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Canal

Canal (now Rokt Catalog, following Rokt's acquisition of Canal) is a dropship and marketplace commerce platform that lets brands, retailers, and platforms sell curated third-party products without holding inventory. Suppliers (Brands) list products into Canal's vetted network; Storefronts (Partners) surface those products, and Canal forwards each order to the Supplier who ships directly to the customer. The Rokt Catalog Platform API (api.shopcanal.com/platform) exposes products, variants, orders, fulfillments, refunds, returns, shops, shipping/tax calculation, and webhooks so custom, headless, and marketplace backends can integrate alongside the native Shopify, WooCommerce, and BigCommerce apps. Canal was an a16z portfolio company.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Canal the way a machine reads it — 38 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Canal scores 39.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 31/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0
Canal Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Canal

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Canal. 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 17

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.

Canal csv API

The csv API from Canal — 3 operation(s) for csv.

Canal fulfillments API

The fulfillments API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for fulfillments.

Canal markets API

The markets API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for markets.

Canal max-shipping-rates API

The max-shipping-rates API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for max-shipping-rates.

Canal orders API

The orders API from Canal — 6 operation(s) for orders.

Canal product_sets API

The product_sets API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for product_sets.

Canal products API

The products API from Canal — 5 operation(s) for products.

Canal refunds API

The refunds API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for refunds.

Canal returns API

The returns API from Canal — 4 operation(s) for returns.

Canal selection API

The selection API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for selection.

Canal shipping API

The shipping API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for shipping.

Canal shipping-rates API

The shipping-rates API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for shipping-rates.

Canal shops API

The shops API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for shops.

Canal tax-and-shipping API

The tax-and-shipping API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for tax-and-shipping.

Canal tax API

The tax API from Canal — 1 operation(s) for tax.

Canal variants API

The variants API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for variants.

Canal webhooks API

The webhooks API from Canal — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.

Scroll within the panel for all 17 ·

Open Collections 18

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).

Scroll within the panel for all 18 ·

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Canal Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 2

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.

Canal Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Canal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Canal — 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 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

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 2

The organization behind the API

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Canal, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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