Managing the Contact Profiles

The contact profiles keep all the records of each contact in our system. These records include:

• Input contact data.
• The data collected from the contact’s activities, such as interactions with your website, mobile application, campaigns, orders, and others.

In the contact profile, you can do the following:

• View and edit the profile details.
• View the contact activity.

Edit the contact’s subscription and assign additional fields. Read this article to learn more about additional fields.

Viewing the Contact’s Profile

To open the list of your contacts in our system, go to Contacts → All contacts.

To open the contact’s profile window:

• Click the Contact preview icon on the right-hand side of the table. 
  Or,
  Click any blank space in the corresponding contact row. The contact profile window opens.

The contact profile window has 2 tabs:

• Contact information
• Contact activity

Contact Information Tab

This tab displays all the information about the contact entered manually or collected by our system.

You can add or update contact information using our API methods. Read API Methods for Adding Contacts to learn more.

The following table lists the information type displayed on the ‘Contact information’ tab and its description.

This tab also contains information on the email address and phone number status. If the contact has been blacklisted, the system automatically records the date and the reason for blacklisting.

To learn more about blacklisted contacts, read Contact Blacklist.

If the contact has reported spam or unsubscribed, the system automatically records the date and reason in the contact profile.

Contact Activity Tab

The 'Contact activity' tab shows the history of the contact’s activity. 

Select one of the filters to view the activities by:

• All activity
• Campaigns
• Events
• Orders

To view the activities that occurred during a specific period, expand the period dropdown menu and select the corresponding period from the list.

For each activity, the following information is provided:

• Details
• Date
• Status

The marking on the left-hand side of activity indicates its type and contains the following elements, which are explained in the following table:

• Color bar
• Icon

Editing the Contact Profile

To edit the contact profile, click the Edit contact button on the top right-hand side of the profile. The editing window opens.

In the editing window, you can do the following editing, as described below.

Select the following fields and add or edit their information:

• First name and last name
• Email
• Phone number
• Contact key

Expand the Address and Location sections and enter or edit information in their fields.

In the 'Regional settings' section, expand the following dropdown menus and select the values from them:

• Time zone.
• Language. Read this article to learn more about setting the contact’s language.

To add a contact to one or several segments:
1. Click the plus icon in the top bar on the right-hand side.

2. Select or clear the checkbox beside the segment name to add or remove the contact from the segment.

3. Click Save.

You can manually edit the contact information in the 'Additional Fields' section.
To edit the contact information in additional fields:
1. Expand the list of fields by selecting the upward-pointing arrow icon.
2. Add or select the values for the contact fields in the list.

Read How to Add Additional Contact Fields to learn more about creating and adding additional fields.