Magento 2 API: Create New Customer

In this article, we will be looking into how we can create a new customer in Magento 2 using its API.

We will be passing the admin bearer token to authenticate the APIs.

Create New Customer

API Doc:
https://adobe-commerce.redoc.ly/2.4.5-admin/tag/customers

Endpoint:

GET <host>/rest/V1/customers

Authentication Bearer Token:

<admin-token>

Payload:

{
    "customer": {
        "firstname": "Test",
        "lastname": "Example",
        "email": "test@example.com"
    },
    "password": "Test1234"
}

Response:

{
    "id": 2,
    "group_id": 1,
    "created_at": "2022-12-30 04:30:07",
    "updated_at": "2022-12-30 04:30:07",
    "created_in": "Default Store View",
    "email": "test@example.com",
    "firstname": "Test",
    "lastname": "Example",
    "store_id": 1,
    "website_id": 1,
    "addresses": [],
    "disable_auto_group_change": 0,
    "extension_attributes": {
        "is_subscribed": false
    }
}

Create Customer using cURL Request

curl --location --request POST 'https://app.your-project.test/rest/V1/customers' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJraWQiOiIxIiwiYWxnIjoiSFMyNxxxxx' \
--data-raw '{
    "customer": {
        "firstname": "Test",
        "lastname": "Example",
        "email": "test@example.com"
    },
    "password": "Test1234"
}'

Hope this helps. Thanks.

Magento REST API Reference: https://developer.adobe.com/commerce/webapi/rest/quick-reference/