# Bento (Bento for Business)

> RETIRED API PROVIDER. Bento Technologies, Inc. (dba Bento for Business) was a small-business fintech offering card-based payment and expense management — virtual and physical employee and utility cards, per-card spend controls, real-time spend tracking, and accounting integrations. It was acquired by U.S. Bank on 2021-08-31 and its card program was fully discontinued on 2024-06-25. There is no live API. Do not attempt to integrate.

## Status

- Company status: acquired by U.S. Bank (U.S. Bancorp), closed 2021-08-31
- API status: retired, effective 2024-06-25
- api.bentoforbusiness.com — does not resolve (NXDOMAIN)
- apidocs.bentoforbusiness.com — does not resolve (NXDOMAIN)
- bentoforbusiness.com — redirects to U.S. Bank spend management
- No status page, no developer portal, no SDKs, no public source repositories

## Historical API surface (for reference only — not callable)

- Base URL: https://api.bentoforbusiness.com (offline)
- Documentation: https://apidocs.bentoforbusiness.com/ (offline)
- Authentication: per-account Access Key + Secret Key, provisioned manually via api-support@bentoforbusiness.com
- Capabilities: issue employee and utility virtual cards; retrieve card numbers; activate cards and customize billing addresses; read card transactions
- Events: outbound webhooks for completed and declined card transactions

## Successor

- U.S. Bank spend management: https://www.usbank.com/business-banking/business-credit-cards/spend-management.html

## Artifacts in this profile

- Lifecycle and retirement record: lifecycle/bento-lifecycle.yml
- Domain security probe: security/bento-domain-security.yml
- Well-known discovery probe: well-known/bento-well-known.yml
- Profile index: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bento/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Sources

- U.S. Bank acquisition announcement: https://www.usbank.com/about-us-bank/company-blog/article-library/us-bank-to-acquire-small-business-payments-software-company-Bento-Technologies.html
- Acquisition record: https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/u-s-bancorp-acquires-bento--18b1cabf
- Card program wind-down (reloads off 2024-04-30, all services off 2024-06-25): https://www.pexcard.com/blog/bento-for-business-closing-a-smooth-transition-to-pex-ahead/
- Investor profile (Anthemis): https://www.anthemis.com/portfolio/bento/