Contacts either represent individual people or businesses and are used within Claimable to build a profile for each person or business relating to your claims. A given contact can belong to a company, in the case of an employee or staff, or it can belong to one or many claims, in the case of claimants, insured parties, third parties, witnesses, etc.

Contacts can also exist on their own, without being linked to any claim or company.

The `Contact` Object

Attribute	Data Type	Description
id	Integer	The unique ID for the contact given by Claimable.
is_business	Boolean	Default: false. Indicates if this contact refers to an individual (false) or business (true).
first_name	String	Required - unless `is_business` is true. The first name of the contact. If `is_business` is true, this becomes the first name of the primary contact person for that business.
last_name	String	Required - unless `is_business` is true. The last name of the contact. If `is_business` is true, this becomes the last name of the primary contact person for that business.
business_name	String	Required - if `is_business` is true. The name of the business if `is_business` is true, indicating this contact is refers to a business entity rather than an individual. If `is_business` is false, the `business_name` refers to the business to which the individual is related to.
title	String	One of: `Mr`, `Mrs`, `Miss`, `Ms`, `Mx`, `Dr`, `Prof`, `Rev`, `Sir`, `Dame`, `Lord`, `Lady`. The title/salutation of the contact.
email	String	The email address of the contact. Must be a valid email address.
mobile_phone	String	The mobile/cell phone number of the contact.
created_at	Timestamp	Read Only. The date/time the contact was created.

Example `Contact` Object

{
  "id": 123456,
  "first_name": "David",
  "last_name": "Mentmore",
  "is_business": false,
  "email": "david.mentmore@gmail.com",
  "mobile_phone": "+44 7123 343111",
  "home_phone": "0207 333 2222",
  "work_phone": "0207 111 7777",
  "preferred_contact_method": "mobile_phone",
  "address_line1": "1 Mentmore Terrace",
  "address_line2": "",
  "address_line3": "",
  "address_city": "London",
  "address_state": "London",
  "address_postcode": "E8 3PN",
  "address_country": "United Kingdom",
  "address_country_code": "gbr",
  "beneficiary_account_account_number": "12345674",
  "beneficiary_account_bank_name": "HSBC",
  "beneficiary_account_holder_name": "David Mentmore",
  "beneficiary_account_iban": "GB26MIDL40051512345674",
  "beneficiary_account_sort_code": "400515",
  "beneficiary_account_swift_bic": "HBUKGB4BXXX",
  "contact_description": "Prefers to be contacted between 9am and 5pm, Mon-Fri.",
  "date_of_birth": "1953-04-26",
  "driving_license_no": "JF453ABCD453232",
  "identity_card_no": "10104020",
  "social_security_no": "AB102209",
  "gender": "male",
  "marital_status": "married",
  "occupation": "Managing Director",
  "website": "www.google.com",
  "created_at": "2020-07-08T11:42:29.584Z",
  "updated_at": "2020-12-01T10:02:51.120Z",
  "created_by": 123,
  "updated_by": 456
}