Create a new customer

Create a new customer record in the merchant's account

Related endpoints

• GET /customers/{customerId}/invoices — List customer invoices
• GET /customers/{customerId}/subscriptions — List customer subscriptions
• GET /customers/{customerId}/orders — List customer orders
• GET /customers/{customerId}/payments — List customer payments
• PUT /customers/external/batch — Batch upsert customers by external ID
• GET /customers — List customers
• GET /customers/{id} — Get customer by ID
• PATCH /customers/{id} — Update customer details

Common errors

• 400 invalid_request — malformed payload or failed validation.
• 401 unauthenticated — missing, malformed, or revoked API key.

Idempotency

Pass an Idempotency-Key header (UUID v4 recommended) to make retries safe. Keys are valid for 24 hours; see the idempotency guide.

curl -X POST "https://api.revkeen.com/v2/customers" \
  -H "x-api-key: $REVKEEN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "email": "customer@example.com"
  }'

{
  "data": {
    "id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
    "merchant_id": "500924a8-3f5e-4c00-beb8-2efcde988aea",
    "merchant_ref_id": "string",
    "email": "user@example.com",
    "name": "string",
    "phone": "string",
    "company_name": "string",
    "address_line1": "string",
    "address_line2": "string",
    "city": "string",
    "state": "string",
    "postal_code": "string",
    "country": "string",
    "auth_user_id": "990d439e-9996-4264-8929-f50029888dd9",
    "metadata": {},
    "custom_fields": {},
    "created_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z"
  }
}

{
  "error": "Bad request"
}

{
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}