Create new customer in D365FO using Postman

Hi,

In this post we will view the steps to create new customer(used CustomerV2 entity) in D365FO. 

Step 1: Register D365FO in Azure Platform. Please refer to previous post to view the steps for App registration.

 Application registration of D365FO with Azure 

Step 2: Setup Postman with D365FO. Note: Used environment variables to setup bearer token and authorization in this post.

 Postman Set up with D365FO 

Step 3: Retrieve the OData URL for customer entity. In my case it is https://D365FO URL/data/CustomersV3.

Step 4: Launch Postman, select the Devbox collection and click on three dots. Select Add Request and provide name (say) Create Customer.

Add Request

Request Name

Step 5: Provide the command for the POST Request with URL as 

{{resource}}/data/CustomersV3

where resource is the D365FO URL provided in the environment section.

Step 6: Create two entries under Header section and provide values for Authorization and Content-Type.

Step 7: Under Body section, select raw view and provide the below content to create customer C145345659. 

{

            "InvoiceAccount": "C145345659",

            "dataAreaId": "USMF",

            "CustomerGroupId": "REGULAR",

            "CustomerAccount": "C145345659",

            "PartyType": "Organization",

            "OrganizationName": "Test Account111002",

            "SalesCurrencyCode": "USD"

}

Step 8: Click on Send button.

Step 9: View the output with status as 201(created).

Regards,

Chaitanya Golla