Create a Customer

Submit your customer's 11-digit Australian Business Number (ABN) to create a customer record.

If this customer is already known to Walker Street Data, their existing customerId will be returned.

Endpoint: POST https://api.walkerstdata.com.au/v1/customer

Request:

cURL

curl -X POST "https://api.walkerstdata.com.au/v1/customer" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"abn": "12345678901"}'

JavaScript

const response = await fetch('https://api.walkerstdata.com.au/v1/customer', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    abn: '12345678901',
  }),
});
const result = await response.json();
const customerId = result.data.customerId;

Python

import requests

response = requests.post(
    'https://api.walkerstdata.com.au/v1/customer',
    headers={
        'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
        'Content-Type': 'application/json'
    },
    json={'abn': '12345678901'}
)
result = response.json()
customer_id = result['data']['customerId']

Response:

{
  "data": {
    "customerId": "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "abn": "12345678901"
  },
  "message": null
}

Use Cases

• New customer onboarding: Register a business entity to start processing their transaction data
• Customer ID lookup: Get the unique identifier for a business you've worked with before

Next Steps

Once you have the customerId, you can:

• Submit transactions for enrichment
• Upload PDF bank statements
• Retrieve enriched transaction data