# Create a company

URL: /docs/api/merchant/crm/create-a-company

## POST /v1/merchant/crm/companies

```http
POST https://api.elaraone.app/api/v1/merchant/crm/companies
```

### Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `X-Client-IP` | header | string |  | Optional. IP address of the shopper (one IPv4/IPv6, no port, no list). Honoured only together with a valid X-Tenant-Secret; ignored otherwise. Used for rate limits and recorded with form submissions. |
| `X-Tenant-Secret` | header | string |  | Optional here. Server secret of the store: server-to-server only, never from a browser. Enables X-Client-IP. |
| `Idempotency-Key` | header | string |  | Optional; recommended (a UUID made once per user action, reused only to retry that action). Only a success is stored (24 hours): the same key with the same body, URI and credentials (Authorization, X-Cart-Token, X-Chat-Token) replays it (`Idempotent-Replayed: true`); anything else under that key is 422 `IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`. An error is never stored: after a 4xx or 5xx, retrying with the same key runs the request again. |

### Request body (`application/json`)

| Field | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `name` | string | yes |  |
| `domains` | array (nullable) |  |  |
| `phone` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_line_one` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_line_two` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_city` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_region` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_postcode` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `address_country` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `industry` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `size` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `owner_id` | integer (nullable) |  |  |
| `lifecycle_stage` | string (nullable) |  |  |
| `is_sole_trader` | boolean |  |  |
| `custom_fields` | string[] |  |  |

### Responses

- **201**: Success.
- **401**: Unauthenticated
- **402**: Payment required. Branch on `error.code`: - `TENANT_PAYMENT_REQUIRED`: this store is on payment hold. Show a "store temporarily unavailable" page; do not retry the request.
- **403**: Authorization error
- **404**: Not found: `FEATURE_NOT_ENABLED` when this store does not have the CRM feature on.
- **409**: `IDEMPOTENCY_IN_PROGRESS`: a request with this Idempotency-Key is still being processed; retry shortly with the same key.
- **422**: Validation error Also 422 `IDEMPOTENCY_KEY_REUSED`: this Idempotency-Key already belongs to a different request (body, URI or credentials).
- **429**: `RATE_LIMITED`: the API budget of the store (per store and caller IP) is spent. Wait for `Retry-After`; a sync job should page with `filter[updated_since]` rather than re-reading everything.