Contacts: Portal/VOW Accounts

The Portal account sub-service provides access to consumer account information. These accounts are automatically created when a contact is created or edited, but older contacts may not yet have a corresponding consumer account.

  1. Supported Roles
  2. Available Services
    1. Portal Account
  3. Response Description
  4. Expansions
  5. API Explorer

Supported Roles

Role Reads Writes Notes
IDX Yes Yes Writes allowed for portal creation only
Public Yes No
VOW Yes No
Portal Yes No
Private Yes Yes
More information about roles may be found here.

Available Services

Portal Account

/<API Version>/contacts/<Contact.Id>/portal

HTTP Method Description Notes
GET Returns account information for the current user
POST Creates a consumer account
PUT Updates a consumer account
DELETE Returns HTTP 405 (Method Not Allowed) Not implemented

GET Request

No parameters

GET Response

Example: 
{
    "D": {
        "Success": true,
        "Results: [{
            "ResourceUri": "/vX/contacts/201010122342756895000000/portal",
            "Id": "20060412165917817933000000",
            "OwnerId": "20090410349683017933000000",
            "LoginName": "dave",
            "LastActive": "2012-03-07T21:13:11Z",
            "Locale": {
              "Language": "en"
            },
            "Identity": {
              "Connected": true,
              "Email": "dave_meyer@mailinator.com"
            },
            "Enabled": true
        }]
    }
}

POST Request

{
    "D": {
        "LoginName": "Johnny Everyman",
        "Password": "MyPassw0rd",
        "Settings": {
            "Enabled": true
        },
        "Locale": {
          "Language": "en"
        }
  }
}

POST Response

The standard success/fail response is returned.

PUT Request

All fields used in the POST request may be used in a PUT request. 
{
    "D": {
        "Password": "ANewPassw3rd",
        "Settings": {
            "Enabled": false  
        }
  }
}

PUT Response

The standard success/fail response is returned.

Response Description

Attribute Data Type Writeable Required Description
LastActive Timestamp No No The last date and time the Portal user was active in the agent's portal. Note: this is only accurate to the hour, as the timestamp is updated at most once per hour.
LastLogin Timestamp No No (Deprecated in favor of LastActive).The last date and time the Portal user logged in to the agent's portal. If null, the Portal user has never logged in to their account.
LoginName Character Yes No If not provided, the contact's PrimaryEmail will be used as the login name.
Password Character Yes No If not provided, a password will be created and sent back in the response. For security reasons, GET requests will not return the password
Identity.Connected Boolean No No If true, the Portal account for your contact has been linked to a consumer's flexmls Web account. Agents are linked to consumers by privileged applications using the Consumers: Agents service.
Identity.Email Boolean No No If connected, will populate the email used for the linked consumer account.
Locale.Language Character Yes No The code for the user's preferred language. Consult the System Info: Languages service for supported languages, which may vary per MLS.

Expansions

None.

API Explorer

The API Explorer does not currently support this service.