zitadel/site/docs/administrate/04-clients.md

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### What are clients

Clients are applications that share the same security context and interface with an "authorization server" (issuer of access tokens).

For example you could have a software project existing out of a web app and a mobile app, both of these applications might consume the same roles because the end user might use both of them.

Typical types of applications are: 
* Web
* User Agent (Single-Page-Application)
* Native

Check out our [Integration Guide](quickstarts#Overview) for more information.

### Manage clients

Clients might use different protocols for integrating with an IAM. With ZITADEL it is possible to use OpenID Connect 1.0 / OAuth 2.0. In the future SAML 2.0 support is planned as well.

#### OIDC Configuration

> Document Settings

### Create a client

To make configuration of a client easy we provide a wizard which generates a specification conferment setup.
The wizard can be skipped for people who are needing special settings.

> For use cases where your configuration is not compliant we provide you a "dev mode" which disables conformance checks.

To create a new client start by browsing to your [project](administrate#Projects), this is normally something like [https://console.zitadel.ch/projects/78562301657017889](https://console.zitadel.ch/projects/78562301657017889)

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Click the **New** button and a wizard will appear which will guide you through the process.

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When the wizard is complete, the clients configuration will be displayed and you can now use this client.

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