# Getting started

- [API specification](https://docs.commercelayer.io/provisioning/getting-started/api-specification.md): Basic info about the Provisioning API available operations, endpoints, headers, rate limits, and error handling
- [Authorization](https://docs.commercelayer.io/provisioning/getting-started/authorization.md): How to authenticate to the Provisioning API
- [Applications](https://docs.commercelayer.io/provisioning/getting-started/applications.md): Commerce Layer open-source back-office applications and their sets of permissions


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