Group Management for API Docs

Organize endpoints with clear groups

Grouping helps consumers understand your API without reading every endpoint one by one.

What a group should represent

• Use each group for one business capability such as Orders, Customers, Billing, or Reports.
• Keep list and detail endpoints in the same group when they belong to the same workflow.
• Avoid creating a group for only one endpoint unless it is truly standalone.

Recommended grouping patterns

• Group by domain: Catalog, Inventory, Payments
• Group by workflow: Authentication, Checkout, Refunds
• Group by consumer task: Search, Validation, Export

Naming guidance

• Use short names that read well in the endpoint reference.
• Pick one naming style and stay consistent across the whole API.
• Prefer nouns or capability names instead of internal team terminology.

Good examples

• Customers
• Subscriptions
• PromptPay
• Reports

Avoid these patterns

• Generic buckets like Misc or Other
• Overlapping groups where the same endpoint could fit in several places
• Deeply nested mental models that require consumers to understand your internal architecture

Practical review checklist

• Every endpoint has a group name.
• Related endpoints appear next to each other.
• The group names match the summaries and examples in the docs.
• New subscribers can understand the API surface in under a minute.

Suggested workflow

1. Draft the main use cases of your API.
2. Map each endpoint to one capability group.
3. Review the endpoint list from the perspective of a first-time subscriber.
4. Refine names before publishing the listing.

Well-structured groups make your docs easier to trust and your API easier to adopt.