# Create a Tenant

A tenant represents an organization’s customer when that customer is itself a platform with its own users who need to be represented in Tesser’s systems. When an organization’s customers are tenants, originators and/or beneficiaries are customers of the tenant and thus end-customers to the organization. 

To create a tenant, submit a request to the [tenant creation API](/api/tenants#create-a-new-tenant).

```json
{
  "business_legal_name": "Acme Corporation",
  "business_dba": "Acme Co",
  "business_address_country": "US",
  "business_street_address1": "123 Corp Blvd",
  "business_street_address2": "Suite 100",
  "business_city": "New York",
  "business_state": "NY",
  "business_legal_entity_identifier": "123456789",
  "webhook_url": "https://acme.com/webhooks/tesser"
}
```

Example response: 

```json
{
  "data": {
    "id": "29c580bd-43d2-4dbf-bc9e-a3b1ccb8e7ee",
    "workspace_id": "b53f6690-3242-4942-9907-885779632832",
    "business_legal_name": "Acme Corporation",
    "business_dba": "Acme Co",
    "business_address_country": "US",
    "business_street_address1": "123 Corp Blvd",
    "business_street_address2": "Suite 100",
    "business_city": "New York",
    "business_state": "NY",
    "business_legal_entity_identifier": "9876543210",
    "country": "US",
    "webhook_url": "https://acme.com/webhooks/tesser",
    "created_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
  }
}
```

**Creating resources for a tenant**

To initiate counterparty, account, payment, or transfer creation on behalf of the tenant, you will supply the `id` of the tenant returned in the creation response in API calls using your own API keys.