# Create a Contact

## Create a contact

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://{{workspace}}.myeshopbox.com/api/v1/contact`

This endpoint is required to create a contact in the workspace.

#### Path Parameters

| Name          | Type   | Description                                    |
| ------------- | ------ | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Authorization | string | The Bearer token allows to grant access to API |

#### Request Body

| Name        | Type   | Description                                   |
| ----------- | ------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| contactType | string | Type of contact.                              |
| networkKey  | string | Network key of a workspace.                   |
| email       | string | Registered email of the contact               |
| phoneNumber | string | Registered phone number of contact            |
| status      | string | status of warehouse                           |
| pincode     | string | pin code of the area from where party belongs |
| contactCode | string | Unique reference id of contact                |
| contactName | string | Name of contact                               |
| gstin       | string | Registered GSTIN number of state              |
| addressLine | string | The registered address of the contact         |
| city        | string | Registered city of contact                    |
| state       | string | Registered state of contact                   |
| country     | string | Registered country of contact                 |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 Contact successfully created" %}

```
{
 "accountSlug": "raymond",
 "contactName": "MONTE CARLO FASHIONS LTD.UNIT-6",
 "contactCode": "PW52",
 "networkKey": "montecarlo",
 "contactType": "vendor",
 "gstin": "06AADCB2230M1ZX",
 "address":{
 "addressLine1": "Khasra no 5/16/2,17, Near Subash Chowk, Sohana Road Village Behrampur",
 "city": "gurgaon",
 "state": "HARYANA",
 "pincode": "122018",
 "country": "India"
 },
 "contact":{
 "phoneNumber": "87564435",
 "email":"montecarlo.eshop@gmail.com"
 },
 "status":"active"
 "customField": [
                {
                    "label": "occassion",
                    "internalName": "occassion",
                    "value": [
                        "eid",
                        "holi",
                        "classy"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "label": "batch",
                    "internalName": "batch",
                    "value": [
                        "currency"
                    ]
                }
            ],
     "createdAt": "2020-03-19T15:24:12.000Z",
     "updatedAt": "2020-03-19T15:24:12.000Z"
 
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl -X POST https://{{workspace}}.myeshopbox.com/api/v1/contact\
     -H "Authorization: Bearer XXXX" \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d $'{
      "data": {
      "contactName": "MONTE CARLO FASHIONS LTD.UNIT-6",
      "contactCode": "PW52",
      "contactType": "vendor",
      "networkKey": "montecarlo",
      "address":{
      "addressLine": "Khasra no 5/16/2,17, Near Subash Chowk, Sohana Road Village Behrampur",
      "city": "gurgaon",
      "pincode": "122018",
      "state": "HARYANA",
      "country": "India"
      },
      "gstin": "06AADCB2230M1ZX",
      "contact":{
      "phoneNumber": "87564435",
      "email":"montecarlo.eshop@gmail.com"
      },
      "customField": [
                {
                    "label": "occassion",
                    "internalName": "occassion",
                    "value": [
                        "eid",
                        "holi",
                        "classy"
                    ]
                },
                {
                    "label": "batch",
                    "internalName": "batch",
                    "value": [
                        "currency"
                    ]
                }
            ]
     
        }
    
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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