Back Market
Back Market is a French-founded global online marketplace dedicated exclusively to refurbished consumer electronics — smartphones, laptops, tablets, consoles, watches, audio and home appliances — operating across 17 countries on three regional platforms (EU via backmarket.fr, North America via backmarket.com, Asia-Pacific via backmarket.co.jp). For the ~1,800 professional refurbishers selling on the platform, Back Market publishes a seller-facing REST API (the "Back Market API Guidelines") covering the marketplace taxonomy, product and listing management, order and orderline workflows, BuyBack (trade-in) orders and listings, Backship deliveries and returns, the Care after-sales platform (claims, messages, refunds, item transfers), and Backbox competitive pricing data. The API is documented as an OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract rendered with Stoplight Elements at api.backmarket.dev, authenticated with a Basic token issued from the seller Back Office, and mirrored by preprod environments on every regional platform.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Back Market the way a machine reads it — 26 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 — Back Market scores 53.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 51/100 (agent ready). 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
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How we profile Back Market
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Back Market. 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 9
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.
Back Market Backbox API
The Backbox API from Back Market — 2 operation(s) for backbox.
Back Market Backship API
The Backship API from Back Market — 4 operation(s) for backship.
Back Market Buy Back API
The BuyBack API from Back Market — 12 operation(s) for buyback.
Back Market Care API
The Care API from Back Market — 6 operation(s) for care.
Back Market Categories API
The Categories API from Back Market — 2 operation(s) for categories.
Back Market Listings API
The Listings API from Back Market — 3 operation(s) for listings.
Back Market Orderline API
The Orderline API from Back Market — 1 operation(s) for orderline.
Back Market Orders API
The Orders API from Back Market — 3 operation(s) for orders.
Back Market Task Manager API
The TaskManager API from Back Market — 1 operation(s) for taskmanager.
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Open Collections 10
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Backbox API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Backship API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Buy Back API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Care API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Categories API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Listings API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Orderline API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Orders API
OPEN COLLECTIONBack Market - API Guidelines Task Manager API
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
back-market-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERRate 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.
Back Market Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
Back Market API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 3
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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Back Market — 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.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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