specification: API Commons Lifecycle
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: Cardtonic
providerId: cardtonic
generated: '2026-09-05'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.cardtonic.com, https://cardtonic.com/developer, https://status.cardtonic.com/ and
  openapi/cardtonic-openapi.yml
modified: '2026-09-05'
description: >-
  Cardtonic runs a URI-versioned API (/v1) and a first-party status page, but publishes no
  versioning policy, no deprecation policy, no changelog and no SLA. Every documented operation is
  marked non-deprecated and "released" in the source project.
versioning:
  style: uri-path
  current_version: v1
  base: https://api.cardtonic.com/v1
  policy_published: false
  policy_url: null
  evidence: 'servers[0].url in openapi/cardtonic-openapi.yml'
  note: >-
    A version segment exists but nothing states what a v2 would mean, how long v1 is supported, or
    how a breaking change is announced.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  evidence: >-
    All 14 operations carry `deprecated: false` and `x-apidog-status: released` in the harvested
    contract; no Sunset or Deprecation response header is declared anywhere.
changelog:
  published: false
  url: null
  evidence: 'https://docs.cardtonic.com/changelog -> 404 (probed 2026-09-05)'
  note: >-
    The Apidog docs site publishes no release notes and no dated entries. The consumer blog at
    https://cardtonic.com/read is product marketing, not an API changelog.
status_page:
  published: true
  url: https://status.cardtonic.com/
  platform: OneUptime
  http_status: 200
  probed: '2026-09-05'
  machine_readable_feed: null
  caveat: >-
    The page is a first-party OneUptime deployment on Cardtonic's own subdomain and answers 200, but
    it is fully JS-rendered and its document title is still OneUptime's default "Status Page" - no
    Cardtonic-named component or incident history could be read without executing JavaScript, and no
    JSON/RSS incident feed was found.
sla:
  published: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    No uptime commitment, support-response target or credit schedule appears on
    https://cardtonic.com/developer or anywhere in the documentation.
maturity:
  stage: waitlist
  evidence: >-
    https://cardtonic.com/developer routes prospective integrators to a Notion waitlist
    (https://thetonictech.notion.site/18807c8de3018052a505f9eb67411054) rather than to
    self-service signup; credentials are issued on request.
  note: >-
    api.cardtonic.com resolves through Cloudflare but returned a plain-text "404 page not found" on
    /, /v1 and on the documented paths to an anonymous caller on 2026-09-05.
support:
  email: support@cardtonic.com
  help_center: https://help.cardtonic.com/en/
  legal_rfi: legal@cardtonic.com
  phone: '+234 (0) 1 343 0626'
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com