ContactCategory

Stored in the contactcategories collection. createdAt and updatedAt are maintained automatically.

Returned by GET /contact-category, POST /contact-category, GET /contact-category/:id, PUT /contact-category/:id.

Example

One real ContactCategory as returned by GET /contact-category, taken from the data array. Recorded from a live response, so the defaults, denormalised snapshots and populated fields are the actual ones:

{
  "_id": "6a957377859eafb47bf226d2",
  "name": "Customer",
  "description": "Has bought at least once.",
  "company": "6a9572df859eafb47bf225d7",
  "createdBy": {
    "_id": "6a9572df859eafb47bf225d9",
    "name": "Docs Test User",
    "email": "test@test.test",
    "status": "owner"
  },
  "updatedBy": {
    "_id": "6a9572df859eafb47bf225d9",
    "name": "Docs Test User",
    "email": "test@test.test",
    "status": "owner"
  },
  "createdAt": "2026-08-31T12:28:39.936Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-08-31T12:28:39.936Z",
  "__v": 0
}

:::note Trimmed for reading A populated reference is shown by the fields that identify it rather than in full — it arrives as the entire referenced document. Long arrays are cut to the first two entries and marked, long strings are truncated, and any field that could carry a credential is dropped rather than masked. :::

Fields

Field	Type	Notes
`name`	string
`description`	string
`company`	ObjectId -> Company
`createdBy`	ObjectId -> Member
`updatedBy`	ObjectId -> Member
`_id`	ObjectId
`createdAt`	date	set once
`updatedAt`	date

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