Create Contact in Billing System Action

Create a contact/customer record in an external billing system and return the external customer ID.

This action is available in API version 60.0 and later.

Special Access Rules

The Create Contact in Billing System action is available in Enterprise and Unlimited Editions with Energy and Utilities Cloud. The org must have an external billing system integration configured.

Supported REST HTTP Methods

URI: /services/data/v60.0/actions/standard/createContactInBillingSystem

Formats: JSON, XML

HTTP Methods: POST

Authentication: Authorization: Bearer TOKEN

Where TOKEN is a variable.

Inputs

Input	Type	Description
`contactId`	string	Required. ID of the Salesforce contact record to create in the external billing system.

Outputs

Output	Type	Description
`externalCustomerId`	string	ID of the customer record created in the external billing system.

Example

POST

This sample request is for the Create Contact in Billing System action.

1{
2  "inputs": [
3    {
4      "contactId": "003xx000004TmniAAC"
5    }
6  ]
7}

This sample response is for the Create Contact in Billing System action.

1[
2  {
3    "actionName": "createContactInBillingSystem",
4    "errors": null,
5    "invocationId": null,
6    "isSuccess": true,
7    "outputValues": {
8      "externalCustomerId": "CUST-100234"
9    },
10    "sortOrder": -1,
11    "version": 1
12  }
13]