# Elastic Path Authentication Realms API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-authentication-realms-api/  
**Provider:** Elastic Path — https://apis.io/providers/elastic-path/  
**Base URL:** https://useast.api.elasticpath.com  
**Documentation:** https://developer.elasticpath.com/api

Elastic Path Authentication Realms API is one of 100 APIs that [Elastic Path](https://apis.io/providers/elastic-path/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Authentication Realms. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

An authentication realm is a container that consists of the following: - Users - Represented by [User Authentication Info](/docs/api/single-sign-on/user-authentication-infos) objects - Authentication profiles - Ways for the users to authenticate, such as one or more [OpenID Connect Profiles](/docs/api/single-sign-on/oidc-profiles) or [Password Profiles](/docs/api/single-sign-on/password-profiles) - Mappings between users and authentication profiles - [User Authentication OpenID Connect Profile Info](/docs/api/single-sign-on/user-authentication-oidc-profile-infos) or [User Authentication Password Profile Infos](/docs/api/single-sign-on/user-authentication-password-profile-infos) Here's a domain diagram showing these relationships ![authentication realm](/assets/authentication-realm-domain.png) Composable Commerce comes with three per-store pre-set realms: - Buyer Organization. For customers: users who buy products from your store. - Merchant Organization. For administrators: users who log in to Commerce Manager to modify the store’s settings or catalog. - Account Management Realm. For account members: users who buy products from your store on behalf of accounts. Password profiles are only available for account management realm.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elastic-path/refs/heads/main/openapi/elastic-path-authentication-realms-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developer.elasticpath.com/api

## Other Elastic Path APIs (12)

- [Elastic Path GraphQL API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/graphql-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Addresses API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-addresses-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Authentication Settings API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-authentication-settings-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Cart Associations API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-cart-associations-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Management Authentication API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-management-authentication-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Members API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-members-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Membership API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-membership-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Membership Settings API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-membership-settings-api/)
- [Elastic Path Account Tags API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-account-tags-api/)
- [Elastic Path Accounts API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-accounts-api/)
- [Elastic Path Administrator Latest Releases Catalog API API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-administrator-latest-releases-catalog-api-api/)
- [Elastic Path Application Keys API](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-application-keys-api/)

## Tags

Authentication Realms

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/elastic-path/elastic-path-authentication-realms-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/elastic-path/.