POST /item_families

This endpoint creates an item family for your product line or service.

Servers

{protocol}://{site}.{environment}:{port}/api/v2
{protocol}://{site}-test.{environment}:{port}/api/v2

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
`chargebee-request-origin-device`	String	No	The device from which the customer has made the request
`Content-Type`	String	Yes	The media type of the request body. Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
`chargebee-event-webhook`	String	No	skip only webhooks Possible values: `"all-disabled"`
`chargebee-business-entity-id`	String	No	If the site has multiple business entities, you can use this custom HTTP header to specify the business entity for which Chargebee should perform the operation.
`chargebee-event-actions`	String	No	skip all actions to be done on the events Possible values: `"all-disabled"`
`chargebee-request-origin-user`	String	No	The email address of your customer/user. Use this when the email address has only ASCII characters.
`chargebee-request-origin-ip`	String	No	The IP address of the customer where the request originated
`chargebee-request-origin-user-encoded`	String	No	The Base64-encoded email address of your customer/user. Use this if the email address has UTF-8 characters. When this header is provided, the header `chargebee-request-origin-user` is ignored.
`chargebee-event-email`	String	No	skip only emails Possible values: `"all-disabled"`

Request body fields

Name	Type	Required	Description
`id`	String	Yes	The identifier for the item family. Must be unique and is immutable.
`name`	String	Yes	The display name for the item family. Must be unique. This is visible only in Chargebee and not to customers.
`description`	String	No	Description of the item family. This is visible only in Chargebee and not to customers.
`business_entity_id`	String	No	The unique ID of the business entity for this `item_family`. This is applicable only when multiple business entities have been created for the site. When provided, the operation will read or write data associated with the specified business entity. If not provided, the resource will be created at the site level, and the `business_entity_id` will not be included in the API response. Note An alternative way of passing this parameter is by means of a custom HTTP header. .

How to start integrating

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