---
title: "Create a customer"
method: POST
path: "/v1/customers"
tags: ["Customers"]
---

# Create a customer

`POST /v1/customers`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.recruitmcp.com`
- URL: `https://api.recruitmcp.com/v1/customers`
- Auth: one of:
  - HTTP bearer
  - OAuth 2 (authorization code, authorization URL `https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/authorize`, token URL `https://recruitmcp.com/oauth/token`, scopes: `account:manage`)

Select it on any request with the RecruitMCP-Customer header, or create a key bound to it.

Scope: `account:manage`. Acts on the account; keys bound to a customer are refused.

## Headers

- `Idempotency-Key` string
- `RecruitMCP-Version` '2026-10-13'

## Request body

- CustomerInput
  - `name` string: Required on create.
  - `external_id` string, nullable: Your id for this tenant.
  - `metadata` object
  - `daily_cap_credits` integer, nullable: Credits this customer may spend per UTC day. Null for no cap.
  - `status` 'active' | 'disabled': Update only.

## Response `201`

Created.

- Customer: A sub-workspace for one of your own customers: its own seen register, lists, suppressions, and cap. Credits come from your account.
  - `id` string, required
  - `object` 'customer', required
  - `name` string, required
  - `external_id` string, nullable: Your id for this tenant.
  - `metadata` object
  - `daily_cap_credits` integer, nullable: Credits this customer may spend per UTC day.
  - `status` 'active' | 'disabled', required
  - `created_at` string, date-time
  - `updated_at` string, date-time

## Other responses

- `400`: `invalid_request` (do not retry): A field is missing or has a value this endpoint does not accept. `unsupported_version` (do not retry): RecruitMCP-Version is not a supported version.
- `401`: `unauthorized` (do not retry): Missing bearer API key.
- `403`: `forbidden` (do not retry): This route acts on the account. Keys bound to a customer cannot use it. `insufficient_scope` (do not retry): This key does not include the scope this endpoint requires.
- `409`: `conflict` (do not retry): The resource is in a state that refuses this change.
- `429`: `rate_limited` (retry): Per-key rate limit exceeded.

## Changes

- **2026-10-20** `ad27b35513a6`: 5 warning
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `400`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `401`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `403`
  - added the new `approval_forced` enum value to the `error/code` response property for the response status `409`
  - …1 more

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/recruitmcp/apis/recruitmcp-api/changes/v1/customers/post.md)

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