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Dojo

Dojo is a United Kingdom payments company (Paymentsense trading as Dojo, headquartered in London) that provides card acquiring and payment processing for in-person, online, and omnichannel merchants. It combines Dojo card machines and terminals, a payment gateway, and merchant tooling (bookings, EPOS integrations, business banking-style accounts) into a single acquirer-processor stack aimed at UK small and mid-market businesses and hospitality. Dojo is genuinely API-native and publishes a public developer portal at docs.dojo.tech with a REST API for payment intents, customers, refunds, captures, terminals, and webhooks, alongside separate specs for transactions, EPOS data ingestion, and Tap to Pay on iPhone. Authentication is a secret API key sent in the Authorization header (sandbox sk_sandbox_ and production sk_prod_ prefixes), and the platform supports webhook event subscriptions. Positioned within the UK's dense card-acquiring and PSP cluster alongside players like Checkout.com and SumUp.

agent native

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 Dojo the way a machine reads it — 11 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Dojo scores 57.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 80/100 (agent native). 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 — 57.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 17.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 10.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 80/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Dojo

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Dojo. 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 5

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.

Dojo API

Dojo's core REST payments API for accepting and managing card payments. Covers payment intents, refunds, reversals, captures, customers, setup intents, terminals, terminal sessi...

Dojo Transaction API

Retrieves transaction records for a merchant. Documented REST endpoint under https://api.dojo.tech for querying processed card transactions. Version 2023-11-12.

Dojo EPOS Data API

A REST contract that a merchant's EPOS (point-of-sale) system implements so Dojo can read orders, tables, areas, parties, and reservations for hospitality integrations. The serv...

Dojo Tap to Pay on iPhone API

API supporting Dojo's Tap to Pay on iPhone in-person acceptance flow, documented under https://api.dojo.tech. Version 2023-12-12.

Dojo EPOS Tester Tool API

A small helper API for the Dojo EPOS Tester tool, used to validate an EPOS integration against Dojo's EPOS Data contract. Version 1.0.0 (2 paths).

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.

dojo-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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.

EPOS Data API (WebSockets)

The Async Websocket API to enable Dojo integrated products. Core modules: - Tables - Areas - Orders - Parties - Reservations API modules can generally be implemented independent...

ASYNCAPI

Security 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.

Dojo Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dojo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Dojo Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

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.

Dojo Agentic Access

75 operations · 52 acting

75 operations · 52 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Dojo — 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 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

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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