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# Docusign Admin API 101

> Learn about the Docusign Admin API, how you can use it to simplify managing your accounts, and about how organizations are structured.

The Docusign Admin API enables you to automate user management with your existing systems while ensuring governance and compliance. You must have Docusign Admin enabled on your enterprise account to use this API in production, but it is available in the development environment.

In this section, you can learn about key concepts of the Docusign Admin API, including API functionality, the API data model, authentication for API calls, and application authentication.

#### [Docusign Admin concepts](/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts)

Learn about the Docusign Admin API, including API functionality and the API data model

#### [Docusign Admin authentication](/docs/admin-api/admin101/auth)

See which scopes are required to use Docusign Admin

#### [How-to guides](/docs/admin-api/how-to)

Explore how-to guides demonstrating how to use the API to administer your organization

#### [Docusign Admin API reference](/docs/admin-api/reference)

Delve into API methods with the complete reference to Docusign Admin API calls

> Learn about the Docusign Admin API, how you can use it to simplify managing your accounts, and about how organizations are structured.

## Docs

- [Versioning](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/versioning.md): Learn about the differences between versions of the Docusign Admin API.
- [Docusign Admin API concepts](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts.md): Discover core concepts of the Docusign Admin API: Admin functions, the Admin API data model, and more.
- [Admin API data model](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/data-model.md)
- [Organization administrators](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/org-admins.md): See what organization administrators do for an organization and how they differ from eSignature account administrators.
- [API vs UI-only functionality](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/api-vs-ui-functionality.md): Learn about the differences between API and UI-only functionalities in Admin tasks.
- [Groups](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/groups.md): Learn about Docusign Admin API groups.
- [Permission profiles](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/permission-profiles.md)
- [Delete personal data for your users](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/concepts/delete-personal-data.md): Learn about options for deleting personal data from closed user memberships in your account or organization.
- [Create new eSignature accounts](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/create-accounts.md): Learn how to create new eSignature accounts through the Docusign Admin API.
- [Clone eSignature accounts](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/clone-accounts.md): Learn about account cloning, which enables you to create an eSignature account in your organization by copying features of an existing account.
- [Authentication](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/auth.md): Learn how to request Docusign Admin API scopes and authenticate to call the endpoints.
- [Application-access tokens](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/application-auth.md): For use only with the Docusign Admin API, Application-access tokens are an alternative to using the JWT Grant to impersonate a user with account admin or organization privileges.
- [Rules and resource limits](https://developers.docusign.com/docs/admin-api/admin101/rules-and-limits.md): Explore the rules and resource limits of the Docusign Admin API.