How to use API to insert email address as empty

[thecoolcoder]

I’m trying to insert contact’s with no email address. The API docs say that either firstname and lastname is required when email is not in such a case. I am using Zapier to do the insert. One of the two items below are my question:

• Do I have to not include the email property entirely in my JSON and exclude it in the call to get it to work?

• Because submitting the email property as empty is not working.

• Or is it something else? Does a portal have to be configured in the beginning to require or not require email addresses.

[Derek_Gervais]

Hi @thecoolcoder,

I appreciate the feedback. Could you click the ‘Submit feedback’ button on the document you’re referring to? I’d be happy to take a look at the relevant documentation.

[Derek_Gervais]

Hi @thecoolcoder,

Submitting the email field as an empty string will return an error; to create a contact without an email, just leave the email field out of the request body entirely. I was able to successfully create a contact without an email using the following endpoint:

https://api.hubapi.com/contacts/v1/contact/?hapikey=demo

with the following JSON body:

{
  "properties": [
    {
      "property": "firstname",
      "value": "Test contact"
    },
    {
      "property": "lastname",
      "value": "without email"
    }
  ]
}

[thecoolcoder]

Very grateful for this confirmation of my suspicion. The documentation should be clearer on the API docs since it is so pivotal.