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Creates an account and one or more contacts, including addresses and phone numbers for the account/contact and enrolls the account into eStore.

Parameters

Returned Parameters

Example

As with every method we need to pass in credentials. We do this with the LookupUser request object.

We’ll assume you’ve got a web reference, let’s name it SWS, in your Visual Studio project.  At this point we need to our objects.  We’ll need the standard service object, a CreateNewEcommAccount request object and a CreateNewEcommAccount response object. We can define and create those like this:

// Create request and response objects
SWS.WSSoapClient service = new SWS.WSSoapClient();
SWS.CreateNewEcommAccount_Request request = new SWS.CreateNewEcommAccount_Request();
SWS.CreateNewEcommAccount_Response response;

SWS.ContactAddress address = new SWS.ContactAddress();
SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES phone = new SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES();

Here’s my sample code of the Request object.

// new address object
address.Addr1 = "1234 Main St";
address.Addr2 = "Apt. B";
address.City = "My Town";
address.State = "UT";
address.PostalCode = "55555";
address.Country = "USA";
address.AddrType = SWS.AddressType.HOME;
address.Active = true;

// new phone object
phone.PHONE = "800-555-1212";
phone.PHONE_TYPE = 2; //mobile

// new acct request
request.OrgID = 123456;
request.FirstName = "FirstName";
request.LastName = "LastName";
request.AccountName = "LastName, FirstName";
request.AccountClass = SWS.AccountClass.PERSONAL;
request.ContactType = SWS.ContactType.ACCOUNT_MANAGER;
request.Email = "email@co.com";
request.EcommCode = "mypassword";
request.ContactAddress = new SWS.ContactAddress[] { address };
request.ContactPhone = new SWS.ACCT_CONTACT_PHONES[] { phone };

Finally we can call the method and pass across the login object and the request object to create our new ecomm account. It’s a good idea to do this in a Try Catch block.

// Call the method that will load the response object
try
{
  response = service.CreateNewEcommAccount(user_request, request);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
  MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
}

Note that if something goes wrong the service will respond with an exception. You’ll want to take a look at that message returned in that exception so it can be debugged.

For a full list of methods see SWS Methods.