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Counterparts of type organization can have contact information associated with them. The contact information can be used to pay the invoices issued by those counterparts.

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Add a contact to a counterpart

To add a contact to a counterpart, call POST /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts: 
curl -X POST 'https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1/counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts' \
     -H 'X-Monite-Version: 2023-09-01' \
     -H 'X-Monite-Entity-Id: ENTITY_ID' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN' \
     -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
     -d '{
         "first_name": "Mary",
         "last_name": "O Brien",
         "email": "contact@example.org",
         "phone": "5551235476",
         "address": {
            "country": "DE",
            "city": "Berlin",
            "postal_code": "10115",
            "state": "BE",
            "line1": "Flughafenstrasse 52",
            "line2": "Additional information"
          },
          "title": "Ms."
     }'
The successful response returns the information about the contact: 
{
  "first_name": "Mary",
  "last_name": "O Brien",
  "email": "contact@example.org",
  "phone": "5551235476",
  "address": {
    "country": "DE",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "postal_code": "10115",
    "state": "BE",
    "line1": "Flughafenstrasse 52",
    "line2": "Additional information"
  },
  "title": "Ms.",
  "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
  "counterpart_id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
  "is_default": false
}

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Set the default contact

Once the contacts are added to the counterpart, select a default contact by calling POST /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts/{contact_id}/make_default: 
curl -X POST 'https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1/counterparts/3fa8...f66afa6/contacts/9d2b4c8f...83c49a4/make_default' \
     -H 'X-Monite-Version: 2023-09-01' \
     -H 'X-Monite-Entity-Id: ENTITY_ID' \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN'
The successful response contains information about the contact marked as default: 
{
  "first_name": "Mary",
  "last_name": "O Brien",
  "email": "contact@example.org",
  "phone": "5551235476",
  "address": {
    "country": "DE",
    "city": "Berlin",
    "postal_code": "10115",
    "state": "BE",
    "line1": "Flughafenstrasse 52",
    "line2": "Additional information"
  },
  "title": "Ms.",
  "id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
  "counterpart_id": "3fa85f64-5717-4562-b3fc-2c963f66afa6",
  "is_default": true
}

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List all contacts

To get information about all contacts associated with the specified counterpart, call
GET /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts.

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Retrieve a contact

To get information about a specific contact associated with the specified counterpart, call
GET /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts/{contact_id}.

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Edit a contact

To edit an existing contact of the specified counterpart, call
PATCH /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts/{contact_id}.

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Delete a contact

To delete an existing contact from the list of contacts associated with the specified counterpart, call
DELETE /counterparts/{counterpart_id}/contacts/{contact_id}. Only non-default contacts can be deleted.