# Contacts without an email address

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-without-an-email-address/83098>\
**Category:** Account & Settings\
**Tags:** starter\
**Created:** [June 10, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-without-an-email-address/83098 "2023-06-10T12:42:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Violeta\_Rivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e274bd/32.png) [@Violeta\_Rivas](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Violeta_Rivas)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 12:42pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-without-an-email-address/83098/1 "2023-06-10T12:42:27Z")

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Hi, I was supposed to create a contact manually in Hubspot, it would not allow me without an email address, but that is what is happening, I have no information that this has changed, anyone know what could be happening ??? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/contacts-without-an-email-address/83098/2 "2023-06-10T12:45:56Z")

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Hi [@Violeta\_Rivas](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/582193),

Can you please elaborate and what exactly you’re trying to and what’s not working?

Contact creation without an email address is possible, yes. However, HubSpot will not automatically deduplicate contacts without email addresses. Two contacts with the same name can exist, two contacts with the same email address cannot, they will be automatically merged.

Best regards!