Create Customer

Create a new customer.

POST /customers

Create Customer

cURL

curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'X-Authorization: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "sales_channel": "<string>",
  "external_id": "<string>",
  "first_name": "<string>",
  "last_name": "<string>",
  "email": "[e-mail]",
  "phone": "<string>",
  "tags": [
    "<string>"
  ]
}
'

import requests

url = "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers"

payload = {
    "sales_channel": "<string>",
    "external_id": "<string>",
    "first_name": "<string>",
    "last_name": "<string>",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "phone": "<string>",
    "tags": ["<string>"]
}
headers = {
    "X-Authorization": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {'X-Authorization': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({
    sales_channel: '<string>',
    external_id: '<string>',
    first_name: '<string>',
    last_name: '<string>',
    email: '[e-mail]',
    phone: '<string>',
    tags: ['<string>']
  })
};

fetch('https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'sales_channel' => '<string>',
    'external_id' => '<string>',
    'first_name' => '<string>',
    'last_name' => '<string>',
    'email' => '[e-mail]',
    'phone' => '<string>',
    'tags' => [
        '<string>'
    ]
  ]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "X-Authorization: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"strings"
	"net/http"
	"io"
)

func main() {

	url := "https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"sales_channel\": \"<string>\",\n  \"external_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tags\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", url, payload)

	req.Header.Add("X-Authorization", "<api-key>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers")
  .header("X-Authorization", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"sales_channel\": \"<string>\",\n  \"external_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tags\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.loopreturns.com/api/v1/customers")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["X-Authorization"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"sales_channel\": \"<string>\",\n  \"external_id\": \"<string>\",\n  \"first_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"last_name\": \"<string>\",\n  \"email\": \"[e-mail]\",\n  \"phone\": \"<string>\",\n  \"tags\": [\n    \"<string>\"\n  ]\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

201

{
  "customer": {
    "id": 123,
    "external_id": "<string>",
    "sales_channel": "<string>",
    "first_name": "<string>",
    "last_name": "<string>",
    "email": "[e-mail]",
    "phone": "<string>",
    "tags": [
      "<string>"
    ]
  }
}

{
  "errors": "<string>"
}

{
  "message": "<string>",
  "errors": {}
}

Authorizations

X-Authorization · string · header · required

API Scope: "Customers (write)"

Body

application/json

sales_channel · string · required

If a channel with this name is not already associated with the shop, it will be used to create a new channel.

Maximum string length: 255

Example:

"shopify"

external_id · string | null

The provided external_id must be unique. If a non-unique external_id is provided, the API will respond with an error.

Required string length: 1 - 64

Example:

"71263csss-12uhsdfh-2138dja"

first_name · string | null

The customer's given name.

Maximum string length: 50

Example:

"Edgar"

last_name · string | null

The customer's surname.

Maximum string length: 50

Example:

"Martinez"

email · string<email> | null

The customer's email address.

Maximum string length: 255

Example:

"[e-mail]"

phone · string | null

The customer's phone number.

Maximum string length: 30

Example:

"678-999-8212"

tags · (string | object)[] | null

An array of tags used to classify and group customers.

A tag, accepted either as a plain string or as an object with a name.

Required string length: 1 - 255

Example:

["FirstPurchase", "ReturnCustomer"]

Response

201

application/json

Success

customer · object · required

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