diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b9b917f..a0569c8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "0.1.11",
+  "version": "0.1.12",
   "name": "superdata",
   "description": "A ligth weight data layer module motivated by extjs' data layer. It can be used with any client-side framework.",
   "main": "src/superData.js",
diff --git a/src/model/modelObject.js b/src/model/modelObject.js
index 4190ff9..c1ab707 100644
--- a/src/model/modelObject.js
+++ b/src/model/modelObject.js
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ module.exports = function createModelObject(options) {
 		throw new Error("options.model.idField is mandatory!");
 	}
 
-	if(!options.data[options.model.idField]) {
+	if (typeof options.data[options.model.idField] === "undefined") {
 		throw new Error("options.data has to have a property with same name as value of options.model.idField!");
 	}