout line. The company sells store formats including the Zippin Retrofit, Zippin Lane, Zippin Walk-Up, Micromarket Lite and Zippin Outdoors, and operates in stadiums, arenas, airports, hotels, theme parks, college campuses and convenience retail. Its integration surface is the Zippin Gateway, an API framework the company says connects the platform to more than 25 third-party systems — payment gateways, loyalty and gift programs, campus card providers, inventory systems, POS and self-service beverage hardware — alongside a Store Dashboard whose Reports Dashboard data can also be pulled through a REST API with nested JSON payloads. Founded by veterans of Amazon and SRI, Zippin is headquartered in San Francisco.

Zippin publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Retail Technology, Checkout Free, and Cashierless.

Zippin’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 17 more developer resources.

15.4/100 emerging Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-05 · rubric v0.18.3
1 APIs
CompanyRetailRetail TechnologyCheckout FreeCashierlessComputer VisionArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningPoint of SalePaymentsLoyaltyInventorySports VenuesAirportsHigher Education

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scored 2026-09-05 · rubric v0.18.3
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APIs 1

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Zippin Gateway

The Zippin Gateway is Zippin's integration/API framework for its checkout-free store platform — the surface retailers and partners use to connect payment gateways, loyalty and g...

Pricing Plans 1

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Zippin Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

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Zippin Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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Zippin Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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Operate 2

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Commercial 3

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Company 7

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: zippin
name: Zippin
description: Zippin (vCognition Technologies Inc.) builds a checkout-free, cashierless retail platform that uses computer
  vision, sensor fusion and machine learning to let shoppers enter a store with an app, credit card or campus credential,
  take what they want and leave without a checkout line. The company sells store formats including the Zippin Retrofit, Zippin
  Lane, Zippin Walk-Up, Micromarket Lite and Zippin Outdoors, and operates in stadiums, arenas, airports, hotels, theme parks,
  college campuses and convenience retail. Its integration surface is the Zippin Gateway, an API framework the company says
  connects the platform to more than 25 third-party systems — payment gateways, loyalty and gift programs, campus card providers,
  inventory systems, POS and self-service beverage hardware — alongside a Store Dashboard whose Reports Dashboard data can
  also be pulled through a REST API with nested JSON payloads. Founded by veterans of Amazon and SRI, Zippin is headquartered
  in San Francisco.
image: https://www.getzippin.com/hs-fs/hubfs/zippinlogocolor-266x68.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/zippin/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-05'
modified: '2026-09-05'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Retail Technology
- Checkout Free
- Cashierless
- Computer Vision
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Point of Sale
- Payments
- Loyalty
- Inventory
- Sports Venues
- Airports
- Higher Education
apis:
- aid: zippin-gateway
  name: Zippin Gateway
  description: 'The Zippin Gateway is Zippin''s integration/API framework for its checkout-free store platform — the surface
    retailers and partners use to connect payment gateways, loyalty and gift providers, campus card systems, inventory systems
    and POS to a Zippin store, and to pull order, cart and reporting data. Zippin''s own retailer documentation describes
    it as "a standard rest API with a nested JSON payload" that a retailer team can call either for a given date or for change
    transactions since a point in time. No public API reference, OpenAPI description or developer portal is published: the
    live host at https://api.getzippin.com answers every /v1/* request with an HTTP 401 authentication_error, so the operation
    surface is reachable only by Zippin customers and integration partners.'
  image: https://www.getzippin.com/hs-fs/hubfs/zippinlogocolor-266x68.png
  humanURL: https://www.getzippin.com/zippin-technology
  baseURL: https://api.getzippin.com/v1
  tags:
  - Checkout Free
  - Retail
  - Reporting
  - Orders
  - Payments
  x-evidence:
    probed: '2026-09-05'
    base_url_status: 401
    base_url_note: GET https://api.getzippin.com/v1 and every path under it returns HTTP 401 {"error":{"type":"authentication_error","code":"authentication_failure"}};
      the bare host root and unknown top-level paths return 404 "default backend - 404". The base URL is recorded from that
      live probe, not from published documentation — Zippin publishes no API reference.
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://support.getzippin.com/hc/en-us/articles/14978971623828-Reports-Dashboard-and-API-pulls
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/zippin-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/about
- type: Support
  url: https://support.getzippin.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/blog
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/blog/rss.xml
- type: Login
  url: https://dashboard.getzippin.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/privacy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/en/retailer-terms
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/partners
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/careers
- type: CaseStudies
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/whitepapers
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.getzippin.com/press-and-resources
- type: Plans
  url: plans/zippin-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/zippin-rate-limits.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/zippin-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/zippin-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/zippin-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/zippin-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-05'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: gated
  reason: customer-only-docs
  detail: Zippin markets the "Zippin Gateway" API framework but publishes no developer portal, no API reference and no machine-readable
    contract anywhere; the live host api.getzippin.com answers every path under /v1 — including paths that cannot exist —
    with an HTTP 401 authentication_error, and the only public description of the API is a single retailer help-center article
    saying it is "a standard rest API with a nested JSON payload".
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.getzippin.com/v1
    status: 401
  - url: https://api.getzippin.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.getzippin.com/v1/zippin-negative-control-7f3ab91c
    status: 401
  - url: https://support.getzippin.com/hc/en-us/articles/14978971623828-Reports-Dashboard-and-API-pulls
    status: 403
  - url: https://support.getzippin.com/api/v2/help_center/en-us/articles/14978971623828.json
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-09-05'

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