# Accounts

This object represents your customer. It lets you create recurring charges and track payments that belong to the same customer.

## List accounts

 - [GET /accounts](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/getaccounts.md): Returns a dictionary with a data property that contains an array of accounts, starting after the cursor, if used. Each entry in the array is a separate account object. If no more accounts are available, the resulting array will be empty. This request should never return an error.

## Create an account

 - [POST /accounts](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/createaccount.md): Creates a new account object.

## Retrieve an account

 - [GET /accounts/{account_id}](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/getaccount.md): Retrieves the account with the given ID.

## Update an account

 - [PATCH /accounts/{account_id}](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/updateaccount.md): Updates the specified account by setting the values of the parameters passed. Any parameters not provided will be left unchanged.

## Delete an account

 - [DELETE /accounts/{account_id}](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/deleteaccount.md): Permanently deletes an account. It cannot be undone.

## Generate billing documents for an account

 - [POST /accounts/{account_id}/bill](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/generatebillingdocuments.md): Creates billing documents for an account.

## Preview an account

 - [POST /accounts/{account_id}/preview](https://developer.zuora.com/other-api/quickstart-api/accounts/previewaccount.md): Generates a preview of future invoice and credit memo items for a customer account.              Previewing a customer account shows you how much a single customer will be invoiced from the most recent invoice to a specific end of term date in the future.            Previewing a customer account only calculates taxes for charges if you use Zuora Tax and the price associated with the invoice item is tax inclusive; otherwise, it does not calculate taxes.