Create application
Creates a new Application for an existing Contact in the caller organization. The contact must belong to the same organization. The caller must supply either a status or a pipelineStage; the request resolves the appropriate Pipeline and stage on the way in.
Authorizations
Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.
Body
Either status or pipelineStage should be provided.
Contact _id this Application belongs to.
Display name for the Application (e.g. property/unit label).
Initial status label; mutually exchangeable with pipelineStage (one of the two must be provided).
Stage _id within the chosen pipeline.
Pipeline _id this Application is tracked under.
Owning user _id; defaults to the authenticated caller when omitted.
Response
Application created
Returned by POST /api/applications and PUT /api/applications/{id} — wraps the created/updated ApplicationDocument plus a status message.
true An Application document. Populated fields (contactId, userId) may be either an ObjectId string or a partial subset of the related document.
{
"_id": "64d2f9c5e8a1d4e001a0b1c2",
"name": "Maple Court — Unit 412",
"organizationId": "64a1b2c3d4e5f60012345678",
"contactId": {
"_id": "64b2c3d4e5f60012345678aa",
"firstName": "Alex",
"lastName": "Nguyen",
"phoneNumber": "+14155551234",
"email": "alex.nguyen@example.com"
},
"userId": {
"_id": "64a1b2c3d4e5f60012345679",
"fullName": "Jordan Lee",
"email": "jordan@maplegroup.example"
},
"status": "in_progress",
"pipelineId": "64a1b2c3d4e5f6001234567a",
"pipelineStage": "Tour scheduled",
"createdAt": "2026-04-12T14:22:10.000Z",
"updatedAt": "2026-04-22T10:14:00.000Z"
}