POST /v1/customers/{customer}

Updates the specified customer by setting the values of the parameters passed. Any parameters not provided are left unchanged. For example, if you pass the source parameter, that becomes the customer’s active source (such as a card) to be used for all charges in the future. When you update a customer to a new valid card source by passing the source parameter: for each of the customer’s current subscriptions, if the subscription bills automatically and is in the past_due state, then the latest open invoice for the subscription with automatic collection enabled is retried. This retry doesn’t count as an automatic retry, and doesn’t affect the next regularly scheduled payment for the invoice. Changing the default_source for a customer doesn’t trigger this behavior.

This request accepts mostly the same arguments as the customer creation call.

Servers

Path parameters

Name Type Required Description
customer String Yes

Request headers

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

Default value: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"

Request body fields

Name Type Required Description
source String No
description String No

An arbitrary string that you can attach to a customer object. It is displayed alongside the customer in the dashboard.

metadata No

Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format. Individual keys can be unset by posting an empty value to them. All keys can be unset by posting an empty value to metadata.

next_invoice_sequence Integer No

The sequence to be used on the customer's next invoice. Defaults to 1.

email String No

Customer's email address. It's displayed alongside the customer in your dashboard and can be useful for searching and tracking. This may be up to 512 characters.

business_name No

The customer's business name. This may be up to 150 characters.

invoice_prefix String No

The prefix for the customer used to generate unique invoice numbers. Must be 3–12 uppercase letters or numbers.

balance Integer No

An integer amount in cents (or local equivalent) that represents the customer's current balance, which affect the customer's future invoices. A negative amount represents a credit that decreases the amount due on an invoice; a positive amount increases the amount due on an invoice.

shipping No

The customer's shipping information. Appears on invoices emailed to this customer.

preferred_locales[] Array No

Customer's preferred languages, ordered by preference.

individual_name No

The customer's full name. This may be up to 150 characters.

default_bank_account String No

ID of bank account to make the customer's new default for invoice payments.

tax Object No

Tax details about the customer.

tax.validate_location String No

Valid values:

  • "deferred"
  • "immediately"
  • "auto"
tax.ip_address No
expand[] Array No

Specifies which fields in the response should be expanded.

bank_account No

Either a token, like the ones returned by Stripe.js, or a dictionary containing a user's bank account details.

card No

A token, like the ones returned by Stripe.js.

default_alipay_account String No

ID of Alipay account to make the customer's new default for invoice payments.

default_source String No

If you are using payment methods created via the PaymentMethods API, see the invoice_settings.default_payment_method parameter.

Provide the ID of a payment source already attached to this customer to make it this customer's default payment source.

If you want to add a new payment source and make it the default, see the source property.

name String No

The customer's full name or business name.

default_card String No

ID of card to make the customer's new default for invoice payments.

cash_balance Object No

Balance information and default balance settings for this customer.

cash_balance.settings Object No
cash_balance.settings.reconciliation_mode String No

Valid values:

  • "manual"
  • "automatic"
  • "merchant_default"
phone String No

The customer's phone number.

address No

The customer's address. Learn about country-specific requirements for calculating tax.

tax_exempt String No

The customer's tax exemption. One of none, exempt, or reverse.

Valid values:

  • ""
  • "reverse"
  • "exempt"
  • "none"
invoice_settings Object No

Default invoice settings for this customer.

invoice_settings.default_payment_method String No
invoice_settings.rendering_options No
invoice_settings.custom_fields No
invoice_settings.footer String No

How to start integrating

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    • This loads the API reference documentation and prepares the Http request settings.
  3. Click Test request to test run your request to the API and see the API's response.