# Overview

- The TMF632 API provides a standardized mechanism for party management, such as creation, update, retrieval, and deletion of parties (individual and organization).
- Using TMF632 API for individuals you can perform the following operations.
  - Retrieve the list of individual parties from the system
  - Get the individual party details
  - Create an individual party
  - Update an existing individual party
  - Delete an existing individual party
- Using TMF632 API for organizations you can perform the following operations.
  - Retrieve the list of organization parties from the system
  - Get the organization party details
  - Create an organization party
  - Update an existing organization party
  - Delete an existing organization party

In general, consider the following use cases based on the operation you want to perform.

- [Use Cases for Individual](/docs/industries/communications/guide/use-cases-for-individual.md)
- [Use Cases for Organization](/docs/industries/communications/guide/use-cases-for-organization.md)

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Starting from the Winter ’27 release, only the Direct Access option is supported for this API.
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## Assumptions

It is assumed that you have completed the following.

- [Enabling Access to Industry APIs](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sf.access_industry_api.htm\&type=5)
- Ensuring that the required licenses are enabled. See [TMF632 v5 Party Management API](/docs/industries/communications/guide/TMF632.md).

**NOTE:**

- For mandatory fields and resource mappings, see [TMF632 v5 Resource Mappings](/docs/industries/communications/guide/tmf632\_resource_mapping.md).