# API Reference

Documentation for the Modern Collections platform — the REST API, webhooks, SDKs, MCP servers, and agent interfaces that let you place invoices, track outreach, reconcile payments, and act on collections programmatically.

<table data-card-size="large" data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><h4>🚀 Start here</h4></td><td>Authenticate, hit your first endpoint, handle errors.</td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/getting-started/README.md">https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/getting-started/README.md</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>📡 REST API</h4></td><td>Endpoints for placements, payments, disputes, analytics, portal.</td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/rest-api/README.md">https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/rest-api/README.md</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>🪝 Webhooks</h4></td><td>Event subscriptions, signature verification, retries.</td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/webhooks/README.md">https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/webhooks/README.md</a></td></tr><tr><td><h4>🤖 MCP Servers</h4></td><td>Plug Modern Collections into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP host.</td><td></td><td><a href="https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/mcp-servers/README.md">https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/api-reference/mcp-servers/README.md</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Popular tasks

* [Make your first API call](/getting-started/first-api-call.md)
* [Verify webhook signatures](/webhooks/signature-verification.md)
* [Ingest overdue invoices](/integration-guides/ingest-overdue-invoices.md)
* [Install an MCP server](/mcp-servers/installation.md)
* [Python SDK quickstart](/sdks/python.md)

## Integration recipes

* [Handle disputes end-to-end](/integration-guides/handle-disputes-end-to-end.md)
* [Reconcile payments back to accounting](/integration-guides/reconcile-payments-back-to-accounting.md)
* [Configure negotiation strategy](/integration-guides/configure-negotiation-strategy.md)
* [First-party SaaS onboarding](/integration-guides/multi-tenant-1p-onboarding.md)
* [MCP agent quickstart](/integration-guides/mcp-agent-quickstart.md)

## Compliance for integrators

Working with consumer debt, AI voice, and PII requires care. Read [Compliance overview](/compliance-for-integrators/overview.md), then [FDCPA](/compliance-for-integrators/fdcpa-for-integrators.md), [TCPA](/compliance-for-integrators/tcpa-for-integrators.md), [AI disclosure](/compliance-for-integrators/ai-disclosure.md), [Recording consent](/compliance-for-integrators/recording-consent.md), and [Data handling and PII](/compliance-for-integrators/data-handling-pii.md).

## Status & changes

* 🟢 [Platform status](/status.md) — uptime, incidents, planned maintenance
* 📝 [Change Log](https://github.com/knollmeyersam-dot/MC-Docs/blob/main/change-log/README.md) — month-by-month release notes

## Support

Not yet available. Contact channels will be published when the API is generally available.


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