Create customer is a WordPress ability from LatePoint — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
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WriteCreates a new LatePoint customer record with contact details.
Requires the LatePoint plugin on WordPress 6.9+ (the WordPress Abilities API is only available from 6.9 onward). All abilities also require the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' master toggle to be enabled; write abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' setting, and destructive abilities additionally require the 'latepoint_abilities_api_delete' setting. Each ability further requires the current user to hold the matching LatePoint capability (e.g. 'booking__view', 'customer__edit'), and some abilities also verify the user is allowed to act on that specific record.
What it does
This ability creates a new customer profile from a first name and email address, plus optional last name, phone number, and internal notes. All provided fields are sanitized before the record is saved. On success it returns the newly created customer's full serialized profile; if saving fails (for example due to a duplicate or invalid email), it returns a save_failed error, including field-level messages when WP_DEBUG is enabled.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Create a new customer named Jane Doe with email jane@example.com and phone 555-1234."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| first_name | string | Yes | First name. |
| last_name | string | No | Last name. |
| string | Yes | Email address. | |
| phone | string | No | Phone number. |
| notes | string | No | Internal notes. |
Returns
Returns the newly created customer's serialized profile (id, name, email, phone, notes, linked WP user id, status, and timestamps).
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'customer__create' capability, and both the 'latepoint_abilities_api' and 'latepoint_abilities_api_edit' settings must be enabled.
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