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Create Customer

  • REST Method: POST
  • URL: https://api.helpscout.net/v1/customers.json
  • Content-Type: application/json

Request

Name Type Required Default Notes
customer Customer Y   The body of the request (see example below).
reload boolean N false Set this request parameter to true to return the customer in the response. 
{
    "firstName": "Vernon",
    "lastName": "Bear",
    "organization": "Acme, Inc",
    "jobTitle": "CEO and Co-Founder",
    "background": "I've worked with Vernon before and he's really great.",
    "address": {
        "lines": [
            "123 West Main St",
            "Suite 123"
        ],
        "city": "Dallas",
        "state": "TX",
        "postalCode": "74206",
        "country": "US",
        "createdAt": "2012-07-23T12:34:12Z"
        "modifiedAt": "2012-07-24T20:18:33Z"
    },
    "socialProfiles": [
        {
            "value": "https://twitter.com/helpscout",
            "type": "twitter"
        },
        {... social profile object ...}
    ],
    "emails": [{
            "value": "vbear@mywork.com",
            "location": "work"
        },
        {... email object ...}
    ],
    "phones": [{
            "value": "222-333-4444",
            "location": "home"
        },
        {... phone object ...}
    ],
    "chats": [{
            "value": "jsprout",
            "type": "aim"
        },
        {... chat object ...}
    ],
    "websites": [{
            "value": "http://www.somewhere.com"
        },
        {... website object ...}
    ]
}

Accepted Fields

Name Type Required Default Notes
firstName string Y    
lastName string Y    
emails Collection Y   Collection of CustomerEmail objects. At least one email address is required.
organization string N    
jobTitle string N    
background string N    
address CustomerAddress N    
socialProfiles Collection N   Collection of CustomerSocialProfile objects.
phones Collection N   Collection of CustomerPhone objects.
chats Collection N   Collection of CustomerChat objects.
websites Collection N   Collection of CustomerWebsite objects.

Response

Response Name Type Notes
Header Status Integer 201
Header Location String https://api.helpscout.net/v1/customer/{id}.json 
Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.helpscout.net/v1/customer/{id}.json
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