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A Customer of a business can receive invoices and refunds and have payments applied to their invoices. Customers can be referenced when creating invoices and refunds using either the Layer id, or the external id.

Attributes

string
required
Unique identifier for the customer.
string
Unique ID of the customer in your system for linking and idempotency.
string
Full name of the individual customer or contact at a corporate customer.
string
Name of the company customer.
string
Email address of the customer.
string
Mobile phone number of the customer.
string
Office phone number of the customer.
string
Full address of the customer.
enum
Status of the customer. Possible values are: ACTIVE, ARCHIVED Archived customers will not appear when listing customers, but their accounting continues to be tracked and they can still be retrieved directly in the API.
Array of Tags
string
Memo for any text you would like to associate with the customer (for example, to display to end users).
object
Arbitrary custom metadata in JSON format with a size limit of 1KB.
string
Any (typically user-visible) identifier you would like to associate with the customer. Can be used to filter when listing customers.