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Create a new customer

Last updated: 25-Sep-2019
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Overview

Use the createCustomer method to add the details of a customer entity into the Avangate system. By default, customer status is Inactive until you assign a specific subscription to the customer. Following that action, customer status reflects the status of the attached subscription(s).

Parameters

Parameters Type/Description

sessionID

Required (string)

 

Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. Avangate throws an exception if the values are incorrect.  The sessionID expires in 10 minutes.

Customer

Object

Request

<?php

require ('PATH_TO_AUTH');

$newCustomer = new stdClass();
$newCustomer->AvangateCustomerReference = null;
$newCustomer->ExternalCustomerReference = 'ThisIsATestReference123456';
$newCustomer->FirstName = 'NewCustomer';
$newCustomer->LastName = 'NewCustomerLastName';
$newCustomer->Company = null;
$newCustomer->FiscalCode = null;
$newCustomer->Address1 = 'Address';
$newCustomer->Address2 = null;
$newCustomer->City = 'LA';
$newCustomer->Zip = '90210';
$newCustomer->CountryCode = 'us';
$newCustomer->Phone = null;
$newCustomer->Fax = null;
$newCustomer->Email = 'newcustomer@email.com';
$newCustomer->ExistingCards = null;
$newCustomer->Enabled = null;
$newCustomer->Trial = null;
$newCustomer->Language = 'en';

$jsonRpcRequest = array (
'method' => 'createCustomer',
'params' => array($sessionID, $newCustomer),
'id' => $i++,
'jsonrpc' => '2.0');

var_dump (callRPC((Object)$jsonRpcRequest, $host, true));

Response

Parameters Type/Description

AvangateCustomerReference

Int

 

System-generated customer reference.

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