# HirePulse Verified Merchant Badge

> HirePulse Verified Merchant Badge is a paid API for AI agents from gethirepulse.xyz, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Returns a verified merchant trust badge assessment for a given domain, indicating whether the merchant meets trust and legitimacy criteria.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://gethirepulse.xyz/v1/merchant-badge?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hirepulse-verified-merchant-badge-369ef843
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jcTRKivwFXMyKgt6y-Wsu

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability hirepulse-verified-merchant-badge-369ef843 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you check if shopify-store-example.com has a verified merchant badge and tell me whether it's a trustworthy online store?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need a quick, low-cost ($0.005) binary or graded trust signal for a merchant domain — especially useful before a purchase, partnership, or vendor onboarding decision. Prefer this over the full Vendor Stability Evaluator ($0.10) when you only need a surface-level badge check rather than a deep financial/operational stability report. First 5 calls per day are free, making it ideal for lightweight agent workflows that screen many domains.

## Known failure modes

- Domain not found or unresolvable — empty result returned, no charge
- Domain too short or malformed (under 4 characters or over 253) — validation error
- Merchant has insufficient signals to verify — returns unverified or empty badge
- Network timeout or upstream data unavailability — service error returned
- Domain includes scheme or path (e.g. https://example.com/path) — rejected, must be bare domain

## How this service works

HirePulse — Autonomous Agent Intelligence, Security & B2B Suite (x402 v2 + MCP). Live Web-to-Markdown ($0.002), x402/MCP Merchant Security & Anti-Poisoning Scanner ($0.002), Blind Privacy Proxy ($0.02 single / $0.04 bundle), B2B Contact & MX Verifier ($0.01), Tech Stack ($0.005), Hiring Intent & Active Google Ads ($0.01), Pre-Purchase Merchant Trust Check ($0.005), Checkout Promo Code Finder ($0.01), Product URL-to-JSON ($0.002), Vendor Stability Evaluator ($0.10), Agentic Store Readiness Auditor ($0.01), Conversion-Leak Lead Finder ($0.05), Shelf Schema Comparator ($0.02), Verified Merchant Badge ($0.005). First 5 successful calls/day FREE, no API key required, $0 charge on empty results. Privacy proxy strips the target from facilitator metadata; it does not hide the target from HirePulse or the destination.

## Output

Returns a verified merchant badge result for the submitted domain, indicating whether the merchant meets HirePulse's trust and legitimacy criteria. On empty results, no charge is applied. Response is a structured JSON object with badge status and supporting trust signals.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "domain": {
   "type": "string",
   "examples": [
    "example.com"
   ],
   "maxLength": 253,
   "minLength": 4,
   "description": "Public domain without scheme, path or port."
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hirepulse-verified-merchant-badge-369ef843/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from gethirepulse.xyz](https://www.zero.xyz/host/gethirepulse.xyz/llms.txt)