In these guides, we cover concepts and resources that describe ARTA's API and hosted tools. To better understand those services, let's specifically define the most critical terms.

• Organization — an Organization represents your company in ARTA's systems; this is the parent resource that owns all data and shipments generated by the API
• API Key — an API key represents a secret token enabling your software services to make secure and authenticated calls into ARTA's API; your organization may have multiple API keys; each key works exclusively in either Live or Test modes
• Quote Request — a quote request (aka a request) describes all of the guaranteed and bookable quotes for a given set of objects being shipped between two locations; generally you will make a quote request and then book a single quote from that request to create a shipment
• Shipment — each shipment represents a booked transport for one or more objects between two locations
• Log — a Log entry is one record in a running feed that describes all API calls issued by any of the API keys associated with your account; you can retrieve details about previous calls via the API for easy debugging and monitoring of your integration; each log describes key attributes about the API call including HTTP method, path, time, duration, and responses
• Webhook — Webhooks describe API endpoints you can configure to receive programatic updates about changes to your shipments; implementing a webhook endpoint is useful if your company aims to build a custom notification system to inform your customers about shipment schedule/status changes and deliveries
• Email Notification — ARTA's API can optionally deliver notifications about key changes in shipment status over email to your team and/or to your customers