Overview

The Merchant Monitoring API allows you to monitor merchant domains and their business web presence, assess trustworthiness and receive ongoing alerts when meaningful changes are detected.

It is designed for platforms and merchants that need reliable, provider-backed intelligence to support onboarding, risk assessment, compliance workflows, or ongoing monitoring.

What Merchant Monitor Does

Merchant Monitoring provides two core capabilities:

• Ongoing Monitoring (notifications via webhook) of domains on a scheduled basis

• Web Presence Check that evaluates trust signals and returns a recommendation

IMPORTANT: Once a domain is registered, monitoring begins immediately. An initial Web Presence Check is attempted asynchronously. In some cases, this check may not complete successfully (for example, due to provider timeouts or incomplete data). When this occurs, the verification can be retried using the Manually Trigger Domain Verification Check endpoint.

High-Level Lifecycle

Below is a diagram that explains, at a high-level, how the Merchant Monitoring API works

Consuming Results

Domain Monitor supports two complementary integration patterns:

Pull-Based (API)

Use the API to retrieve the current state of a domain, including its latest recommendation and timestamps.

Retrieving Domain Data

Push-Based (Webhooks)

Request a webhook endpoint to receive alerts when monitoring detects meaningful changes or events.

Webhook - Monitoring Notifications

Getting Started

To begin integrating with Merchant Monitoring, start by registering your first domain and reviewing the implementation guidelines.

Implementation Guidelines