---
title: "Contact created"
method: POST
path: "contact.created"
---

# Contact created

`POST contact.created` (webhook)

Incoming webhook deliveries are authenticated with HMAC signature headers (`X-Chatway-Signature` and `X-Chatway-Timestamp`), not your Chatway API key.

A new contact was added or identified.

Use contact.created to create or link a contact in your CRM. Store `data.contact.id` as the Chatway identifier so later [Contact updated](https://developers.chatway.app/webhooks/webhook.contact_updated) events can update the same record. Use this ID with [Get Chat Contact](https://developers.chatway.app/operations/contacts.show) to retrieve the profile. Choose [Conversation created](https://developers.chatway.app/webhooks/webhook.conversation_created) instead when your workflow starts with a new chat, such as opening a support ticket.

For signature verification and retries, see [Webhooks overview](https://developers.chatway.app/webhooks/guides.webhooks_overview).

## Headers

- `X-Chatway-Event` string, required
- `X-Chatway-Webhook-Id` string, uuid, required
- `X-Chatway-Delivery-Id` string, required
- `X-Chatway-Delivery-Attempt` string, required
- `X-Chatway-Timestamp` string, required
- `X-Chatway-Signature` string, required

## Payload

- object
  - `id` string, required: Stable event ID (`evt_…`). Same across HTTP retries for this notification.
  - `event` string, required: Event name. For this webhook, always `contact.created`.
  - `data` object, required: Payload for contact.created.
    - `contact` object, required
      - `id` string, uuid, required
      - `name` string, nullable, required: Contact name. Always present; null when unknown.
      - `email` string, nullable, required: Contact email. Always present; null when unknown.
      - `phone` string, nullable, required: Contact phone. Always present; null when unknown.
      - `source` string, required: Page URL or normalized channel label.
      - `created_at` string, date-time
    - `conversation` object: The contact's latest conversation. Omitted when the contact has no conversation yet.
      - `id` string, uuid, required: Conversation ID.
      - `channel` string, required: Normalized channel.
      - `status` string, required: Conversation status.
      - `widget_name` string: Present when the conversation is tied to a website widget.
      - `identifier` string: Widget identifier when widget_name is present.
  - `occurred_at` string, date-time, required: When the business event occurred.
  - `version` string, required: Payload schema version.

## Acknowledgement `200`

Return any 2xx status to acknowledge receipt.

## Other responses

- `410`: Optional HTTP 410 Gone to signal the endpoint is permanently unavailable. Like every non-2xx response below 500 (including `408` and `429`), it is not retried. It does not disable the subscription; turn the webhook off in Chatway Settings if you want deliveries to stop.

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