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# Create Collection

Service that creates a face collection in which to register faces.

### Endpoint

```
POST /biometric/face/collections
```

### Headers

| Name              | Type   | Required | Description                                                                                                                   |
| ----------------- | ------ | -------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Authorization** | string | **Yes**  | Consumer Token in Bearer format `Bearer <token>`. See [Authentication](/docs.facephi-en/rest-api/midapi-v2/autenticacion.md). |
| **consumer-id**   | string | **Yes**  | Consumer identifier.                                                                                                          |

### Request body

**Content-Type:** `application/json`

#### Parameters

| Parameter      | Type   | Required | Description                             |
| -------------- | ------ | -------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `collectionId` | string | **Yes**  | Identifier of the collection to create. |

#### Request example

```json
{
  "collectionId": "clientes-web"
}
```

### Responses

#### `200` Success

#### Response parameters

| Parameter       | Type   | Description                                                |
| --------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `consumerId`    | string | Identifier of the consumer that made the call.             |
| `transactionId` | string | Transaction identifier.                                    |
| `timestamp`     | string | Response timestamp in format **ISO 8601**.                 |
| `message`       | string | Descriptive field for the result of the service execution. |
| `collectionId`  | string | Identifier of the created collection.                      |

#### Other responses

| Code  | Description                                                               |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `401` | Missing, invalid, or expired Token.                                       |
| `403` | The consumer is not provisioned with the service `FACE_COLLECTION_ADMIN`. |

The body of an error response has the form described in [MIDAPI v2](/docs.facephi-en/rest-api/midapi-v2.md#respuestas-de-error).