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Retrieve a customer ​

Retrieves a Customer object.

Returns ​

Returns the Customer object for a valid identifier. If it’s for a deleted Customer, a subset of the customer’s information is returned, including a deleted property that’s set to true.

curl
curl https://api.stripe.com/v1/customers/{{CUSTOMER_ID}} \
  -u "<<YOUR_SECRET_KEY>>"

Response ​

json
{
  "id": "cus_NffrFeUfNV2Hib",
  "object": "customer",
  "address": null,
  "balance": 0,
  "created": 1680893993,
  "currency": null,
  "default_source": null,
  "delinquent": false,
  "description": null,
  "email": "jennyrosen@example.com",
  "invoice_prefix": "0759376C",
  "invoice_settings": {
    "custom_fields": null,
    "default_payment_method": null,
    "footer": null,
    "rendering_options": null
  },
  "livemode": false,
  "metadata": {},
  "name": "Jenny Rosen",
  "next_invoice_sequence": 1,
  "phone": null,
  "preferred_locales": [],
  "shipping": null,
  "tax_exempt": "none",
  "test_clock": null
}

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