Customers
Customer objects enable you to track multiple transactions associated with the same customer.
A Customer object can be created in the following ways:
- Automatically: When an order is paid without customer ID and there is enough information to identify a customer, the customer is created automatically.
- Manually: Use the Create a customer endpoint to create a customer.
You can then retrieve, update and delete a customer using its id.
You can save the payment methods of a customer using the payment_method object. Payment methods are used to make transactions. A merchant can store the details of the payment securely and group transactions from the same payment method.
A payment method is unique for each customer. For example, if the same card is used for a transaction by two different customers, two payment method objects are created.
You cannot create a payment method explicitly because they are generated as part of a payment. You can only retrieve, update or delete a payment method, or you can retrieve all payment methods of a customer.