## Create an organization

**post** `/v1/organizations`

Creates a new organization related to your Straddle integration. Organizations can be used to group related accounts and manage permissions across multiple users.

### Header Parameters

- `"correlation-id": optional string`

- `"idempotency-key": optional string`

- `"request-id": optional string`

### Body Parameters

- `name: string`

  The name of the organization.

- `external_id: optional string`

  Unique identifier for the organization in your database, used for cross-referencing between Straddle and your systems.

- `metadata: optional map[string]`

  Up to 20 additional user-defined key-value pairs. Useful for storing additional information about the organization in a structured format.

### Returns

- `OrganizationV1 = object { data, meta, response_type }`

  - `data: object { id, created_at, name, 3 more }`

    - `id: string`

      Straddle's unique identifier for the organization.

    - `created_at: string`

      Timestamp of when the organization was created.

    - `name: string`

      The name of the organization.

    - `updated_at: string`

      Timestamp of the most recent update to the organization.

    - `external_id: optional string`

      Unique identifier for the organization in your database, used for cross-referencing between Straddle and your systems.

    - `metadata: optional map[string]`

      Up to 20 additional user-defined key-value pairs. Useful for storing additional information about the organization in a structured format.

  - `meta: ResponseMetadata`

    Metadata about the API request, including an identifier and timestamp.

    - `api_request_id: string`

      Unique identifier for this API request, useful for troubleshooting.

    - `api_request_timestamp: string`

      Timestamp for this API request, useful for troubleshooting.

  - `response_type: "object" or "array" or "error" or "none"`

    Indicates the structure of the returned content.

    - "object" means the `data` field contains a single JSON object.
    - "array" means the `data` field contains an array of objects.
    - "error" means the `data` field contains an error object with details of the issue.
    - "none" means no data is returned.

    - `"object"`

    - `"array"`

    - `"error"`

    - `"none"`

### Example

```http
curl https://sandbox.straddle.com/v1/organizations \
    -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer $STRADDLE_API_KEY" \
    -d '{
          "name": "name"
        }'
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "182bd5e5-6e1a-4fe4-a799-aa6d9a6ab26e",
    "created_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "name": "name",
    "updated_at": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z",
    "external_id": "external_id",
    "metadata": {
      "foo": "string"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
    "api_request_id": "182bd5e5-6e1a-4fe4-a799-aa6d9a6ab26e",
    "api_request_timestamp": "2019-12-27T18:11:19.117Z"
  },
  "response_type": "object"
}
```