# Manage products with the PhyGrid API

> Learn what the PhyGrid products API can do: import and update your catalogue, keep stock in sync, and read products into your own systems.

## When to use the API

The PhyGrid API connects your own systems, such as a PIM, ERP, POS or e-commerce platform, to the products in the PhyGrid Console. It suits catalogues that change often, or that already live in another system. Products you send through the API appear in **Content** → **Products** and in every PhyGrid solution, just like products added by hand or from a Google feed.

The [API documentation](https://api.uae.phygrid.com/docs) lists every endpoint with its fields and examples.

## What you can do with it

- **Import and update products:** send products and their variants in batches, change only some fields of existing products, or delete products. Large batches are processed in the background, so changes can take a moment to appear
- **Manage categories:** create, update and delete categories in batches. The API calls them product types
- **Keep stock in sync:** update stock levels for many products and locations in one request, and reserve or release stock while an order is in progress
- **Read the catalogue:** list and search products, look up a product by barcode (EAN or UPC) or RFID tag, and get prices and stock for a variant
- **Sync to your own systems:** take a full snapshot of the catalogue, fetch only the changes since your last sync, or follow changes as they happen
- **Build your own experiences:** related, similar and trending products, product reviews and visual search, for apps and websites that use your PhyGrid catalogue

## Choose your data region

Each tenant's data is stored in one region. Use the API address for your tenant's region:

- **UAE:** [api.uae.phygrid.com](https://api.uae.phygrid.com/docs)
- **EU (also UK):** [api.eu.phygrid.com](https://api.eu.phygrid.com/docs)
- **India:** [api.in.phygrid.com](https://api.in.phygrid.com/docs)
- **US:** [api.us.phygrid.com](https://api.us.phygrid.com/docs)
- **Australia:** [api.au.phygrid.com](https://api.au.phygrid.com/docs)

Every request needs an access token for your tenant. See the API documentation for how requests are authenticated.