---
title: "Create Profile"
method: POST
path: "/profiles"
tags: ["Profiles"]
---

# Create Profile

`POST /profiles`

Create a new Payment Profile using either a card, a single-use token, a transaction id, or bank credentials. You must supply one of them. You may store a card and bank credentials on the same profile.

## Request body

- ProfileBody
  - `card` ProfileFromCard
    - `name` string, required — Card holder name.
    - `number` string, required — Credit card number (PAN)
    - `expiry_month` string, required — eg. 02 for February.
    - `expiry_year` string, required — eg. 17 for 2017.
    - `cvd` string — Security code on the back of the credit card. This can be set to mandatory in the back office.
  - `bank_account` ProfileFromBankAccount
    - `account_number` string, required — For U.S. and Canadian bank accounts. Specify the customer’s bank account number. Account number may vary in length.
    - `bank_account_holder` string, required — Account holder name.
    - `bank_account_type` string, required — PC=U.S. Personal Checking account. PS=U.S. Personal Saving account. CC=U.S. Corporate Checking account. CS=U.S. Corporate Savings account. CA=Canadian account.
    - `branch_number` string — For Canadian bank accounts only. Specify the customer’s bank branch number.
    - `institution_number` string — For Canadian bank accounts only. Specify the institution number of the customer’s financial institution.
    - `routing_number` string — For U.S. bank accounts only. Specify the customer’s routing number.
  - `create_from_id` ProfileFromTransactionId
    - `create_from_id` number, required — The id of the transaction the user wishes to create a profile from.
  - `token` ProfileFromToken
    - `name` string, required — Card holder name.
    - `code` string, required — The token received from the client-side tokenization service.
  - `billing` BillingAddress
    - `name` string — Name of the person/business
    - `address_line1` string — Street address
    - `address_line2` string — Additional address information(eg; suite number, apartment number, etc)
    - `city` string — The city
    - `province` string — characters (2)
    - `country` 'AD' | 'AE' | 'AF' | 'AG' | 'AI' | 'AL' | 'AM' | 'AO' | 'AQ' | 'AR' | 'AS' | 'AT' | 'AU' | 'AW' | 'AX' | 'AZ' | 'BA' | 'BB' | 'BD' | 'BE' | 'BF' | 'BG' | 'BH' | 'BI' | 'BJ' | 'BL' | 'BM' | 'BN' | 'BO' | 'BQ' | 'BR' | 'BS' | 'BT' | 'BV' | 'BW' | 'BY' | 'BZ' | 'CA' | 'CC' | 'CD' | 'CF' | 'CG' | 'CH' | 'CI' | 'CK' | 'CL' | 'CM' | 'CN' | 'CO' | 'CR' | 'CU' | 'CV' | 'CW' | 'CX' | 'CY' | 'CZ' | 'DE' | 'DJ' | 'DK' | 'DM' | 'DO' | 'DZ' | 'EC' | 'EE' | 'EG' | 'EH' | 'ER' | 'ES' | 'ET' | 'FI' | 'FJ' | 'FK' | 'FM' | 'FO' | 'FR' | 'GA' | 'GB' | 'GD' | 'GE' | 'GF' | 'GG' | 'GH' | 'GI' | 'GL' | 'GM' | 'GN' | 'GP' | 'GQ' | 'GR' | 'GS' | 'GT' | 'GU' | 'GW' | 'GY' | 'HK' | 'HM' | 'HN' | 'HR' | 'HT' | 'HU' | 'ID' | 'IE' | 'IL' | 'IM' | 'IN' | 'IO' | 'IQ' | 'IR' | 'IS' | 'IT' | 'JE' | 'JM' | 'JO' | 'JP' | 'KE' | 'KG' | 'KH' | 'KI' | 'KM' | 'KN' | 'KP' | 'KR' | 'KW' | 'KY' | 'KZ' | 'LA' | 'LB' | 'LC' | 'LI' | 'LK' | 'LR' | 'LS' | 