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page_source: https://juspay.io/sea/docs/digital-wallets-sea/docs/how-to-integrate-native/creating-a-customer
page_title: Creating a Customer
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# Creating a Customer



Customer creation at Juspay end is required for : Tokenisation/Storing Cards, Storing VPAs, Linked Wallet Flows and Subscription flows. It also helps track payments that belong to the same customer


### Step 1.1. Call Get Customers API


Call the [Get Customer API](https://docs.juspay.in/ec-api/docs/base-integration/get-customer-api) with the customer_id to check if the customer already exists in Juspay systems or not

* If the customer already exists, the get customer call will return the corresponding customer object
* If the call returns an error _**object_not_found**_ , then you should create customer in Juspay system. Follow _**Step1.2**_   to create customer




### Step 1.2. Call Create Customers API


To create a new customer object, call the [Create Customer API](https://docs.juspay.in/ec-api/docs/base-integration/createcustomer).