Lazada
Lazada Group is a Southeast Asian e-commerce platform owned by Alibaba Group since 2016, operating localized marketplaces in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. Lazada Open Platform (openapi.lazada.com) provides a partner-facing REST API for sellers, brands, ERP / OMS vendors, and TP (TaoBao Partner) developers — covering Product / Category catalog, Order processing, Logistics and shipping label generation, Finance and payout reconciliation, Shop and Seller profile, Promotion management (vouchers, FlexiCombo, Sponsored Solutions), Image / asset upload, Returns and reverse logistics, and Bidirectional message webhooks. Authentication uses an App Key + App Secret plus a per-seller access token issued via OAuth-style seller authorization, with all requests signed using HMAC-SHA256 in Alibaba's TOP signature scheme.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Lazada the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 12 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 — Lazada scores 22.0/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Lazada
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Lazada. 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 12
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.
Lazada Seller Authorization (OAuth) API
Seller authorization flow: a Lazada seller grants a registered Lazada Open Platform app permission to call Lazada APIs on their shop's behalf, issuing access and refresh tokens ...
Lazada Product API
Create, update, retrieve, and remove products and SKUs; manage variations, attributes, images, and stock; submit to Lazada Category Tree and Category Attribute APIs.
Lazada Category API
Retrieve Lazada's hierarchical category tree, category attributes, and category-specific attribute values used to structure product submissions.
Lazada Order API
Retrieve orders, order items, order details, and buyer information; pack orders into shipments; set status to ready-to-ship and packed; cancel and reject orders.
Lazada Logistics API
Generate shipping labels (AWB), retrieve shipment providers, manifest pickups, and fetch shipment tracking information across Lazada's regional logistics network (LEX) and 3PL p...
Lazada Finance API
Retrieve transaction details, fee breakdowns, payout history, and invoice records used by sellers and ERPs to reconcile Lazada marketplace settlements.
Lazada Shop / Seller API
Retrieve shop information, seller performance, store categories, store taxonomy, and seller-account metadata.
Lazada Promotion API
Create, update, list, and remove seller-level promotions — vouchers (collectible, shop-wide, item-level), FlexiCombo bundles, and product-level discounts.
Lazada Image API
Upload images to Lazada's CDN-backed image library and retrieve the image URLs used when creating or updating products.
Lazada Returns / Reverse API
Retrieve return requests, return order details, and refund status; submit return acceptance or rejection actions and coordinate reverse-logistics pickup.
Lazada Chat (IM) API
Bidirectional buyer-seller messaging API for in-app conversations on Lazada — including sending and retrieving chat sessions, message lists, and templated responses.
Lazada Push Notification API
Subscribe to push notifications for order, return, item, and IM events; verify message signatures and ack deliveries from Lazada's message channel.
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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.
Lazada Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Lazada Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Lazada Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Lazada — 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.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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