Update Customer KYC - Afriex Business API

Afriex SDK

TypeScript

const customer = await afriex.customers.updateKyc("customer-id", {
  kyc: {
    documentType: "passport",
    documentNumber: "AB123456",
  },
});

curl --request PATCH \
  --url https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <api-key>' \
  --data '
{
  "BVN": "22222222222",
  "DATE_OF_BIRTH": "1990-05-15",
  "COUNTRY": "NG"
}
'

import requests

url = "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc"

payload = {
    "BVN": "22222222222",
    "DATE_OF_BIRTH": "1990-05-15",
    "COUNTRY": "NG"
}
headers = {
    "x-api-key": "<api-key>",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

response = requests.patch(url, json=payload, headers=headers)

print(response.text)

const options = {
  method: 'PATCH',
  headers:{'x-api-key': '<api-key>', 'Content-Type': 'application/json'},
  body: JSON.stringify({BVN: '22222222222', DATE_OF_BIRTH: '1990-05-15', COUNTRY: 'NG'})
};

fetch('https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "PATCH",
  CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS => json_encode([
    'BVN' => '22222222222',
    'DATE_OF_BIRTH' => '1990-05-15',
    'COUNTRY' => 'NG'
]),
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => [
    "Content-Type: application/json",
    "x-api-key: <api-key>"
  ],
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "strings"
    "net/http"
    "io"
)

func main() {

url := "https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc"

payload := strings.NewReader("{ \n  \"BVN\": \"22222222222\", \n  \"DATE_OF_BIRTH\": \"1990-05-15\", \n  \"COUNTRY\": \"NG\" \n}")

req, _ := http.NewRequest("PATCH", url, payload)

req.Header.Add("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
    req.Header.Add("Content-Type", "application/json")

res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

defer res.Body.Close()
    body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.patch("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc")
  .header("x-api-key", "<api-key>")
  .header("Content-Type", "application/json")
  .body("{\n  \"BVN\": \"22222222222\",\n  \"DATE_OF_BIRTH\": \"1990-05-15\",\n  \"COUNTRY\": \"NG\"\n}")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://sandbox.api.afriex.com/api/v1/customer/{customerId}/kyc")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Patch.new(url)
request["x-api-key"] = '<api-key>'
request["Content-Type"] = 'application/json'
request.body = "{\n  \"BVN\": \"22222222222\",\n  \"DATE_OF_BIRTH\": \"1990-05-15\",\n  \"COUNTRY\": \"NG\"\n}"

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

Response

200

{
  "data": {
    "name": "Test User KYC",
    "email": "test.kyc.user@example.com",
    "phone": "+2348192837001",
    "customerId": "69d5fff7ab82306f11b0330e",
    "countryCode": "NG",
    "meta": {
      "kyc": {
        "data": {
          "BVN": "22222222222",
          "DATE_OF_BIRTH": "2000-01-15",
          "COUNTRY": "NG"
        }
      }
    },
    "createdAt": "2026-04-08T07:12:55.888Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-04-08T07:17:18.638Z"
  }
}

Update a customer’s KYC (Know Your Customer) information.

Use this endpoint to add or update verification documents for a customer.

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