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Merchant Services

Score 18.5 / 100 27 providers +5 via APIs 8 APIs Search apis.io →

Providers using this tag (27)

Ranked by API Evangelist rating — Exemplar and Strong are expanded by default.

Exemplar 1 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
Strong 1 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Developing 7 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 6 Limited public surface area
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
Minimal 6 Almost no public developer surface
Unrated 1 Not yet scored

APIs with this tag (8)

Ranked by the provider's API Evangelist rating — the Kin Score is scored per provider, not per API, so every API of a provider shares its band. How the rating works →

Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Thin 1 Limited public surface area
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented

Companies reaching this through an API (5)

These companies publish an API, specification or operation carrying “Merchant Services” but do not classify their business under it. Listed unranked and kept out of the count above, because one tagged operation is not a statement about what a company does.

Commonwealth Bank Deutsche Bank QuickBooks Online Suncorp Bank Tribe Payments

Score breakdown

Frequency
42.2
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.7
spread across providers
Quality lift
34.2
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.8
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Related tags

Payment Processing 13 co-occurrences Acquiring 6 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 9 co-occurrences Refunds 9 co-occurrences Point-of-Sale 9 co-occurrences Invoicing 5 co-occurrences Payments 31 co-occurrences Transaction 7 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag27
Api tag8

Cohort brief

Auto-generated

The 25 providers in the APIs.io catalog tagged Merchant Services, scored on the Kin Score. Every figure below is computed from the catalog — nothing here is written.

Providers
25
all scored
Mean Kin Score
31.4
+7.5 vs catalog 23.9
Mean Agent Readiness
21.4
+9.4 vs catalog 12
Spread
1.5–75.3
median 31.8 · σ 18.4
How the 25 split by band
Exemplar 1Strong 1Developing 7Thin 6Emerging 5Minimal 5
Facet averages, against the whole catalog
FacetThis cohortCatalogDifferenceScored
Contract Quality 31.3 19.8 +11.5 25
Developer Ergonomics 34.6 23.4 +11.2 25
Operational Transparency 20.1 14 +6.1 25
Discoverability 66.6 61.2 +5.4 25
Contract Governance 8.3 6.4 +1.9 25
Access Clarity 27.9 26.5 +1.4 25

A facet is averaged over the members that carry it, not over the whole cohort — the “Scored” column is that count. Averaging an absent facet as zero would score our own coverage gaps as the providers’ posture.

What this cohort publishes
ArtifactThis cohortCatalogDifference
MCP server (any) 15% 10% +5
MCP server (first-party) 19% 13% +6
Agent Skills 0% 0% 0
OAuth scopes 15% 11% +4
Security 100% 97% +3
Arazzo workflows 12% 2% +10
Governance rules 12% 14% -2

mcp_pct counts any mcp/ artifact including ones API Evangelist derived from the provider OpenAPI; mcp_first_party_pct counts only servers the provider publishes. Prefer the latter.

Top by Kin Score
  1. 1 Stax 75.3
  2. 2 Helcim 55.8
  3. 3 Satispay 51.4
  4. 4 CoinGate 47
  5. 5 Tamara 47
  6. 6 Teya 45.9
  7. 7 Paystone 45.2
  8. 8 Zettle 45.2
  9. 9 Moneris 44.9
  10. 10 Zip 37.5
Top by Agent Readiness
  1. 1 Moneris 52.6
  2. 2 Stax 48
  3. 3 Helcim 41.5
  4. 4 Satispay 41
  5. 5 Teya 37.2
  6. 6 Till Payments 35.4
  7. 7 Zettle 34.6
  8. 8 Deluxe Corporation 32.8
  9. 9 Paystone 30
  10. 10 CoinGate 27.3
All 27 members of this roster resolve to a scored provider in the catalog.Generated from the catalog build of 15 September 2026, across 27661 providers, using the same computation served by the APIs.io cohort API. Briefs are published for rosters of 5 or more scored providers; below that a distribution is not meaningful.

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