iContact REST API

asyncapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: iContact Webhooks
  version: '2.2'
  description: >-
    Derived AsyncAPI description of the four contact-lifecycle webhook events
    iContact documents at
    https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/Web-Hooks-iContact-API.


    NOT A PROVIDER ARTIFACT. iContact publishes no AsyncAPI. This document was
    derived by API Evangelist on 2026-08-13 from iContact's own published
    webhook reference and its contact and list field tables. Every event id,
    field name and payload shape below appears verbatim in iContact's
    documentation; nothing has been invented. Where iContact documents nothing
    — signature verification, retry policy, delivery guarantees, expected
    receiver response — this document is silent rather than filled in.


    Subscriptions are managed through the REST API, not through this document:
    POST /a/{accountId}/c/{clientFolderId}/webhooks with an eventId and a url.
  contact:
    name: iContact API Developer Portal
    url: https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/API-Developer-Portal
  externalDocs:
    url: https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/Web-Hooks-iContact-API
defaultContentType: application/json

servers:
  subscriber:
    host: 'www.yourhost.com'
    protocol: https
    description: >-
      The consumer-supplied endpoint registered in the webhook `url` field.
      iContact POSTs event batches to it. The host is chosen by the subscriber;
      the value here is the placeholder used in iContact's own example.

channels:
  contactEvents:
    address: '/'
    title: Subscriber webhook endpoint
    description: >-
      iContact POSTs a JSON array of event objects to the registered url. One
      registration carries one eventId, so a receiver may be registered several
      times at different paths to separate event types.
    messages:
      contactCreated:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/contactCreated'
      contactUpdated:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/contactUpdated'
      contactSubscribed:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/contactSubscribed'
      contactUnsubscribed:
        $ref: '#/components/messages/contactUnsubscribed'

operations:
  receiveContactCreated:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents'
    summary: When a new contact is created.
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents/messages/contactCreated'
  receiveContactUpdated:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents'
    summary: When an existing contact is modified.
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents/messages/contactUpdated'
  receiveContactSubscribed:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents'
    summary: When a contact is subscribed to a list.
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents/messages/contactSubscribed'
  receiveContactUnsubscribed:
    action: receive
    channel:
      $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents'
    summary: When a contact is unsubscribed from a list.
    messages:
      - $ref: '#/channels/contactEvents/messages/contactUnsubscribed'

components:
  messages:
    contactCreated:
      name: contact_created
      title: contact_created
      summary: When a new contact is created.
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactEventBatch'
    contactUpdated:
      name: contact_updated
      title: contact_updated
      summary: When an existing contact is modified.
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactEventBatch'
    contactSubscribed:
      name: contact_subscribed
      title: contact_subscribed
      summary: When a contact is subscribed to a list.
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactListEventBatch'
    contactUnsubscribed:
      name: contact_unsubscribed
      title: contact_unsubscribed
      summary: When a contact is unsubscribed from a list.
      contentType: application/json
      payload:
        $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContactListEventBatch'

  schemas:
    ContactEventBatch:
      type: array
      description: 'Documented payload shape: [{"contact": {contact_data}}]'
      items:
        type: object
        required: [contact]
        properties:
          contact:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact'

    ContactListEventBatch:
      type: array
      description: >-
        Documented payload shape:
        [{"contact": {contact_data}, "list": {list_data}}]
      items:
        type: object
        required: [contact, list]
        properties:
          contact:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Contact'
          list:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/List'

    Contact:
      type: object
      description: >-
        "The data format will be the same as the data format for the object on
        the public API." Fields below are transcribed from the contacts
        resource reference.
      externalDocs:
        url: https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/Contacts-iContact-API
      properties:
        contactId:
          type: integer
          description: Unique identifier for a single contact.
          examples: [349]
        email:
          type: string
          format: email
          description: The contact's email address. Must be unique.
          examples: ['smith@icontact.com']
        prefix:
          type: string
          description: The contact's salutation.
          examples: ['Miss']
        firstName:
          type: string
          examples: ['Mary']
        lastName:
          type: string
          examples: ['Smith']
        suffix:
          type: string
          description: The contact's name qualifications.
          examples: ['III']
        street:
          type: string
        street2:
          type: string
        city:
          type: string
          examples: ['Durham']
        state:
          type: string
          maxLength: 10
          examples: ['NC']
        postalCode:
          type: string
          examples: ['27713']
        phone:
          type: string
        fax:
          type: string
        business:
          type: string
          description: The contact's business phone number.
        status:
          type: string
          description: Subscription status of the contact.
          enum: [normal, bounced, donotcontact, pending, invitable, deleted]
        createDate:
          type: string
          description: >-
            Date the contact was added to iContact. ISO 8601 per the API's
            timestamp convention.
          examples: ['2009-06-18 22:39:54']
        bounceCount:
          type: integer
          description: Number of times emails sent to this contact have bounced.
          examples: [3]

    List:
      type: object
      description: Fields transcribed from the lists resource reference.
      externalDocs:
        url: https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/Lists-iContact-API
      properties:
        listId:
          type: integer
          description: Unique identifier for the list.
          examples: [375628]
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name for the list.
          examples: ['My contacts']
        description:
          type: string
          description: Describes the list. Not visible to contacts on the list.
        publicname:
          type: string
          description: Publicly facing name for a list, visible to contacts.
          examples: ['Bakery Newsletter']
        emailOwnerOnChange:
          type: integer
          enum: [0, 1]
          default: 1
          description: >-
            Whether the list owner is emailed when a subscriber is added or
            removed.

x-provenance:
  generated: '2026-08-13'
  method: derived
  source: https://help.icontact.com/customers/s/article/Web-Hooks-iContact-API
  derived_by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline
  provider_published: false
x-undocumented:
  note: >-
    iContact documents none of the following, so this description asserts
    none of them.
  items:
    - signature or shared-secret verification of the callback
    - retry, backoff or dead-letter behaviour on receiver failure
    - the status code a receiver is expected to return
    - delivery or ordering guarantees
    - an event id or timestamp inside the payload
    - any message-level event (send, delivery, bounce, open, click, complaint)
    - '"Do Not Contact" events, which iContact explicitly states are unavailable'