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# Create Client (Individual)

## Create Client

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `/v1/account/clients/individual`

**Headers**

| Name          | Value              |
| ------------- | ------------------ |
| Content-Type  | `application/json` |
| Authorization | `Bearer <token>`   |

**Body**

| Name          | Type              | Description    |
| ------------- | ----------------- | -------------- |
| `firstname`   | string            |                |
| `lastname`    | string            |                |
| `middlename`  | string (Optional) |                |
| `phoneNumber` | string            |                |
| emailAddress  | string            |                |
| `address`     | string            |                |
| `bvn`         | string            |                |
| nin           | string            | (Optional)     |
| `gender`      | string            | (male, female) |
| `dateOfBirth` | string            | 1993/12/29     |
| `metadata`    | json              | optional       |

**Response**

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{% tab title="200" %}

```json
{
    "success": true,
    "data": {
        "metadata": {},
        "createdAt": 1717077370399,
        "updatedAt": 1717077370399,
        "id": 1,
        "accountNumber": "0000000033",
        "accountName": "Garo - Ismail",
        "accountType": "individual",
        "firstname": "John",
        "lastname": "Doe",
        "middlename": "User",
        "mobileNumber": "08091329974",
        "externalReference": "24053014560933057683",
        "emailAddress": "ahmad9980@doe.com",
        "bvn": "992323214",
        "gender": "male",
        "address": "wall street",
        "dateOfBirth": "1993/12/29",
        "validityType": "permanent"
    }
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="400" %}

```json
{
  "success": false,
  "message": "Request Un-Successful",
  "data": null
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}