---
description: How to create a customer subscription via API
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# Create a customer subscription

To [create](https://docs.commercelayer.io/core/creating-resources) a new customer subscription, send a `POST` request to the `/api/customer_subscriptions` endpoint, passing the resource arguments in the request body.

## Request

**POST** https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer\_subscriptions

### Arguments

| Body Parameter                   | Type     | Required |
| -------------------------------- | -------- | -------- |
| **type**                         | `string` | Required |
| attributes.**customer\_email**   | `string` | Required |
| attributes.**reference**         | `string` | Required |
| attributes.**reference\_origin** | `string` | Optional |
| attributes.**metadata**          | `object` | Optional |

### Example

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{% tab title="Request" %}
The following request creates a new customer subscription:

```shell
curl -g -X POST \
  'https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions' \
  -H 'Accept: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer your-access-token' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json' \
  -d '{
  "data": {
    "type": "customer_subscriptions",
    "attributes": {
      "customer_email": "john@example.com",
      "reference": "ANY-EXTERNAL-REFEFERNCE"
    }
  }
}'
```
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{% tab title="Response" %}
On success, the API responds with a `201 Created` status code, returning the created resource object:

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "xYZkjABcde",
    "type": "customer_subscriptions",
    "links": {
      "self": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde"
    },
    "attributes": {
      "customer_email": "john@example.com",
      "reference": "ANY-EXTERNAL-REFEFERNCE",
      "created_at": "2018-01-01T12:00:00.000Z",
      "updated_at": "2018-01-01T12:00:00.000Z",
      "reference_origin": "ANY-EXTERNAL-REFEFERNCE-ORIGIN",
      "metadata": {
        "foo": "bar"
      }
    },
    "relationships": {
      "customer": {
        "links": {
          "self": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/relationships/customer",
          "related": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/customer"
        }
      },
      "events": {
        "links": {
          "self": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/relationships/events",
          "related": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/events"
        }
      },
      "versions": {
        "links": {
          "self": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/relationships/versions",
          "related": "https://yourdomain.commercelayer.io/api/customer_subscriptions/xYZkjABcde/versions"
        }
      }
    },
    "meta": {
      "mode": "test",
      "organization_id": "xRRkjDFafe",
      "trace_id": "69abaa3545913c78132e5578bd26208d44aa9043647d78698fd0021f3958cd74"
    }
  }
}
```
{% endtab %}
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