aid: blackcart
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/blackcart.png
name: Blackcart
description: >-
  Blackcart is a Try Before You Buy (TBYB) platform for ecommerce merchants that
  lets online shoppers order products, receive them at home, and pay only for
  what they keep during a trial window. The platform pairs a proprietary fraud
  and AI order-decisioning engine with storefront integrations for Shopify,
  Magento, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, WordPress, and
  custom storefronts, and charges merchants a revenue share on kept items rather
  than upfront or integration fees. Founded circa 2019 and backed by a 2021
  US$8.8M Series A (investors include 500 Global), Blackcart exposed a Beta REST
  API (order cancellation, refunds, product/store endpoints) documented on
  Stoplight. As of this enrichment pass its primary domains (blackcart.com and
  its *.blackcart.com subdomains) return Fastly "unknown domain" errors and
  blackcart.co serves only a JavaScript redirect shell, indicating the public
  product and developer surface is offline or the company has wound down.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/blackcart/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct-or-offline
x-status-note: >-
  Enrichment 2026-07-18 could not verify a live company surface. blackcart.com
  and shop.blackcart.com return Fastly "unknown domain"; merchantsupport.blackcart.com
  returns Cloudflare error 1034; blackcart.co returns only a JS "Redirecting..."
  parking/cloaking shell. The only live artifact is a stale Beta API doc project
  hosted at blackcart.stoplight.io (its table-of-contents API returns HTTP 500),
  so no OpenAPI, SDK, or /.well-known surface could be honestly harvested. No
  artifact pointers were fabricated against dead domains.
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Try Before You Buy
- eCommerce
- Retail
- Payments
- Shopify
- Fraud Prevention
- Order Management
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://blackcart.co
- type: APIReference
  url: https://blackcart.stoplight.io/docs/blackcart-api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://blackcart.stoplight.io/docs/blackcart-api
- type: Shopify
  url: https://apps.shopify.com/blackcart
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence