Read Pin Payments charges, refunds, balances, transfers and subscriptions without moving money. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Pin Payments connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For businesses that use Pin Payments to collect payments and manage subscriptions.
Find recent charges, inspect a payment and review refunds already issued against it. The server does not charge or refund customers.
Read the account’s available and pending balances by currency, with amounts reported in the currency’s base unit.
Find a bank transfer and inspect the charges, fees, refunds and chargebacks that make up its ledger line items.
Find disputes, inspect their status and deadlines, and review recorded activity before deciding what to handle in Pin Payments.
Find a subscription, review its plan and next billing date, and inspect existing ledger credits and debits without changing the subscription.
The login page asks for your Environment and Pin Payments secret API key.
Find the key in the Pin Payments dashboard under Settings → API Keys. Live and test each have their own keys: choose the matching environment. Pin Payments has no read-only API key: the secret key can create charges, refunds and bank transfers if misused, although this server only sends GET requests. Payment and customer records you request pass to your chosen AI client and its LLM provider. Revoke or replace the key in Pin Payments to stop vendor access. Billing is per secret key and environment; rotating the key starts a new usage and billing identity.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pin-payments": {
"url": "https://pin-payments.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"pin-payments": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://pin-payments.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Environment and Pin Payments secret API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper API key and environment | $9/mo · $90/yr | 10,000 tool calls / month |
| Pro+per API key and environment | $39/mo · $390/yr | 100,000 tool calls / month |
Each paid plan covers this Pin Payments server only. Ask your AI to run pinpayments_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. The change requires your confirmation, keeps your billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. Cancel any time with pinpayments_cancel_subscription: your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and asking to resume the same plan with pinpayments_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
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No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Pin Payments. The server calls the Pin Payments API with your own Pin Payments access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Environment and Pin Payments secret API key. See Before you connect for where to find them.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Environment and Pin Payments secret API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Pin Payments API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Pin Payments.
All 35 Pin Payments tools are marked read-only.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with 10,000 tool calls / month. Pro+ costs $39/mo or $390/yr, with 100,000 tool calls / month. Each subscription covers this Pin Payments server only. Cancel any time: your paid plan then runs to the end of the paid period. Run pinpayments_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run pinpayments_upgrade and choose Pro or Pro+, billed monthly or yearly: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. If you already have Pro, ask to change it to Pro+. After you confirm, your existing subscription changes in place, keeps its billing interval and charges the price difference for the rest of the period immediately. To cancel, run pinpayments_cancel_subscription. Your paid plan continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with pinpayments_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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