# Create USD Account

To create a USD account for the customer, the customer must be fully enrolled using the create customer endpoint, which in turn returns a tracking/customer ID to be used in your USD virtual account request. Check [here](/subaccount/create-customer-full-kyc.md)

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> {{base\_url}}/`business/`create-globalaccount

#### Headers

| Name                                            | Type   | Description |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ------ | ----------- |
| authorization<mark style="color:red;">\*</mark> | String | SECRET\_KEY |

#### Request Body

<table><thead><tr><th>Name</th><th width="247">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>customerid<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>Customer tracking ID returned from the fully kyc create customer endpoint. See <a href="/pages/LDHKKMofug6xqm0rxIDf">here</a></td></tr><tr><td>monthly_volume<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>What is the expected monthly volume of payments the customer will be sending or receiving? <br>Expected value must be any of the following; e.g <em>0_4999, 5000_9999, 10000_49999, 50000_plus</em></td></tr><tr><td>source_of_funds<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>The customer source of funds. Available options: <em>company_funds, ecommerce_reseller, gambling_proceeds, gifts, government_benefits, inheritance, investments_loans, pension_retirement, salary, sale_of_assets_real_estate, savings, someone_elses_funds ​</em>  </td></tr><tr><td>expected_montly_fund<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>What is the expected monthly volume of payments the customer will be sending or receiving? <br>Available options: <em>0_4999, 5000_9999, 10000_49999, 50000_plus</em></td></tr><tr><td>account_purpose<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>What is the primary purpose of requesting for the account by the customer? <br>Available options: <em>charitable_donations, ecommerce_retail_payments, investment_purposes, operating_a_company, other, payments_to_friends_or_family_abroad, personal_or_living_expenses, protect_wealth, purchase_goods_and_services, receive_payment_for_freelancing, receive_salary</em></td></tr><tr><td>account_type<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>Type of account requesting for. <br>Available option: <em>USD, EUR</em></td></tr><tr><td>occupation<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>String</td><td>What is the customer's most recent occupation? See here the list of occupations</td></tr><tr><td>pepstatus<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>Boolean</td><td>Is customer a politically exposed individual. Is the customer associated with any politician? <br>Available options: <em>true, false</em></td></tr><tr><td>agreeto_term<mark style="color:red;">*</mark></td><td>Boolean</td><td>Does the customer accept our term of use of this account?<br>Available options: <em>true, false</em></td></tr><tr><td>proof_of_address</td><td>String</td><td>URL to the customer uploaded proof of address. e.g Eletricity bill</td></tr></tbody></table>

Take a look at how you might do this:

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}
{% code overflow="wrap" %}

```json
curl --location ' {{base_url}}/business/create-globalaccount' \
--header 'Authorization: BEARER SECRET_KEY' \
--data '{
  "customerid": "BLD12211916",
  "monthly_volume": "0_4999",
  "pepstatus": false,
  "source_of_funds": "gifts",
  "expected_montly_fund": "0_4999", 
  "account_purpose": "payments_to_friends_or_family_abroad", 
  "agreeto_term": true,
  "account_type": "USD",
  "occupation": "Software Engineer",
  "proof_of_address": "https://res.cloudinary.com/site/image/upload/v1714257348/idcard2.png"
}'
```

{% endcode %}
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```json
var request = require('request');
var options = {
  'method': 'POST',
  'url': '{{base_url}}/business/create-globalaccount',
  'headers': {
    'Authorization': 'BEARER SECRET_KEY'
  },
  body: '{
  "customerid": "BLD12211916",
  "monthly_volume": "0_4999",
  "pepstatus": false,
  "source_of_funds": "gifts",
  "expected_montly_fund": "0_4999", 
  "account_purpose": "payments_to_friends_or_family_abroad", 
  "agreeto_term": true,
  "account_type": "USD",
  "occupation": "Software Engineer",
  "proof_of_address": "https://res.cloudinary.com/site/image/upload/v1714257348/idcard2.png"
}'

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);
  console.log(response.body);
});

```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP - cURL" %}

```php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  CURLOPT_URL => '{{base_url}}/business/create-globalaccount',
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => '',
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 0,
  CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'POST',
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS =>'{
  "customerid": "BLD12211916",
  "monthly_volume": "0_4999",
  "pepstatus": false,
  "source_of_funds": "gifts",
  "expected_montly_fund": "0_4999", 
  "account_purpose": "payments_to_friends_or_family_abroad", 
  "agreeto_term": true,
  "account_type": "USD",
  "occupation": "Software Engineer",
  "proof_of_address": "https://res.cloudinary.com/site/image/upload/v1714257348/idcard2.png"
}',
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    'Authorization: BEARER SECRET_KEY'
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);

curl_close($curl);
echo $response;

```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Sample Response

```json
{
  "status": true,
  "message": "Your USD account request has been submitted successfully. You will be notified once it's ready.",
  "tracking": "DLE23210UA24400"
 
}
```


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