Address¶

The Address API manages customer shipping addresses for Authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager (CIM). Addresses must be associated to a customer profile on the Authorize.net server. An address can be associated when a new customer is created, to see how this is handled refer to the Customer API documentation.

Create¶

To associate an address to an existing customer use the create method. When creating an address, you must provide the customer profile ID as the first argument. No fields are required when creating an address, however, at least one field must be provided.

result = authorize.Address.create('customer_id', {
    'first_name': 'Rob',
    'last_name': 'Oteron',
    'company': 'Robotron Studios',
    'address': '101 Computer Street',
    'city': 'Tucson',
    'state': 'AZ',
    'zip': '85704',
    'country': 'US',
    'phone_number': '520-123-4567',
    'fax_number': '520-456-7890',
})

result.address_id
# e.g. '17769620'

Details¶

The details method returns the information for a given customer address. You must provide the both customer profile ID and the customer address ID respectively.

The following information is returnd in the result attribute dictionary:

address.first_name
address.last_name
address.company
address.address
address.city
address.state
address.zip
address.country
address.phone_number
address.fax_number

result = authorize.Address.details('customer_id', '17769620')

result.address_id
# e.g. '17769620'

Update¶

The update method will update the address information for a given address ID. The method requires the customer profile ID, the customer address ID and the updated customer address information.

result = authorize.Address.create('customer_id', '17769620', {
    'first_name': 'Rob',
    'last_name': 'Oteron',
    'company': 'Robotron Studios',
    'address': '101 Computer Street',
    'city': 'Tucson',
    'state': 'AZ',
    'zip': '85704',
    'country': 'US',
    'phone_number': '520-123-4567',
    'fax_number': '520-456-7890',
})

Delete¶

Deleting a customer address will remove the address information associated the customer.

authorize.Address.delete('customer_id', '17769620')