Create a new customer
Overview
Use the createCustomer method to add the details of a customer entity into the 2Checkout system. By default, customer status is Inactive until you assign a specific subscription to the customer. Following that action, customer status reflects the status of the attached subscription(s).
Parameters
Parameters |
Type/Description |
sessionID |
Required (string) |
|
Session identifier, the output of the Login method. Include sessionID into all your requests. 2Checkout throws an exception if the values are incorrect. The sessionID expires in 10 minutes. |
Object |
Response
2CheckoutCustomerReference |
Int |
|
System-generated customer reference. |
Request
<?php $host = "https://api.2checkout.com"; $client = new SoapClient($host . "/soap/3.0/?wsdl", array( 'location' => $host . "/soap/3.0/", "stream_context" => stream_context_create(array( 'ssl' => array( 'verify_peer' => false, 'verify_peer_name' => false ) )) )); function hmac($key, $data) { $b = 64; // byte length for md5 if (strlen($key) > $b) { $key = pack("H*", md5($key)); } $key = str_pad($key, $b, chr(0x00)); $ipad = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x36)); $opad = str_pad('', $b, chr(0x5c)); $k_ipad = $key ^ $ipad; $k_opad = $key ^ $opad; return md5($k_opad . pack("H*", md5($k_ipad . $data))); } $merchantCode = "YOUR_MERCHANT_CODE";// your account's merchant code available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $key = "YOUR_SECRET_KEY";// your account's secret key available in the 'System settings' area of the cPanel: https://secure.2checkout.com/cpanel/account_settings.php $now = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s'); //date_default_timezone_set('UTC') $string = strlen($merchantCode) . $merchantCode . strlen($now) . $now; $hash = hmac($key, $string); try { $sessionID = $client->login($merchantCode, $now, $hash); } catch (SoapFault $e) { echo "Authentication: " . $e->getMessage(); exit; } $newCustomer = new stdClass(); $newCustomer->2CheckoutCustomerReference = null; $newCustomer->ExternalCustomerReference = 'ThisIsATestReference123456'; $newCustomer->FirstName = 'NewCustomer'; $newCustomer->LastName = 'NewCustomerLastName'; $newCustomer->Company = null; $newCustomer->FiscalCode = null; $newCustomer->Address1 = 'Address'; $newCustomer->Address2 = null; $newCustomer->City = 'LA'; $newCustomer->Zip = '90210'; $newCustomer->CountryCode = 'us'; $newCustomer->Phone = null; $newCustomer->Fax = null; $newCustomer->Email = 'newcustomer@email.com'; $newCustomer->ExistingCards = null; $newCustomer->Enabled = null; $newCustomer->Trial = null; $newCustomer->Language = 'en'; try { $newCustomerInfo = $client->createCustomer($sessionID, $newCustomer); } catch (SoapFault $e) { echo "newCustomerInfo: " . $e->getMessage(); exit; } var_dump("newCustomerInfo", $newCustomerInfo);