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# Using the Future Ordering API

This section covers everything you need to start using the Future Ordering APIs: obtaining credentials, authenticating your requests, and understanding the API's behaviour and versioning rules.

## In this section

- [Obtaining an API Client](obtaining-a-client.md) — How to request the credentials your integration needs.
- [Authentication](authentication.md) — How to authenticate requests using OAuth 2.0 client credentials.
- [API conventions](api-conventions.md) — Versioning, error responses, rate limits, and request size limits.
- [Breaking changes](breaking-changes.md) — How Future Ordering communicates and handles breaking changes to the API.
- [Example: Your first request](get-started.md) — A working example to make your first authenticated API call.