Updating a Constituent if it already exists

Eric Fetherston

Am trying to use PATCH for updating an existing Constituent, but it doesn't update Address or Phone Number information it seems.

How does one go about updating a Constituent that already exists to replace the existing Phone Number for the given phone type and other information like Address, City, and State, and possibly more information all at once with 1 API call preferrably, if I have the Constituent Id and/or Lookup ID?

The PATCH method for a Constituent should do it I believe, via

But I have tried sending the following information to this method and it does not update the information for that Constituent:

{
"phone": {
"number": "215-668-3738",
"primary": true,
"type": "Home"
},
"address": {
"type": "Home",
"city": "Beverly Hills",
"state": "CA",
"postal_code": "90210"
}
}

Michael Tims

Hi @Eric Fetherston - I believe you will need to use the dedicated PATCH endpoints for Address and Phone number to update those values:

EditConstituentAddress: https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/docs/services/56b76470069a0509c8f1c5b3/operations/EditConstituentAddress

EditConstituentPhone: https://developer.sky.blackbaud.com/docs/services/56b76470069a0509c8f1c5b3/operations/EditConstituentPhone

Each of those endpoints takes an ID value that you can obtain from the response when getting a constituent via GetConstituent.

Hope that helps!

Eric Fetherston

Hello, Thanks for your reply. I was afraid that this would be the case. Thanks.