---
title: "Guest contacts — Appointments for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Store booking emails and phone numbers on an appointment and turn them into calendar ORGANIZER and ATTENDEE mailto lines."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/appointments-for-laravel/guest-contacts
language: en
---

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# Guest contacts

Guest bookings often have no user account behind them. Store the booking’s email and phone directly on the appointment — contacts-for-laravel is wired into the bundled model:

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Appointments\Facades\Appointments;

$appointment = Appointments::schedule('Guest booking')
    ->startingAt('2026-07-01 09:00')
    ->withContactEmail('guest@example.com')
    ->withContactPhone('+441234567890')
    ->create();

$appointment->primaryEmail()?->value;          // "guest@example.com"
$appointment->primaryPhone()?->value;          // "+441234567890"
```

withContactEmail() and withContactPhone() take the value, an optional label and a primary flag that defaults to true.

## Contacts on an existing appointment

```php
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Enums\ContactType;

$appointment->addEmail('other@example.com');                  // not primary by default
$appointment->addPhone('+441234567891', 'Reception', primary: true);
$appointment->contactsOfType(ContactType::Email);             // every email contact
$appointment->contacts;                                       // all contacts (MorphMany)
```

## Calendar addresses

The appointment’s primary email becomes the calendar ORGANIZER, named after the contact’s name or, failing that, its label:

```php
Appointments::schedule('Clinic visit')
    ->startingAt('2026-07-01 09:00')
    ->withContactEmail('desk@example.com', 'Front desk')   // ORGANIZER;CN=Front desk:mailto:desk@example.com
    ->withParticipant($patient)
    ->create();
```

Participants are exported as ATTENDEE lines when their own model has a primary email — add HasContacts to your participant models:

```php
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
use RoundlyConsulting\Appointments\Concerns\HasAppointments;
use RoundlyConsulting\Contacts\Concerns\HasContacts;

class Patient extends Model
{
    use HasAppointments;
    use HasContacts;
}

$patient->addEmail('alex@example.com', primary: true);
// exported as ATTENDEE;CN=<the patient's name attribute>:mailto:alex@example.com
```

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