Tyro Payments
Tyro Payments is an ASX-listed Australian payments company and one of the country's largest merchant acquirers outside the major banks, holding its own banking licence. Founded in 2003, Tyro provides EFTPOS terminals, in-person and online card acceptance, and integrated payments for more than 70,000 Australian merchants across hospitality, retail and health. Its developer surface, Tyro Connect, is a genuinely API-first platform: a REST API family (served from https://api.tyro.com/connect and secured with OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0) that links Point of Sale software, ordering, booking, loyalty and reporting apps to Tyro merchants, alongside Tyro.js, mobile SDKs and Tap to Pay (SoftPOS) for card-present and online payments. Home market is Australia.
Tyro Payments publishes 21 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Bookings API, Connections API, Locations API, and 18 more. Tagged areas include Payments, Australia, Merchant Acquiring, Payment Gateway, and In-Person Payments.
The Tyro Payments catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.
Tyro Payments’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 41 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
Kin Score
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMV Card Terminals (card acceptance hardware and kernels) | regulated | 56.1 | - | - |
| Australia Consumer Data Right register (accredited data recipients; banking, energy, non-bank lending) | regulated | 56.1 | - | - |
| Australia AFS, Credit and ADI Registers (ASIC + APRA licensing) | regulated | 56.1 | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 4
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.
APIs 21
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Tyro Payments Bookings API
The Bookings API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for bookings.
Tyro Payments Connections API
The Connections API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for connections.
Tyro Payments Locations API
The Locations API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for locations.
Tyro Payments Loyalty API
The Loyalty API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for loyalty.
Tyro Payments Member API
The Member API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for member.
Tyro Payments Menus API
The Menus API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for menus.
Tyro Payments Merchants API
The Merchants API from Tyro Payments — 7 operation(s) for merchants.
Tyro Payments Onboarding API
The Onboarding API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for onboarding.
Tyro Payments Orders API
The Orders API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for orders.
Tyro Payments Pay Methods API
The Pay Methods API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for pay methods.
Tyro Payments Pay Refunds API
The Pay Refunds API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for pay refunds.
Tyro Payments Pay Requests API
The Pay Requests API from Tyro Payments — 4 operation(s) for pay requests.
Tyro Payments API
The Payments API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for payments.
Tyro Payments Readers API
The Readers API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for readers.
Tyro Payments Referrals API
The Referrals API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for referrals.
Tyro Payments Refunds API
The Refunds API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for refunds.
Tyro Payments Registered Card API
The Registered Card API from Tyro Payments — 1 operation(s) for registered card.
Tyro Payments Reporting API
The Reporting API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for reporting.
Tyro Payments Sales API
The Sales API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for sales.
Tyro Payments Tables API
The Tables API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for tables.
Tyro Payments Transactions API
The Transactions API from Tyro Payments — 2 operation(s) for transactions.
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Open Collections 13
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Booking API
OPEN COLLECTIONLocation API
OPEN COLLECTIONLoyalty Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONMenu API
OPEN COLLECTIONOrdering API for App Partners
OPEN COLLECTIONPay API
OPEN COLLECTIONReferrals API
OPEN COLLECTIONRefunds API
OPEN COLLECTIONReporting API
OPEN COLLECTIONSales Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONTable API
OPEN COLLECTIONEmbedded Payments API
OPEN COLLECTIONPay Terminal API
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Agent Skills 4
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
Accept an online card payment and refund it
AGENT SKILLTyro Payments API pricing
Prices published by Tyro Payments, read 2026-10-28 from www.tyro.com/merchant-payment-costs/.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Tyro Pro Touch | 1.3% Transaction fee |
| Tyro Pro Touch rental | $29 Monthly rental |
| Tyro Pro Key | 1.3% Transaction fee |
| Tyro Pro Key rental | $29 Monthly rental |
| Tyro Pro Lite | 1.3% Transaction fee |
| Tyro Pro Lite rental | $19 Monthly rental |
| Tyro BYO App | 1.3% Transaction fee |
| Tyro BYO App rental | $0 Monthly rental |
All 11 plans, limits and sources →
Billed by: transaction · FinOps profile →
Pricing Plans 2
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Tyro Plans Pricing
PLANSTyro Price Estimates
PLANSService Levels 1
Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Tyro Finops
FINOPSEvent Specifications 1
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Tyro Webhooks
ASYNCAPISpectral Rules 1
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
Tyro Payments API Rules
SPECTRALOpenAPI Overlays 13
Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.
Tyro Connect Booking Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Locations Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Loyalty Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Menu Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Ordering Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Pay Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Referrals Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Refunds Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Reporting Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Sales Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Connect Tables Overlay
DERIVEDTyro Pos Pay Terminal Overlay
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Security Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 3
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 8
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 15
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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Source (apis.yml)
Tyro Payments API — frequently asked questions
Does Tyro Payments have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 21 APIs from Tyro Payments, including Tyro Payments Bookings API, Tyro Payments Connections API and Tyro Payments Locations API, and 18 more.
Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Tyro Payments API?
Yes. APIs.io indexes 21 OpenAPI specifications for Tyro Payments, each linked for download from this page.
How do I authenticate with the Tyro Payments API?
Tyro Payments documents its authentication (openIdConnect · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Tyro Authentication.
How much does the Tyro Payments API cost?
Tyro Payments publishes its prices; its Tyro Pro Touch plan is 1.3% Transaction fee as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 11 pricing plans for Tyro Payments, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Is the Tyro Payments API ready for AI agents?
Tyro Payments has a Kin Score of 57.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 42.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.
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