Use Case: Create a Customer

You can create a new customer in the portal to quickly assign invoices, subscriptions, payment tokens, and other information to a single account. This tutorial walks you through the steps to create and save a new customer.

Partial view of the Customers page.

Objective

Add a new customer to your portal account.


Audience

  • Merchants

Environment

  • Portal (Sandbox)

  • Portal (Production)


Prerequisites

Prerequisites:

  • You must have a fully boarded account to perform any of the actions described in this use case guide.

  • You must have the customer’s full name and email address.

Tips

Tip: The Payrix platform will create a customer record every time a token is generated. As a result, you do not need to create a new customer if you create a new token.


Create a Customer

Access the Customers Page

Navigate to the Customers page by clicking CUSTOMERS under the Payments category in the left navigation panel.

Create a New Customer

  1. Click ADD CUSTOMER in the upper-right corner of the page to open the Add Customer lightbox on the page.

  2. Enter the customer's first name, last name, and email address.

  3. (Optional) Enter the customer’s phone number, company name, and billing address.

  4. Click ADD to complete the process.

Result: The new customer appears in the Customers table.


Next Steps

After creating the new customer account, review the following use case guides for additional information on related topics:


Conclusion

The new customer account is now active. You can customize the customer profile by clicking on the entry in the Customers table, or you can begin creating transactions with the new customer account.


References

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