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Merchant Services

Score 16.6 / 100 27 providers +3 via APIs 6 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
StaxPaymentsPayment ProcessingEmbedded Payments1 API72.5
Developing 5 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
HelcimPaymentsCanadaPayment GatewayPayment Processing1 API53.0SatispayPaymentsMobile PaymentsFintechE-Money3 APIs48.3PaystonePaymentsCanadaPayment ProcessingAcquiring1 API43.0TeyaCompanyPaymentsPayment ProcessingCard Acquiring4 APIs42.0MonerisFinancial ServicesPaymentsPayment ProcessingCard Payments1 API41.7
Thin 8 Limited public surface area
TamaraBuy Now Pay LaterFintechPaymentsCheckout3 APIs37.5PoyntCompanyConsumerPaymentsPoint-of-Sale1 API36.0ZettlePoint-of-SalePaymentsInventoryFinance1 API35.0Till PaymentsPaymentsAustraliaPayment GatewayPayment Processing2 APIs32.2ZipBuy Now Pay LaterDigital WalletPaymentsFintech3 APIs31.3FaveCompanyPaymentsFintechQR Payments1 API30.4ZellerPaymentsAustraliaPayment GatewayPayment Processing3 APIs29.7Total System ServicesPaymentsPayment ProcessingCard Issuing2 APIs27.5
Emerging 5 Early or largely undocumented
DeluxePaymentsCard ProcessingACH4 APIs22.5Ant GroupCompanyTechnologyPaymentsFintech1 API25.6First Data (Fiserv)PaymentsFinancial ServicesTransaction Processing2 APIs16.7GreenSkyCompanyFintechConsumer FinancingPoint of Sale Lending14.4PactoCompanyPaymentsPoint-of-SaleFintech11.5
Minimal 8 Almost no public developer surface
littlefishCompanyFinancial ServicesPayments3.299BillCompanyFintechPaymentsPayment Processing8.2PollinateCompanyPaymentsMerchant Acquiring8.0TransFSCompanyPaymentsFintech8.0JumiaE-CommerceMarketplaceAfricaPan-African7.1DgpaysFintechPaymentsPlatform2.1Eliance CorporationCompanyPaymentsPayment ProcessingE-Commerce1.9RomitCompanyPaymentsFintechDigital Wallet1 API0.0

APIs with this tag (6)

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Developing 4 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Acquiring Processor - Acquirer API (ACAPI)Acquirer API (ACAPI, v1) for Tribe's acquiring-processor platform, covering acquirer-side transaction proce...41.3Suncorp Bank Gateway (Mastercard) Payments APISuncorp Bank's merchant payment gateway, a Suncorp-branded instance of Mastercard Payment Gateway Services ...40.1CommBank Merchant PaymentsCommBank provides merchant payment acceptance through EFTPOS terminals, eCommerce gateways, BPAY merchant s...39.4CommBank Payment Gateway APICommBank's merchant Payment Gateway exposes a hosted REST API for online card acceptance, authorisation, ca...39.4
Emerging 2 Early or largely undocumented
First Data Gateway (IPG)The First Data Gateway, marketed by Fiserv as the Internet Payment Gateway (IPG) and documented on the Fise...16.7Fiserv Developer (First Data Legacy)Following the Fiserv merger, legacy First Data API products are now hosted on the Fiserv developer portal. ...16.7

Companies reaching this through an API (3)

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 Suncorp Bank Tribe Payments

Score breakdown

Frequency
41.3
log-scaled weighted occurrences
Breadth
0.6
spread across providers
Quality lift
26.8
mean composite of providers using it
Cohesion
5.0
strength of nearest seed neighbor

Where this tag sits

Payments broader

Related tags

Payment Processing 13 co-occurrences Acquiring 6 co-occurrences Payment Gateway 7 co-occurrences Refunds 8 co-occurrences Point-of-Sale 9 co-occurrences Australia 5 co-occurrences Payments 29 co-occurrences Transaction 8 co-occurrences

Where this tag comes from

Provider tag28
Api tag6

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