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Create or Update Customer with Customer.io API

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Getting Started

Create a workflow to Create or Update Customer with the Customer.io API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

  1. Configure the Create or Update Customer action
    1. Connect your Customer.io account
    2. Configure Customer ID
    3. Configure Email
    4. Optional- Configure Created At
    5. Optional- Configure Attributes
  2. Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
  3. Deploy the workflow
  4. Send a test event to validate your setup
  5. Turn on the trigger

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Details

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Create or Update Customer on Customer.io
Description:Creates or update a customer. [See the docs here](https://customer.io/docs/api/#apitrackcustomerscustomers_update)
Version:0.2.0
Key:customer_io-create-or-update-customer

Code

import app from "../../customer_io.app.mjs";

export default {
  key: "customer_io-create-or-update-customer",
  name: "Create or Update Customer",
  description: "Creates or update a customer. [See the docs here](https://customer.io/docs/api/#apitrackcustomerscustomers_update)",
  version: "0.2.0",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    app,
    customerId: {
      propDefinition: [
        app,
        "customerId",
      ],
    },
    email: {
      label: "Email",
      type: "string",
      description: "The unique identifier for the customer.",
    },
    created_at: {
      type: "string",
      label: "Created At",
      description: "The UNIX timestamp from when the user was created in your system.",
      optional: true,
    },
    attributes: {
      type: "object",
      label: "Attributes",
      description: "Custom attributes to define the customer.",
      optional: true,
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    await this.app.createOrUpdateCustomer(this.customerId, {
      email: this.email,
      created_at: this.created_at,
      ...this.attributes,
    }, $);
    $.export("$summary", "Successfully created/updated customer");
  },
};

Configuration

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.
LabelPropTypeDescription
Customer.ioappappThis component uses the Customer.io app.
Customer IDcustomerIdstring

The unique identifier for the customer.

Emailemailstring

The unique identifier for the customer.

Created Atcreated_atstring

The UNIX timestamp from when the user was created in your system.

Attributesattributesobject

Custom attributes to define the customer.

Authentication

Customer.io uses API keys for authentication. When you connect your Customer.io account, Pipedream securely stores the keys so you can easily authenticate to Customer.io APIs in both code and no-code steps.

To connect your Customer.io account to Pipedream, sign in to your Customer.io account and navigate to Data & Integrations > Integrations > API, then copy your site_id and api_key fields and paste them below.

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