Create a Customer

POST Create a customer

https://useast.api.elasticpath.com/v2/customers

Creates the customer.

Parameters

Headers

Name	Required	Type	Description
Authorization	Required	string	The Bearer token required to get access to the API.

Body

Name	Required	Type	Description
type	Required	string	Represents the type of object being returned.
name	Required	string	The full name of the customer.
email	Required	string	The customer email.
password	Optional	string	The customer password.
external_ref	Optional	string	The unique attribute associated with the customer. For example, this could be an external reference from a separate company system. The maximum length is 2048 characters. Default is null.

Request Example

Curl

curl -X POST https://useast.api.elasticpath.com/v2/customers \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer XXXX" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d $ {
     "data": {
       "type": "customer",
       "name": "Ron Swanson",
       "email": "ron@swanson.com",
       "external_ref": "16bedceb-8b2d-4f82-a973-b0a8d8432708",
       "password": "mysecretpassword"
     }
   }

Javascript SDK

const MoltinGateway = require("@moltin/sdk").gateway;
const Moltin = MoltinGateway({
    client_id: "X",
});
const customer = {
    name: "Ron Swanson",
    email: "ron@swanson.com",
    password: "mysecretpassword",
};
Moltin.Customers.Create(customer).then((customer) => {
    // Do something
});

Response Example

201 Created

{
    "data": {
        "type": "customer",
        "id": "fc4679bf-f8a8-4029-bc67-945f74b756a0",
        "name": "Ron Swanson+6",
        "email": "ron+6@swanson.com",
        "external_ref": "16bedceb-8b2d-4f82-a973-b0a8d8432708",
        "password": true,
        "meta": {
            "timestamps": {
                "created_at": "2017-01-11T18:44:45Z",
                "updated_at": "2017-05-31T04:12:12Z"
            }
        }
    }
}