Creating and updating customers
Learn how to create and update a customer.
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Learn how to create and update a customer.
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Once you , you can and then . Once the object is created, you can to a customer as well as .
A customers id must be forty characters or less in length. Anything longer and a 400 Bad Request with a code of invalid_parameter is returned.
We recommend that a customer's identifier be identical in both your and our systems.
If you don't provide us an id value in the create customer request, we generate one for you and return it in the response.
The email parameter represents a customer's email address. You can create multiple customers in your account that contain identical email values.
You can use shipping to store a customer's name, phone, email, organization, basic ship to address, and detailed ship to additionalAddressInfo.
If you set a customer's enabled flag to false, then any attempts to create orders that reference this customer will fail. You should only set enabled to false when you want to block a customer from placing orders. For example, you may decide this is necessary when a customer has a history of fraudulent behavior.
The following POST/customers request specifies a unique id:
A successful request returns a 201 Created whose payload contains a customer object:
The following provides guidance on how to define a customer. For complete specifications, refer to the reference documentation.
Every customer can store one or more and .
A customer's locale is used to .
A customer's type allows you to .
The defaultSourceId should reference a that customers have indicated is their default payment instrument.
For more information, refer to on the page.
When you requests, you can use requestToBeForgotten to instruct Digital River to delete a customer's data from our system.
For more information, refer to the page.
The process of creating and updating a customer is similar. In a , you can specify the object's unique identifier. However, when , you must pass in this unique identifier as a path parameter.
Updating a customer's request also allows you to .
Once you create a customer, you can reference this object in .
