# CreateCustomer issue
**URL:** https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137
**Category:** Cloud
**Created:** [March 6, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137 "2023-03-06T20:42:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Reindeer](https://community.particle.io/u/Reindeer)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 8:42pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/1 "2023-03-06T20:42:14Z")
I am trying to create a customer from a java script that I think matches the SDK’s required API, but get _Error: HTTP error 400 from [https://api.particle.io/v1/products/xxxxx/customers](https://api.particle.io/v1/products/xxxxx/customers) - Permission denied_.
Note that I created a product and then created an oauth client related to that product. This client id and secret is what I use when calling particle.createCustomer.
```auto
function createCustomer(){
let customerEmail = $('#customerEMail').val();
let customerPassword = $('#customerPassWord').val();
$('#statusSpan').text('Send create customer request.');
particle.createCustomer({ product: 'xxxxx', client_id: 'yyyyy',
client_secret: 'zzzzz',
email: customerEmail, password: customerPassword}).then(
function (data) {
$('#statusSpan').text('Customer created.');
},
function (err) {
$('#statusSpan').text('Error creating customer:' + err);
}
);
}
```
Your advice will be appreciated.
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### Author:  [@rickkas7](https://community.particle.io/u/rickkas7)
#### Post date: [March 6, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/2 "2023-03-06T21:20:29Z")
The particle-api-js doesn’t appear to take the `client_id` and `client_secret` as parameters to `createCustomer`.
It appears that you need to pass the `clientId` and `clientSecret` as an object passed to the `Particle` class constructor when you calls `new Particle()` instead.
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### Author:  [@Reindeer](https://community.particle.io/u/Reindeer)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/3 "2023-03-08T17:34:56Z")
Thanks @rickkas7 for your response.
I tried the following:
- Added the client id and secret to the Particle constructor:
```auto
var particle = new Particle({client_id:'xxxxxx', client_secret:'yyyyyy'});
```
- changed the function call to properly match the API:
```auto
function createCustomer(){
let customerEmail = $('#customerEMail').val();
let customerPassword = $('#customerPassWord').val();
$('#statusSpan').text('Send create customer request.');
particle.createCustomer({email: customerEmail, password: customerPassword, product: productId, grant_type: 'password'}).then(
function (data) {
$('#statusSpan').text('Customer created.');
},
function (err) {
$('#statusSpan').text('Error creating customer:' + err);
}
);
}
```
Unfortunately I still get:
> HTTP error 400 from [https://api.particle.io/v1/products/zzzzzz/customers](https://api.particle.io/v1/products/zzzzzz/customers) - Permission denied
**However, the following does work (rejoicing!)**, which is probably a solution, but does not explain (to me at least) why the Particle JS API call does not work.
```auto
function createCustomer(){
let customerEmail = $('#customerEMail').val();
let customerPassword = $('#customerPassWord').val();
$('#statusSpan').text('Send create customer request.');
$.ajax({
data: {
'client_id': particle.client_id,
'client_secret': particle.client_secret,
'grant_type' : 'password',
'email': customerEmail,
'password': customerPassword,
},
error: function (error) {
$('#statusSpan').text('error:'+JSON.stringify(error));
},
method: 'POST',
success: function (data) {
//ajaxResponse = JSON.parse(data).access_token;
$('#statusSpan').text('Customer created with access token:' + JSON.stringify(data));
},
url: 'https://api.particle.io/v1/products/' + productId +'/customers',
});
}
```
Your insight will be much appreciated.
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### Author:  [@rickkas7](https://community.particle.io/u/rickkas7)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/4 "2023-03-08T17:40:10Z")
I would do it the way you did it, using ajax, if that’s working.
It looks like particle-api-js uses a different grant\_type, which does seem wrong to me.
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### Author:  [@Reindeer](https://community.particle.io/u/Reindeer)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2023, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/5 "2023-03-08T17:41:45Z")
Thanks for the prompt feedback!
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.particle.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2023, 3:42am UTC](https://community.particle.io/t/createcustomer-issue/64137/6 "2023-04-08T03:42:03Z")
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