# Creating a customer

Creating new customers stores customer and contact information within ChargeOver.

Call the `ChargeOver.Customer.create(...)` to create a new customer.

```javascript
var my_data = {
	customer: {
		company: 'My Company Name, LLC',

		// external_key: '1234abcd1234',     // Use external keys to link your app to ChargeOver data

		bill_addr1: '56 Cowles Road',
		bill_addr2: '',
		bill_addr3: '',
		bill_city: 'Mt Pleasant',
		bill_state: 'MI',
		bill_postcode: '48858',
		bill_country: 'United States',

		custom_1: '',      // Custom field values
		custom_2: '',
		custom_3: ''
	},
	user: {
		name: 'John Doe',
		phone: '888-924-2347',
		email: 'test@ChargeOver.com'
	}

	// You can optionally specify a credit card too if you want
	/*
	creditcard: {
		number: '4111 1111 1111 1111',
		expdate_month: '7',
		expdate_year: '2016',
		name: 'John D Doe'
	}
	*/
};

//
function my_callback_function(code, message, response)
{
	if (code == 200)
	{
		alert('Thanks, we created the customer ' + response.customer.company);
	}
	else
	{
		alert('Error: ' + message);
	}
}

//
ChargeOver.Customer.create(my_data, my_callback_function);
```