How to Create a New Contact Record and Link it to a Vendor & Product

This tutorial will walk you through on how to create a new Contact record that is linked with a Vendor and to a Product

Prerequisites

Before starting, ensure you have the following:

  • Access to Contacts APIs.
  • An API Client (Client ID and Secret) used to generate an authentication token for API utilization.
  • API Client must possess necessary scopes: contacts:read contacts:write on token generation.
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Refer to the Getting Started with Request Tokens guide for details on how to authenticate.

Step 1: Get the List of Vendors

Creating a new Contact requires an existing Vendor.

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Use the Contacts GET List of Vendors endpoint to retrieve the list of available vendors.


Step 2: Get the List of Products

Specific Product(s) list could be linked to a Contact that would be the main point of communication for these products.

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Use the Contacts GET List of Products endpoint to retrieve the list of available products.


Step 3: Create a New Contact

Once the Vendor and the list of Product(s) to which a Contact would be associated with have been acquired, a new record/entry for a contact can be created.

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Use the Contacts POST Create Contact endpoint to create a new contact.