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Create customer

POST /v2/customers

Creates a new customer for a business, which can have associated cards on file.

You must provide at least one of the following values in your request to this endpoint:

given_name
family_name
company_name
email_address
phone_number

Permissions

CUSTOMERS_WRITE

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Request Body

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Name	Description
`idempotency_key string`	The idempotency key for the request. See the Idempotency guide for more information.
`given_name string`	The given (i.e., first) name associated with the customer profile.
`family_name string`	The family (i.e., last) name associated with the customer profile.
`company_name string`	A business name associated with the customer profile.
`nickname string`	A nickname for the customer profile.
`email_address string`	The email address associated with the customer profile.
`address Address`	The physical address associated with the customer profile.
`phone_number string`	The 11-digit phone number associated with the customer profile.
`reference_id string`	An optional, second ID used to associate the customer profile with an entity in another system.
`note string`	A custom note associated with the customer profile.
`birthday string`	The birthday associated with the customer profile, in RFC-3339 format. Year is optional, timezone and times are not allowed. For example: `0000-09-01T00:00:00-00:00` indicates a birthday on September 1st. `1998-09-01T00:00:00-00:00` indications a birthday on September 1st 1998.

Response Fields

Name	Description
`errors Error [ ]`	Any errors that occurred during the request.
`customer Customer`	The created customer.

Examples

curl https://connect.squareup.com/v2/customers \
  -X POST \
  -H 'Square-Version: 2020-09-23' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "given_name": "Amelia",
    "family_name": "Earhart",
    "email_address": "Amelia.Earhart@example.com",
    "address": {
      "address_line_1": "500 Electric Ave",
      "address_line_2": "Suite 600",
      "locality": "New York",
      "administrative_district_level_1": "NY",
      "postal_code": "10003",
      "country": "US"
    },
    "phone_number": "1-212-555-4240",
    "reference_id": "YOUR_REFERENCE_ID",
    "note": "a customer"
  }'

{
  "customer": {
    "id": "JDKYHBWT1D4F8MFH63DBMEN8Y4",
    "created_at": "2016-03-23T20:21:54.859Z",
    "updated_at": "2016-03-23T20:21:54.859Z",
    "given_name": "Amelia",
    "family_name": "Earhart",
    "email_address": "Amelia.Earhart@example.com",
    "address": {
      "address_line_1": "500 Electric Ave",
      "address_line_2": "Suite 600",
      "locality": "New York",
      "administrative_district_level_1": "NY",
      "postal_code": "10003",
      "country": "US"
    },
    "phone_number": "1-212-555-4240",
    "reference_id": "YOUR_REFERENCE_ID",
    "note": "a customer"
  }
}

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