Creating a customer

Overview

The first thing your customer will need to do is submit their details like their name and address in your onboarding flow. After your customer enters this information, you'll see that a Customer resource has been created. This Customer resource gives you a way to reference and call customer accounts, and to facilitate account management.

Creating a customer

To create an instance of a customer object, use the POST /customers/ operation and provide the parameters as shown in the table below.

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Parameter	Type	Description
`dob` ^required	date	Birthday in YYYY-MM-DD format, for example `1994-03-20`.
`first_name` ^required	string	First name, between 2 and 50 characters. Must start with a letter and can only be letters, spaces, and apostrophes.
`middle_name`	string	Middle name, between 2 and 50 characters. Must start with a letter and can only be letters, spaces, and apostrophes.
`last_name`	string	Last name, between 2 and 50 characters. Must start with a letter and can only be letters, spaces, and apostrophes.
`ssn`	string	Unique Social Security Number associated with the customer
`phone`	string	User's phone number. Must be only numbers or dash-separated.
`phone_country_code`	string	Country dialing code. Between one and three digits.
`email`	string	User's valid email address, for example [email protected]
`addresses` ^{At least one primary address required}	array	Array of object(s) detailing the physical or mailing addresses (see `address` Object table below).

The addresses array within the Customer object has the following structure.

address Object	Type	Description
`address_type` ^required	string	Either `MAILING` or `PHYSICAL`.
`street` ^required	string	Freeform name between 1 and 40 characters. May contain only alphanumeric and these special characters `. , _ - #`
`street2`	string	Freeform name maximum 40 characters.
`city` ^required	string	City name, freeform between 2 and 40 characters.
`state` ^required	string	Two-character US state code. Non-US state code maximum 20 characters.
`zip_code` ^required	string	Five-digit US zip code, (for example 12345) or nine-digit US zip code, (for example 12345-1234). Non-US state code between 2 and 20 characters.
`country` ^required	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, maximum two characters.
`is_primary` ^required	boolean	Is this the primary address; either `true` or `false`.

An example of a request to create a customer is shown below.

curl --request POST \
     --url https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/ \
     --header 'Accept: application/json' \
     --header 'Authorization: YOUR-AUTHENTICATION' \
     --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     --header 'Identity: YOUR-IDENTITY' \
     --data '
{
     "addresses": [
          {
               "address_type": "MAILING",
               "street": "345 California Ave.",
               "street2": "Suite 600",
               "city": "San Francisco",
               "state": "CA",
               "zip_code": "12345-1234",
               "country": "US",
               "is_primary": true
          }
     ],
     "email": "[email protected]",
     "dob": "1997-12-25",
     "first_name": "James",
     "last_name": "Bond",
     "ssn": "XXX-XX-9999",
     "phone": "555-111-2222",
     "phone_country_code": "1"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/"

payload = {
    "addresses": [
        {
            "address_type": "MAILING",
            "street": "345 California Ave.",
            "street2": "Suite 600",
            "city": "San Francisco",
            "state": "CA",
            "zip_code": "12345-1234",
            "country": "US",
            "is_primary": True
        }
    ],
    "email": "[email protected]",
    "dob": "1997-12-25",
    "first_name": "James",
    "last_name": "Bond",
    "ssn": "XXX-XX-9999",
    "phone": "555-111-2222",
    "phone_country_code": "1"
}
headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Identity": "YOUR-IDENTITY",
    "Authorization": "YOUR-AUTHENTICATION"
}

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

print(response.text)

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Accept"] = 'application/json'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request["Identity"] = 'YOUR-IDENTITY'
request["Authorization"] = 'YOUR-AUTHENTICATION'
request.body = "{\"addresses\":[{\"address_type\":\"MAILING\",\"street\":\"345 California Ave.\",\"street2\":\"Suite 600\",\"city\":\"San Francisco\",\"state\":\"CA\",\"zip_code\":\"12345-1234\",\"country\":\"US\",\"is_primary\":true}],\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"dob\":\"1997-12-25\",\"first_name\":\"James\",\"last_name\":\"Bond\",\"ssn\":\"XXX-XX-9999\",\"phone\":\"555-111-2222\",\"phone_country_code\":\"1\"}"

