Create Merchant

Live Partners API

https://partners-api.service.cedar.money/bpapi

POST

/v1/business/

Creates a merchant.

Customer: has a direct business relationship with you — you onboard and transact on their behalf.
Contact: someone your customers send money to or receive money from.

Customer/Contact is determined by either passing or not passing a value to the contactOwnerBusinessId field.

Request

Header Params

Body Params application/json

Example

{
    "name": "Company Name",
    "contactOwnerBusinessId": null,
    "localRegNumber": "123456789",
    "countryIso": "NG",
    "state": "AB",
    "city": "Umuahia",
    "address": "Akanu Ibiam Rd",
    "streetNumber": "12",
    "zipcode": "12345",
    "contactName": "John Doe",
    "contactEmail": "john@company.com",
    "contactPhonePrefix": "234",
    "contactPhone": "1234567890",
    "industry": "AGRICULTURE_FORESTRY_WILDLIFE"
}

Request Code Samples

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

PHP

Python

HTTP

Objective-C

Ruby

OCaml

Dart

curl --location 'https://partners-api.service.cedar.money/bpapi/v1/business/' \
--header 'x-api-key: CEDAR_DEV_api_key_b0ab5b29-caa7-4fa6-9f94-51dbc145e9ed' \
--header 'x-api-secret: CEDAR_DEV_api_secret_YtGc1iMIdVaSlE3yeBxS3Y6RY3j933s3YdTloLZjY9ar7T5vuVTGPovoRplo7PSZbYg2RLV9yJ3ZT7BctcxxPSR5pQpEMndj3EJB' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
    "name": "Company Name",
    "contactOwnerBusinessId": null,
    "localRegNumber": "123456789",
    "countryIso": "NG",
    "state": "AB",
    "city": "Umuahia",
    "address": "Akanu Ibiam Rd",
    "streetNumber": "12",
    "zipcode": "12345",
    "contactName": "John Doe",
    "contactEmail": "john@company.com",
    "contactPhonePrefix": "234",
    "contactPhone": "1234567890",
    "industry": "AGRICULTURE_FORESTRY_WILDLIFE"
}'

Responses

🟢200OK

application/json

Bodyapplication/json

Example

{
    "id": 1,
    "creationTime": 1741003185214,
    "lastUpdateTime": 1741003185214,
    "name": "Company Name",
    "localRegNumber": "123456789",
    "countryIso": "NG",
    "address": "Akanu Ibiam Rd",
    "zipcode": "12345",
    "kycStatus": "PENDING",
    "contactName": "John Doe",
    "contactEmail": "john@company.com",
    "contactPhone": "1234567890",
    "contactPhonePrefix": "234",
    "streetNumber": "12",
    "city": "Umuahia",
    "state": "AB",
    "industry": "AGRICULTURE_FORESTRY_WILDLIFE"
}

🟠400Error

Modified at 2026-07-26 12:32:14

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