---
title: "Create Business"
method: POST
path: "/api/v1/businesses"
tags: ["businesses"]
---

# Create Business

`POST /api/v1/businesses`

Create a business manually. Domain is deduped per tenant when present.

## Request body

- BusinessCreate — Create a business — only the name is required.
  - `name` string, required
  - `website` string, nullable
  - `domain` string, nullable
  - `phone` string, nullable
  - `address` string, nullable
  - `category` string, nullable

## Response `201`

Successful Response

- BusinessRead — Full business record.
  - `id` string, uuid, required
  - `tenant_id` string, uuid, required
  - `name` string, required
  - `website` string, nullable
  - `domain` string, nullable
  - `phone` string, nullable
  - `address` string, nullable
  - `category` string, nullable
  - `owner_user_id` string, uuid, nullable
  - `total_revenue_cents` integer, nullable
  - `contact_count` integer, required
  - `first_seen_at` string, date-time, required
  - `last_seen_at` string, date-time, required

## Other responses

- `409` — A business with this domain already exists
- `422` — Validation Error

## Changes

> 28 revisions in range; 1 not diffed.

- **2026-09-03** `d65b8fefae34` — 2 info
  - added the optional property `detail/items/ctx` to the response with the `422` status
  - added the optional property `detail/items/input` to the response with the `422` status

[Change history](https://skmtc.dev/getanana/apis/cleon-api/changes/api/v1/businesses/post.md)

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