Search customers is a WordPress ability from LatePoint — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Search customers
Read-onlySearches customers by name, email, or phone, optimized for autocomplete.
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 performs a lightweight search across customer first name, last name, email, and phone fields for a given query term, restricted to records the current user is allowed to access. Results are sorted by last name and capped at a configurable limit, making it suited for autocomplete-style lookups rather than full paginated browsing.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Search for customers matching 'jane'."
Inputs
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | Yes | Search term. |
| limit | integer | No | Maximum number of customers to return, from 1 to 50 (defaults to 10). |
Returns
An object with a customers array of matching serialized customer records, up to the requested limit.
Permission
The current user must have LatePoint's 'customer__view' capability, and the site's 'latepoint_abilities_api' Abilities API setting must be enabled.
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