## Create a Customer

### Endpoint
POST

`https://api.dwolla.com/customers`

### Request
#### cURL
```
curl --request POST \
  --url https://api.dwolla.com/customers \
  --header 'Accept: <accept>' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json' \
  --data '\n{\n  "firstName": "Account",\n  "lastName": "Admin",\n  "email": "accountAdmin@email.com",\n  "type": "<string>",\n  "ipAddress": "143.156.7.8",\n  "phone": "5555555555",\n  "correlationId": "fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733",\n  "businessName": "Jane Corp llc"\n}\n'```

#### JavaScript (Fetch)
```
const options = {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    Accept: '<accept>',
    Authorization: 'Bearer <token>',
    'Content-Type': 'application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json'
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    firstName: 'Account',
    lastName: 'Admin',
    email: 'accountAdmin@email.com',
    type: '<string>',
    ipAddress: '143.156.7.8',
    phone: '5555555555',
    correlationId: 'fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733',
    businessName: 'Jane Corp llc'
  })
};

fetch('https://api.dwolla.com/customers', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));
```

#### Python (Requests)
```
import requests

url = "https://api.dwolla.com/customers"

payload = {
    "firstName": "Account",
    "lastName": "Admin",
    "email": "accountAdmin@email.com",
    "type": "<string>",
    "ipAddress": "143.156.7.8",
    "phone": "5555555555",
    "correlationId": "fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733",
    "businessName": "Jane Corp llc"
}
headers = {
    "Accept": "<accept>",
    "Authorization": "Bearer <token>",
    "Content-Type": "application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json"
}

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

print(response.text)
```

#### PHP (cURL)
```
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [\
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.dwolla.com/customers",\
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,\
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",\
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,\
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,\
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,\
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "POST",\
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([\
    'firstName' => 'Account',\
    'lastName' => 'Admin',\
    'email' => 'accountAdmin@email.com',\
    'type' => '<string>',\
    'ipAddress' => '143.156.7.8',\
    'phone' => '5555555555',\
    'correlationId' => 'fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733',\
    'businessName' => 'Jane Corp llc'\
  ]),\
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [\
    "Accept: <accept>",\
    "Authorization: Bearer <token>",\
    "Content-Type: application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json"\
  ],\
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
?>
```

#### Ruby (Net::HTTP)
```
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.dwolla.com/customers")

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

request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Accept"] = '<accept>'
request["Authorization"] = 'Bearer <token>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json'
request.body = "{\n  \"firstName\": \"Account\",\n  \"lastName\": \"Admin\",\n  \"email\": \"accountAdmin@email.com\",\n  \"type\": \"<string>\",\n  \"ipAddress\": \"143.156.7.8\",\n  \"phone\": \"5555555555\",\n  \"correlationId\": \"fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733\",\n  \"businessName\": \"Jane Corp llc\"\n}"

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

### Error Responses
#### 400 Bad Request
```
{
  "code": "BadRequest",
  "message": "The request body contains bad syntax or is incomplete."
}
```
#### 403 Forbidden
```
{
  "code": "forbidden",
  "message": "Not authorized to create customers."
}
```
#### 404 Not Found
```
{
  "code": "notFound",
  "message": "not found."
}
```

### Authorization
- **Authorization**: `string` (header, required)
  - Description: The access token received from the authorization server in the OAuth 2.0 flow.

### Headers
- **Accept**: `enum<string>` (default: application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json, required)
  - Description: The media type of the response. Must be application/vnd.dwolla.v1.hal+json

### Request Body Parameters
- **firstName**: `string` (required)
  - Example: "Account"
- **lastName**: `string` (required)
  - Example: "Admin"
- **email**: `string` (required)
  - Example: "accountAdmin@email.com"
- **type**: `string` (required)
  - Allowed value: "receive-only"
- **ipAddress**: `string`
  - Example: "143.156.7.8"
- **phone**: `string`
  - Example: "5555555555"
- **correlationId**: `string`
  - Example: "fc451a7a-ae30-4404-aB95-e3553fcd733"
- **businessName**: `string`
  - Example: "Jane Corp llc"

### Additional Customer Creation Options
- CreateReceiveOnlyUser
- CreateUnverifiedCustomer
- CreateVerifiedPersonalCustomer
- CreateVerifiedSolePropCustomer
- CreateVerifiedBusinessCustomerWithController
- CreateVerifiedBusinessCustomerWithInternationalController