Action: Create a Customer

Stripe Operation

Create a new customer in Stripe

Example User Story

As a business I wish to create a new customer in Stripe in order to send monthly recurring invoices.

Fields

Field Name	Field Type	Required
email	String	Yes
name	String	No
description	String	No
payment_method	String	No
customer_id	String	No
customer_object	Object	No

Related Connections

Stripe

Related Automations

Example link

Code (Apache v2.0): Operation

{
  "handle": "create-customer",
  "state": "inDev",
  "meta": {
    "short": "Create Customer",
    "description": "Creates a new customer in Stripe."
  },
  "input": [
    {
      "name": "email",
      "type": "String",
      "required": true,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The customer's email address."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The customer's full name or business name."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "description",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "An arbitrary string attached to the customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "payment_method",
      "type": "String",
      "required": false,
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the payment method to attach to the customer."
      }
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "customer_id",
      "type": "String",
      "selector": ["id"],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The ID of the created customer."
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "customer_object",
      "type": "Object",
      "selector": [],
      "meta": {
        "description": "The full customer object returned by Stripe."
      }
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "type": "http",
      "http": {
        "method": "POST",
        "path": "/v1/customers",
        "headers": {
          "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        },
        "bodyTemplate": {
          "value": "email={{.email}}&name={{.name}}&description={{.description}}&payment_method={{.payment_method}}",
          "placeholders": [
            {
              "name": "email",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The customer's email address.",
              "required": true
            },
            {
              "name": "name",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The customer's full name or business name.",
              "required": false
            },
            {
              "name": "description",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "An arbitrary string attached to the customer.",
              "required": false
            },
            {
              "name": "payment_method",
              "type": "String",
              "description": "The ID of the payment method to attach to the customer.",
              "required": false
            }
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}