Create customer

Customers API v2
POSThttps://api.mollie.com/v2/customers
Authentication:API keysOrganization access tokensApp access tokens

Creates a simple minimal representation of a customer in the Mollie API to use for the Mollie Checkout and Recurring features. These customers will appear in your Mollie Dashboard where you can manage their details, and also see their payments and subscriptions.

Parameters

namestringoptional
The full name of the customer.
emailstringoptional
The email address of the customer.
localestringoptional

Allows you to preset the language to be used in the hosted payment pages shown to the consumer. When this parameter is not provided, the browser language will be used instead in the payment flow (which is usually more accurate).

Possible values: en_US nl_NL nl_BE fr_FR fr_BE de_DE de_AT de_CH es_ES ca_ES pt_PT it_IT nb_NO sv_SE fi_FI da_DK is_IS hu_HU pl_PL lv_LV lt_LT

metadataobjectoptional
Provide any data you like, and we will save the data alongside the customer. Whenever you fetch the customer with our API, we will also include the metadata. You can use up to 1kB of JSON.

Access token parameters

If you are using organization access tokens or are creating an OAuth app, you can enable test mode through the testmode parameter.

testmodebooleanoptional

Response

201 application/hal+json

A customer object is returned, as described in Get customer.

Example

cURLPHPPythonRubyNode.js
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curl -X POST https://api.mollie.com/v2/customers \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer test_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM" \
   -d "name=Customer A" \
   -d "email=customer@example.org"

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<?php
$mollie = new \Mollie\Api\MollieApiClient();
$mollie->setApiKey("test_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM");
$customer = $mollie->customers->create([
      "name" => "Customer A",
      "email" => "customer@example.org",
]);

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from mollie.api.client import Client

mollie_client = Client()
mollie_client.set_api_key('test_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM')

customer = mollie_client.customers.create({
  'name': 'Customer A',
  'email': 'customer@example.org'
})

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require 'mollie-api-ruby'

Mollie::Client.configure do |config|
  config.api_key = 'test_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM'
end

customer = Mollie::Customer.create(
  name: 'Customer A',
  email: 'customer@example.org'
)

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const { createMollieClient } = require('@mollie/api-client');
const mollieClient = createMollieClient({ apiKey: 'test_dHar4XY7LxsDOtmnkVtjNVWXLSlXsM' });

(async () => {
  const customer = await mollieClient.customers.create({
    name: 'Customer A',
    email: 'customer@example.org',
  });
})();

Response

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HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Content-Type: application/hal+json

{
    "resource": "customer",
    "id": "cst_8wmqcHMN4U",
    "mode": "test",
    "name": "Customer A",
    "email": "customer@example.org",
    "locale": null,
    "metadata": null,
    "createdAt": "2018-04-06T13:10:19.0Z",
    "_links": {
        "self": {
            "href": "https://api.mollie.com/v2/customers/cst_8wmqcHMN4U",
            "type": "application/hal+json"
        },
        "dashboard": {
            "href": "https://www.mollie.com/dashboard/org_123456789/customers/cst_8wmqcHMN4U",
            "type": "text/html"
        },
        "documentation": {
            "href": "https://docs.mollie.com/reference/v2/customers-api/create-customer",
            "type": "text/html"
        }
    }
}