Contact events provide details on the changes made to your contacts including contact creation, update and deletion. These events can be subscribed to the shared contacts of a company.

Events are sent to a webhook that you (as a company admin or developer) provide. To get started, create a webhook subscription using our API.

Payload

Payloads sent to your webhook will be JWT encoded and will contain the following fields:

Field	Description	Notes
event	The type of the event.	Enum: Created, Updated, Deleted.
contact	The object that represents the created contact, updated contact, or deleted contact.	See below table for the fields of the contact object.

The contact object:

Field	Description	Notes
id	A unique number ID automatically assigned to each contact.
type	The type of the contact.
first_name	The contact's first name.
last_name	The contact's last name.
display_name	The contact's display name.
phones	The contact's phone numbers. The phone number is in e164 format.	Array of strings.
primary_phone	The contact's primary phone number in e164 format.
emails	The contact's emails.	Array of strings.
primary_email	The contact's primary email.
company_name	The contact's company name.
job_title	The contact's job title.
urls	The contact's website urls.
trunk_group	The contact's trunk group.
extension	The contact's extension number.

Sample payloads

{
  "event": "Created",
  "contact": {
    "id": "5908860123456789",
    "type": "shared",
    "first_name": "sample",
    "last_name": "test",
    "display_name": "sample test",
    "phones": [
      "+16043111111",
      "+16043111112"
    ],
    "primary_phone": "+16043111111",
    "emails": [
      "[email protected]"
    ],
    "primary_email": "[email protected]",
    "company_name": "Awesome company",
    "job_title": "Awesome job",
    "urls": [
      "https://foobar.com",
      "https://foobar2.com"
    ],
    "trunk_group": "TEST",
    "extension": "12345"
  }
}

{
  "event": "Updated",
  "contact": {
    "id": "5908860123456789",
    "type": "shared",
    "first_name": "sample",
    "last_name": "test",
    "display_name": "sample test",
    "phones": [
      "+16043111111",
      "+16043111112"
    ],
    "primary_phone": "+16043111111",
    "emails": [
      "[email protected]"
    ],
    "primary_email": "[email protected]",
    "company_name": "Awesome company 2",
    "job_title": "Awesome job 2",
    "urls": [
      "https://foobar.com",
      "https://foobar2.com"
    ],
    "trunk_group": "TEST",
    "extension": "12345"
  }
}

{
  "event": "Deleted",
  "contact": {
    "id": "5908860123456789",
    "type": "shared",
    "first_name": "sample",
    "last_name": "test",
    "display_name": "sample test",
    "phones": [
      "+16043111111",
      "+16043111112"
    ],
    "primary_phone": "+16043111111",
    "emails": [
      "[email protected]"
    ],
    "primary_email": "[email protected]",
    "company_name": "Awesome company 2",
    "job_title": "Awesome job 2",
    "urls": [
      "https://foobar.com",
      "https://foobar2.com"
    ],
    "trunk_group": "TEST",
    "extension": "12345"
  }
}