customers.create

Add a customer to a shop, with kind, company, email, phone, billing address, lead source, tags and notes in one call.


Who	Agents can call this
REST	`POST /v1/customers`
MCP tool	`customers_create`
Writes	yes, send an Idempotency-Key
Area	Customers

When to use it

A new customer. Ask the name, and the email if they want quotes and invoices sent by email.

What to tell the owner

I added the customer.

Input

Field	Type	Required
`shop_id`	string	yes
`name`	string	yes
`kind`	string (one of person, company)	no
`company_name`	string	no
`email`	string	no
`phone`	string	no
`billing_address`	object	no
`billing_address.line1`	string	no
`billing_address.line2`	string	no
`billing_address.locality`	string	no
`billing_address.region`	string	no
`billing_address.postal_code`	string	no
`billing_address.country`	string	no
`lead_source`	string	no
`tags`	array	no
`notes`	string	no

Example

POST https://doingwork.work/v1/customers
content-type: application/json
Idempotency-Key: 3f1c...

{
  "shop_id": "00000000-0000-4000-8000-000000000000",
  "name": "Ruiz Plumbing"
}

Output

JSON. The response shape isn't published yet; read the fields you need and ignore the rest. Errors are {code, message, status}.

Errors

Code	Status	What to do
`invalid_input`	400	A field is missing, the wrong type, or unknown. The message names the field. Fix the input; don't retry as is.
`forbidden`	403	This worker's role can't do this, or it needs a person's own sign-in rather than an agent token. Tell the person who can.
`invalid_input`, `invalid_token`, `rate_limited`		Can happen on any call. See errors.