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Rotessa

Rotessa is a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based fintech that helps small and mid-sized North American businesses collect recurring payments directly from their customers' bank accounts. In Canada it moves money over the pre-authorized debit (PAD) rails and in the United States over ACH, positioning itself as a low-cost, bank-account-native alternative to card processing for invoices, memberships, subscriptions, tuition, and rent. Rotessa exposes a genuine public REST API (https://api.rotessa.com/v1) that lets platforms and businesses programmatically create customers, verify bank details (including via the Flinks aggregator), and schedule one-time or recurring transactions, backed by a free sandbox (sandbox.rotessa.com) and API-key authentication. As an API-native SMB money-movement fintech, it sits in the thin-but-real account-to-account layer of Canada's payments market, alongside peers like VoPay, Plooto, and Helcim, operating through bank rails and aggregators rather than any live open-banking payment mandate.

agent ready

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Rotessa the way a machine reads it — 7 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — Rotessa scores 37.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 — 37.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Banking & Open Finance 8.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Rotessa

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Rotessa. 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 3

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.

Rotessa Customers API

Create, retrieve, and update the customers (bank-account holders) that Rotessa withdraws recurring payments from. Supports lookup by Rotessa customer ID or by a merchant-supplie...

Rotessa Transaction Schedules API

Create and manage one-time and recurring pre-authorized debit / ACH transaction schedules against a customer's bank account, including schedule frequency, creation by Rotessa cu...

Rotessa Transaction Report API

Retrieve financial transaction records and their status (and status reasons) for reconciliation and reporting via the transaction report endpoint. Base URL https://api.rotessa.c...

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.

rotessa-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Security 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.

Rotessa Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Rotessa Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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.

Rotessa Agentic Access

13 operations · 9 acting

13 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Rotessa — 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

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

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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