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# Items (Legacy Economy)

> Overview of PlayFab Legacy Economy (v1) items, including catalog items, virtual currencies, item classes, and inventory management for your title.

# PlayFab Items (Legacy Economy)

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  Economy v1 APIs are in maintenance mode and will not be receiving any new features, only bug fixes. **The v1 APIs will be maintained for the foreseeable future.** See the [Economy v2 Overview](/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy-v2/overview) to learn more about the next version of PlayFab Economy!
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Items and inventories are common mechanisms that you can use to add customization and depth to your game. Defining and tracking items in PlayFab gives you top-notch analytics and LiveOps support for your in-game catalog.

## Key concepts

* **Catalog** - Catalogs offer an easy way to manage your game's virtual items. They're listings of every item available in your game.
* **Catalog Items** – PlayFab Items can represent just about any type of virtual goods that you might use, from Durables to Bundles to Locked containers.
* **Player Inventory** - All player accounts have an inventory. The inventory contains all of the owned Item Instances and item history to-date.
* **Virtual Currency** - Currencies can be used to purchase Items from the Catalog or a Store, represent soft currency converted from In App Purchases, or be used as a mechanic to drive game play.

PlayFab provides a large interactive playing field for interaction with items and inventory, and the Item definition in the Catalog allows for quite a bit of customization. However, most common interactions are through just a few key APIs:

* [PurchaseItem](xref:titleid.playfabapi.com.client.playeritemmanagement.purchaseitem) - Buys a single catalog item with virtual currency, subtracting the currency and adding an Item Instance into the Player/Character Inventory.
* [GetCharacterInventory](xref:titleid.playfabapi.com.client.playeritemmanagement.getcharacterinventory) and [GetUserInventory](xref:titleid.playfabapi.com.client.playeritemmanagement.getuserinventory) – These APIs retrieve the specified Character or the player's current Inventory of virtual goods.


## Related topics

- [Items (Legacy Economy)](/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy/items/index.md)
- [Items (Legacy Economy) quickstart](/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy/items/quickstart.md)
- [아이템(Legacy Economy)](/ko/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy/items/index.md)
- [Catalogs (Legacy Economy)](/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy/items/catalogs.md)
- [Economy (Legacy) quickstart](/services/playfab/economy-monetization/economy/quickstart.md)