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Cart.com

Cart.com is a unified commerce and logistics provider for B2C and B2B brands, combining an ecommerce storefront platform (the former AmeriCommerce Online Store), marketplace and channel management, order management, warehouse management, and a nationwide fulfillment network into a single operating system for commerce. Its developer surface is the Online Store API — a JSON REST API published as OpenAPI 3.1 covering catalog, orders, carts, customers, content, marketing, shipping and store settings — plus a webhook subscription system with thirty event types, an OAuth 2 authorization flow with coarse read/write scopes, and a client-side JavaScript Client API for storefront themes.

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 Cart.com the way a machine reads it — 8 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 — Cart.com scores 55.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 47/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 55.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.7 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 12.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 10.9 / 13
Governance 1.4 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 47/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract derived 2.5 / 10
MCP Server derived 3.0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics documented 4.0 / 8
Request/Response Examples partial 3.5 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling documented 3.5 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills derived 1.3 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Cart.com Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Cart.com

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cart.com. 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 1

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.

Cart.com Online Store API

The Cart.com Online Store API (formerly the AmeriCommerce REST API) is a JSON REST API scoped to a single merchant storefront domain. It exposes 136 paths and 262 operations acr...

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.

cart-com-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

Cart Com Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

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.

Cart Com Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cart Com Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Cart Com Scopes

17 scopes · authorizationCode

17 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Cart Com Agentic Access

262 operations · 192 acting

262 operations · 192 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Cart.com — 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 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Cart.com, 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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