Actions14
- Contacts API Actions
- Conversations API Actions
- CSAT Survey Page Actions
- Inbox Actions
- Messages API Actions
Contacts API → Update a Contact
AI-generatedSummary
Update an existing contact in a specified inbox by providing the contact's identifier and optionally modifying attributes such as name, email, phone number, avatar, custom attributes, and authentication hashes.
Inputs
- Contact Identifier Name or ID (required) — The unique identifier of the contact to update within the inbox. Can be selected from a list or specified via an expression.
- Avatar — The new avatar image binary or URL to set for the contact.
- Custom Attributes — Custom attributes for the contact; supports adding multiple predefined custom fields.
- Email — The updated email address of the contact.
- Identifier — An external identifier to associate with the contact.
- Identifier Hash — A hash for the identifier, used for HMAC authentication.
- Name — The updated name of the contact.
- Phone Number — The updated phone number of the contact.
Output shape
a JSON object representing the updated contact's data as returned from the ChatWoot API
The response contains the updated contact details from the PATCH request to the ChatWoot API endpoint /public/api/v1/inboxes/{inbox_identifier}/contacts/{contact_identifier}.