# Contacts

A contact defines the customer who holds an account or who is otherwise a person to contact about an account. An account requires a contact for the `BillToId` and `SoldToId` fields before the account can be active.


## Create a contact

 - [POST /v1/contacts](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/post_createcontact.md): Creates a contact for a specified account. Each account must have at least one contact before it can be saved. You can add a maximum of 2000 contacts to an account.

## Delete a contact

 - [DELETE /v1/contacts/{contactId}](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/delete_contact.md): Deletes a contact.

## Retrieve a contact

 - [GET /v1/contacts/{contactId}](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/get_contact.md): Retrieves detailed information about a specific contact.

## Update a contact

 - [PUT /v1/contacts/{contactId}](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/put_contact.md): Updates a contact for a specified account.

You can update contacts for cancelled accounts.

## Transfer a contact

 - [PUT /v1/contacts/{contactId}/transfer](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/transfercontent.md): This operation transfers contacts of the accounts within the Customer Hierarchy when removing the account.

## Scrub a contact

 - [PUT /v1/contacts/{contactId}/scrub](https://developer.zuora.com/v1-api-reference/api/contacts/put_scrubcontact.md): Scrubs the sensitive data of a specific contact. 

You can use this operation to replace all sensitive data in a contact and its related contact snapshot with dummy values that will be stored in Zuora databases. 

After scrubbing a contact, it is good practice to delete it. Otherwise, it might cause errors in subsequent operations.

Note: To use this operation, you must ensure that the "Scrub Sensitive Data of Contact" billing permission is enabled in your user role. Contact your tenant administrator if you want to enable this permission. See Scrub Contacts for more information.