# ivvycode/apidocs architecture

> Architecture diagram of the GitHub repository ivvycode/apidocs, generated by GitDiagram from its file tree, README and a sample of source files (last updated 2026-06-16). It is an AI-made overview: check details against the source.

- Interactive diagram: https://gitdiagram.com/ivvycode/apidocs
- Repository: https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs

## Overview

This repository is not an application runtime; it is a GitBook-style API documentation site for the iVvy platform. The main architectural concern is the documentation information model: shared API foundations first, then product-specific API surfaces, then change notices and integration guides.

1. **Repository purpose**
   - The repo defines the public developer portal for iVvy APIs.
   - Content is authored as Markdown pages, organized into product domains and support/reference sections.
   - The README and `SUMMARY.md` indicate a book-like navigation structure rather than executable code.

2. **Top-level platform boundaries**
   - The docs are split by business domain:
     - `contact/` for Contacts CRM
     - `crm/` for lead/activity/task workflows
     - `events/` for event management APIs
     - `venues/` for venue operations and booking
     - `invoice/` for invoicing and payments
     - `account/` for account/admin lookup and error reporting
     - `partner/` for partner/booking-engine distribution APIs
   - These map directly to distinct API subsystems in the iVvy platform.

3. **Shared integration foundation**
   - `getting-started/` is the cross-cutting integration layer.
   - It covers request construction, signing, headers, encoding, pagination, filtering, exceptions, and date/time formats.
   - This section is the architectural boundary between external clients and the API platform: all product APIs appear to rely on the same authentication/request-signing model.

4. **Request/response contract documentation**
   - The “creating the request” and “interpreting the response” guides document the common protocol used by all API families.
   - The `development-reference/` folder contains low-level rules such as MD5, HMAC-SHA1, JSON encoding, URL encoding, timestamp/timezone formats, and address formatting.
   - This suggests a strongly standardized API contract across products, with cryptographic request signing and shared data encoding conventions.

5. **Events subsystem**
   - `events/` covers event lifecycle data: events, sessions, speakers, attendees, registrations, invited contacts, sponsorships, and login tokens.
   - This is a self-contained domain centered on event operations and participant management.
   - The presence of `create-login-token.md` implies integration points for authenticated attendee or organizer access flows.

6. **Venue operations subsystem**
   - `venues/` is the largest domain and is split into two major sub-areas:
     - `venuedata/` for master/reference data and availability lookup
     - `getoraddbookingdata/` for operational booking workflows
   - `venuedata/` exposes venue configuration objects such as function spaces, rooms, packages, resources, rate plans, taxes, revenue templates, and inventory.
   - `getoraddbookingdata/` handles bookings, sessions, attendees, notes, payments, refunds, documents, status changes, and opportunity conversion.

7. **Accommodation-specific venue flows**
   - `venues/accommodation/` is a specialized booking branch for room reservations and accommodation booking management.
   - It includes reservation creation/update, confirmation, cancellation, status changes, guest contact updates, room counts, and dynamic rates.
   - This indicates a separate accommodation workflow layered on top of the broader venue booking model.

8. **CRM and contact model**
   - `contact/` focuses on people and organizations: contacts, companies, notes, subscription groups, custom fields, and lead-related add/update endpoints.
   - `crm/` focuses on pipeline operations: leads, opportunities, activities, tasks, and classification taxonomies such as source, stage, quality, type, channel, and purpose.
   - Together, these two folders represent the customer and pipeline data model used by multiple product areas.

9. **Commercial and accounting surfaces**
   - `invoice/` documents invoice retrieval, credit notes, payment posting, and invoice options.
   - `account/` contains administrative utilities such as cost centers, industry lists, user lists, email logs, and error reporting.
   - These folders expose operational and financial integration points that sit alongside the core CRM/venue/event domains.

10. **Notifications and event-driven integration**
   - `notifications/` documents endpoint subscriptions and domain-specific notification channels for contacts, companies, CRM, events, payments, and venues.
   - This is the repo’s push-integration layer: instead of clients polling every resource, they can subscribe to domain events.
   - The existence of separate notification pages per domain suggests loosely coupled outbound hooks from the iVvy platform to external systems.

11. **Announcements and versioning**
   - `announcements/` captures product changes and breaking-change notices, grouped by domain.
   - This is the documentation-side change management layer, helping consumers track API evolution across contacts, invoices, venues, and other modules.
   - It signals that the platform is versioned and that client integrations need to account for incremental schema/behavior changes.

