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# The Account Object

When a customer registers on your website, use the Subscribe API to create an `Account` object. The `Account` object defines your customer’s account, that is, it encapsulates the data members and methods that enable you to populate and maintain a customer’s account information. Before someone can successfully order a product from you and be billed for it, an `Account` object that represents that person’s account with you must exist in Subscribe. You may create an `Account` object independently, or while creating an `AutoBill` object for a one-time transaction or recurring billing.

**Note:**

If you create an `AutoBill` and specify an `Account` that does not yet exist, Subscribe will create the `Account`, and attach it to the `AutoBill`.

Use of the forward slash character (/) in identifiers is not allowed. See [Merchant Identifiers](Merchant_Identifiers) for more information.

* **[Account Object Hierarchies](../topics/Account_Object_Hierarchi)**

* **[Account Data Members](../topics/Account_Data_Members)**

* **[Account Subobjects](../topics/Account_Subobjects)**

* **[Account Methods](../topics/Account_Methods)**


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