---
title: "Structured addresses — Contacts for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Give a contact validated billing, home or work addresses via addresses-for-laravel, with a one-line render that falls back to the value."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/contacts-for-laravel/addresses
language: en
---

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# Structured addresses

A Contact is Addressable, so it holds a billing, physical or mailing address book through addresses-for-laravel. The loose value string keeps working as a fallback:

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

$contact->addAddress(AddressData::make(
    city: 'Bratislava', street: 'Hlavna 1', postalCode: '81101',
    countryIso: 'SK', type: AddressType::Billing, isPrimary: true,
));

$contact->primaryAddress();                       // the primary Address
$contact->addressesOfType(AddressType::Billing);  // typed lookup
$contact->formattedAddress();                     // one-line render, falls back to value
```

- addresses(), addAddress(AddressData), primaryAddress(?AddressType), addressesOfType(AddressType), setPrimaryAddress(Address) — from the addresses package’s HasAddresses trait.
- formattedAddress() — the primary address’s one-line render, or the contact’s value when none is attached.
- AddressType cases: Default, Billing, Shipping, Home, Work, Office.

## Creating contact and address together

```php
// Build an address-type contact and its structured Address in one call:
Contacts::for($owner)
    ->structuredAddress([
        'city' => 'Vienna', 'street' => 'Ring 3',
        'postalCode' => '1010', 'countryIso' => 'AT',
        'type' => AddressType::Billing,
    ])
    ->add();

// Or from the owner directly:
$owner->addStructuredAddress(AddressData::make(
    city: 'Bratislava', street: 'Hlavna 1', postalCode: '81101', countryIso: 'SK',
), label: 'Main');
```

structuredAddress() accepts an AddressData or an array (city, street, postalCode or postal\_code, countryIso or country\_iso, name, type, isPrimary, meta). A missing or unrecognized type is left to the host’s addresses.default\_type, exactly as an address created through the addresses package. On add() the contact’s value mirrors the address’s one-line render, so existing readers keep working.

The structured address is attached as the contact’s primary Address whatever its isPrimary flag says, so primaryAddress() finds it and formattedAddress() renders it — later edits to the Address included.

## Updating the address

Contacts::update() takes a structured address in ContactData::$address just as add() does: it overwrites the contact’s own Address in place, in the same transaction as the row, and the value mirrors the new render — so formattedAddress() renders the new address. A contact without one gets it attached; other addresses on the contact are left alone. A value-only update keeps the structured address and only rewords the text, so pass the address too, or edit the Address, to change what formattedAddress() renders.

A structured address is only accepted on an address contact — anything else throws InvalidContactValue. Country codes are validated by the addresses package — an unknown country throws its InvalidCountryException. Soft-deleting a contact trashes its addresses with it, restore() brings them back and forceDelete() removes them for good.

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