# customers

Customers represent the person or company contracted to receive products or services

## Get a list of available customers

 - [GET /customers](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/getcustomers.md)

## Create a new customer and primary site

 - [POST /customers](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/createcustomer.md)

## Check if customer exists

 - [HEAD /customers](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/checkcustomer.md)

## Get a specific customer

 - [GET /customers/{customer_id}](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/getcustomer.md)

## Update a customer

 - [PATCH /customers/{customer_id}](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/updatecustomer.md)

## Returns billing summary information

 - [GET /customer-billing-summaries](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/getcustomerbillingsummary.md): Returns billing summary information for customers including open vs previous bill run values

## Returns usage data information for a customer

 - [GET /customer-usage-data](https://docs.elevatebilling.com/openapi/prod/gen/billing-rest-customer/customers/getcustomerusagedata.md)