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Shopee

Shopee is Southeast Asia's largest e-commerce marketplace, operated by Sea Limited and active across Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, and select markets in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile) and Europe (Spain, Poland). Shopee Open Platform (open.shopee.com) exposes a partner / seller-facing REST API (v2) covering shop configuration, product / SKU management, order processing, logistics and shipping label generation, returns and refunds, discounts and vouchers, payments, push notifications, and global cross-border product management. Authentication uses a partner ID + partner key with per-shop access tokens issued via OAuth- style shop authorization.

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 Shopee the way a machine reads it — 21 machine-readable artifacts across 17 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 — Shopee 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 22.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 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 Shopee

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Shopee. 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 17

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.

Shopee Shop Authorization API

The shop authorization flow lets a Shopee seller grant a registered partner application access to their shop. The partner receives a per-shop access token (and refresh token) us...

Shopee Shop API

Manage shop-level configuration: shop info, shop profile, shop notification, shop notice, warehouse details, and authorised category list.

Shopee Product API

Create, update, retrieve, and delete products and SKUs; manage product attributes, variations, media, stock, and price; submit and check Shopee's category attribute tree.

Shopee Order API

Retrieve order list, order detail, order status updates, buyer information, and items. Supports order cancellation, split, and dispute information.

Shopee Logistics API

Manage shipping for Shopee orders: get shipping parameter, ship order, get shipping document, get tracking number, tracking info, update channel, channel list, and address.

Shopee Returns API

Retrieve return requests, return detail, dispute reasons, and offer to accept / dispute returns initiated by buyers, with proof-of-return upload and refund coordination.

Shopee Discount API

Create and manage shop-level discount campaigns: add / update / delete discounts, manage discount items, and retrieve discount lists and details.

Shopee Voucher API

Create, update, list, and end vouchers; manage voucher coverage (product / order level), display channels, and target audience for shop and platform-tier promotions.

Shopee Bundle Deal API

Create and manage bundle deal promotions ("buy X for Y price") at the shop level, including bundle deal items and shop list operations.

Shopee Add-on Deal API

Add-on Deal API supports "buy main item, get add-on at discount" promotions — including add-on deal CRUD and add-on item management.

Shopee Payment API

Retrieve payout, escrow detail, payment method list, billing transaction info, and wallet transaction list for reconciliation of Shopee marketplace settlements.

Shopee Account Health API

Surface shop performance metrics — penalty points, listing violations, late shipment rate, cancellation rate, and other operational health indicators.

Shopee Public API

Public endpoints that do not require shop authorization — get shops by partner, refresh access token, get shop and merchants info, and warehouse / region utilities.

Shopee Push (Webhook) API

Subscribe to push notifications for order, item, return, logistics, payment, and shop events; manage push configurations and verify Shopee's HMAC signatures on every delivery.

Shopee Global Product (CBSC) API

Cross-Border Seller Center (CBSC) APIs let global sellers manage a single master product catalog and publish to one or many Shopee country shops, with per-region price and stock...

Shopee Merchant API

Merchant-level operations for Shopee Mall and CB Merchant accounts that own multiple shops — including merchant info, shop list, and merchant warehouse management.

Shopee First-Mile API

First-Mile APIs (for cross-border sellers) manage the consolidated outbound shipment from a seller's home market into Shopee's destination-country logistics network, including m...

Scroll within the panel for all 17 ·

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.

Shopee 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.

Shopee 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.

Shopee Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Shopee — 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

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