contacts

Update a contact by its ID or external ID

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Updates a contact by ID or external ID. Only provided fields are modified.

Rate limit: 300 requests per minute

patch/contacts/{id}

Request

  • Base URL
    https://api.usepylon.com
  • URL
    https://api.usepylon.com/contacts/{id}
  • Auth
    HTTP bearer

Path parameters

idstring required

The ID or external ID of the contact to update.

Request body

account_external_idstring

The external ID of the account to move the contact to. Cannot be used together with account_id.

account_idstring

The account to move the contact to. If empty string is passed in, the contact will be removed from its account.

avatar_urlstring

The avatar URL of the contact. Must be a square .png, .jpg or .jpeg.

emailstring

The email of the contact. Replaces all of the contact's emails with this single email. Cannot be used together with the emails array field.

namestring

in: body The name of the contact.

phone_numbersstring[]

The phone numbers of the contact. Must contain only digits 0-9, optionally preceded by + (E.164, e.g. +4365446231), and be 15 digits or less. Include the + and country code for non-US numbers; a 10-digit number without + is treated as US.

portal_rolestring

The portal role to assign to the contact. Can be one of no_access, member, or admin, or a custom role slug.

Known values: no_access, member, admin. This list is not exhaustive.

portal_role_idstring

The ID of the custom portal role to assign to the contact. Takes precedence over portal_role if provided.

primary_phone_numberstring

The primary phone number. Must be in the list of phone_numbers. If there are any phone_numbers and this is not specified, the first phone number will be primary.

Response

request_idstring required

The request ID for tracking.

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "custom_fields": {
      "role": {
        "value": "admin"
      }
    }
  }
}

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