POST Contact - Create Endpoint to allow Street Address Only

API Q&A
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I’m having a use case issue where I need to create a contact with a street address that does not have an email address nor a contact phone number.

This is creating a problem as not all of our contacts that we add to the system have an email address or phone number. But in those cases they definitely have a street address.

Would it be possible to alter the V2 for contact post to allow a record to be created that does have a street address?

This is currently available in XML RPC, and we would like to bring V2 into parity with this regarding the contact post.

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Hi Cristian,

Thanks for flagging this, this is really helpful context. I’ll bring it up internally so the team can take a closer look at aligning the V2 contact POST behavior with XML-RPC, especially around allowing contacts with just a street address.

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I agree with @Christian_Wiles with this request.

Over the years I have seen users use their accounts in a variety of ways. Due to the free nature ability of adding in new contacts either via the application or XML-RPC API, it does not mean they will always have the Email Address, or Phone Number, or Street Address being present.

@OmarAlmonte, you may have to relax the rules on any other endpoints that require particular information being present.

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Thank you for the feedback, @Pav. I appreciate your insights, and we will make sure to evaluate this.

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@OmarAlmonte ,

This is a blocker for us now.

We need to be able to add new contact without an Email or Phone1.

StreetAddress1 should sufficient.

Again, this IS a blocker.

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@Christian_Wiles @Pav This is now supported in v2, thanks for your patience.