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title: Contact
slug: netsuite/contact
description: Learn about the parameters of the Contact object and their corresponding fields, data types, and descriptions. This document covers essential parameters like salesforceID, addressbookList, altEmail, assistant, comments, company, customFieldList, customFor
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createdAt: 2021-10-27T16:23:08.000Z
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When requesting a Contact, use the requestJSON to pass the Contact data. The response that is returned will contain a responseJSON section which has the Contact response returned by Breadwinner for NetSuite.
The Contact object has the following parameters.
| **Field Name** | **Data Type** | **Description** |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| salesforceID | ID | Read-Only field, provides the Salesforce Record ID upon successful creation or updation in Salesforce. |
| addressbookList | [Common Data Types](docId\:LGKOy7mdXhvjzkl2nr9Ql) | |
| altEmail | String | |
| assistant | String | |
| comments | String | |
| company | [Common Data Types](docId\:LGKOy7mdXhvjzkl2nr9Ql) | Internal ID of the Company. |
| customFieldList | [Common Data Types](docId\:LGKOy7mdXhvjzkl2nr9Ql) | Custom fields and their values. |
| customForm | [Common Data Types](docId\:LGKOy7mdXhvjzkl2nr9Ql) | Internal ID of the Custom Form. |
| dateCreated | Long | Read-Only field, the Date will be returned as a Unix timestamp in seconds. |
| defaultAddress | String | Read-Only field, Populates from AddressBooks |
| email | String | Used to include the Email contains filter for the request |
| entityId | String | The Name of the Contact, populated from the First, Middle and Last Names |
| externalId | String | |
| fax | String | |
| firstName* | String | First Name of the Contact |
| homePhone | String | |
| internalId | String | |
| isInactive | Boolean | |
| isPrivate | Boolean | |
| lastModifiedDate | Long | Read-Only field and the Date is returned as a Unix timestamp in seconds. |
| lastName* | String | Last Name of the Contact |
| middleName | String | |
| mobilePhone | String | |
| officePhone | String | |
| phone | String | |
| salutation | String | |
| subsidiary* | [Common Data Types](docId\:LGKOy7mdXhvjzkl2nr9Ql) | Internal ID of Subsidiary. |
| title | String | |