> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.spott.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Create client contact > Create a new client contact for a specific client and create the linked candidate record. Includes personal information such as name, emails, phone numbers, role, and department. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json post /clients/contacts/{clientId} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: Spott API Reference version: '0.1' servers: - url: https://api.gospott.com security: [] tags: [] paths: /clients/contacts/{clientId}: post: tags: - Client Contacts summary: Create client contact description: >- Create a new client contact for a specific client and create the linked candidate record. Includes personal information such as name, emails, phone numbers, role, and department. operationId: createNewClientContact parameters: - name: clientId required: true in: path schema: type: string requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateNewClientContactDto' responses: '201': description: >- Client contact created successfully. Returns the client contact ID and the linked candidate ID. content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateClientContactResponseDto' '400': description: Bad request - invalid client contact data content: application/json: schema: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExceptionBaseDto' - type: object properties: statusCode: type: number example: 400 message: type: string example: ONLY_ONE_PRIMARY_EMAIL_ALLOWED error: type: string example: Bad Request '401': description: Unauthorized - invalid or missing authentication content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExceptionBaseDto' '500': description: Error response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/ExceptionBaseDto' security: - x-api-key: [] components: schemas: CreateNewClientContactDto: type: object properties: firstName: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 100 pattern: ^(?=.*\p{L})[\p{L}\p{M} '’.-]+$ lastName: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 100 pattern: ^(?=.*\p{L})[\p{L}\p{M} '’.-]+$ avatarUrl: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' gender: anyOf: - type: string enum: - male - female - x - type: 'null' nationality: type: array items: type: string enum: - Afghan - Albanian - Algerian - American - Andorran - Angolan - Antiguan - Argentinean - Armenian - Australian - Austrian - Azerbaijani - Bahamian - Bahraini - Bangladeshi - Barbadian - Barbudan - Batswana - Belarusian - Belgian - Belizean - Beninese - Bhutanese - Bolivian - Bosnian - Brazilian - British - Bruneian - Bulgarian - Burkinabe - Burmese - Burundian - Cambodian - Cameroonian - Canadian - Cape Verdean - Central African - Chadian - Chilean - Chinese - Colombian - Comoran - Congolese - Costa Rican - Croatian - Cuban - Cypriot - Czech - Danish - Djibouti - Dominican - Dutch - East Timorese - Ecuadorean - Egyptian - Emirian - Equatorial Guinean - Eritrean - Estonian - Ethiopian - Fijian - Filipino - Finnish - French - Gabonese - Gambian - Georgian - German - Ghanaian - Greek - Grenadian - Guatemalan - Guinea-Bissauan - Guinean - Guyanese - Haitian - Herzegovinian - Honduran - Hungarian - I-Kiribati - Icelander - Indian - Indonesian - Iranian - Iraqi - Irish - Israeli - Italian - Ivorian - Jamaican - Japanese - Jordanian - Kazakhstani - Kenyan - Kittian and Nevisian - Kuwaiti - Kyrgyz - Laotian - Latvian - Lebanese - Liberian - Libyan - Liechtensteiner - Lithuanian - Luxembourger - Macedonian - Malagasy - Malawian - Malaysian - Maldivian - Malian - Maltese - Marshallese - Mauritanian - Mauritian - Mexican - Micronesian - Moldovan - Monacan - Mongolian - Moroccan - Mosotho - Motswana - Mozambican - Namibian - Nauruan - Nepalese - New Zealander - Ni-Vanuatu - Nicaraguan - Nigerian - Nigerien - North Korean - Northern Irish - Norwegian - Omani - Pakistani - Palauan - Panamanian - Papua New Guinean - Paraguayan - Peruvian - Polish - Portuguese - Qatari - Romanian - Russian - Rwandan - Saint Lucian - Salvadoran - Samoan - San Marinese - Sao Tomean - Saudi - Scottish - Senegalese - Serbian - Seychellois - Sierra Leonean - Singaporean - Slovakian - Slovenian - Solomon Islander - Somali - South African - South Korean - Spanish - Sri Lankan - Sudanese - Surinamer - Swazi - Swedish - Swiss - Syrian - Taiwanese - Tajik - Tanzanian - Thai - Togolese - Tongan - Trinidadian or Tobagonian - Tunisian - Turkish - Tuvaluan - Ugandan - Ukrainian - Uruguayan - Uzbekistani - Venezuelan - Vietnamese - Welsh - Yemenite - Zambian - Zimbabwean status: type: array items: type: string enum: - actively_looking - approachable_but_not_actively_looking - do_not_contact - do_not_poach - not_actively_looking emails: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateClientContactEmailDto' phoneNumbers: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateClientContactPhoneNumberDto' locations: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationDto' dateOfBirth: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' socialMedia: