---
title: "Validating Contacts"
method: POST
path: "/v1/contacts"
---

# Validating Contacts

`POST /v1/contacts`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://apis.cequens.com/conversation`
- URL: `https://apis.cequens.com/conversation/v1/contacts`
- Auth: API key in header `Authorization`

To send a template message outside the customer care time window, you should validate the Contact number first. This is a WhatsApp procedure to validate the WhatsApp ID before approaching your customers.
With API, you can do:
**Verify** that a phone number in your database belongs to a valid WhatsApp account. You must ensure that the status is valid before you can message a user.

**Get** the WhatsApp ID for a phone number. WhatsApp IDs are needed to send messages and use notifications.

## Response `200`

200

## Other responses

- `400`: 400

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/cequens/apis/conversation.md) - [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/cequens/apis/conversation/llms.txt) - [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc.dev/cequens/apis/conversation/revisions/a08fef170910?raw)