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Create a customer

Parameters

  • addressobjectRequired if calculating taxes

    The customer’s address. Learn about country-specific requirements for calculating tax.

  • descriptionstring

    An arbitrary string that you can attach to a customer object. It is displayed alongside the customer in the dashboard.

  • emailstring

    Customer’s email address. It’s displayed alongside the customer in your dashboard and can be useful for searching and tracking. This may be up to 512 characters.

    The maximum length is 512 characters.

  • metadataobject

    Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

  • namestring

    The customer’s full name or business name.

    The maximum length is 256 characters.

  • payment_methodstring

    The ID of the PaymentMethod to attach to the customer.

  • phonestring

    The customer’s phone number.

    The maximum length is 20 characters.

  • shippingobject

    The customer’s shipping information. Appears on invoices emailed to this customer.

  • taxobjectRecommended if calculating taxes

    Tax details about the customer.

More parameters

  • balanceinteger

  • business_namestring

  • cash_balanceobject

  • individual_namestring

  • invoice_prefixstring

  • invoice_settingsobject

  • next_invoice_sequenceinteger

  • preferred_localesarray of strings

  • sourcestring

  • tax_exemptenum

  • tax_id_dataarray of objects

  • test_clockstring

Returns

Returns the Customer object after successful customer creation. Raises an error if create parameters are invalid (for example, specifying an invalid source).

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers \
  -u "sk_test_BQokikJ...2HlWgH4olfQ2sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2:" \
  -d "name=Jenny Rosen" \
  --data-urlencode "email=jennyrosen@example.com"
Response
{
  "id": "",
  "object": "customer",
  "address": null,
  "balance": 0,
  "created": 1680893993,
  "currency": null,
  "default_source": null,
  "delinquent": false,
  "description": null,
  "email": "jennyrosen@example.com",
  "invoice_prefix": "0759376C",
  "invoice_settings": {
    "custom_fields": null,
    "default_payment_method": null,
    "footer": null,
    "rendering_options": null
  },
  "livemode": false,
  "metadata": {},
  "name": "Jenny Rosen",
  "next_invoice_sequence": 1,
  "phone": null,
  "preferred_locales": [],
  "shipping": null,
  "tax_exempt": "none",
  "test_clock": null
}

Update a customer

Updates the specified customer by setting the values of the parameters passed. Any parameters not provided are left unchanged. For example, if you pass the source parameter, that becomes the customer’s active source (such as a card) to be used for all charges in the future. When you update a customer to a new valid card source by passing the source parameter: for each of the customer’s current subscriptions, if the subscription bills automatically and is in the past_due state, then the latest open invoice for the subscription with automatic collection enabled is retried. This retry doesn’t count as an automatic retry, and doesn’t affect the next regularly scheduled payment for the invoice. Changing the default_source for a customer doesn’t trigger this behavior.

This request accepts mostly the same arguments as the customer creation call.

Parameters

  • addressobjectRequired if calculating taxes

    The customer’s address. Learn about country-specific requirements for calculating tax.

  • descriptionstring

    An arbitrary string that you can attach to a customer object. It is displayed alongside the customer in the dashboard.

  • emailstring

    Customer’s email address. It’s displayed alongside the customer in your dashboard and can be useful for searching and tracking. This may be up to 512 characters.

    The maximum length is 512 characters.

  • metadataobject

    Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

  • namestring

    The customer’s full name or business name.

    The maximum length is 256 characters.

  • phonestring

    The customer’s phone number.

    The maximum length is 20 characters.

  • shippingobject

    The customer’s shipping information. Appears on invoices emailed to this customer.

  • taxobjectRecommended if calculating taxes

    Tax details about the customer.

More parameters

  • balanceinteger

  • business_namestring

  • cash_balanceobject

  • default_sourcestring

  • individual_namestring

  • invoice_prefixstring

  • invoice_settingsobject

  • next_invoice_sequenceinteger

  • preferred_localesarray of strings

  • sourcestring

  • tax_exemptenum

Returns

Returns the customer object if the update succeeded. Raises an error if update parameters are invalid (for example, specifying an invalid source).

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/ \
  -u "sk_test_BQokikJ...2HlWgH4olfQ2sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2:" \
  -d "metadata[order_id]=6735"
Response
{
  "id": "",
  "object": "customer",
  "address": null,
  "balance": 0,
  "created": 1680893993,
  "currency": null,
  "default_source": null,
  "delinquent": false,
  "description": null,
  "email": "jennyrosen@example.com",
  "invoice_prefix": "0759376C",
  "invoice_settings": {
    "custom_fields": null,
    "default_payment_method": null,
    "footer": null,
    "rendering_options": null
  },
  "livemode": false,
  "metadata": {
    "order_id": "6735"
  },
  "name": "Jenny Rosen",
  "next_invoice_sequence": 1,
  "phone": null,
  "preferred_locales": [],
  "shipping": null,
  "tax_exempt": "none",
  "test_clock": null
}

Retrieve a customer

Retrieves a Customer object.

Parameters

No parameters.

Returns

Returns the Customer object for a valid identifier. If it’s for a deleted Customer, a subset of the customer’s information is returned, including a deleted property that’s set to true.

curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/ \
  -u "sk_test_BQokikJ...2HlWgH4olfQ2sk_test_BQokikJOvBiI2HlWgH4olfQ2:"
Response
{
  "id": "",
  "object": "customer",
  "address": null,
  "balance": 0,
  "created": 1680893993,
  "currency": null,
  "default_source": null,
  "delinquent": false,
  "description": null,
  "email": "jennyrosen@example.com",
  "invoice_prefix": "0759376C",
  "invoice_settings": {
    "custom_fields": null,
    "default_payment_method": null,
    "footer": null,
    "rendering_options": null
  },
  "livemode": false,
  "metadata": {},
  "name": "Jenny Rosen",
  "next_invoice_sequence": 1,
  "phone": null,
  "preferred_locales": [],
  "shipping": null,
  "tax_exempt": "none",
  "test_clock": null
}