type: array items: type: object properties: url: format: uri type: string type: type: string enum: - LINKEDIN - TWITTER - FACEBOOK - INSTAGRAM isPrimary: type: boolean required: - url - type education: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCandidateEducationDto' workExperiences: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CreateCandidateWorkExperienceDto' customAttributes: type: array items: type: object properties: attributeDefinitionId: type: string minLength: 1 value: {} required: - attributeDefinitionId - value mainContact: anyOf: - type: object properties: userId: type: string minLength: 1 required: - userId - type: 'null' languages: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/LanguageDto' compensation: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompensationDto' - type: 'null' role: type: string department: type: string startDate: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' endDate: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' stageId: type: string keepShowingAsCandidate: type: boolean required: - firstName - lastName id: PrivateCreateNewClientContactDto CreateClientContactResponseDto: type: object properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 description: ID of the client contact record candidateId: type: string minLength: 1 description: ID of the linked candidate record required: - id - candidateId id: PrivateCreateClientContactResponseDto ExceptionBaseDto: type: object properties: status: type: integer minimum: -9007199254740991 maximum: 9007199254740991 message: type: string requestId: type: string required: - status - message - requestId id: ExceptionBaseDto CreateClientContactEmailDto: type: object properties: email: type: string format: email pattern: >- ^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$ purpose: anyOf: - type: string enum: - personal - work - type: 'null' isPrimary: type: boolean required: - email - purpose id: PrivateCreateClientContactEmailDto CreateClientContactPhoneNumberDto: type: object properties: phoneNumber: type: string purpose: anyOf: - type: string enum: - personal - work - type: 'null' isPrimary: type: boolean required: - phoneNumber - purpose id: PrivateCreateClientContactPhoneNumberDto LocationDto: type: object properties: street1: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' street2: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' postalCode: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' city: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' region: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' state: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' country: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' rawCityCountry: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' latitude: anyOf: - type: number - type: 'null' longitude: anyOf: - type: number - type: 'null' formattedAddress: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' type: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationType' - type: 'null' required: - street1 - street2 - postalCode - city - region - state - country - rawCityCountry - latitude - longitude - formattedAddress - type id: PrivateLocationDto DateISO: id: DateISO format: date-time anyOf: - type: string format: date-time pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))T(?:(?:[01]\d|2[0-3]):[0-5]\d(?::[0-5]\d(?:\.\d+)?)?(?:Z))$ - type: string format: date pattern: >- ^(?:(?:\d\d[2468][048]|\d\d[13579][26]|\d\d0[48]|[02468][048]00|[13579][26]00)-02-29|\d{4}-(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|3[01])|(?:0[469]|11)-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\d|30)|(?:02)-(?:0[1-9]|1\d|2[0-8])))$ CreateCandidateEducationDto: anyOf: - type: object properties: degree: anyOf: - type: string enum: - High School - Certificate - Diploma - Associate - Professional - Vocational - Bachelor - Master - Postgraduate Diploma - MBA - LLM - PhD - Postdoctoral - type: 'null' fieldOfStudy: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' grade: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' description: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' startDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' endDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' companyId: type: string minLength: 1 required: - degree - fieldOfStudy - grade - description - startDate - endDate - companyId - type: object properties: degree: anyOf: - type: string enum: - High School - Certificate - Diploma - Associate - Professional - Vocational - Bachelor - Master - Postgraduate Diploma - MBA - LLM - PhD - Postdoctoral - type: 'null' fieldOfStudy: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' grade: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' description: anyOf: - type: string minLength: 1 - type: 