diff --git a/app/controllers/public/api/v1/inboxes/contacts_controller.rb b/app/controllers/public/api/v1/inboxes/contacts_controller.rb
index 6932386fd..eb794f2a0 100644
--- a/app/controllers/public/api/v1/inboxes/contacts_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/public/api/v1/inboxes/contacts_controller.rb
@@ -43,6 +43,6 @@ class Public::Api::V1::Inboxes::ContactsController < Public::Api::V1::InboxesCon
   end
 
   def permitted_params
-    params.permit(:identifier, :identifier_hash, :email, :name, :avatar_url, custom_attributes: {})
+    params.permit(:identifier, :identifier_hash, :email, :name, :avatar_url, :phone_number, custom_attributes: {})
   end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/public/api/v1/models/_contact.json.jbuilder b/app/views/public/api/v1/models/_contact.json.jbuilder
index c35705c6c..fc9dbb2f2 100644
--- a/app/views/public/api/v1/models/_contact.json.jbuilder
+++ b/app/views/public/api/v1/models/_contact.json.jbuilder
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 json.id resource.id
 json.name resource.name
 json.email resource.email
+json.phone_number resource.phone_number
diff --git a/spec/controllers/public/api/v1/inbox/contacts_controller_spec.rb b/spec/controllers/public/api/v1/inbox/contacts_controller_spec.rb
index 151a2eec5..5e412a65d 100644
--- a/spec/controllers/public/api/v1/inbox/contacts_controller_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/controllers/public/api/v1/inbox/contacts_controller_spec.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ RSpec.describe 'Public Inbox Contacts API', type: :request do
       post "/public/api/v1/inboxes/#{api_channel.identifier}/contacts"
 
       expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
-      data = JSON.parse(response.body)
+      data = response.parsed_body
+      expect(data.keys).to include('email', 'id', 'name', 'phone_number', 'pubsub_token', 'source_id')
       expect(data['source_id']).not_to eq nil
       expect(data['pubsub_token']).not_to eq nil
     end
@@ -21,7 +22,8 @@ RSpec.describe 'Public Inbox Contacts API', type: :request do
       get "/public/api/v1/inboxes/#{api_channel.identifier}/contacts/#{contact_inbox.source_id}"
 
       expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
-      data = JSON.parse(response.body)
+      data = response.parsed_body
+      expect(data.keys).to include('email', 'id', 'name', 'phone_number', 'pubsub_token', 'source_id')
       expect(data['source_id']).to eq contact_inbox.source_id
       expect(data['pubsub_token']).to eq contact_inbox.pubsub_token
     end
@@ -33,7 +35,7 @@ RSpec.describe 'Public Inbox Contacts API', type: :request do
             params: { name: 'John Smith' }
 
       expect(response).to have_http_status(:success)
-      data = JSON.parse(response.body)
+      data = response.parsed_body
       expect(data['name']).to eq 'John Smith'
     end
   end
diff --git a/swagger/definitions/request/public/contact/create_update_payload.yml b/swagger/definitions/request/public/contact/create_update_payload.yml
index 9f1f820de..48c6e4550 100644
--- a/swagger/definitions/request/public/contact/create_update_payload.yml
+++ b/swagger/definitions/request/public/contact/create_update_payload.yml
@@ -10,9 +10,12 @@ properties:
   email:
     type: string
     description: Email of the contact
-  name: 
+  name:
     type: string
     description: Name of the contact
+  phone_number:
+    type: string
+    description: Phone number of the contact
   avatar_url:
     type: string
     description: The url to a jpeg, png file for the user avatar
diff --git a/swagger/swagger.json b/swagger/swagger.json
index 81f19149c..ec1bf8a25 100644
--- a/swagger/swagger.json
+++ b/swagger/swagger.json
@@ -5268,6 +5268,10 @@
           "type": "string",
           "description": "Name of the contact"
         },
+        "phone_number": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "Phone number of the contact"
+        },
         "avatar_url": {
           "type": "string",
           "description": "The url to a jpeg, png file for the user avatar"