Customer Groups

A Customer can be a member of a Customer Group (for example, reseller, gold member). Special prices can be assigned to specific products based on a Customer Group.

A maximum number of 1 000 Customer Groups can be created per Project. Learn more about this limit.

Representations

CustomerGroup

id
String

Unique ID of the Customer Group.

version
Int

Current version of the Customer Group.

key
String

User-defined unique identifier for the Customer Group.

createdAt

Date and time (UTC) the Customer Group was initially created.

createdByBETA

Present on resources created after 1 February 2019 except for events not tracked.

lastModifiedAt

Date and time (UTC) the Customer Group was last updated.

lastModifiedByBETA

Present on resources updated after 1 February 2019 except for events not tracked.

name
String

Unique name of the Customer Group.

custom

Custom Fields for the Customer Group.

CustomerGroupDraft

key
String

User-defined unique identifier for the Customer Group. Keys can only contain alphanumeric characters, underscores, and hyphens.

MinLength: 2MaxLength: 256Pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$
groupName
String

Unique value which must be different from any value used for name in CustomerGroup in the Project. If not, a DuplicateField error is thrown.

custom

Custom Fields for the Customer Group.

CustomerGroupPagedQueryResponse

PagedQueryResult with results containing an array of CustomerGroup.

limit
Int

Number of results requested in the query request.

offset
Int

Offset supplied by the client or server default. It is the number of elements skipped, not a page number.

count
Int

Actual number of results returned.

total
Int

Total number of results matching the query. This number is an estimation that is not strongly consistent. This field is returned by default. For improved performance, calculating this field can be deactivated by using the query parameter withTotal=false. When the results are filtered with a Query Predicate, total is subject to a limit.

results
Array of CustomerGroup

CustomerGroups matching the query.

CustomerGroupReference

id
String

Unique ID of the referenced CustomerGroup.

typeId
String
"customer-group"
obj

Contains the representation of the expanded Customer Group. Only present in responses to requests with Reference Expansion for Customer Groups.

CustomerGroupResourceIdentifier

id
String

Unique ID of the referenced CustomerGroup. Either id or key is required.

key
String

Unique key of the referenced CustomerGroup. Either id or key is required.

typeId
String
"customer-group"

Get CustomerGroup

Get CustomerGroup by ID

GET
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
view_customers:{projectKey}, view_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

id
String

id of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X GET https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}'

Get CustomerGroup by Key

GET
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
view_customers:{projectKey}, view_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

key
String

key of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X GET https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}'

Query CustomerGroups

GET
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
view_customers:{projectKey}, view_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

Query parameters:
where

Queryable field: name

The parameter can be passed multiple times.
/^var[.][a-zA-Z0-9]+$/
Any string parameter matching this regular expression

Predicate parameter values.

The parameter can be passed multiple times.
sort
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
limit
Int

Number of results returned.

offset
Int

Number of results skipped.

withTotal
Boolean

Controls the calculation of the total number of query results. Set to false to improve query performance when the total is not needed.

Request Example:cURL
curl -X GET https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}'

Create CustomerGroup

POST
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
manage_customers:{projectKey}, manage_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
Request Body:CustomerGroupDraft
Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X POST https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary @- << DATA
{
"groupName" : "Webshop user"
}
DATA

Update CustomerGroup

Update CustomerGroup by ID

POST
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
manage_customers:{projectKey}, manage_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

id
String

id of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
Request Body:
version
Int

Expected version of the Customer Group on which the changes should be applied. If the expected version does not match the actual version, a 409 Conflict will be returned.

actions

Update actions to be performed on the Customer Group.

Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X POST https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary @- << DATA
{
"version" : 1,
"actions" : [ {
"action" : "changeName",
"name" : "New Name"
} ]
}
DATA

Update CustomerGroup by Key

POST
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
manage_customers:{projectKey}, manage_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

key
String

key of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
Request Body:
version
Int

Expected version of the Customer Group on which the changes should be applied. If the expected version does not match the actual version, a 409 Conflict will be returned.

actions

Update actions to be performed on the Customer Group.

Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X POST https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-binary @- << DATA
{
"version" : 1,
"actions" : [ {
"action" : "changeName",
"name" : "New Name"
} ]
}
DATA

Update actions

Change Name

action
String
"changeName"
name
String

New name of the Customer Group.

Example: json
{
"action" : "changeName",
"name" : "New Name"
}

Set Key

key
String

If key is absent or null, the existing key, if any, will be removed.

action
String
"setKey"
Example: json
{
"action" : "setKey",
"key" : "newKey"
}

Set Custom Type

This action sets or removes the custom type for an existing Customer Group. If present, this action overwrites any existing custom type and fields.

action
String
"setCustomType"

If absent, the custom type and any existing CustomFields are removed.

fields

Valid JSON object, based on the FieldDefinitions of the Type. Sets the custom fields to this value.

Example: json
{
"action" : "setCustomType",
"type" : {
"id" : "{{type-id}}",
"typeId" : "type"
},
"fields" : {
"examplaryStringTypeField" : "TextString"
}
}

Set Custom Field

action
String
"setCustomField"
name
String

Name of the Custom Field.

value
Any

Value must be of type Value. If value is absent or null, this field will be removed if it exists. Trying to remove a field that does not exist will fail with an InvalidOperation error. If value is provided, it is set for the field defined by name.

Example: json
{
"action" : "setCustomField",
"name" : "ExamplaryStringTypeField",
"value" : "TextString"
}

Delete CustomerGroup

Delete CustomerGroup by ID

DELETE
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
manage_customers:{projectKey}, manage_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

id
String

id of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
version
Int

Last seen version of the resource.

Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X DELETE https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/{id}?version={version} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}'

Delete CustomerGroup by Key

DELETE
https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key}
OAuth 2.0 Scopes:
manage_customers:{projectKey}, manage_customer_groups:{projectKey}
Path parameters:
region
String

Region in which the Project is hosted.

projectKey
String

key of the Project.

key
String

key of the CustomerGroup.

Query parameters:
expand
The parameter can be passed multiple times.
version
Int

Last seen version of the resource.

Response:
Request Example:cURL
curl -X DELETE https://api.{region}.commercetools.com/{projectKey}/customer-groups/key={key}?version={version} -i \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer ${BEARER_TOKEN}'