## Connect a customer handle

`client.paymentHandles.connect(stringhandle, RequestOptionsoptions?): PaymentHandleConnection`

**post** `/v3/payments/handles/{handle}/connect`

Starts connecting a customer (by phone/email) so an agent can pay on
their behalf. Linq drives the OTP + consent ceremony through the
messaging channel; this returns `pending` and a `connection.created`
webhook fires once the customer completes it.

### Parameters

- `handle: string`

### Returns

- `PaymentHandleConnection`

  - `connect_id?: string`

    Returned only by `connect`, and only while the ceremony is pending.
    Nothing on our side persists it — it comes back from the provider and
    is required again to verify — so hold it until you submit the code.

  - `handle?: string`

  - `status?: "not_connected" | "pending" | "connected" | "revoked"`

    - `"not_connected"`

    - `"pending"`

    - `"connected"`

    - `"revoked"`

### Example

```typescript
import LinqAPIV3 from '@linqapp/sdk';

const client = new LinqAPIV3({
  apiKey: process.env['LINQ_API_V3_API_KEY'], // This is the default and can be omitted
});

const paymentHandleConnection = await client.paymentHandles.connect('handle');

console.log(paymentHandleConnection.connect_id);
```

#### Response

```json
{
  "connect_id": "cs_01HZY8",
  "handle": "+14155550123",
  "status": "connected"
}
```