Manage accounts

Each customer or team that uses Cloudflare should have their own account. This ensures proper security and access of resources. Each account acts as a container of zones and other resources. Depending on your needs, you may even provision multiple accounts for a single customer or team.

When you create an account with the Tenant API, your Cloudflare user owns that account from creation, ongoing management, and finally deletion.

​​ Create account

Each customer or team that uses Cloudflare should have their own account. This ensures proper security and access of resources. Each account acts as a container of zones and other resources. Depending on your needs, you may even provision multiple accounts for a single customer or team.

When you create an account with the Tenant API, your Cloudflare user owns that account from creation, ongoing management, and finally deletion.

To create an account using the Cloudflare dashboard:

1. Log into the dashboard Open external link .
2. On the Accounts page, select Add Account.

3. Enter the Account Name and Account Description.
4. Choose the Tenant Unit.
5. Choose the appropriate account subscription.
6. Select Add Account.

To create an account using the API, make a POST request to the /accounts endpoint and include the following values:

• name string

  • The name of the account that is displayed in the Cloudflare dashboard.

• type enum

  • Valid values are standard (default) and enterprise. For self-serve customers, use standard. For enterprise customers, use enterprise.

• unit object

  • Information related to the tenant unit

  • id string

    • (optional) ID of the unit to create this account on. Needs to be specified if user administers multiple tenants. Unit ID is the unit_tag from your tenant details.

Request
curl -X POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-auth-email: <EMAIL>' \
-H 'x-auth-key: <API_KEY>' \
-d '{
    "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>",
    "type": "standard"
    }'

A successful request will return an HTTP status of 200 and the following response body:

Response
{
  "result": {
    "id": "2bab6ace8c72ed3f09b9eca6db1396bb",
    "name": "<Account Name>",
    "type": "standard",
    "settings": {
      "enforce_twofactor": false
    }
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": []
}

A request with a unit ID:

Request
curl -X POST 'https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-auth-email: <EMAIL>' \
-H 'x-auth-key: <API_KEY>' \
-d '{
    "name": "<ACCOUNT_NAME>",
    "type": "standard",
    "unit": {
      "id": "1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h",
    }
    }'

​​ Fetch account

When you create an account with the Tenant API, your Cloudflare user owns that account from creation, ongoing management, and finally deletion.

To view any accounts owned by your Cloudflare user, send a GET request to the /accounts endpoint.

You will get back a list of all the accounts you have created plus any accounts your user already had access to.

Request
curl -X GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts \
-H 'x-auth-email: <EMAIL>' \
-H 'x-auth-key: <API_KEY>' \

Response
{
  "result": [
    {
      "id": "a34bd6cc645a31486aa2ef71f1b9afb6",
      "name": "My Personal Account",
      "settings": {
        "enforce_twofactor": false
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "1b16db169c9cb7853009857198fae1b9",
      "name": "Created Account",
      "settings": {
        "enforce_twofactor": false
      }
    }
  ],
  "result_info": {
    "page": 1,
    "per_page": 20,
    "total_pages": 1,
    "count": 2,
    "total_count": 2
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": []
}

​​ Update account

To update an account, send a PUT request to the /accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID> endpoint.

​​ Delete account

To delete an account you have created, send a DELETE request to the /accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID> endpoint.

Account deletion is permanent and will delete any zones or other resources under the account.

Request
curl -X DELETE https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/<ACCOUNT_ID> \
-H 'x-auth-email: <EMAIL>' \
-H 'x-auth-key: <API_KEY>' \

A successful request will return the id to confirm the operation:

Response
{
  "result": {
    "id": "1b16db169c9cb7853009857198fae1b9"
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": []
}