Why are customers created through the API not listed in the console.particle.io

[paulm]

@rickkas7

Make sure the oAuth client ID and client secret you’re passing in the authorization header are for a full permissions scope. You cannot use a create customer access oAuth client to create a two-legged shadow customer.

Well that's probably exactly my issue as you can see in my 5th step the oAuth credentials I'm using were the "create_customer" type.
Changing to full permissions scope got a user token returned to me which is what I've been needing...

Can I give you a big "THANK YOU!" for that nugget of wisdom. VERY useful!

As a side note, what is the "create_customer" scope for, if it is not, in fact, for creating customers?

[rickkas7]

Whew, that’s a relief! Glad it’s finally working.

The create customers oAuth token is used when you’re creating customer claim codes for simple auth from browser-based Javascript code. Since it’s difficult to protect the secret when doing this, this grant type has limited privileges.

[paulm]

Ahhh… ok. Thanks for that info.

And once again, thanks for your help!