Step 1. Create a customer
GraphQL checkout tutorial
This step creates a customer account and generates an authentication token for that customer. You can skip this step if you want to perform this tutorial as a guest user.
Create a customer
Use the createCustomer
mutation to register the new customer account in the store.
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mutation {
createCustomer(
input: {
firstname: "John"
lastname: "Doe"
email: "john.doe@example.com"
password: "b1b2b3l@w+"
is_subscribed: true
}
) {
customer {
firstname
lastname
email
is_subscribed
}
}
}
Response:
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{
"data": {
"createCustomer": {
"customer": {
"firstname": "John",
"lastname": "Doe",
"email": "john.doe@example.com",
"is_subscribed": true
}
}
}
}
The createCustomer
mutation describes additional parameters.
Generate an authentication token for the customer
To place an order as a customer, you must obtain an authorization token by calling the generateCustomerToken
mutation. You must include the customer’s email and password as input.
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mutation {
generateCustomerToken(email: "john.doe@example.com", password: "b1b2b3l@w+") {
token
}
}
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{
"data": {
"generateCustomerToken": {
"token": "zuo7zor5jfldft2nmu2gtylnm8ui7e8t"
}
}
}
Authorization tokens describes the mutation further.
Verify this step
Sign in as a customer to the website using the email john.doe@example.com
and password b1b2b3l@w+
. You should be successfully logged in.