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In this section of the documentation, you will find resources to learn more about the Customer Module and how to use it in your application.

Refer to the Medusa Admin User Guide to learn how to manage customers and groups using the dashboard.

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Medusa has customer related features available out-of-the-box through the Customer Module. A module is a standalone package that provides features for a single domain. Each of Medusa's commerce features are placed in Commerce Modules, such as this Customer Module.

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Learn more about why modules are isolated in this documentation.

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Customer Features

Customer Management: Store and manage guest and registered customers in your store.
Customer Organization: Organize customers into groups. This has a lot of benefits and supports many use cases, such as provide discounts for specific customer groups using the Promotion Module.

How to Use the Customer Module

In your Medusa application, you build flows around Commerce Modules. A flow is built as a Workflow, which is a special function composed of a series of steps that guarantees data consistency and reliable roll-back mechanism.

You can build custom workflows and steps. You can also re-use Medusa's workflows and steps, which are provided by the @medusajs/medusa/core-flows package.

For example:

export const highlights = [ ["12", "Modules.CUSTOMER", "Resolve the module in a step."] ]

import { 
  createWorkflow, 
  WorkflowResponse,
  createStep,
  StepResponse,
} from "@medusajs/framework/workflows-sdk"
import { Modules } from "@medusajs/framework/utils"

const createCustomerStep = createStep(
  "create-customer",
  async ({}, { container }) => {
    const customerModuleService = container.resolve(Modules.CUSTOMER)

    const customer = await customerModuleService.createCustomers({
      first_name: "Peter",
      last_name: "Hayes",
      email: "[email protected]",
    })

    return new StepResponse({ customer }, customer.id)
  },
  async (customerId, { container }) => {
    if (!customerId) {
      return
    }
    const customerModuleService = container.resolve(Modules.CUSTOMER)

    await customerModuleService.deleteCustomers([customerId])
  }
)

export const createCustomerWorkflow = createWorkflow(
  "create-customer",
  () => {
    const { customer } = createCustomerStep()

    return new WorkflowResponse({
      customer,
    })
  }
)

You can then execute the workflow in your custom API routes, scheduled jobs, or subscribers:

import type {
  MedusaRequest,
  MedusaResponse,
} from "@medusajs/framework/http"
import { createCustomerWorkflow } from "../../workflows/create-customer"

export async function GET(
  req: MedusaRequest,
  res: MedusaResponse
) {
  const { result } = await createCustomerWorkflow(req.scope)
    .run()

  res.send(result)
}

</CodeTab> <CodeTab label="Subscriber" value="subscriber">

import {
  type SubscriberConfig,
  type SubscriberArgs,
} from "@medusajs/framework"
import { createCustomerWorkflow } from "../workflows/create-customer"

export default async function handleUserCreated({
  event: { data },
  container,
}: SubscriberArgs<{ id: string }>) {
  const { result } = await createCustomerWorkflow(container)
    .run()

  console.log(result)
}

export const config: SubscriberConfig = {
  event: "user.created",
}

</CodeTab> <CodeTab label="Scheduled Job" value="scheduled-job">

import { MedusaContainer } from "@medusajs/framework/types"
import { createCustomerWorkflow } from "../workflows/create-customer"

export default async function myCustomJob(
  container: MedusaContainer
) {
  const { result } = await createCustomerWorkflow(container)
    .run()

  console.log(result)
}

export const config = {
  name: "run-once-a-day",
  schedule: `0 0 * * *`,
}

</CodeTab> </CodeTabs>

Learn more about workflows in this documentation.