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Hopstack

Hopstack is an AI-native, cloud-based warehouse management system (WMS) and fulfillment operations platform that helps warehouses, 3PLs, and e-commerce operators optimize inbound logistics, inventory, order processing, picking, packing, shipping, and returns across channels. Hopstack exposes a documented RESTful API (referenced at apidocs.hopstack.io) for programmatic access to core resources such as orders and consignments, secured with a per-user X-API-Key generated from the Hopstack Dashboard. API access is gated - a customer must contact Hopstack Support to enable API-key generation in the UI - and the full endpoint surface, base URL, and machine-readable specification are published behind that account/partner reference rather than as a fully open catalog.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Hopstack the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Hopstack scores 20.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 20.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Hopstack

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hopstack. 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 6

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.

Hopstack Orders API

Programmatic access to sales/fulfillment orders - create and manage orders that flow into Hopstack's omnichannel order management and picking, packing, and shipping workflows. O...

Hopstack Consignments API

Programmatic access to consignments - the inbound/receiving records that bring stock into a Hopstack-managed warehouse. Consignments is explicitly called out alongside orders as...

Hopstack Inventory API

Inventory and stock-ledger operations for Hopstack's inventory management module - tracking on-hand quantities, locations, and stock movements across warehouses. Modeled from Ho...

Hopstack Shipments API

Shipment creation and management tied to Hopstack's picking, packing, and shipping workflows and its multi-carrier integrations (FedEx, UPS, DHL, EasyPost, Shippo, and others). ...

Hopstack Products API

Product and SKU catalog management underpinning inventory and orders in Hopstack. Modeled from Hopstack's documented WMS data model; specific API endpoints are not confirmed in ...

Hopstack Warehouses API

Warehouse and location configuration for multi-warehouse, multi-client (3PL) operations. Modeled from Hopstack's documented warehouse management module; specific API endpoints a...

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.

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.

Hopstack Rate Limits

2 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.

Security Posture 1

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.

Hopstack Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Hopstack — 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

Access & Security 1

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

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