Update a customer

Changed on Sep 29, 2026

Updates the specified customer by setting the values of the parameters passed. Any parameters not provided are left unchanged. For example, if you pass the source parameter, that becomes the customer’s active source (such as a card) to be used for all charges in the future. When you update a customer to a new valid card source by passing the source parameter: for each of the customer’s current subscriptions, if the subscription bills automatically and is in the past_due state, then the latest open invoice for the subscription with automatic collection enabled is retried. This retry doesn’t count as an automatic retry, and doesn’t affect the next regularly scheduled payment for the invoice. Changing the default_source for a customer doesn’t trigger this behavior.

This request accepts mostly the same arguments as the customer creation call.

post/v1/customers/{customer}

Request

Base URL: https://api.stripe.com
URL: https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/{customer}
Auth: one of:
- HTTP basic
- HTTP bearer

Path parameters

customerstring required

Response

Successful response.

balanceinteger

The current balance, if any, that's stored on the customer in their default currency. If negative, the customer has credit to apply to their next invoice. If positive, the customer has an amount owed that's added to their next invoice. The balance only considers amounts that Stripe hasn't successfully applied to any invoice. It doesn't reflect unpaid invoices. This balance is only taken into account after invoices finalize. For multi-currency balances, see invoice_credit_balance.

business_namestring

The customer's business name.

createdinteger required

Time at which the object was created. Measured in seconds since the Unix epoch.

currencystring nullable

Three-letter ISO code for the currency the customer can be charged in for recurring billing purposes.

customer_accountstring nullable

The ID of an Account representing a customer. You can use this ID with any v1 API that accepts a customer_account parameter.

delinquentboolean nullable

Tracks the most recent state change on any invoice belonging to the customer. Paying an invoice or marking it uncollectible via the API will set this field to false. An automatic payment failure or passing the invoice.due_date will set this field to true.

If an invoice becomes uncollectible by dunning, delinquent doesn't reset to false.

If you care whether the customer has paid their most recent subscription invoice, use subscription.status instead. Paying or marking uncollectible any customer invoice regardless of whether it is the latest invoice for a subscription will always set this field to false.

descriptionstring nullable

An arbitrary string attached to the object. Often useful for displaying to users.

emailstring nullable

The customer's email address.

idstring required

Unique identifier for the object.

individual_namestring

The customer's individual name.

invoice_credit_balanceobject

The current multi-currency balances, if any, that's stored on the customer. If positive in a currency, the customer has a credit to apply to their next invoice denominated in that currency. If negative, the customer has an amount owed that's added to their next invoice denominated in that currency. These balances don't apply to unpaid invoices. They solely track amounts that Stripe hasn't successfully applied to any invoice. Stripe only applies a balance in a specific currency to an invoice after that invoice (which is in the same currency) finalizes.

invoice_prefixstring nullable

The prefix for the customer used to generate unique invoice numbers.

livemodeboolean required

If the object exists in live mode, the value is true. If the object exists in test mode, the value is false.

metadataobject

Set of key-value pairs that you can attach to an object. This can be useful for storing additional information about the object in a structured format.

namestring nullable

The customer's full name or business name.

next_invoice_sequenceinteger

The suffix of the customer's next invoice number (for example, 0001). When the account uses account level sequencing, this parameter is ignored in API requests and the field omitted in API responses.

object'customer' required

String representing the object's type. Objects of the same type share the same value.

phonestring nullable

The customer's phone number.

preferred_localesstring[] nullable

The customer's preferred locales (languages), ordered by preference.

tax_exempt'exempt' | 'none' | 'reverse' nullable

Describes the customer's tax exemption status, which is none, exempt, or reverse. When set to reverse, invoice and receipt PDFs include the following text: "Reverse charge".

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