What are contact fields and how to customize them?


Posted by Nishi on 8 December 2022


Basic Information

This includes all the default contact fields that can be filled in manually through contact forms, during import, or automatically using our CRM Web library.

Here’s the list of default fields:

Field Name Description
First name Contact's first name Eg: James
Last name Contact's last name Eg: Sampleton
Sales owner The user who created the Contact
Accounts The company that the contact works at Eg: Widgetz Upto 10 companies can be associated with a contact
Job title Designation Eg: CEO
Department Contact's department at work Eg: Sales
Email Contact's email address Eg: jamessampleton@gmail.com
Telephone numbers (Work & Mobile) Respective phone numbers
Other phone numbers Additional phone numbers Note: You can add 1 value for this field in the Free and Growth plans, and 10 values in the Pro and Enterprise plans.  
Lifecycle stage Lifecycle stage of the contact Eg: New prospect, Returning customer, etc.  
Status Status type Eg: Trial, demo, etc 
Has authority If the Contact has the authority to take transactional/monetary decisions.
Do not disturb Contacts who've opted out of promotional or any other bulk email campaigns.
Timezone The timezone of the Contact Eg: Pacific Time - US & Canada
Address Door no, Street name Eg: 32, Baker Street
City Eg: Brisbane
State Eg: California
Zipcode Eg: 4030
Country Eg: USA
Facebook Facebook username (auto enriched)
Twitter Twitter username (auto enriched)
LinkedIn LinkedIn username (auto enriched)
Source Source of the Contact- where it came from Eg: Organic search or the web, etc
Campaign The campaign that directed your Contact to your website or app
Medium The medium(channel) that led your Contact to your website or app
Keyword The search keywords that your Contact used

Additional Information

This includes custom fields that capture additional information about the contact such as Date of birth, Alternate address, Years of work experience etc. The custom fields can be filled in manually through the contact forms or during import.

To customize contact fields,

  1. Login to your account as an administrator.
  2. Go to Settings > Contacts module
  3. Click the Edit Field icon beside a field under Basic Information, Additional Information or Application data. 
  4. In the Edit Field Type overlay, 
  • You can edit the Field Label, and add a Tooltip and Placeholder text. The Internal Name and Field type for default fields cannot be edited. However, they can be edited for custom fields. You can also move the field to a group of your choice by selecting from the Group or sub-group dropdown.
  • You may edit and delete the existing choices, or add new ones by clicking the Add choice button. When you delete the existing choices, the value for those records would become blank.
  • Once you are done, click Save.

  Learn more about creating custom fields for contacts.  

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