# Product and Vendor Profiles API The **Product and Vendor Profiles API** allows you to manage vendor and product profiles within the SoftwareOne Marketplace platform. It allows you to programmatically: * Create and manage vendor profiles. * Create and manage product profiles. * Publish and unpublish catalog entries. * Manage categories, industries, and segments used to organize the catalog. Access to this API is role-based. Clients can view published items only, vendors can manage their own vendor and product profiles, and SoftwareOne Operations have full access to all entities and states. ## Core Concepts The Program API is built around the following core resources: * **Vendor profile** - Represents a `vendor` in the public catalog. * **Product profile** - Represents a `product` in the public catalog. * **Category** - Represents a software category or sub-category, used to classify software in the public catalog. * **Industry** - Represents specific business sectors or markets that products are designed to serve. * **Segment** - Categorizes `products` based on the size and type of organizations for which they are most suitable. ## Collections The API is organized into collections, each containing a set of operations. Access to these operations varies by role, depending on whether you are a `client`, `vendor`, or `operations` user. Refer to the following capability matrix to see which roles are authorized to perform specific operations within each collection: ### Vendor Profile

Capability	Public	Client	Vendor	Operations
List vendor profiles	✅	✅	✅	✅
Get vendor profile details	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create vendor profile	❌	❌	❌	✅
Publish vendor profile	❌	❌	✅	✅
Modify vendor profile	❌	❌	✅	✅
Delete vendor profile	❌	❌	❌	✅

### Product Profile

Capability	Public	Client	Vendor	Operations
List product profiles	✅	✅	✅	✅
Get product profile details	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create product profile	❌	❌	❌	✅
Publish product profile	❌	❌	✅	✅
Unpublish product profile	❌	❌	✅	✅
Modify product profile	❌	❌	✅	✅
Delete product profile	❌	❌	❌	✅

### Categories

Capability	Public	Client	Vendor	Operations
List categories	✅	✅	✅	✅
Get a specific category	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create category	❌	❌	❌	✅
Publish category	❌	❌	❌	✅
Unpublish category	❌	❌	❌	✅
Modify category	❌	❌	❌	✅
Delete category	❌	❌	❌	✅

### Industries

Capability	Public	Client	Vendor	Operations
List industries	✅	✅	✅	✅
Get a specific industry	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create industry	❌	❌	❌	✅
Publish industry	❌	❌	❌	✅
Unpublish industry	❌	❌	❌	✅
Modify industry	❌	❌	❌	✅
Delete industry	❌	❌	❌	✅

### Segments

Capability	Public	Client	Vendor	Operations
List segments	✅	✅	✅	✅
Get a specific segment	✅	✅	✅	✅
Create segment	❌	❌	❌	✅
Publish segment	❌	❌	❌	✅
Unpublish segment	❌	❌	❌	✅
Modify segment	❌	❌	❌	✅
Delete segment	❌	❌	❌	✅