medusa-store/www/apps/docs/content/references/services/classes/services.CustomerService.mdx

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import ParameterTypes from "@site/src/components/ParameterTypes"

# CustomerService

Provides layer to manipulate customers.

## constructor

### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "__namedParameters",
    "type": "`InjectedDependencies`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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## Properties

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "__configModule__",
    "type": "`Record<string, unknown>`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
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  {
    "name": "__container__",
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  {
    "name": "addressRepository_",
    "type": "Repository&#60;[Address](../../entities/classes/entities.Address.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "customerRepository_",
    "type": "Repository&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62; & `object`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "eventBusService_",
    "type": "[EventBusService](services.EventBusService.mdx)",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "manager_",
    "type": "`EntityManager`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "transactionManager_",
    "type": "`undefined` \\| `EntityManager`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "Events",
    "type": "`object`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "Events.CREATED",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "\"customer.created\"",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "Events.PASSWORD_RESET",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "\"customer.password_reset\"",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "Events.UPDATED",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "\"customer.updated\"",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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## Accessors

### activeManager\_

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "EntityManager",
    "type": "`EntityManager`",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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## Methods

### addAddress

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "address",
    "type": "[AddressCreatePayload](../../medusa/classes/medusa.AddressCreatePayload.mdx)",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx) \\| [Address](../../entities/classes/entities.Address.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### atomicPhase\_

Wraps some work within a transactional block. If the service already has
a transaction manager attached this will be reused, otherwise a new
transaction manager is created.

#### Type Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "TResult",
    "type": "`object`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
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    "name": "TError",
    "type": "`object`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "work",
    "type": "(`transactionManager`: `EntityManager`) => Promise&#60;TResult&#62;",
    "description": "the transactional work to be done",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "isolationOrErrorHandler",
    "type": "`IsolationLevel` \\| (`error`: `TError`) => Promise&#60;void \\| TResult&#62;",
    "description": "the isolation level to be used for the work.",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "maybeErrorHandlerOrDontFail",
    "type": "(`error`: `TError`) => Promise&#60;void \\| TResult&#62;",
    "description": "Potential error handler",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;TResult&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the transactional work",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### count

Return the total number of documents in database

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;number&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the count operation",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### create

Creates a customer from an email - customers can have accounts associated,
e.g. to login and view order history, etc. If a password is provided the
customer will automatically get an account, otherwise the customer is just
used to hold details of customers.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customer",
    "type": "`CreateCustomerInput`",
    "description": "the customer to create",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of create",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### delete

Deletes a customer from a given customer id.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the id of the customer to delete. Must be\n  castable as an ObjectId",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;void \\| [Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the delete operation.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### generateResetPasswordToken

Generate a JSON Web token, that will be sent to a customer, that wishes to
reset password.
The token will be signed with the customer's current password hash as a
secret a long side a payload with userId and the expiry time for the token,
which is always 15 minutes.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the customer to reset the password for",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;string&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the generated JSON web token",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### hashPassword\_

Hashes a password

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "password",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the value to hash",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;string&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "hashed password",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### list

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "selector",
    "type": "[Selector](../../medusa/types/medusa.Selector.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62; & `object`",
    "description": "the query object for find",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the config object containing query settings",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)[]&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the find operation",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### listAndCount

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "selector",
    "type": "[Selector](../../medusa/types/medusa.Selector.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62; & `object`",
    "description": "the query object for find",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the config object containing query settings",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)[], number]&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the find operation",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### listByEmail

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "email",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)[]&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### removeAddress

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "addressId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;void&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### retrieve

Gets a customer by id.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the id of the customer to get.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the config object containing query settings",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the customer document.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### retrieveByEmail

Gets a registered customer by email.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "email",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the email of the customer to get.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the config object containing query settings",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the customer document.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Deprecated

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### retrieveByPhone

Gets a customer by phone.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "phone",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the phone of the customer to get.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the config object containing query settings",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the customer document.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### retrieveRegisteredByEmail

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "email",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### retrieveUnregisteredByEmail

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "email",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### retrieve\_

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "selector",
    "type": "[Selector](../../medusa/types/medusa.Selector.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "config",
    "type": "[FindConfig](../../medusa/interfaces/medusa.FindConfig.mdx)&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "{}",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### shouldRetryTransaction\_

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "err",
    "type": "`Record<string, unknown>` \\| `object`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "boolean",
    "type": "`boolean`",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### update

Updates a customer.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "the id of the variant. Must be a string that\n  can be casted to an ObjectId",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "update",
    "type": "`UpdateCustomerInput`",
    "description": "an object with the update values.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "resolves to the update result.",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### updateAddress

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customerId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "addressId",
    "type": "`string`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "address",
    "type": "[StorePostCustomersCustomerAddressesAddressReq](../../medusa/classes/medusa.StorePostCustomersCustomerAddressesAddressReq.mdx)",
    "description": "",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;[Address](../../entities/classes/entities.Address.mdx)&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### updateBillingAddress\_

Updates the customers' billing address.

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "customer",
    "type": "[Customer](../../entities/classes/entities.Customer.mdx)",
    "description": "the Customer to update",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  },
  {
    "name": "addressOrId",
    "type": "`undefined` \\| `string` \\| DeepPartial&#60;[Address](../../entities/classes/entities.Address.mdx)&#62;",
    "description": "the value to set the billing address to",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "Promise",
    "type": "Promise&#60;void&#62;",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "description": "the result of the update operation",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

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### withTransaction

#### Parameters

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "transactionManager",
    "type": "`EntityManager`",
    "description": "",
    "optional": true,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />

#### Returns

<ParameterTypes parameters={[
  {
    "name": "CustomerService",
    "type": "`object`",
    "description": "Provides layer to manipulate customers.",
    "optional": false,
    "defaultValue": "",
    "expandable": false,
    "children": []
  }
]} />