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# Create a customer

POST https://api.trygrant.com/v1/customers
Content-Type: application/json

Creates a new customer for the authenticated company.

Reference: https://docs.trygrant.com/api-reference/grant-events-api/customers/create

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — API key obtained from the Grant dashboard

## Servers

- `https://api.trygrant.com` (Production, default)
- `http://localhost:8787` (Local development)

## Request

### Body (application/json)

- `name` (string, optional) — Business or display name
- `first_name` (string, optional) — Contact first name
- `last_name` (string, optional) — Contact last name
- `email` (string, optional) — Primary email address
- `phone` (string, optional) — Phone number
- `url` (string, optional) — Website URL
- `external_id` (string, optional) — Your internal identifier for this customer
- `billing_address` (object, optional) — Billing address
  - `country` (string, optional) — Two-letter ISO country code
  - `state` (string, optional) — State or province
  - `city` (string, optional) — City name
  - `street` (string, optional) — Street address line 1
  - `street2` (string, optional) — Street address line 2
  - `zip` (string, optional) — Postal / ZIP code
- `shipping_address` (object, optional) — Shipping address
  - `country` (string, optional) — Two-letter ISO country code
  - `state` (string, optional) — State or province
  - `city` (string, optional) — City name
  - `street` (string, optional) — Street address line 1
  - `street2` (string, optional) — Street address line 2
  - `zip` (string, optional) — Postal / ZIP code
- `initial_plan_code` (string, optional) — Plan code to subscribe the customer to immediately after creation

## Response

### 201

Customer created

- `success` (boolean, required)
- `customer` (object, required)
  - `id` (string, required)
  - `name` (string, required, nullable)
  - `first_name` (string, required, nullable)
  - `last_name` (string, required, nullable)
  - `email` (string, required, nullable)
  - `phone` (string, required, nullable)
  - `url` (string, required, nullable)
  - `external_id` (string, required, nullable)
  - `billing_address` (object, required, nullable) — Billing address
    - `country` (string, optional) — Two-letter ISO country code
    - `state` (string, optional) — State or province
    - `city` (string, optional) — City name
    - `street` (string, optional) — Street address line 1
    - `street2` (string, optional) — Street address line 2
    - `zip` (string, optional) — Postal / ZIP code
  - `shipping_address` (object, required, nullable) — Shipping address
    - `country` (string, optional) — Two-letter ISO country code
    - `state` (string, optional) — State or province
    - `city` (string, optional) — City name
    - `street` (string, optional) — Street address line 1
    - `street2` (string, optional) — Street address line 2
    - `zip` (string, optional) — Postal / ZIP code
  - `created_at` (string, required) — ISO 8601 creation timestamp
  - `updated_at` (string, required) — ISO 8601 last-updated timestamp
  - `initial_subscription` (object or object, optional) — Result of creating the optional initial subscription requested with initial_plan_code
    - object
      - `success` (boolean, required)
      - `subscription` (object, required)
        - `id` (string, required)
        - `customer_id` (string, required)
        - `plan_id` (string, required)
        - `plan_code` (string, required, nullable) — Human-readable plan code
        - `status` (enum, required)
          - Allowed values: `pending_payment_method`, `trialing`, `active`, `past_due`, `canceled`
        - `start_date` (string, required) — ISO 8601 subscription start date
        - `billing_anchor_day` (integer, required) — Day of month for billing anchor
        - `next_renewal_date` (string, required, nullable) — ISO 8601 next renewal date
        - `cancel_at_period_end` (boolean, required) — True when cancellation is scheduled for the end of the current billable period
        - `cancel_at` (string, required, nullable) — ISO 8601 scheduled cancellation timestamp
        - `plan_transition_at_period_end` (boolean, required) — True when a plan transition is scheduled for end of current billable period
        - `plan_transition_at` (string, required, nullable) — ISO 8601 scheduled plan transition timestamp
        - `plan_transition_to_plan_id` (string, required, nullable) — Target plan ID for a scheduled transition
        - `canceled_at` (string, required, nullable) — ISO 8601 actual cancellation timestamp (set when status transitions to canceled)
        - `created_at` (string, required) — ISO 8601 creation timestamp
        - `updated_at` (string, required) — ISO 8601 last-updated timestamp
    - object
      - `success` (boolean, required)
      - `error` (object, required)
        - `code` (string, required)
        - `message` (string, required)
- `request_id` (string, required)

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "success": true,
  "customer": {
    "id": "cm5x9z8nv0000h85r7l9p2k1m",
    "name": "Acme Corp",
    "first_name": "Jane",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "email": "jane@acme.com",
    "phone": "+14155551234",
    "url": "https://acme.com",
    "external_id": "cust_ext_123",
    "billing_address": {
      "country": "US",
      "state": "CA",
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "street": "123 Main St",
      "street2": "Suite 100",
      "zip": "94105"
    },
    "shipping_address": {
      "country": "US",
      "state": "CA",
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "street": "123 Main St",
      "street2": "Suite 100",
      "zip": "94105"
    },
    "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "initial_subscription": {
      "success": true,
      "subscription": {
        "id": "cm5x9z8nv0000h85r7l9p2k1m",
        "customer_id": "cm5x9z8nv0001h85r7l9p2k2m",
        "plan_id": "cm5x9z8nv0002h85r7l9p2k3m",
        "plan_code": "starter_plan",
        "status": "active",
        "start_date": "2024-01-15T00:00:00.000Z",
        "billing_anchor_day": 1,
        "next_renewal_date": "2024-02-15T00:00:00.000Z",
        "cancel_at_period_end": false,
        "cancel_at": null,
        "plan_transition_at_period_end": false,
        "plan_transition_at": null,
        "plan_transition_to_plan_id": null,
        "canceled_at": null,
        "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
        "updated_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
      }
    }
  },
  "request_id": "req_abc123"
}
```

**SDK Code**

```typescript
import { AfternoonClient } from "grant-sdk";

async function main() {
    const client = new AfternoonClient({
        token: "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
    });
    await client.customers.create({});
}
main();

```

```python
import requests

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

payload = {}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```go
package main

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

func main() {

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

	payload := strings.NewReader("{}")

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

	req.Header.Add("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
	req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

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

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

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

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

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{}"

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

```java
import com.mashape.unirest.http.HttpResponse;
import com.mashape.unirest.http.Unirest;

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://api.trygrant.com/v1/customers")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{}")
  .asString();
```

```php
<?php
require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://api.trygrant.com/v1/customers', [
  'body' => '{}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

echo $response->getBody();
```

```csharp
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://api.trygrant.com/v1/customers");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [] as [String : Any]

let postData = JSONSerialization.data(withJSONObject: parameters, options: [])

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://api.trygrant.com/v1/customers")! as URL,
                                        cachePolicy: .useProtocolCachePolicy,
                                    timeoutInterval: 10.0)
request.httpMethod = "POST"
request.allHTTPHeaderFields = headers
request.httpBody = postData as Data

let session = URLSession.shared
let dataTask = session.dataTask(with: request as URLRequest, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
  if (error != nil) {
    print(error as Any)
  } else {
    let httpResponse = response as? HTTPURLResponse
    print(httpResponse)
  }
})

dataTask.resume()
```