12. **Use-case and solution-oriented navigation**
   - `getting-started/use-cases/` groups documentation by consuming system type: accounting systems, CRM systems, point of sale, and property management systems.
   - This shows the intended integration architecture from the consumer perspective: external systems connect to one or more iVvy domains depending on business role.
   - The docs therefore serve both as API reference and as solution architecture guidance.

13. **Tooling and repository shape**
   - The presence of `.gitbook/`, `SUMMARY.md`, and extensive Markdown files indicates GitBook as the documentation framework.
   - `nbproject/` is editor/project metadata and does not appear to affect the public documentation architecture.
   - There is no application service code, database schema, or runtime infrastructure in this repo; the main “system” is the documentation site itself.

14. **How to diagram this repo accurately**
   - Draw the center as a documentation portal with shared integration guidance feeding into product domains.
   - Show the product domains as separate bounded contexts: Contacts CRM, CRM pipeline, Events, Venues, Invoice, Account, Partner.
   - Add cross-cutting layers for request signing/authentication, response conventions, notifications/webhooks, and change announcements.
   - The implied external system boundary is between third-party client applications and the iVvy API platform, with this repo documenting the contract between them.

Main entry points: [`README.md`](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/README.md) (iVvy API Docs), [`notifications/notifications.md`](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/notifications/notifications.md) (Notifications), [`venues/README.md`](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/README.md) (Venues), [`getting-started/README.md`](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/README.md) (Getting Started)

