# API Overview
source: https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/index.md

Mastercard provides Issuers, and their designated processors and service providers, with API resources to implement the PAM methods on the Mastercard Developers platform.

|                                                                      **API Name**                                                                       |       **Interface**       |                                     **Feature**                                      |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| [**getPaymentAccountReference**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/get-par/index.md)               | PAR Vault                 | Lookup/generate PAR                                                                  |
| [**updateAccount**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/account-update/index.md)                     | ABU,Token Vault,PAR Vault | Replace/update existing card number                                                  |
| [**closeAccount**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/account-closure/index.md)                     | ABU,Token Vault,PAR Vault | Mark account as closed but card number remains in ABU                                |
| [**addAccount**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/add-account/index.md)                           | ABU                       | Add new card number                                                                  |
| [**overrideForDeleteAccount**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/override-delete-account/index.md) | ABU                       | Delete the card number and remove from ABU                                           |
| [**requestStatus**](https://developer.mastercard.com/payment-account-management/documentation/api-overview/request-status/index.md)                     | ABU,Token Vault,PAR Vault | Query the status of a previous operation to determine if the update has been applied |