SeeOnSea provides the functionality of its concept through secure APIs
- Authentication service
- List of species and types of Observations
- Local observations of the network
- Detail of an Observation and its Mini-wiki
- Confirmation of an Observation View
- Creating an Observation
- Multilingual
- A set of SeeOnSea services made available to an application editor
- SeeOnSea API is based on the REST architecture
- Security: Access is by authentication via the encrypted key of a "token" (or secure token)