'null' startDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' endDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' company: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 required: - name required: - degree - fieldOfStudy - grade - description - startDate - endDate - company id: PrivateCreateCandidateEducationDto CreateCandidateWorkExperienceDto: anyOf: - type: object properties: jobTitle: type: string minLength: 1 location: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationDto' - type: 'null' description: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' startDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' endDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' companyId: type: string minLength: 1 required: - jobTitle - location - description - startDate - endDate - companyId - type: object properties: jobTitle: type: string minLength: 1 location: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationDto' - type: 'null' description: anyOf: - type: string - type: 'null' startDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' endDate: anyOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DateISO' - type: 'null' company: type: object properties: name: type: string minLength: 1 required: - name required: - jobTitle - location - description - startDate - endDate - company id: PrivateCreateCandidateWorkExperienceDto LanguageDto: type: object properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 language: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CandidateLanguage' fluency: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CandidateFluency' required: - language id: PrivateLanguageDto CompensationDto: type: object properties: id: type: string minLength: 1 currency: $ref: '#/components/schemas/CandidateCurrency' totalCompensation: anyOf: - type: number - type: 'null' baseCompensation: anyOf: - type: number - type: 'null' required: - currency id: PrivateCompensationDto LocationType: type: string enum: - primary_home - secondary_home - primary_work - headquarters - regional_office id: LocationType CandidateLanguage: type: string enum: - Afrikaans - Albanian - Amharic - Arabic - Armenian - Assamese - Aymara - Azerbaijani - Bangla - Basque - Belarusian - Bemba - Berber - Bislama - Bosnian - Bulgarian - Burman - Catalan - Chechen - Chewa - Chinese (Mandarin) - Chinese (Cantonese) - Chittagonian - Croatian - Czech - Danish - Dari - Dhivehi - Dutch - Dzongkha - English - Estonian - Ewe - Fijian - Filipino - Finnish - French - Galician - Georgian - German - Greek - Guarani - Gujarati - Haitian Creole - Hausa - Hebrew - Hindi - Hungarian - Icelandic - Igbo - Indonesian - Irish - Italian - Japanese - Kannada - Kazakh - Khmer - Kinyarwanda - Kirundi - Korean - Kurdish - Kyrgyz - Lao - Latvian - Lingala - Lithuanian - Luganda - Luxembourgish - Macedonian - Malagasy - Malay - Malayalam - Maltese - Maori - Marathi - Moldovan - Mongolian - Montenegrin - Ndebele - Nepali - Norwegian - Odia - Oromo - Pashto - Persian - Polish - Portuguese - Punjabi - Quechua - Romanian - Russian - Samoan - Sango - Serbian - Sesotho - Setswana - Shona - Sindhi - Sinhala - Slovak - Slovenian - Somali - Spanish - Swahili - Swedish - Tajik - Tamil - Telugu - Tetum - Thai - Tigrinya - Tok Pisin - Tongan - Tsonga - Tswana - Turkish - Turkmen - Ukrainian - Urdu - Uzbek - Venda - Vietnamese - Welsh - Xhosa - Yoruba - Zulu id: PrivateCandidateLanguage CandidateFluency: anyOf: - type: string enum: - Elementary proficiency - Limited working proficiency - Professional working proficiency - Full professional proficiency - Native or bilingual proficiency - type: 'null' id: PrivateCandidateFluency CandidateCurrency: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DmCurrency' id: PrivateCandidateCurrency DmCurrency: type: string enum: - AED - AFN - ALL - AMD - ANG - AOA - ARS - AUD - AWG - AZN - BAM - BBD - BDT - BGN - BHD - BIF - BMD - BND - BOB - BRL - BSD - BTC - BTN - BWP - BYN - BZD - CAD - CDF - CHF - CLF - CLP - CNH - CNY - COP - CRC - CUC - CUP - CVE - CZK - DJF - DKK - DOP - DZD - EGP - ERN - ETB - EUR - FJD - FKP - GBP - GEL - GGP - GHS - GIP - GMD - GNF - GTQ - GYD - HKD - HNL - HRK - HTG - HUF - IDR - ILS - IMP - INR - IQD - IRR - ISK - JEP - JMD - JOD - JPY - KES - KGS - KHR - KMF - KPW - KRW - KWD - KYD - KZT - LAK - LBP - LKR - LRD - LSL - LYD - MAD - MDL - MGA - MKD - MMK - MNT - MOP - MRU - MUR - MVR - MWK - MXN - MYR - MZN - NAD - NGN - NIO - NOK - NPR - NZD - OMR - PAB - PEN - PGK - PHP - PKR - PLN - PYG - QAR - RON - RSD - RUB - RWF - SAR - SBD - SCR - SDG - SEK - SGD - SHP - SLE - SLL - SOS - SRD - SSP - STD - STN - SVC - SYP - SZL - THB - TJS - TMT - TND - TOP - TRY - TTD - TWD - TZS - UAH - UGX - USD - UYU - UZS - VEF - VES - VND - VUV - WST - XAF - XAG - XAU - XCD - XCG - XDR - XOF - XPD - XPF - XPT - YER - ZAR - ZMW - ZWG - ZWL id: DmCurrency securitySchemes: x-api-key: type: apiKey name: x-api-key in: header description: >- API key for authentication. Get your API key from Settings → API Keys in your Spott dashboard. ````