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# Create a customer

POST https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers
Content-Type: application/json

Active at once. It has no password: the customer sets one with "forgot password" on the store's login page. Counts toward the plan's customer limit (409 `plan_limit`), and fires the Customer Registered webhook. Requires `customers:write`. Needs customer registration on in the store settings (409 `registration_disabled` otherwise).

Reference: https://docs.coi.co.il/customers/create-customer

## Authentication

- `Authorization` header (bearer token, required) — An API key from the store's admin: חנות > API ומפתחות. Send it as `Authorization: Bearer coi_sk_...` (or `X-Api-Key: coi_sk_...`). Never in the URL - `?apikey=` is refused with 400.

## Request

### Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` (string, optional) — Makes a retry safe, as on Create a product.

### Body (application/json)

This endpoint expects a CustomerInput.

- `email` (string, optional) — Required on create. Unique in the store (409 `email_taken`).
- `firstName` (string, optional)
- `lastName` (string, optional)
- `phone` (string, optional)
- `newsletter` (boolean, optional)
- `notes` (string, optional, nullable)
- `active` (boolean, optional) — Update only. true approves a pending customer (it is emailed that it can log in) or unlocks one; false locks it out at once.

## Response

### 201

Created.

- `ok` (true, optional)
- `data` (Customer, optional)

## Errors

### 400 Bad Request Error

The request is not valid - a field of the wrong type, a missing field, a bad parameter.

- `ok` (false, optional)
- `error` (ErrorError, optional)

### 401 Unauthorized Error

Missing, invalid, revoked or expired API key. The same answer for all of them.

- `ok` (false, optional)
- `error` (ErrorError, optional)

### 403 Forbidden Error

The key lacks the permission (`insufficient_scope`), or the site's plan does not include the API (`plan_required`).

- `ok` (false, optional)
- `error` (ErrorError, optional)

### 409 Conflict Error

Email taken, plan limit, or registration off.

- `ok` (false, optional)
- `error` (ErrorError, optional)

### 429 Too Many Requests Error

More than 120 requests a minute with one key. Wait `Retry-After` seconds.

- `ok` (false, optional)
- `error` (ErrorError, optional)

## Types

### Customer

- `id` (integer, optional)
- `email` (string, optional)
- `firstName` (string, optional)
- `lastName` (string, optional)
- `phone` (string, optional, nullable)
- `newsletter` (boolean, optional)
- `status` (enum, optional) — `pending` = waiting for the owner's approval ("אשר לקוחות ידנית" is on and it never logged in).
  - Allowed values: `active`, `pending`, `locked`
- `notes` (string, optional, nullable)
- `registeredAt` (string, optional, nullable)
- `lastVisitAt` (string, optional, nullable)

### ErrorError

- `code` (string, optional) — Stable, machine-readable: `unauthorized`, `insufficient_scope`, `plan_required`, `invalid_field`, `invalid_parameter`, `invalid_json`, `json_required`, `not_found`, `method_not_allowed`, `nothing_to_update`, `plan_limit`, `email_taken`, `registration_disabled`, `rate_limited`, `too_many_failures`, `https_required`, `key_in_url`, `server_error`.
- `message` (string, optional) — What went wrong, in English, for a person.

## Examples

**Request**

```json
{
  "email": "israel@example.com",
  "firstName": "ישראל",
  "lastName": "ישראלי",
  "phone": "0501234567",
  "newsletter": true
}
```

**Response**

```json
{
  "ok": true,
  "data": {
    "id": 49,
    "email": "israel@example.com",
    "firstName": "ישראל",
    "lastName": "ישראלי",
    "phone": "0501234567",
    "newsletter": true,
    "status": "active",
    "notes": null,
    "registeredAt": "2026-05-04T20:10:00+03:00",
    "lastVisitAt": "2026-09-23T17:12:00+03:00"
  }
}
```

**SDK Code**

```python Customers_createCustomer_example
import requests

url = "https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers"

payload = {
    "email": "israel@example.com",
    "firstName": "ישראל",
    "lastName": "ישראלי",
    "phone": "0501234567",
    "newsletter": True
}
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

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

print(response.json())
```

```javascript Customers_createCustomer_example
const url = 'https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers';
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {Authorization: 'Bearer <token>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: '{"email":"israel@example.com","firstName":"ישראל","lastName":"ישראלי","phone":"0501234567","newsletter":true}'
};

try {
  const response = await fetch(url, options);
  const data = await response.json();
  console.log(data);
} catch (error) {
  console.error(error);
}
```

```go Customers_createCustomer_example
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers"

	payload := strings.NewReader("{\n  \"email\": \"israel@example.com\",\n  \"firstName\": \"ישראל\",\n  \"lastName\": \"ישראלי\",\n  \"phone\": \"0501234567\",\n  \"newsletter\": true\n}")

	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 Customers_createCustomer_example
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://www.your-store.co.il/api/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 = "{\n  \"email\": \"israel@example.com\",\n  \"firstName\": \"ישראל\",\n  \"lastName\": \"ישראלי\",\n  \"phone\": \"0501234567\",\n  \"newsletter\": true\n}"

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

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

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.post("https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer <token>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"email\": \"israel@example.com\",\n  \"firstName\": \"ישראל\",\n  \"lastName\": \"ישראלי\",\n  \"phone\": \"0501234567\",\n  \"newsletter\": true\n}")
  .asString();
```

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

$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();

$response = $client->request('POST', 'https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers', [
  'body' => '{
  "email": "israel@example.com",
  "firstName": "ישראל",
  "lastName": "ישראלי",
  "phone": "0501234567",
  "newsletter": true
}',
  'headers' => [
    'Authorization' => 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  ],
]);

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

```csharp Customers_createCustomer_example
using RestSharp;

var client = new RestClient("https://www.your-store.co.il/api/v1/customers");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "Bearer <token>");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\n  \"email\": \"israel@example.com\",\n  \"firstName\": \"ישראל\",\n  \"lastName\": \"ישראלי\",\n  \"phone\": \"0501234567\",\n  \"newsletter\": true\n}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

```swift Customers_createCustomer_example
import Foundation

let headers = [
  "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
  "Content-Type": "application/json"
]
let parameters = [
  "email": "israel@example.com",
  "firstName": "ישראל",
  "lastName": "ישראלי",
  "phone": "0501234567",
  "newsletter": true
] as [String : Any]

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

let request = NSMutableURLRequest(url: NSURL(string: "https://www.your-store.co.il/api/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()
```