# Introduction

### API Overview

The Glu API is formatted around REST  and is available through standard HTTP requests, responses and codes. Response bodies are always JSON, as are your request bodies.

We offer two APIs currently, the first is the [Organisation API](../api/organisation-api) and allows operations that work across the entire organisations data, the contacts, orders, and all balances, some common uses are for bulk data extraction, reporting and syncing between systems and services.

The second is the [Store API](../api/store-api) which accepts OAuth authentication on behalf of a member, the use cases for this API include offering a headless members area backed by the Glu platform.&#x20;
