Customers

A person or business purchasing goods or services from a merchant using April to facilitate the payment. Customers are defined at the merchant level, so if an individual makes payments with multiple merchants, they will have a customer record for each of these merchants.

April supports two broad categories of customers:

Consumer customers are individuals typically making purchases from the merchant via e-commerce websites. They are uniquely identified by emailAddress for a given merchant.

Organisation customers represent businesses wishing to make purchases from the merchant. They are uniquely identified by referenceCustomerId for a given merchant.

• GET /customers Return a paginated list of matching customers
• POST /customers Create a new customer or update the details of an existing customer
• GET /customers/{customerId} Return details of a customer
• POST /customers/kyc Perform a Know Your Customer (KYC) check on a consumer customer
• GET /customers/delegates Return a paginated list of matching customer delegates
• GET /customers/delegates/{customerDelegateId} Return details of a customer delegate
• PATCH /customers/delegates/{customerDelegateId} Various actions for updating a customer delegate such as linking to a new customer