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Clover

Clover is a Fiserv-owned point-of-sale platform for small and mid-size merchants. The Clover developer platform exposes the Clover REST API for inventory/orders/customers/transactions, the Ecommerce API for online payments, an Android Payments API and Clover Android SDK for native apps on Clover devices, the REST Pay Display API for semi-integrated POS, the Remote Pay SDKs (cloud, Windows, iOS, Android), and the Clover Go SDK.

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 Clover the way a machine reads it — 51 machine-readable artifacts across 14 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 — Clover scores 51.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 51.8/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 8.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Clover

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Clover. 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 14

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.

Clover Android SDK

Native SDK for Android apps running on Clover devices, with access to merchant data and device hardware.

Clover Android Payments API

Payment-processing API for Android apps on Clover devices that abstracts device configuration.

Clover REST Pay Display API

Semi-integrated POS API for merchant-facing Pay Display flows on Clover devices.

Clover Remote Pay SDKs

Remote Pay SDKs for Cloud, Windows, iOS, and Android integrations with Clover devices.

Clover Go SDK

Mobile SDK (iOS, Android) for accepting card-present payments via Clover Go readers.

Clover CHARGES API

The CHARGES API from Clover — 3 operation(s) for charges.

Clover CHECKOUT API

The CHECKOUT API from Clover — 1 operation(s) for checkout.

Clover CUSTOMERS API

The CUSTOMERS API from Clover — 2 operation(s) for customers.

Clover EMPLOYEES API

The EMPLOYEES API from Clover — 3 operation(s) for employees.

Clover INVENTORY API

The INVENTORY API from Clover — 5 operation(s) for inventory.

Clover ORDERS API

The ORDERS API from Clover — 4 operation(s) for orders.

Clover PAYMENTS API

The PAYMENTS API from Clover — 2 operation(s) for payments.

Clover REFUNDS API

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

Clover TOKENS API

The TOKENS API from Clover — 1 operation(s) for tokens.

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Open Collections 2

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).

Clover Ecommerce API

OPEN COLLECTION

Clover Platform REST API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Clover Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

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.

Clover Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 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.

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Clover Ecommerce Api Context

2 classes · 47 properties

JSON-LD

Clover Platform Rest Api Context

6 classes · 118 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

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.

Clover API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Clover API Rules

36 rules · 10 errors · 21 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 8

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Charge

46 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Refund

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Category

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Customer

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Employee

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Item

28 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order

36 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Payment

44 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 8

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Ecommerce Api Charge Structure

46 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Ecommerce Api Refund Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Category Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Customer Structure

12 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Employee Structure

18 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Item Structure

28 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Order Structure

36 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Rest Api Payment Structure

44 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 8

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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.

Clover Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Clover Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · 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.

Clover Scopes

13 scopes · authorizationCode

13 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.

Clover Agentic Access

36 operations · 18 acting

36 operations · 18 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Clover — 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.

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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