# Boost API Guide

## Welcome

Welcome to the only full-cycle insurance API platform that enables you to offer fully embedded insurance solutions to your customers within your front end environment - and throughout the entire customer relationship. Boost is on a mission to unlock the insurance vertical for innovators to access everything they need to develop products and experiences that are built for the modern world. From quote to issue to claim and everything in between, you control an end-to-end digital insurance program when you build on Boost.

We hope this guide and its [accompanying documentation](https://boostinsurance.io/boost_api_docs.html) is a big help to you as you build the future of insurance.

## Getting Started

This section provides an initial introduction to the tools available to developers planning to integrate with the Boost Policy Admin System (PAS). If you want to start with learning more about insurance head down to the [Insurance 101](/docs/the-lingo/)  section, and come back to this light technical overview when you are ready!

:::note[After reading this section, you should understand:]
* How to request access to a sandbox environment
  * [Environments](/docs/environments/)

* The Boost API format
  * [JSON API](/docs/json-api/)
  * [Boost JSON API Extension](/docs/boost-extension/) 

* Boost security and authentication features
  * [Authentication](/docs/authentication/)

* The resources available to you and how they relate to each other
  * [Resource Map](/docs/resource-map/)

* The Boost approach to support during integration
  * [Communication and Support](/docs/communication-and-support/)
:::

## The Boost Difference: Full-Cycle Policy Administration

The Boost API platform enables end-to end digital insurance programs so you can serve your customers well past the purchase of a policy. We are the only company that can power the entire lifecycle of your insurance program.

#### Lead-to-Sale Policy Features

* [Quotes](/docs/intro-to-quotes/) 
* [Policy Issuance](/docs/intro-to-policies/)
* [Billing](/docs/intro-to-billing/) 

#### Full-Cycle Management Features

* [Midterm Endorsements](/docs/intro-to-policy-modifications/) 
* [Claims](/docs/intro-to-claims/)
* [Renewals and Cancellations](/docs/policy-cancelations/) 

## Basic Workflow Illustrations

To help visualize the core actions of an insurance program, we’ve provided illustrative workflows throughout this guide. Below you will find a few of the important ones to get you up to speed. 

* [Quote Flow](/docs/quote-flow/)
* [Policy Issuance Flow](/docs/policy-flow/)
* [Midterm Endorsement Flow](/docs/midterm-endorsement-flow/) 
* [Billing Flow](/docs/agency-billing-flow/) 
* [Claim Flow](/docs/summary/)