Customer API Overview

Use the Customer API to manage customer details, addresses, and other information.

The Customer API allows you to generate JSON Web Tokens inside your client-side applications to authenticate requests to get all customer orders.

• Customer tokens

You are able to use a customer token with an implicit Bearer token. This is recommended for client-side interactions. Alternatively, you can use a client_credentials Bearer token. This is recommended for back-end interactions.

The Customer Object

Attribute	Type	Description
id	string	The unique identifier for this customer.
type	string	The type represents the object being returned.
name	string	The name of the customer.
email	string	The email of the customer.
password	boolean	true if the customer has a password, false otherwise.
external_ref	string	The optional external ID reference. For example, this could be an external reference from a separate company system. The maximum length is 2048 characters. Default is null.

The meta Object

Attribute	Type	Description
meta.created_at	string	The creation date of this customer.
meta.updated_at	string	The last updated date of this customer.

Sample response

{
    "data": {
        "type": "customer",
        "id": "f260b17a-390f-4b37-bf9d-f62c45a95865",
        "name": "Ron Swanson",
        "email": "ron@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"
            }
        }
    }
}