aid: base-accounts
name: Accounts
type: Base
description: |-
  A base Accounts API for the API Commons — a starting point you copy into your own
  service rather than a hosted API. Partial updates use RFC 7396 JSON Merge Patch, so a client changes one field without sending the whole account back.

  Errors are RFC 9457 problem details, identical across every API Commons base, and
  checked in CI by the API Commons Problem Details Spectral ruleset.
image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Application Programming Interface
- API
- Accounts
- Onboarding
- Users
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-commons/accounts/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.20'
apis:
- aid: base-accounts:accounts
  name: Accounts API
  description: A base Accounts API — the account lifecycle every service reinvents, described once.
  image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  humanURL: https://apicommons.org/base/accounts/
  baseURL: https://api.example.com
  tags:
  - API
  - Application Programming Interface
  - Accounts
  - Onboarding
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-commons/accounts/main/openapi.yml
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/api-commons/accounts
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apicommons.org/base/accounts/
  - type: SpectralRules
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-commons/spectral-problem-details-ruleset/main/problem-details.yaml
  - type: License
    url: https://github.com/api-commons/accounts/blob/main/LICENSE
  contact:
  - FN: API Evangelist
    email: info@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: Commons
  url: https://apicommons.org/base/accounts/
- type: Discussion
  url: https://github.com/orgs/api-commons/discussions
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: info@apievangelist.com