Create Contact

Creates an SMS contact in Customers.ai, or updates an existing match.

POST

Query

Field selectionChoose which fields should be included in the response. Learn more

string

Comma-separated response fields to include.

Body

Arguments

stringrequired

Phone number in E.123 international notation. US and Canadian numbers only.

string

First name.

string

Last name.

string

Email address stored as the EMAIL attribute.

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Request

curl --request POST \
  --url "https://connect.mindcloud.co/v1/universal/customersai/latest/actions/create-contact" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $MINDCLOUD_API_TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "connectionId": "$CONNECTION_ID",
  "phone": ""
}'

{
  "success": true,
  "data": [
    {
      "contactId": 1,
      "recipientId": "string"
    }
  ],
  "meta": {}
}

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