# 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.

 - [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](https://doc.sitecore.com/cdp/en/users/sitecore-cdp/
 - [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 e
 - [GET /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/retrieveorderconsumer.md): Retrieves 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.
 - [PATCH /v2.1/orderConsumers/{orderConsumerRef}](https://api-docs.sitecore.com/cdp/order-rest-api/order-consumer/partiallyupdateordeconsumer.md): Partially updates 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.
 - [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.