diff --git a/app/controllers/dunlop/user_filters_controller.rb b/app/controllers/dunlop/user_filters_controller.rb
index 2a302c7..7875cba 100644
--- a/app/controllers/dunlop/user_filters_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/dunlop/user_filters_controller.rb
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ class Dunlop::UserFiltersController < Dunlop::ApplicationController
   end
 
   def permitted_params
-    [:scope_key, :is_default, filters: {}]
+    [:name, :description, :scope_key, :is_default, filters: {}] # user is ALWAYS current_user (until it is not :O)
   end
 
   def check_current_user
diff --git a/app/serializers/dunlop/user_filter_serializer.rb b/app/serializers/dunlop/user_filter_serializer.rb
index ea72e84..46c0cf7 100644
--- a/app/serializers/dunlop/user_filter_serializer.rb
+++ b/app/serializers/dunlop/user_filter_serializer.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ module Dunlop
   class UserFilterSerializer < ActiveModel::Serializer
     # manual key transform to preserve filters lowercases
     type 'dunlop/user-filter'
+    attribute :name
+    attribute :description
     attribute :scope_key, key: 'scope-key'
     attribute :filters
     attribute :is_default, key: 'is-default'
diff --git a/db/migrate/20181128144538_add_name_to_dunlop_user_filters.rb b/db/migrate/20181128144538_add_name_to_dunlop_user_filters.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..eb3931d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20181128144538_add_name_to_dunlop_user_filters.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+class AddNameToDunlopUserFilters < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2]
+  def change
+    add_column :dunlop_user_filters, :name, :string
+    add_index :dunlop_user_filters, :scope_key
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/dummy/db/schema.rb b/spec/dummy/db/schema.rb
index 232f2b2..20b2cd0 100644
--- a/spec/dummy/db/schema.rb
+++ b/spec/dummy/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2018_11_14_140017) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2018_11_28_144538) do
 
   create_table "contractor_initializations", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.integer "workflow_instance_id"
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@ ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2018_11_14_140017) do
     t.text "filters"
     t.datetime "created_at", null: false
     t.datetime "updated_at", null: false
+    t.string "name"
+    t.index ["scope_key"], name: "index_dunlop_user_filters_on_scope_key"
     t.index ["user_id"], name: "index_dunlop_user_filters_on_user_id"
   end