Awardco
Awardco is an all-in-one employee recognition, rewards, and engagement platform built around a global rewards marketplace that includes a native Amazon Business integration, gift cards, service awards, and swag. Awardco exposes a documented public REST API at https://api.awardco.com/api for administrators and integration partners - callers authenticate with a permission-scoped API key passed as a request header, all responses are JSON with a success flag, and all timestamps are ISO 8601. The API is not open self-serve - it is gated behind an Awardco account and the API Key Management permission, and partners additionally send an X-Partner-Id header. Documented capabilities cover user provisioning (create, import, reset password), recognizing employees and awarding points, and retrieving or scheduling reports. Awardco also ships prebuilt HRIS, SSO/SAML, Slack, and Microsoft Teams integrations plus Awardco Connect for custom flows. Exact request and response schemas for individual methods are not published on the open web, so the API surfaces below are modeled from Awardco's public documentation and help center rather than a released OpenAPI definition.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Awardco the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 4 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Awardco scores 22.2/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 16/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Awardco
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Awardco. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Awardco Users API
Provision and manage employees in an Awardco instance. Awardco's public documentation names Create User, Import Users (bulk), and Reset User Password endpoints, all flagged as s...
Awardco Recognition API
Programmatically recognize employees and issue recognition tied to an organization's programs and values. Awardco documents that API keys with the appropriate permission can rec...
Awardco Points and Awards API
Award, adjust, and reconcile employee point balances that fund redemptions in Awardco's rewards marketplace (Amazon Business, gift cards, swag, and service awards). Awarding and...
Awardco Reporting API
Retrieve reporting data and program activity over REST. Awardco documents that reporting templates can be exported to CSV or scheduled to send via its REST API, and that API key...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Awardco Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Awardco Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Awardco — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/awardco · machine-readable index on apis.io