You can update any existing data attribute of a customer with these methods.

If you want to update a number of customers at once, use Batch update customers method instead. To create a new customer, use Create customer method.

➡️ Request

<customer_id> is the identifier for the customer as given by HelpCrunch. It is required for this method and looks like a combination of numbers, for example 1568834.

Read more about authorization header here.

When updating a customer you can specify all the existing data fields or a part of them in the body of your request. You can find all the available data fields in the Successful Response section below.

Request Body Example

{
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "userId": "user_1234567890",
  "company": "Example Inc.",
  "phone": "+10233456781",
  "firstSeen": "1603885746",
  "lastSeen": "1603885746",
  "unsubscribed": false,
  "blocked": false,
  "source": "https://example.com",
  "referer": "https://example.com",
  "lastPage": "https://example.com",
  "locale": "uk",
  "notes": "Lorem ipsum",
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "vip",
      "color": "#ff0000"
    }
  ],
  "customData": [
    {
      "property": "subscription_status",
      "value": "active"
    },
    {
      "property": "number_of_payments",
      "value": 15
    },
    {
      "property": "last_paid_amount",
      "value": 15.99
    },
    {
      "property": "last_payment_date",
      "value": "1603885746"
    },
    {
      "property": "last_invoice_url",
      "value": "https://example.com/invoice.html"
    },
    {
      "property": "last_payment_was_successful",
      "value": true
    }
  ]
}

Tips

• All dates should be passed in the String (UNIX timestamp) format;
• Locale filed should be passed as a string according to the ISO 639-1 standard;
• Tag can be appended to the customer with Tag customer method or removed with Untag customer method. Tag will be automatically created and added to your account if you pass a non-existing one. You can assign any CSS color to the tag. If you don't specify it, the default #c377e0 color will be applied.
• In order to clear the value of a specific field, you should pass a null value for it in your request body.

✅ Successful Response

If your request has succeeded, you'll get a 200 OK success status code together with the following response body. 

{
  "id": 542335,
  "name": "John Doe",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "userId": "user_1234567890",
  "company": "Example Inc.",
  "phone": "+10233456781",
  "firstSeen": "1603885746",
  "lastSeen": "1603885746",
  "location": {
    "regionCode": "Kyyivs'ka Oblast",
    "countryCode": "UA",
    "city": "Kyiv"
  },
  "device": {
    "id": 542335,
    "ip": "192.168.1.1",
    "timezone": "Europe/Kiev",
    "platform": "desktop",
    "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.111 Safari/537.36"
  },
  "unsubscribed": false,
  "blocked": false,
  "source": "https://example.com",
  "referer": "https://example.com",
  "lastPage": "https://example.com",
  "locale": "uk",
  "createdFrom": "telegram",
  "integrationId": "465847687",
  "notes": "Lorem ipsum",
  "tags": [
    {
      "name": "vip",
      "color": "#ff0000"
    }
  ],
  "customData": {
    "subscription_status": "active",
    "number_of_payments": 15,
    "last_paid_amount": 15.99,
    "last_payment_date": 1603885746,
    "last_invoice_url": "https://example.com/invoice.html",
    "last_payment_was_successful": true
  }
}

You can get details on every Customer Object field in the Customer model article.

🛑 Error Responses

You may get one of the following error status codes and responses. More info on the errors is available here.

400 Bad Request

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "invalid_request",
      "message": "Invalid request"
    },
    {
      "code": "customer",
      "message": "This value should be of type numeric."
    },
    {
      "code": "filter[0].field",
      "message": "This value should not be blank."
    }
  ]
}

401 Unauthorized

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "invalid_request",
      "message": "Invalid request"
    },
    {
      "code": "unauthorized",
      "message": "Unauthorized"
    }
  ]
}

404 Not Found

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "invalid_request",
      "message": "Invalid request"
    },
    {
      "code": "not_found",
      "message": "Chat not found"
    }
  ]
}

429 Too Many Requests

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "code": "invalid_request",
      "message": "Invalid request"
    },
    {
      "code": "too_many_requests",
      "message": "Too many requests"
    }
  ]
}

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