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

const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Accept: 'application/json',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
    Identity: 'YOUR-IDENTITY',
    Authorization: 'YOUR-AUTHENTICATION'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    addresses: [
      {
        address_type: 'MAILING',
        street: '345 California Ave.',
        street2: 'Suite 600',
        city: 'San Francisco',
        state: 'CA',
        zip_code: '12345-1234',
        country: 'US',
        is_primary: true
      }
    ],
    email: '[email protected]',
    dob: '1997-12-25',
    first_name: 'James',
    last_name: 'Bond',
    ssn: 'XXX-XX-9999',
    phone: '555-111-2222',
    phone_country_code: '1'
  })
};

fetch('https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/', options)
  .then(response => response.json())
  .then(response => console.log(response))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

var client = new RestClient("https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.POST);
request.AddHeader("Accept", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
request.AddHeader("Identity", "YOUR-IDENTITY");
request.AddHeader("Authorization", "YOUR-AUTHENTICATION");
request.AddParameter("application/json", "{\"addresses\":[{\"address_type\":\"MAILING\",\"street\":\"345 California Ave.\",\"street2\":\"Suite 600\",\"city\":\"San Francisco\",\"state\":\"CA\",\"zip_code\":\"12345-1234\",\"country\":\"US\",\"is_primary\":true}],\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"dob\":\"1997-12-25\",\"first_name\":\"James\",\"last_name\":\"Bond\",\"ssn\":\"XXX-XX-9999\",\"phone\":\"555-111-2222\",\"phone_country_code\":\"1\"}", ParameterType.RequestBody);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{\"addresses\":[{\"address_type\":\"MAILING\",\"street\":\"345 California Ave.\",\"street2\":\"Suite 600\",\"city\":\"San Francisco\",\"state\":\"CA\",\"zip_code\":\"12345-1234\",\"country\":\"US\",\"is_primary\":true}],\"email\":\"[email protected]\",\"dob\":\"1997-12-25\",\"first_name\":\"James\",\"last_name\":\"Bond\",\"ssn\":\"XXX-XX-9999\",\"phone\":\"555-111-2222\",\"phone_country_code\":\"1\"}");
Request request = new Request.Builder()
  .url("https://sandbox.bond.tech/api/v0.1/customers/")
  .post(body)
  .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
  .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .addHeader("Identity", "YOUR-IDENTITY")
  .addHeader("Authorization", "YOUR-AUTHENTICATION")
  .build();

Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();

The JSON response contains all the information related to the newly created customer. It includes the customer_id which is a unique Bond platform identifier for your customer. The customer_id is used in subsequent API calls to retrieve and update the customer resource, and to issue cards. An example of a response to a successful request to create a customer is shown below.

{
  "customer_id": "b3f7f6c9-503e-4457-b0ca-31f65131cfff",
  "brand_person_id": "ac6ee2d3-5a03-4043-a4aa-dda51836b9fd",
  "bond_brand_id": "8c7e08c8-0320-444c-b834-007cd9e18c0e",
  "business_id": "null",
  "dob": "1997-12-25",
  "first_name": "James",
  "middle_name": "Herbert",
  "last_name": "Bond",
  "ssn": "XXX-XX-9999",
  "phone": "555-111-2222",
  "phone_country_code": "1",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "addresses": [
    {
      "address_id": "5ff2a5f8-2d96-4c89-9edc-ec762ac3844c",
      "address_type": "MAILING",
      "street": "345 California Ave.",
      "street2": "Suite 600",
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "state": "CA",
      "zip_code": "12345-1234",
      "country": "US",
      "is_primary": true,
      "date_created": "2021-10-11T17:54:26.784367+00:00",
      "deliverability": "deliverable"
    }
  ],
  "date_created": "2021-06-02T13:38:27.965404+00:00"
}

For a complete specification and interactive examples, see Creating a customer in the Bond API Reference.

Trying to create a customer with a missing field

If you try to create a customer with a missing field, you receive a JSON error message similar to the one shown below.

400
{
       'Message': {'last_name': ['Missing data for required field.']},
       'Status': 400,
       'Code': 'create_customer_schema',0
       'Type': 'Request Error'
}