> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ebury.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Introduction

> The Ebury API helps you fund and manage your international business by making trading and payments easy to integrate into your applications.

The Ebury API helps you fund and manage your international business by making trading and payments easy to integrate into **your** applications. You choose how and where to deploy your application, and we provide the means to integrate foreign exchange and payment functionalities in them **directly**. The API is modular, with the following core areas of functionality:

* Quotes: Get live rates, either estimated or a short-lived quote that you can use to book a trade;
* Trades: Use a quote to execute a trade;
* Payments: Use a trade to fund payments;
* Multi Payments: Wraps trades, beneficiary management and payments into a "bulk" operation, allowing payments initiation across a number of currencies;
* Account Management: Profile updates, beneficiary management, etc.

In terms of style, the API is a "pragmatic" REST + JSON API with a design approach aimed at simplicity and ease of use. A few notes:

* URIs do not descend more that one i.e. /quotes, /trades, etc.;
* We use links where it makes sense to convey information to our API consumers but we are not religious about full-on HATEOAS/code-on-demand style. If links help we use them;
* We will version our API on major versions only, with the version number defined in the hostname , e.g. [https://api-v1.ebury.io/trades]();
* We'll be looking to add support for Webhooks once our first production release is GA.