# Order consumer

An order consumer represents a person who is consuming an order item. If the order item is a flight, the order consumer is the traveler or passenger of the flight segment. If more than one order consumer is consuming the same order item, the order item has a quantity representing the number of order consumers.

 The same guest can be both the order contact and order consumer.

## Create an order consumer

 - [POST /v2.1/orders/{orderRef}/consumers](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/createorderconsumer.md): Creates a consumer on an order.
 In identifiers, make sure to provide enough identity information according to your organization's identity rules.

 In the response, ref contains the order consumer reference. Use the order consumer reference to interact with a specific consumer, for example, to retrieve or update it.

## List consumers of an order

 - [GET /v2.1/orders/{orderRef}/consumers](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/retrieveorderconsumers.md): Retrieves a list of order consumers for an order.

 In the response, items.ref contains the order consumer reference. Use the order consumer reference to interact with a specific order consumer, for example, to retrieve or update it.

## Retrieve an order consumer

 - [GET /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/retrieveorderconsumer.md): Retrieves an order consumer.

## Update an order consumer

 - [PUT /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/updateorderconsumer.md): Updates an order consumer.

## Partially update an order consumer

 - [PATCH /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/partiallyupdateordeconsumer.md): Partially updates an order consumer.

## Delete an order consumer

 - [DELETE /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/deleteorder.md): Delete an order consumer. An empty, 204 response means that the deletion was successful.

## List a consumer's order items

 - [GET /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}/orderItems](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/retrieveorderitems.md): Retrieves order items for a consumer.