---
title: "The HasAddresses trait — Addresses for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Add HasAddresses to any Eloquent model for a polymorphic addresses relation plus create, read and primary-address helpers."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/addresses-for-laravel/has-addresses
language: en
---

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# The HasAddresses trait

Add the trait to any Eloquent model that owns addresses — customers, companies, orders, venues. Implementing the Addressable contract is optional, but it lets other code typehint the interface instead of your concrete model:

```php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Contracts\Addressable;
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Traits\HasAddresses;

class Customer extends Model implements Addressable
{
    use HasAddresses;
}
```

## The relation

addresses() is a MorphMany onto the configured address model, so every Eloquent query method and the package’s scopes are available on it:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Enums\AddressType;

$customer->addresses;                                             // Collection of Address
$customer->addresses()->count();
$customer->addresses()->primary()->ofType(AddressType::Billing)->get();
$customer->addresses()->inCountry('SK')->latest()->get();
```

## What the trait adds

- addresses() — the polymorphic relation.
- newAddress() — start the fluent builder bound to this model.
- addAddress(AddressData $data) and createAddress(...) — create from a DTO or from named arguments.
- getAddressOfType(), getPrimaryAddressOfType(), primaryAddress(), addressesOfType(), hasAddresses() — read.
- setPrimaryAddress(Address $address) — promote one of this model’s addresses, ownership-guarded.
- addressBook() — this model’s AddressBook, the same object Addresses::for($model) returns.

The helpers are sugar over the facade: every one goes through the model’s address book, so host overrides and Addresses::fake() see each call.

## Typehint the contract

Addressable declares every trait method except addresses(), createAddress() and addressBook(), so your functions can accept any address owner:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Address;
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Contracts\Addressable;
use RoundlyConsulting\Addresses\Enums\AddressType;

function shippingAddressFor(Addressable $owner): ?Address
{
    return $owner->primaryAddress(AddressType::Shipping)
        ?? $owner->getAddressOfType(AddressType::Shipping);
}
```

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