# Contact

A contact is a representation of a recipient or beneficiary.

Operations 

## Create a contact from an identifier 

**`POST /v2/profiles/{{profileId}}/contacts?isDirectIdentifierCreation=true`**

This endpoint finds an existing **discoverable** Wise profile and adds it to your recipient list. The recipient is found just by an identifier, without having to know their bank details. The contactId from the response can be used to create a transfer.

Request
identifier
A Wise profile’s identifier. It can be a Wisetag, email or phone number.

targetCurrency
3 character currency code

Response
contactId
contactId in the format of UUID

name
full name of the contact

Example Request - GBP Recipient

```shell
curl -X POST \
  https://api.sandbox.transferwise.tech/v2/profiles/{{profileId}}/contacts?isDirectIdentifierCreation=true \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer <client credential token>' \
  -H 'Content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "identifier":"@JonathanP",
    "targetCurrency":"EUR"
  }'
```

### Creating a transfer with a contact

1. Create a [Quote](/api-reference/quote#create-authenticated) where the **targetAccount** field is replaced with "contactId": `<contactId>`
2. Extract the **targetAccount** value from the Quote
3. Create a [Transfer](/api-reference/transfer#create)