'LT' | 'LU' | 'LV' | 'LY' | 'MA' | 'MC' | 'MD' | 'ME' | 'MF' | 'MG' | 'MH' | 'MK' | 'ML' | 'MM' | 'MN' | 'MO' | 'MP' | 'MQ' | 'MR' | 'MS' | 'MT' | 'MU' | 'MV' | 'MW' | 'MX' | 'MY' | 'MZ' | 'NA' | 'NC' | 'NE' | 'NF' | 'NG' | 'NI' | 'NL' | 'NO' | 'NP' | 'NR' | 'NU' | 'NZ' | 'OM' | 'PA' | 'PE' | 'PF' | 'PG' | 'PH' | 'PK' | 'PL' | 'PM' | 'PN' | 'PR' | 'PS' | 'PT' | 'PW' | 'PY' | 'QA' | 'RE' | 'RO' | 'RS' | 'RU' | 'RW' | 'SA' | 'SB' | 'SC' | 'SD' | 'SE' | 'SG' | 'SH' | 'SI' | 'SJ' | 'SK' | 'SL' | 'SM' | 'SN' | 'SO' | 'SR' | 'SS' | 'ST' | 'SV' | 'SX' | 'SY' | 'SZ' | 'TC' | 'TD' | 'TF' | 'TG' | 'TH' | 'TJ' | 'TK' | 'TL' | 'TM' | 'TN' | 'TO' | 'TR' | 'TT' | 'TV' | 'TW' | 'TZ' | 'UA' | 'UG' | 'UM' | 'US' | 'UY' | 'UZ' | 'VA' | 'VC' | 'VE' | 'VG' | 'VI' | 'VN' | 'VU' | 'WF' | 'WS' | 'YE' | 'YT' | 'ZA' | 'ZM' | 'ZW' — Valid ISO 3166-1 country code
    - `postal_code` string — Postal/Zip code
    - `phone_number` string — Phone number
    - `phone_country_code` string — The country code of the phone number provided.
    - `phone_type` 'm' | 'h' | 'w' — The phone type of the phone number provided - m (Mobile), h (Home) or w (Work).
    - `email_address` string — Email Address
  - `custom` Custom
    - `ref1` string — custom reference field 1
    - `ref2` string — custom reference field 2
    - `ref3` string — custom reference field 3
    - `ref4` string — custom reference field 4
    - `ref5` string — custom reference field 5
  - `customer_code` unknown
  - `language` string — characters
  - `comment` string — Any comments that a user would like to attach to the Payment Profile
  - `validate` boolean — Set to true to automatically process a pre-auth transaction for validation purposes. Processor token transactions require validation, and must be set to true.

## Response `200`

The Profile.

- ProfileResponse
  - `code` number
  - `message` string
  - `customer_code` string — the ID of the payment profile. You need to keep track of this value.
  - `validation` CardValidation
    - `id` string — Transaction ID
    - `approved` integer — Approval status of payment transaction. 0 if the transaction is not approved. 1 if the transaction is approved.
    - `message_id` integer — Payment response code
    - `message` string — Message containing information about the transactions status
    - `auth_code` string — Auth Code
    - `trans_date` string — The date it was created '2015-04-22T10:03:19.323-07:00'
    - `order_number` string — Order number
    - `type` 'P' | 'R' | 'VP' | 'VR' | 'PA' | 'PAC' — Payment transaction type
    - `amount` number, double — A decimal value in dollars. Uses up to two decimal places.
    - `cvd_id` integer — CVD Response ID
  - `limited_use_card_token` string — Uniquely identifies specific cards in payment profile accounts. Used only for performing Method URL operations.

## Other responses

- `400` — Bad Request
- `401` — Authentication Failure
- `402` — Business Rule Violation or Decline
- `403` — Authorization Failure
- `405` — Invalid Request Method
- `500` — Internal Server Error

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