+=item new_customer OPTION => VALUE, ...
+
+Creates a new customer. Takes a list of keys and values as parameters with the
+following keys:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item secret
+
+API Secret
+
+=item first
+
+first name (required)
+
+=item last
+
+last name (required)
+
+=item ss
+
+(not typically collected; mostly used for ACH transactions)
+
+=item company
+
+Company name
+
+=item address1 (required)
+
+Address line one
+
+=item city (required)
+
+City
+
+=item county
+
+County
+
+=item state (required)
+
+State
+
+=item zip (required)
+
+Zip or postal code
+
+=item country
+
+2 Digit Country Code
+
+=item latitude
+
+latitude
+
+=item Longitude
+
+longitude
+
+=item geocode
+
+Currently used for third party tax vendor lookups
+
+=item censustract
+
+Used for determining FCC 477 reporting
+
+=item censusyear
+
+Used for determining FCC 477 reporting
+
+=item daytime
+
+Daytime phone number
+
+=item night
+
+Evening phone number
+
+=item fax
+
+Fax number
+
+=item mobile
+
+Mobile number
+
+=item invoicing_list
+
+comma-separated list of email addresses for email invoices. The special value 'POST' is used to designate postal invoicing (it may be specified alone or in addition to email addresses),
+postal_invoicing
+Set to 1 to enable postal invoicing
+
+=item referral_custnum
+
+Referring customer number
+
+=item salesnum
+
+Sales person number
+
+=item agentnum
+
+Agent number
+
+=item agent_custid
+
+Agent specific customer number
+
+=item referral_custnum
+
+Referring customer number
+
+=back
+
+=cut
+
+#certainly false laziness w/ClientAPI::Signup new_customer/new_customer_minimal
+# but approaching this from a clean start / back-office perspective
+# i.e. no package/service, no immediate credit card run, etc.
+
+sub new_customer {
+ my( $class, %opt ) = @_;
+ return _shared_secret_error() unless _check_shared_secret($opt{secret});
+
+ #default agentnum like signup_server-default_agentnum?
+ #$opt{agentnum} ||= $conf->config('signup_server-default_agentnum');
+
+ #same for refnum like signup_server-default_refnum
+ $opt{refnum} ||= FS::Conf->new->config('signup_server-default_refnum');
+
+ $class->API_insert( %opt );
+}
+
+=item update_customer
+
+Updates an existing customer. Passing an empty value clears that field, while
+NOT passing that key/value at all leaves it alone. Takes a list of keys and
+values as parameters with the following keys:
+
+=over 4
+
+=item secret
+
+API Secret (required)
+
+=item custnum
+
+Customer number (required)
+
+=item first
+
+first name
+
+=item last
+
+last name
+
+=item company
+
+Company name
+
+=item address1
+
+Address line one
+
+=item city
+
+City
+
+=item county
+
+County
+
+=item state
+
+State
+
+=item zip
+
+Zip or postal code
+
+=item country
+
+2 Digit Country Code
+
+=item daytime
+
+Daytime phone number
+
+=item night
+
+Evening phone number
+
+=item fax
+
+Fax number
+
+=item mobile
+
+Mobile number
+
+=item invoicing_list
+
+Comma-separated list of email addresses for email invoices. The special value
+'POST' is used to designate postal invoicing (it may be specified alone or in
+addition to email addresses),
+postal_invoicing
+Set to 1 to enable postal invoicing
+
+=item referral_custnum
+
+Referring customer number
+
+=item salesnum
+
+Sales person number
+
+=item agentnum
+
+Agent number
+
+=back