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An application is technically an API client that calls the SBS APIs. It may be a purely virtual application that does not actually exist in the real world, or it may refer to some actual piece of software that your company has. For example, your company may have a website, a desktop app, and a mobile app that all need to call Socrate Business Services APIs. From the SBS perspective, these are all applications, and they should all be defined as such under your company’s SBS account.

The main purpose of applications is to group together various configuration settings that are meaningful at that level. For example, if you intend to use the Email Service and allow integration with OAuth 2.0 providers such as Google or Azure, then the respective OAuth 2.0 client secrets are defined at the application level. Likewise, if you intend to use the e-Factura Service, the OAuth 2.0 secrets for access to the Romanian Tax Authority API are defined at the application level.