# Nova API

## Docs

- [Create contacts](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/contacts/create-contacts.md): Create one or more contacts associated with the organization in a single request. The batch is atomic — if any contact fails validation, none are created.
- [Retrieve a contact](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/contacts/retrieve-a-contact.md): Retrieve a single contact by ID.
- [Create distributions](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/distributions/create-distributions.md): Create one or more staged fund distributions in a single request. Each distribution has one or more payments; each payment references an existing entity by ID (`entity`) and an optional list of contacts to notify (`notifications[].contact`). Create entities and contacts first via `POST /v1/entities`…
- [Retrieve a distribution](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/distributions/retrieve-a-distribution.md): Retrieve a distribution with aggregated payment status.
- [Create entities](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/entities/create-entities.md): Create one or more entities associated with the organization in a single request. The batch is atomic — if any entity fails, none are created.
- [Retrieve an entity](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/entities/retrieve-an-entity.md): Retrieve a single entity by ID.
- [Create payment instructions](https://docs.nova.net/api-reference/payment-instructions/create-payment-instructions.md): Create one or more payment instructions for one or more entities in a single request. Partial instructions are supported, and this endpoint does not do any input validation. The batch is atomic — if any fail to be created, none are created.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://docs.nova.net/openapi/openapi.yaml)