---
title: "Guest & anonymous reports — Reports for Laravel | Roundly"
description: "Accept reports from visitors who aren’t signed in, deduplicated by a hashed IP or email identifier."
url: https://roundly-consulting.com/open-source/docs/reports-for-laravel/guest-reports
language: en
---

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# Guest & anonymous reports

The reporter column is nullable, so visitors who aren’t signed in can report too. Pass a guest identifier — a hash of the IP address or email — to keep duplicate prevention working:

```php
Reports::report($post)
    ->asGuest(hash('sha256', $request->ip()))
    ->for('spam')
    ->because('Obvious spam.')
    ->create();
```

The identifier is stored in guest\_identifier and the reporter stays null. With prevent\_duplicates on, the same identifier cannot report the same subject twice. The package stores exactly what you pass, so hash it first rather than storing a raw IP or email.

## Fully anonymous reports

```php
// No reporter and no guest identifier: stored, but never deduplicated.
Reports::report($post)->for(Reason::Spam)->create();
```

Guest and anonymous reports count towards reportsCount(), the aggregation scopes and the threshold like any other. isReportedBy() matches reporter models only.

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