Action: Create Customer

Shopify Operation

This Shopify action creates a new customer profile in your store's database.

Example User Story

I want to manually add a VIP customer to our system so they can access exclusive discounts.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
firstName	String	Yes
lastName	String	Yes
email	String	Yes
phone	String	No
address	String	No

Related Connections

Shopify

Related Automations

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Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "create-customer",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Create Customer",
    "description": "Creates a new customer in Shopify."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "firstName",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The first name of the customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "lastName",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The last name of the customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "email",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The email address of the customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "phone",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The phone number of the customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "address",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The address of the customer."
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "customerId",
      "type": "Integer",
      "selector": ["customer", "id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the created customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "customerEmail",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["customer", "email"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The email of the created customer."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/admin/api/2023-10/customers.json",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/json",
          "X-Shopify-Access-Token": "{{accessToken}}"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "{\"customer\": {\"first_name\": \"{{firstName}}\", \"last_name\": \"{{lastName}}\", \"email\": \"{{email}}\", \"phone\": \"{{phone}}\", \"addresses\": [{\"address1\": \"{{address}}\"}]}}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "firstName",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The first name of the customer.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "lastName",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The last name of the customer.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "email",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The email address of the customer.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "phone",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The phone number of the customer.",
              "required": false
            },
            {
              "name": "address",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The address of the customer.",
              "required": false
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}