Canonical page: https://docs.teloring.com/api/customers Last modified: 2026-08-20T20:52:05.000Z # Customers The business records contacts belong to. **Scope:** `customers` A **contact** is a channel identity — this phone number on WhatsApp, this email address. A **customer** is the company or household those identities belong to. One customer owns many contacts; a conversation belongs to a contact, and through it to a customer. ```mdx-code-block import DocCardList from '@theme/DocCardList'; import {useCurrentSidebarCategory} from '@docusaurus/theme-common'; ```