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You can now get customers, contacts, and family members using external IDs
External ID’s could be associated with an external customer database
When a new customer, contact, or family member has been created, external IDs can now be based to any profile type. Previously, you could only pass an external ID for a configured type (Commerce Customer ID).
When getting a customer or contact all external IDs will be returned.
When getting customer and returning a contact list with family members, all contact external IDs will be returned.
Suggested Edits
This Unity release contains updates that lay the foundation for future feature work. Changes have been made to existing APIs to enable future-state functions including:
Customer, contact and family member searches using an external ID.
External ID basing on any profile type when creating a new customer, contact or family member. Previously, only external IDs for a configured type (Commerce Customer ID) were passed.
Customer, contact, or family member searches return all external IDs.
All contact external IDs returned in a search for a customer who has a contact list with family members.
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1.9 Arrival Release Notes |
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