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# Get a contact

> One contact with the application fields, membership tab, balance and event registrations. Input schema, a tools/call example and an example result.

Source: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/wild-apricot/get_contact

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One contact with the application fields, membership tab, balance and event registrations.

Wild Apricot MCP tools: https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/wild-apricot.md

MCP tool: `wild_apricot_read → get_contact`

Access: read.

Returns the contact record: the fields on the profile, the Membership tab (level, status, member since, renewal due), the contact balance and the event registrations from the Events tab. balance is the amount still owed across open invoices. Use it before approve_membership_application to see whether the applicant has paid.

## Parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `contact_id` | integer | yes | Contact ID from list_contacts. |

## tools/call

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "wild_apricot_read",
    "arguments": {
      "operation": "get_contact",
      "arguments": {
        "contact_id": 1
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Example response

```json
{
  "content": [
    {
      "type": "text",
      "text": "{ ... same JSON as structuredContent ... }"
    }
  ],
  "structuredContent": {
    "contact_id": 48213,
    "name": "Nora Elwood",
    "email": "nora@example.com",
    "fields": {
      "Organization": "Elwood Cycles",
      "City": "Portland"
    },
    "membership": {
      "level": "Individual",
      "status": "Pending - New",
      "member_since": null,
      "renewal_due": null
    },
    "balance": 0,
    "event_registrations": [
      {
        "event_id": 7210,
        "name": "Saturday group ride",
        "ticket_type": "Member"
      }
    ]
  },
  "isError": false
}
```

Previous: [List contacts](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/wild-apricot/list_contacts.md)
Next: [List membership levels](https://cotlet.dev/docs/mcp/wild-apricot/list_membership_levels.md)

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