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Create a card-on-file customer

North America—United States and Canada

Creates a card-on-file (COF) customer record for e-commerce transactions.

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Note

If you do not want to save card data for the customer, use the create a customer in the Platform API.

Prerequisites

Before you create a customer, complete the following:

  1. Set up a sandbox developer account.
  2. Create an app in the sandbox. See also Ecommerce app permissions.
  3. Create a card token to generate the Clover token(clv_ token) for each payment.

Steps

  1. Send a POST request to the /v1/customers endpoint.
  2. Enter values in the following required parameters:
    1. email
    2. source

Request example

curl --request POST \
     --url https://scl-sandbox.dev.clover.com/v1/customers \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header 'Authorization: Bearer ab86a5e8-48f3-b3bd-8c45-d415e9867833' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --data '{"ecomind":"ecom"}'

Response example

{
  "id": "SSHHCDEXTF550",
  "object": "customer",
  "created": 1659650347317,
  "currency": "USD",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "phone": "4085551858",
  "name": "Joe Doe",
  "sources": {
    "object": "list",
    "data": [
      "ND2EFTHF8HM34"
    ]
  },
  "shipping": {
    "name": "Joe Doe",
    "phone": "4085551858"
  }
}

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