# Location Services API
The Location Services API empowers Benevity clients the ability to create and manage their locations in the Benevity ecosystem. This service allows persistence of location data and its meta data including the corresponding contact information. Text based description of locations for entities such as franchises and stores could be managed with this services including address geocoding.
# Benevity Products using Location Services
At this time the Location Services API is only integrated with the Versaic community investment platform.
# Get Started
In order to access the APIs, you will need to first obtain your access credentials. If you haven't already done so, please request access (opens new window). Once access is provided for Location Services, then JWT access token can be obtained by following the instructions in the authorization section.
Note:
The scope to be appended in the header --header 'scope: api.locations' and the content type is --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json'
# Version Info
Location Services API follows versioning through URI path. Currently, the version is v1.