---
title: Customer Contact
summary: >-
  A Customer Contact is the base object that holds the different types of
  contact information Fastly uses to contact a customer.
url: https://www.fastly.com/documentation/reference/api/account/contact
---

A Customer Contact is the base object that holds the different types of contact information Fastly uses to contact a customer.

## Data model

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `contact_type` | string | The type of contact. |
| `customer_id` | string | The alphanumeric string representing the customer for this customer contact. |
| `email` | string | The email of this contact, when a user_id is not provided. |
| `name` | string | The name of this contact, when user_id is not provided. |
| `phone` | string | The phone number for this contact. Required for primary, technical, and security contact types. |
| `user_id` | string | The alphanumeric string representing the user for this customer contact. |
| `created_at` | string | Date and time in ISO 8601 format. (Read-only) |
| `deleted_at` | string | Date and time in ISO 8601 format. (Read-only) |
| `id` | string | An alphanumeric string identifying the customer contact. (Read-only) |
| `updated_at` | string | Date and time in ISO 8601 format. (Read-only) |

## API endpoints

### List contacts

**GET** `/customer/{customer_id}/contacts`

List all contacts from a specified customer ID.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | In | Required | Description |
|------|------|----|---------|--------------|
| `customer_id` | string | path | Yes | Alphanumeric string identifying the customer. |

### Add a new customer contact

**POST** `/customer/{customer_id}/contacts`

Create a contact.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | In | Required | Description |
|------|------|----|---------|--------------|
| `customer_id` | string | path | Yes | Alphanumeric string identifying the customer. |

### Delete a contact

**DELETE** `/customer/{customer_id}/contacts/{contact_id}`

Delete a contact.

**Parameters:**

| Name | Type | In | Required | Description |
|------|------|----|---------|--------------|
| `contact_id` | string | path | Yes | An alphanumeric string identifying the customer contact. |
| `customer_id` | string | path | Yes | Alphanumeric string identifying the customer. |