A page of the organization's people (the customers), newest first

GET /people

q narrows by name, email or phone (case-insensitive substring), email is an exact match after normalisation (the lookup a checkout or an import does), status a comma-separated set (active by default; erased lists the tombstones), role any of customer/supplier, tag one tag, companyId the contacts of one company; sort/order pick the column and direction. total counts every match regardless of the page; limit defaults to 100 and is capped at 1000 (an over-cap request is clamped); page with offset. An erased person answers with profile: null and the placeholder name — nothing identifying survives erasure.

Access

Requires customers:read.

How scopes come from roles: Scopes and roles. Getting a token: Authentication and app tokens.

AI agent tool

Agents call this as crm_list_people (CRM: List people), in the crm toolset. It only reads.

Connecting an agent: AI agents.

Example

curl

curl -X GET 'https://crm.getmanifold.io/people?q=raman&role=customer&sort=name&order=asc&limit=50' \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MANIFOLD_TOKEN"

JavaScript (fetch)

const response = await fetch("https://crm.getmanifold.io/people?q=raman&role=customer&sort=name&order=asc&limit=50", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.MANIFOLD_TOKEN}` },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);
const answer = await response.json();

Response · 200 · application/json

{
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "psn_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-3b5c6d7e8f90",
      "emailKey": "593c82fc1f2944d758cdd3ba99d3846467ec3417f394e5f47c7410b939a0a83c",
      "status": "active",
      "tags": [
        "trade"
      ],
      "roles": [
        "customer"
      ],
      "taxExempt": false,
      "emailMarketing": "subscribed",
      "smsMarketing": "not-subscribed",
      "profile": {
        "email": "priya.raman@harbourceramics.example",
        "firstName": "Priya",
        "lastName": "Raman",
        "phone": "+61 400 555 014",
        "locale": "en-AU",
        "addresses": [
          {
            "id": "adr_01a1588a-0c41-7d2e-9a10-4c6d7e8f9a01",
            "firstName": "Priya",
            "lastName": "Raman",
            "company": "Harbour Ceramics",
            "address1": "14 Kiln Street",
            "city": "Fremantle",
            "province": "Western Australia",
            "provinceCode": "WA",
            "country": "Australia",
            "countryCode": "AU",
            "zip": "6160",
            "retired": false
          }
        ]
      },
      "createdAt": "2026-10-20T09:00:00.000Z",
      "updatedAt": "2026-10-20T09:00:00.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "limit": 50,
  "offset": 0
}

The panel writes this call in other languages. It does not send it: Manifold's APIs do not take calls from a web page on another site, so run the call from your own code or terminal. The whole API as OpenAPI: crm-manager.openapi.json. Base URL https://crm.getmanifold.io.

Errors

Every refusal is a status and a JSON body whose _tag names it. A refused call changes nothing.

`401`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`Unauthorized` reason	The token is missing, expired or not one Manifold issued.	Get a fresh token and send the call again.
`TokenAlreadyUsed` tokenId	A single-use app token was already spent.	Mint a new token for this call.

`402`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`SubscriptionRequired` status	The organization's subscription has lapsed, so writes are refused.	An owner settles billing. Reads still work meanwhile.

`403`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`TenantRequired` userId	The token names no organization.	Choose the organization, then get a new token.
`ScopeRequired` required	The token's roles do not grant the scope this call needs.	Ask an owner or admin for a role that grants it.

`409`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`MirroredFromSource` source	This area is fed by your source system until the organization goes live.	Make the change in the source system, or go live first.

`503`

Refusal	What it means	What to do
`RequestLogUnavailable` tokenId, reason	The service could not record the request, so it did nothing.	Try again shortly.

How refusals work everywhere: Errors.