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# Add a supplier contact

> Attach a new contact to a supplier. This appends to the supplier's existing contacts rather than replacing them. The contact email must be unique across the platform.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/build.yaml post /suppliers/{supplierId}/contacts
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Luminous API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: API documentation for Luminous
servers:
  - url: https://{companyName}.api.joinluminous.com/external/api/v1
    variables:
      companyName:
        default: companyName
        description: Your company-specific subdomain
security: []
tags:
  - name: Products
    description: Get and manage products
  - name: Pricing
    description: Manage price schedules, levels, and customizations
  - name: BOMs
    description: Manage Bills of Materials (BOMs)
  - name: Labels
    description: Label rendering via Labelary ZPL service
  - name: Companies
    description: Manage business accounts and their associated data
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage contact information for individuals
  - name: Suppliers
    description: Manage suppliers (factories) — vendors used on purchase orders
  - name: Supplier SKUs
    description: Manage per-supplier SKU and unit-cost overrides for products
  - name: Locations
    description: Manage warehouses and locations
  - name: Inventory
    description: Get and adjust product stock levels
  - name: Lots
    description: Create, update, and delete product lots (batches)
  - name: Transfer Orders
    description: Manage transfer orders
  - name: Fulfillment Orders
    description: Manage fulfillment orders and picklists
  - name: Fulfillment Priority Lists
    description: Configure fulfillment routing priority lists
  - name: Purchase Orders
    description: Get and modify purchase orders
  - name: Supplier Portal
    description: >-
      Read a supplier's response to a purchase order and control the one-click
      portal link
  - name: Receiving Reports
    description: Manage receiving reports
  - name: Payment Obligations
    description: Manage payment obligations for purchase orders
  - name: Sales Orders
    description: Manage sales orders and sales order shipments
  - name: Purgatory
    description: >-
      Inspect and resolve non-posted sales orders in the purgatory staging
      workflow
  - name: PickFlow Shipping
    description: >-
      Provider-agnostic shipping rates, services, packages, and label purchase
      for PickFlow
  - name: Cycle Counts
    description: >-
      Create, drive, and post PickFlow cycle counts — batches, per-warehouse
      sessions, and CSV import/export
  - name: Print Stations
    description: List paired print stations and enqueue print jobs to them
  - name: Invoices
    description: Get and manage invoices
  - name: Work Orders
    description: >-
      Manage work orders — production lifecycle, steps, materials, links,
      shipments, and comments
  - name: Production Batches
    description: Group and manage work orders as production batches
  - name: Bills
    description: >-
      Accounts payable bill management, payments, attachments, allocations, and
      variance
  - name: Prepayments
    description: Manage vendor prepayments and applications
  - name: Vendor Credits
    description: Manage vendor credits and applications
  - name: Vendor Returns
    description: Manage vendor returns and credit generation
  - name: Customer Returns
    description: Manage customer returns (sales returns), receiving, and restock behavior
  - name: Stock Snapshot
    description: Point-in-time stock snapshots with export support
  - name: Consumption
    description: Consumption reports and exports
  - name: Inventory Aging
    description: Cost-layer-based inventory aging reports
  - name: Bills Reports
    description: Accounts payable bills aging reports
  - name: Forecast
    description: Materialized forecast data
  - name: Reports
    description: Close the books, inventory discrepancy, transaction COGS, and EDI reports
  - name: Tags
    description: Add/remove tags across various resources
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: Get and set custom fields across various resources
  - name: Currency
    description: Currency configuration, exchange rates, and conversion
  - name: Integration Mappings
    description: Manage integration mappings for external systems
  - name: Integration Field Mappings
    description: Manage field-level mappings between Luminous and external systems
paths:
  /suppliers/{supplierId}/contacts:
    post:
      tags:
        - Suppliers
      summary: Add a supplier contact
      description: >-
        Attach a new contact to a supplier. This appends to the supplier's
        existing contacts rather than replacing them. The contact email must be
        unique across the platform.
      operationId: addSupplierContact
      parameters:
        - name: supplierId
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: The unique identifier of the supplier.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
                - contact_name
                - contact_email
              properties:
                contact_name:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 255
                  description: Contact name.
                contact_email:
                  type: string
                  format: email
                  maxLength: 255
                  description: >-
                    Contact email address. Must be unique across all contacts on
                    the platform; reusing an existing email returns a `422`
                    validation error.
                contact_phone:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 255
                  nullable: true
                  description: Contact phone number.
      responses:
        '201':
          description: Contact successfully attached to the supplier
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    description: A contact attached to a supplier.
                    properties:
                      contact_details_id:
                        type: integer
                        description: >-
                          Stable identifier of the contact. The supplier-contact
                          link has no surrogate key, so this is the ID a caller
                          references.
                      supplier_id:
                        type: integer
                        description: ID of the supplier the contact is attached to.
                      name:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: Contact name.
                      email:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: Contact email address.
                      phone:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                        description: Contact phone number.
                      created_at:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                        description: Timestamp of when the contact link was created.
                      updated_at:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                        description: Timestamp of when the contact link was last updated.
        '401':
          description: Authentication credentials were missing or invalid
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  error:
                    type: string
                    example: Unauthorized
                  message:
                    type: string
                    example: Authentication credentials are missing or invalid
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                    example: 401
        '404':
          description: The requested resource was not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  error:
                    type: string
                    example: Not Found
                  message:
                    type: string
                    example: The requested resource could not be found
                  status_code:
                    type: integer
                    example: 404
        '422':
          description: Validation error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
                  errors:
                    type: object
                    additionalProperties:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        type: string
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Authenticate using a bearer token. To create a token, navigate to
        /settings/api-tokens and click Create API Token.

````