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Punchh

Punchh, now part of PAR Technology and offered under the PAR Engagement brand, is an enterprise loyalty, offers, and customer engagement platform for restaurants. It unifies guest data from online ordering, mobile apps, POS, and kiosks into a single view so brands can run personalized loyalty and marketing programs. PAR exposes well-documented Punchh APIs through its developer portal covering platform functions, mobile, online ordering, POS and kiosk integration, and a webhooks manager, with sample collections published to Postman. Most integration surfaces require partner certification. Over 275 restaurant brands rely on Punchh to grow customer lifetime value.

agent native

Reference-quality API operations across every facet — a rich contract, published governance, transparent operations, and machine-readable commercial terms.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Punchh the way a machine reads it — 132 machine-readable artifacts across 15 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 — Punchh scores 71.6/100 (exemplar), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 71.6/100 · exemplar
Contract Quality 17.2 / 25
Access Clarity 10.0 / 20
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Punchh Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Punchh

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Punchh. 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 46

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.

Punchh POS API

Punchh provides robust APIs for integrating POS (Point-of-Sale) terminals with its back end. The integration helps businesses to offer their customers loyalty programs directly ...

Punchh Api2 API

The Api2 API from Punchh — 26 operation(s) for api2.

Punchh Auth API

The Auth API from Punchh — 14 operation(s) for auth.

Punchh Badges API

The Badges API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for badges.

Punchh Beacons API

The Beacons API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for beacons.

Punchh Business Admin Users API

The Business Admin Users API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for business admin users.

Punchh Business Migration Users API

The Business Migration Users API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for business migration users.

Punchh Challenges API

The Challenges API from Punchh — 5 operation(s) for challenges.

Punchh Check In API

The Check-in API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for check-in.

Punchh Check Ins API

The Check-ins API from Punchh — 6 operation(s) for check-ins.

Punchh Check User Balance API

The Check User Balance API from Punchh — 4 operation(s) for check user balance.

Punchh Collectibles API

The Collectibles API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for collectibles.

Punchh Coupons API

The Coupons API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for coupons.

Punchh Custom Segments API

The Custom Segments API from Punchh — 5 operation(s) for custom segments.

Punchh Deals API

The Deals API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for deals.

Punchh Drive Thru API

The Drive-Thru API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for drive-thru.

Punchh E Club API

The eClub API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for eclub.

Punchh Feedback API

The Feedback API from Punchh — 4 operation(s) for feedback.

Punchh File Upload API

The File Upload API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for file upload.

Punchh Franchisee API

The Franchisee API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for franchisee.

Punchh Game API

The Game API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for game.

Punchh Gift Cards API

The Gift Cards API from Punchh — 14 operation(s) for gift cards.

Punchh Invitations API

The Invitations API from Punchh — 4 operation(s) for invitations.

Punchh Locations API

The Locations API from Punchh — 9 operation(s) for locations.

Punchh Loyalty Transfers API

The Loyalty Transfers API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for loyalty transfers.

Punchh Meta API

The Meta API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for meta.

Punchh Meta & Version API

The Meta & Version API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for meta & version.

Punchh Migration API

The Migration API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for migration.

Punchh Notifications API

The Notifications API from Punchh — 5 operation(s) for notifications.

Punchh Offers API

The Offers API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for offers.

Punchh Passcodes API

The Passcodes API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for passcodes.

Punchh Payment Cards API

The Payment Cards API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for payment cards.

Punchh Payments API

The Payments API from Punchh — 7 operation(s) for payments.

Punchh Point Of Sale API

The Point Of Sale API from Punchh — 8 operation(s) for point of sale.

Punchh Redemptions API

The Redemptions API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for redemptions.

Punchh Referrals API

The Referrals API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for referrals.

Punchh Rewards API

The Rewards API from Punchh — 5 operation(s) for rewards.

Punchh Single Scan Code API

The Single Scan Code API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for single scan code.

Punchh Social Cause Campaign API

The Social Cause Campaign API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for social cause campaign.

Punchh Social Cause Campaigns API

The Social Cause Campaigns API from Punchh — 3 operation(s) for social cause campaigns.

Punchh Surveys API

The Surveys API from Punchh — 1 operation(s) for surveys.

Punchh Swag API

The Swag API from Punchh — 4 operation(s) for swag.

Punchh User Management API

The User Management API from Punchh — 5 operation(s) for user management.

Punchh User Sign-up and SSO API

The User Sign-up and SSO API from Punchh — 8 operation(s) for user sign-up and sso.

Punchh Users API

The Users API from Punchh — 35 operation(s) for users.

Punchh WiFi Acquisition API

The WiFi Acquisition API from Punchh — 2 operation(s) for wifi acquisition.

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Postman Collections 7

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 20

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).

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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Punchh Plans Pricing

1 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.

Punchh 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.

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.

Punchh Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 4

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.

Punchh Mobile Context

8 classes · 52 properties

JSON-LD

Punchh Online Ordering Context

4 classes · 27 properties

JSON-LD

Punchh Platform Functions Context

1 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Punchh Pos Context

2 classes · 10 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.

Punchh API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Punchh API Rules

37 rules · 3 errors · 23 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 15

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.

AccessToken

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateUserRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LoginRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MarkOffersReadRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionDetailsRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TransactionDetails

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateUserProfileRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UserSession

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineOrderCheckinRequest

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineOrderCheckinResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineOrderRedemptionRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OnlineOrderRedemptionResponse

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Redeemable

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PosCheckinRequest

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PosUser

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 15

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.

Mobile Access Token Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mobile Create User Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mobile Login Request Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mobile Mark Offers Read Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mobile Transaction Details Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Mobile User Session Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Platform Functions Redeemable Structure

5 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pos Pos Checkin Request Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Pos Pos User Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 15

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 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.

Punchh Authentication

http/apiKey/oauth2-flavoured · 7 schemes

SECURITY

Punchh Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

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.

Punchh Agentic Access

17 operations · 12 acting

17 operations · 12 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Punchh — 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 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Punchh, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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