POST /v2/customers/{customer_id}/cards

Adds a card on file to an existing customer.

As with charges, calls to CreateCustomerCard are idempotent. Multiple calls with the same card nonce return the same card record that was created with the provided nonce during the first call.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
customer_id String Yes

The Square ID of the customer profile the card is linked to.

Request headers

Name Type Required Description
Content-Type String Yes The media type of the request body.

Default value: "application/json"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
cardholder_name String No

The full name printed on the credit card.

verification_token String No

An identifying token generated by Payments.verifyBuyer(). Verification tokens encapsulate customer device information and 3-D Secure challenge results to indicate that Square has verified the buyer identity.

card_nonce String Yes

A card nonce representing the credit card to link to the customer.

Card nonces are generated by the Square payment form when customers enter their card information. For more information, see Walkthrough: Integrate Square Payments in a Website.

NOTE: Card nonces generated by digital wallets (such as Apple Pay) cannot be used to create a customer card.

billing_address Object No

Represents a postal address in a country. The address format is based on an open-source library from Google. For more information, see AddressValidationMetadata. This format has dedicated fields for four address components: postal code, locality (city), administrative district (state, prefecture, or province), and sublocality (town or village). These components have dedicated fields in the Address object because software sometimes behaves differently based on them. For example, sales tax software may charge different amounts of sales tax based on the postal code, and some software is only available in certain states due to compliance reasons.

For the remaining address components, the Address type provides the address_line_1 and address_line_2 fields for free-form data entry. These fields are free-form because the remaining address components have too many variations around the world and typical software does not parse these components. These fields enable users to enter anything they want.

Note that, in the current implementation, all other Address type fields are blank. These include address_line_3, sublocality_2, sublocality_3, administrative_district_level_2, administrative_district_level_3, first_name, last_name, and organization.

When it comes to localization, the seller's language preferences (see Language preferences) are ignored for addresses. Even though Square products (such as Square Point of Sale and the Seller Dashboard) mostly use a seller's language preference in communication, when it comes to addresses, they will use English for a US address, Japanese for an address in Japan, and so on.

billing_address.address_line_3 String No

The third line of the address, if any.

billing_address.first_name String No

Optional first name when it's representing recipient.

billing_address.postal_code String No

The address's postal code.

billing_address.organization String No

Optional organization name when it's representing recipient.

billing_address.address_line_2 String No

The second line of the address, if any.

billing_address.address_line_1 String No

The first line of the address.

Fields that start with address_line provide the address's most specific details, like street number, street name, and building name. They do not provide less specific details like city, state/province, or country (these details are provided in other fields).

billing_address.administrative_district_level_3 String No

A civil entity within the address's administrative_district_level_2, if any.

billing_address.sublocality_2 String No

A civil region within the address's sublocality, if any.

billing_address.administrative_district_level_2 String No

A civil entity within the address's administrative_district_level_1. In the US, this is the county.

billing_address.locality String No

The city or town of the address.

billing_address.sublocality String No

A civil region within the address's locality, if any.

billing_address.last_name String No

Optional last name when it's representing recipient.

billing_address.administrative_district_level_1 String No

A civil entity within the address's country. In the US, this is the state.

billing_address.sublocality_3 String No

A civil region within the address's sublocality_2, if any.

billing_address.country String No

The address's country, in ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 format.

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