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# Getting Started with API Experience Hub

> For the full documentation index, see: https://docs.mulesoft.com/llms.txt

Ensure you have the required accounts, access, and setup, then start using API Experience Hub.

## Before You Begin

Verify that you have the following required accounts and access:

- Anypoint Platform organization in production

- Salesforce organization

- Organization Administrator of the main organization

- You must either have the System Administrator profile or be a Salesforce user with the
  AEH\_Anypoint permission set assigned in the Salesforce organization that you’re connecting to
  during the linking process. For more information, see
  [Assigning Permissions](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/assigning-permissions).

  The process of creating your portal includes connecting with Salesforce Experience Cloud to link
  your Anypoint Platform organization to your Salesforce organization.

- API Experience Hub license

- Minimum of 2000 External Identity licenses

  The current package has a minimum of 100 services access requests, which require a minimum of 2000
  External Identity licenses.

To set up an organization, you can have the following Salesforce editions:

- Unlimited Edition

- Enterprise Edition

- Performance Edition of Salesforce

If you don’t have the required accounts and access, issues might occur during the Salesforce linking
process when creating your portal.

## Start Using API Experience Hub

The following users can get started with these tasks:

**Administrators**:

Administrators can create a portal in these easy steps:

1.  [Assign permissions](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/assigning-permissions)

    Set up the necessary permissions for administrators to connect to Salesforce and create a
    portal.

2.  [Connect to Salesforce](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/connecting-to-salesforce)

    The instance can be a new or existing Salesforce organization. To connect, specify the
    environment type and enter the custom Salesforce domain if you have one, log in, allow the
    permissions, and confirm the account.

3.  [Set up and style your portal](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/setting-up-the-api-portal)

    Once you’re connected to Salesforce, set up and style the portal’s out-of-the-box pages with
    logos, fonts, color schemes, and more.

4.  [Manage your portal](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/managing-your-portal)

    Manage services by adding agents, APIs, LLMs, and MCP servers from Exchange and setting the
    visibility for the service versions. Manage users by approving access requests from guest users.

5.  [Preview and publish your portal](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/previewing-and-publishing-your-portal)

    Publish the portal to make it available to your community.

**Developers**:

Developers can discover and consume services using these tasks:

1.  [Registering for Access to a Portal](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/registering-for-access-to-portal)

2.  [Searching for Services](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/searching-for-apis)

3.  [Viewing Service Details](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/viewing-api-details)

4.  [Requesting Access to a Service Instance](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/requesting-access-to-an-api-instance)

5.  [View your applications that hold a contract with a service](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/my-applications)

6.  [Downloading an API Specification](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/downloading-an-api-specification)

7.  [Inspect API Console specification and documentation](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/using-the-api-console)

## See Also

- [User Roles, Permissions, and Profiles](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/user-roles-permissions-and-profiles)

- [Licensing](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/licensing)

- [Connecting to Salesforce](https://docs.mulesoft.com/api-experience-hub/connecting-to-salesforce)