Managing customers

An introduction to Silver’s management of customers — how to retrieve a customer, filtering options, as well as create, update or delete operations.

For resource definition check out the Resources page.

List all customers

By default this lists all the customers.

GET /customers HTTP/1.1

Available filtering parameters: email, name, company, active, country, sales_tax_name, sales_tax_number.

GET /customers?active=True  HTTP/1.1

Retrieve a customer

GET /customers/:id  HTTP/1.1

Create a new customer

POST /customers HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "customer_reference": "5",
  "first_name": "John",
  "last_name": "Doe",
  "company": "ACME Inc.",
  "email": "johndoe@acme.inc",
  "address_1": "Funny Road no.4",
  "address_2": null,
  "country": "US",
  "city": "Wilmington",
  "state": "Delaware",
  "zip_code": 9000,
  "extra": "Tax exempt due to XXX",
  "sales_tax_percent": 24,
  "sales_tax_name": "VAT",
  "sales_tax_number": "",
  "consolidated_billing": true
}

Update a customer

All the customer’s fields are editable. Use PATCH for partial update and PUT for full update.

PATCH /customers/:id HTTP/1.1

PUT /customers/:id HTTP/1.1

Delete a customer

Customer deletion is actually a soft delete. Deleting a customer automatically cancels that customer’s subscriptions.

DELETE /customers/:id HTTP/1.1

See Also

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