Customer Object Modification & Creation

Questions & Answers
#1

Greetings:

I have two questions relating to customer object manipulation using the APIs:

  1. Can the the “email” value be modified via the Management and/or Customer API? This is occasionally needed when the customer email address changes.
  2. Is it possible to directly create a new customer object via the Management API without using the /invite endpoint?

Thanks for your help!
-AD

#2
  1. Customer’s email currently cannot be modified via the API - but it could be in principle, because is it not served as a key.
  2. No, that’s not possible at the moment.

Could you elaborate on the use case please?

#3

Sometimes users need to change their email address for a variety of reasons (e.g. employee turnover, company name change, etc.). It would be very helpful if they could do so without having to create a new account and re-register all of the existing devices assigned to the original email address.

-AD

#4

Thanks Steve!

I agree on that one.

#5

A change was pushed that allows an email attribute to be passed in the REST call, which should do the job. Please feedback how does that work for you.

#6

Thanks for this update, it works well via the Management API.

Does it make sense to also enable the email update via the Client API /customer POST endpoint? This would allow a customer to update the email address via a user-accessible account dashboard page (for example).

-AD