---
title: "Get customer by ID"
method: GET
path: "/api/v1/customer/{customerId}"
tags: ["Customers"]
---

# Get customer by ID

`GET /api/v1/customer/{customerId}`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://sandbox.api.afriex.com`
- URL: `https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}`
- Auth: API key in header `x-api-key`
- TypeScript: <https://skmtc.dev/afriex/apis/afriex-business-api/docs/api/v1/customer/:customerId/get.ts> (a function with typed inputs; its response is checked against the schema)

Retrieves a specific customer by their unique identifier. The response includes the customer's `reference`, which is the value to supply as the pool-account `reference` when submitting a payment proof.

## Path parameters

- `customerId` string, required

## Response `200`

Customer retrieved successfully.

- object
  - `data` Customer
    - `customerId` string: The unique identifier for the customer.
    - `reference` string: A shortened reference for the customer. Returned on every customer response (create, list, by-ID, update, KYC and verify) and used as the pool-account reference when submitting a payment proof. Falls back to the customer id when no shortened reference has been assigned.
    - `name` string: The full name of the customer.
    - `email` string, email: The email of the customer.
    - `phone` string: The phone number of the customer in E.164 format.
    - `countryCode` string: The country code of the customer in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 format.
    - `meta` object: Optional meta data you can attach to the customer. On the responses of `PATCH /api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc` and `POST /api/v1/customer/{customerId}/verify` this holds `meta.kyc.data`, the customer's stored KYC documents, in place of your meta data.
    - `createdAt` string: The date and time the customer was created.
    - `updatedAt` string: The date and time the customer was last updated.

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid customer ID format.
- `401`: Unauthorized.
- `404`: Customer not found.
- `500`: Server error.
- `503`: Temporarily unavailable: an upstream service failed or timed out, or the API is momentarily offline. Retry with backoff and honour the Retry-After header when present.

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/afriex/apis/afriex-business-api.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/afriex/apis/afriex-business-api/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/afriex/apis/afriex-business-api/revisions/d94198b6c256?raw)