LiquiDonate
LiquiDonate is a San Francisco based reverse-logistics and donation-disposition platform that turns retail returns, excess inventory and unsellable goods into local nonprofit donations instead of landfill or liquidation. Its matching engine pairs items with nearby nonprofits that want them, buys the shipping label, routes the parcel and generates the donation receipt, so retailers recover tax value and meet extended-producer-responsibility and sustainability obligations. The company sells three product lines - ReturnsDirect (customer-direct returns), WarehouseDirect (warehouse and 3PL excess inventory) and BoxDrop (donation boxes) - and exposes two public developer APIs: MagicMatch, a donation-as-a-service API that accepts parcel and item details and returns a nonprofit match plus a donation shipping label, and ReturnsDirect, a beta returns-management integration for non-Shopify ecommerce platforms built on pushed order data plus HMAC-signed return and refund webhooks. LiquiDonate integrates with Shopify, Loop, EasyPost, FedEx, Bungii, SendGrid and Rise AI, and has been recognized on TIME Best Inventions 2025 and Fast Company World Changing Ideas.
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.
API Evangelist profiles LiquiDonate the way a machine reads it — 9 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 — LiquiDonate scores 56.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile LiquiDonate
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for LiquiDonate. 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.
LiquiDonate Donate API
Bulky, multi-package and pickup-scheduled donations.
LiquiDonate Match API
Match items to nonprofits.
LiquiDonate Orders API
Push order data into ReturnsDirect.
LiquiDonate Retailer API
Retailer account setup and lookup.
LiquiDonate Ship API
Purchase donation shipping labels.
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.
ReturnsDirect by LiquiDonate - Return and Refund Events
Outbound webhook event surface for ReturnsDirect by LiquiDonate. LiquiDonate POSTs return and refund status events to the webhook URL a retailer registers, so the retailer can u...
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for LiquiDonate — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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