Zinc
Zinc provides a single API that lets developers, AI agents, and businesses purchase products from thousands of online retailers—including Amazon, Walmart, and Target—without building individual integrations. The platform handles the full e-commerce lifecycle, from product discovery and ordering to tracking and returns, across a catalog of over 500 million items. With over 21 million orders processed, Zinc offers usage-based pricing at $1 per successful order and $0.01 per product data API call.
- Commerce & Shopping
- Developer Tools
- Software Only
Funding
Founders
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Product
Problem
Developers, AI agents, and businesses that need to purchase products from online retailers face a significant integration burden. Each retailer requires a custom integration, and many lack public purchasing APIs, forcing teams to build and maintain fragile automations or rely on manual checkout processes. This limits the ability to scale procurement, build commerce applications, or enable autonomous agents to complete purchases.
Solution
Zinc provides a single API that covers the entire e-commerce purchasing lifecycle—from product discovery, to ordering, to tracking, to returns—across thousands of retailers including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Etsy, and Shopify stores. The platform enables one-shot purchasing for AI agents, with search, buy, and payment settlement in a single API call. For developers, Zinc offers a stable integration that handles the complexities of retailer checkouts, while businesses can automate procurement using their existing retailer accounts and negotiated pricing. The API returns structured product data with live pricing, availability, and specifications, and supports agent-native payments via USDC on Solana, Base, or Tempo, as well as fiat via Stripe.
Target Audience
Primary customers are developers building AI agents, e-commerce platforms, marketplaces, and internal tools that need to purchase products programmatically, as well as businesses seeking to automate procurement and dropshipping operations at scale.
Features
- Single API for search, order, track, and return across thousands of retailers including Amazon, Walmart, Target, Etsy, and Shopify stores
- Catalog of over 500 million products with structured metadata including images, descriptions, specs, and variant options
- Real-time pricing and availability data via product offers endpoint, enabling cost calculation before ordering
- Agent-native payment support via x402 and MPP protocols, accepting USDC on Solana, Base, or Tempo, and fiat via Stripe
- MCP connector for AI agent integration, plus TypeScript SDK and comprehensive API documentation
- Programmatic checkout with control over variants, shipping speed, and delivery options
- Built-in tracking and returns management across the order lifecycle
- Volume discounts available for processing thousands of orders or API calls per month