diff --git a/src/Macros/ResponseTransformer/GetRequestedIncludes.php b/src/Macros/ResponseTransformer/GetRequestedIncludes.php
index 609e814d6..3b91005b6 100644
--- a/src/Macros/ResponseTransformer/GetRequestedIncludes.php
+++ b/src/Macros/ResponseTransformer/GetRequestedIncludes.php
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ class GetRequestedIncludes
     public function __invoke(): callable
     {
         return function (): array {
-            return app(Manager::class)->parseIncludes(Request::get(Config::get('apiato.requests.params.include'), []))->getRequestedIncludes();
+            return app(Manager::class)->parseIncludes(Request::get(Config::get('apiato.requests.params.include', 'include'), []))->getRequestedIncludes();
         };
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/Traits/CanEagerLoadTrait.php b/src/Traits/CanEagerLoadTrait.php
index 87009f02d..80c0f7fc7 100644
--- a/src/Traits/CanEagerLoadTrait.php
+++ b/src/Traits/CanEagerLoadTrait.php
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ trait CanEagerLoadTrait {
     protected function eagerLoadRequestedRelations(): void
     {
         $this->scopeQuery(function (Builder|Model $model) {
-            if (Request::has(config('apiato.requests.params.include'))) {
+            if (Request::has(config('apiato.requests.params.include', 'include'))) {
                 $validIncludes = [];
                 foreach (ResponseTransformer::getRequestedIncludes() as $includeName) {
                     $relationParts = explode('.', $includeName);
diff --git a/tests/Unit/Abstracts/Repositories/RepositoryTest.php b/tests/Unit/Abstracts/Repositories/RepositoryTest.php
index 6d6761861..e8dda2e78 100644
--- a/tests/Unit/Abstracts/Repositories/RepositoryTest.php
+++ b/tests/Unit/Abstracts/Repositories/RepositoryTest.php
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ public static function includeDataProvider(): array
     #[DataProvider('includeDataProvider')]
     public function testEagerLoadSingleRelationRequestedViaRequest(string $includes, array $mustLoadRelations, array $mustNotLoadRelations): void
     {
-        request()->offsetSet(config('apiato.requests.params.include'), $includes);
+        request()->offsetSet(config('apiato.requests.params.include', 'include'), $includes);
         $parent = UserFactory::new()->has(
             UserFactory::new()->count(3),
             'children'