API Place – Party Management – Discover (1.0) API – Overview

What is it ?

The API Place Party Management TMF 632 API provides a standard mechanism, based on TM Forum Open API, for party management. The API consists of a simple set of operations to interact with OWF party repository. Party can be an individual or an organisation. Parties will be used in the other APIs to assign a role to an individual or organization in the context of the API.

Use cases

#1 - I want to search for my organization entity to place a quote

I am in a sales administration team, I want to fill the needed information to buy a new access. The quote management api requires to pass a related organization as buyer.

#2 - I want to search for an individual and use it as an interlocutor to place an order

I am in a sales administration team, I want to fill the needed information to buy a new access. The product offering requires to pass a related party as customer interlocutor.

#3 - I want to retrieve the details of an individual

Other apis expose related individuals, I want to get the detail of those individuals.

#4 - I want to create an individual

The needed individual do not exist yet, I want to create a new one.

#5 - I want to update an individual

The needed individual exist but its information has changed, I want to update some part of it.