## Diagram (Mermaid)

```mermaid
flowchart TD

subgraph group_grp_portal["Docs Portal"]
  node_portal["iVvy API Docs<br/>documentation site<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_nav["Book Nav<br/>navigation map<br/>[SUMMARY.md]"]
end

subgraph group_grp_foundation["Shared Foundation"]
  node_getting_started["Getting Started<br/>integration guide<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_request_contract["Request Contract<br/>protocol docs<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_response_contract["Response Contract<br/>protocol docs<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_dev_ref["Dev Reference<br/>encoding & crypto<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_use_cases["Use Cases<br/>integration paths<br/>[README.md]"]
end

subgraph group_grp_domains["API Domains"]
  node_contact["Contacts<br/>crm contact api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_crm["CRM<br/>pipeline api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_events["Events<br/>event management api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_venues["Venues<br/>venue operations api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_venue_data["Venue Data<br/>reference data<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_booking_ops["Booking Ops<br/>booking workflow<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_accommodation["Accommodation<br/>room booking api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_invoice["Invoice<br/>billing api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_account["Account<br/>admin utility api<br/>[README.md]"]
  node_partner["Partner<br/>distribution api<br/>[README.md]"]
end

subgraph group_grp_crosscutting["Change & Push"]
  node_notifications["Notifications<br/>push integration<br/>[notifications.md]"]
  node_announcements["Announcements<br/>change notices<br/>[README.md]"]
end

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node_announcements -->|"announces"| node_invoice
node_announcements -->|"announces"| node_venues

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click node_nav "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/SUMMARY.md"
click node_getting_started "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/README.md"
click node_request_contract "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/creating-the-request/README.md"
click node_response_contract "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/interpreting-the-response/README.md"
click node_dev_ref "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/development-reference/README.md"
click node_contact "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/contact/README.md"
click node_crm "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/crm/README.md"
click node_events "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/events/README.md"
click node_venues "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/README.md"
click node_venue_data "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/venuedata/README.md"
click node_booking_ops "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/getoraddbookingdata/README.md"
click node_accommodation "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/accommodation/README.md"
click node_invoice "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/invoice/README.md"
click node_account "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/account/README.md"
click node_partner "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/partner/README.md"
click node_notifications "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/notifications/notifications.md"
click node_announcements "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/announcements/README.md"
click node_use_cases "https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/use-cases/README.md"

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```

## Components

### Docs Portal

GitBook-style documentation site and navigation structure.

- [iVvy API Docs](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/README.md): documentation site · Book-style developer portal for the iVvy platform. · `README.md`
- [Book Nav](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/SUMMARY.md): navigation map · SUMMARY-driven documentation hierarchy and section ordering. · `SUMMARY.md`

### Shared Foundation

Cross-cutting API contract and integration guidance used by all product domains.

- [Getting Started](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/README.md): integration guide · Shared integration layer covering request construction, signing, headers, filtering, pagination, and responses. · `getting-started/README.md`
- [Request Contract](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/creating-the-request/README.md): protocol docs · How clients build requests, provide headers, and sign calls. · `getting-started/creating-the-request/README.md`
- [Response Contract](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/interpreting-the-response/README.md): protocol docs · Shared response interpretation rules including collections, dates, exceptions, filtering, and pagination. · `getting-started/interpreting-the-response/README.md`
- [Dev Reference](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/development-reference/README.md): encoding & crypto · Low-level conventions such as MD5, HMAC-SHA1, JSON, URL encoding, timestamps, time zones, and address formats. · `development-reference/README.md`
- [Use Cases](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/getting-started/use-cases/README.md): integration paths · Consumer-oriented integration guidance for accounting, CRM, point-of-sale, and property-management systems. · `getting-started/use-cases/README.md`

### API Domains

Product-specific API surfaces and operational subsystems.

- [Contacts](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/contact/README.md): crm contact api · Contacts, companies, notes, subscription groups, custom fields, and lead-adjacent contact records. · `contact/README.md`
- [CRM](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/crm/README.md): pipeline api · Leads, opportunities, activities, tasks, and classification taxonomies for pipeline workflows. · `crm/README.md`
- [Events](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/events/README.md): event management api · Events, sessions, speakers, attendees, registrations, invitations, and login tokens. · `events/README.md`
- [Venues](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/README.md): venue operations api · Venue master data and booking workflows, including accommodation-specific flows. · `venues/README.md`
- [Venue Data](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/venuedata/README.md): reference data · Venue configuration, availability lookup, packages, resources, rate plans, taxes, and inventory. · `venues/venuedata/README.md`
- [Booking Ops](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/getoraddbookingdata/README.md): booking workflow · Operational booking data: bookings, attendees, notes, payments, refunds, documents, status changes, and opportunity conversion. · `venues/getoraddbookingdata/README.md`
- [Accommodation](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/venues/accommodation/README.md): room booking api · Room reservation and accommodation booking management layered on the venue model. · `venues/accommodation/README.md`
- [Invoice](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/invoice/README.md): billing api · Invoices, credit notes, payment posting, and invoice options. · `invoice/README.md`
- [Account](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/account/README.md): admin utility api · Administrative lookup and reporting utilities such as cost centers, industries, users, email logs, and error reporting. · `account/README.md`
- [Partner](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/partner/README.md): distribution api · Partner and booking-engine venue lookup surface. · `partner/README.md`

### Change & Push

Documentation for outbound notifications and API change notices.

- [Notifications](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/notifications/notifications.md): push integration · Endpoint subscriptions and domain notification channels for push-style integrations. · `notifications/notifications.md`
- [Announcements](https://github.com/ivvycode/apidocs/blob/master/announcements/README.md): change notices · Domain-scoped product change and breaking-change notices for API consumers. · `announcements/README.md`

## Connections

- iVvy API Docs → Book Nav: organized by · The portal is structured through GitBook navigation.
- iVvy API Docs → Getting Started: starts with · Shared integration guidance is the entry point for all API families.
- iVvy API Docs → Contacts: documents · Contacts API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → CRM: documents · CRM API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Events: documents · Events API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Venues: documents · Venues API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Invoice: documents · Invoice API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Account: documents · Account API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Partner: documents · Partner API domain.
- iVvy API Docs → Notifications: documents · Push integration and subscriptions.
- iVvy API Docs → Announcements: documents · Change notices and breaking changes.
- Getting Started → Request Contract: defines · How to build and sign requests.
- Getting Started → Response Contract: defines · How to interpret API responses.
- Getting Started → Dev Reference: relies on · Shared encoding and cryptography rules.
- Getting Started → Use Cases: frames · Integration guidance by consumer system type.
- Venues → Venue Data: splits into · Master/reference data and availability lookup.
- Venues → Booking Ops: splits into · Operational booking workflows and records.
- Venues → Accommodation: specializes · Room reservation workflow branch.
- Notifications → Contacts: subscribes to · Contact and company notification channels.
- Notifications → CRM: subscribes to · CRM notification channels.
- Notifications → Events: subscribes to · Event notification channels.
- Notifications → Venues: subscribes to · Venue notification channels.
- Notifications → Invoice: subscribes to · Payment notification channels.
- Announcements → Contacts: announces · Contact-related API changes.
- Announcements → Invoice: announces · Invoice-related API changes.
- Announcements → Venues: announces · Venue-related API changes.