On this form, you can create a new contact record, or view and modify the settings of an existing contact record. In Acumatica ERP, a contact represents a person. A contact record can have multiple settings, such as a name, address, and contact information, such as an email address and phone number.
This form is available only if the Customer Management feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
The form toolbar and More menu include the buttons and commands described below.
By using this dialog box, you can enter the initial data that the system will use to create the business account that will be associated with the currently selected contact. You open the dialog box by clicking Create Account on the More menu of the form.
On this tab of the dialog box, you specify the settings of the business account you are creating and associating with the contact.
On this tab of the dialog box, you specify any required attributes of the business account. An attribute is required if the Required check box is selected on the Business Account Classes (CR208000) form for the business account class selected on the Main tab of this dialog box.
On this tab of the dialog box, you can specify the values of the user-defined fields of the business account that are defined as being required on the Business Accounts (CR303000) form.
In this dialog box, you can add a new address, update an existing address, and fill in the missing address information in a record that has address settings. You can also search for the name of the company and select the company’s address. You can click the link to view the address in a new browser tab. If the address is correct, you can click Select to fill in the boxes in the Address section of the applicable form with the company location details. The addresses you can select from the list are limited to the countries specified for the address provider.
This dialog box is available only if the Address Lookup Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form and integration with a web map service has been set up as described in Integrating Acumatica ERP with Web Map Services.
This area contains the summary settings of the contact, such as its status and owner. In the Contact box, you can select an existing contact to view and edit its settings.
This tab contains the name of the contact, the contact information, and the address settings of the contact. The elements of this tab are summarized below.
refers to the values in all the UI elements on the General tab.
This section is displayed only if the GDPR Compliance Tools feature (Monitoring & Automation group of features) is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
This section is displayed only if the Teams Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
This tab lists activities associated with the contact; you can associate emails, tasks, events, phone calls, and other activities with the contact.
You can also use the Activity Stream tab of the side panel to view the contact’s activities in a more organized and streamlined way. For details, see the Side Panel: Activity Stream Tab section.
The table toolbar includes the buttons described below.
The table includes, in addition to the columns described below, columns (labeled with icons) you can use to attach notes and files to the activity, see if it is completed, check its priority level, and note whether there are associated reminders.
For descriptions of these columns, see Managing Emails and Activities.
The tab also has the Activity Description area below the table. The area displays the full description provided for the activity selected in the table. To edit the description, click the link in the Summary column of the activity. On the Activity (CR306010) form that opens, you add a description and edit other settings corresponding to the activity.
You can use the tab to manage duplicates of the currently selected contact. This tab has the following tables:
This tab is displayed only if the Duplicate Validation feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form and if the system found at least one possible duplicate. The system searches for duplicates by using the settings specified on the Duplicate Validation (CR103000) form.
This table lists duplicate leads of the currently selected contact. By using the Records for Merging table, you can merge the selected contact on the current form with a duplicate contact in the table.
In this table, you can select only one record at a time to be merged with the record that you are currently viewing on the form.
This table lists leads and business accounts that are possible duplicates of the contact and can be associated with it. By using this table, you can select a lead or a business account and click Associate on the table toolbar to start associating the contact with the selected lead or business account.
You can select only one record at a time to be associated with the record that you are currently viewing on the form.
By using this dialog box, you can associate the selected contact with the lead and select the contact-related settings to be updated for the contact and the lead when they are associated.
The dialog box opens when you associate a contact with a duplicate lead on the Duplicates tab of the current form by selecting the duplicate lead and clicking Associate on the table toolbar of the Records for Association table.
The table in the dialog box lists any field values (that is, values of the UI elements) that differ in the lead and the contact. The values are specified on the General tab of Leads (CR301000) form and the current form.
If there are no conflicting values in the contact and the lead, this table is not displayed. In this case, the dialog box shows only the Sync with Lead check box and the Associate and Cancel buttons. If the check box is selected and you click Associate, the contact and the lead will have the same contact settings. If you clear the Sync with Lead check box and click Associate, the contact settings on the current form remain unchanged, the Override check box becomes selected on the General tab of the current form, and the lead’s settings on the Leads (CR301000) form are not updated with values from the associated contact.
You use this dialog box to merge into one record the record that is currently selected on the form (the current record) and the record that you have selected in the Records for Merging table (the duplicate record). The dialog box opens when you select a record in the Records for Merging table and click Merge on the table toolbar.
The dialog box consists of a box in which you can select the target record to be kept after the merge and a table. In the table of the dialog box, for any conflicting field values (that is, different values for the same user interface elements) in the records to be merged, you can select the values to be kept after the merge.
If there are no conflicting values in the current record and the duplicate record, the table is not displayed in the dialog box. In this case, the dialog box shows only the Target Record box and the Resolve and Cancel buttons.
On this tab, you can view, specify, or change the settings specified for the attributes that have been defined for the contact class on the Attributes tab of the Contact Classes (CR205000) form; for each required attribute, enter the setting of the contact.
Attributes are company-defined properties of the contact class that can be used as additional elements to hold information about the contact, such as the industry or the number of employees. This tab contains a table with the attributes listed; the columns of this table are described below. For more information, see Managing Attributes and User-Defined Fields.
The table toolbar has only standard buttons.
You can use this tab to indicate the one-way and two-way relations between the selected contact and the records that are associated with it; the type of each relation is determined by the relational role selected in the Role column for the listed record.
One-way relations are shown only on the Relations tab of the form where the relation was initially added to the selected record. Bidirectional relations are shown on this tab of the forms of both the record where the relation was initially added and the associated record. For details, see Managing Relations.
If the Row-Level Security feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form, you may not have access to a particular record on this tab. For records that have business accounts specified in their settings, this may occur if access to the business account that is related to the record is restricted for your current user account. This may also occur if your user account does not have access to the particular record due to other security rules that have been established in the system.The table toolbar has only standard buttons.
On this tab, you can view the information about the leads that are associated with the contact and create a new lead. The elements of this tab are described below.
The table on this tab holds the list of opportunities associated with this contact. You can also create a new opportunity associated with the contact by clicking the Plus button on the table toolbar. The elements of this tab are described below.
This tab has a table that displays the list of cases associated with the contact. You can also create a new case by using the table toolbar.
This tab is available only if the Case Management feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
This tab contains the history of campaigns the contact has been a member of. Each time the contact has been added to a marketing campaign, the system has added a row to the table with the basic settings of this marketing campaign.
This tab has a table that lists all the active static and dynamic marketing lists for which the selected contact fits the filter settings or in which the selected contact is included, based on the generic inquiry and filter used to produce to the list. The set of the marketing lists in the table is unavailable for editing.
You can subscribe the contact selected on the form to the needed static or dynamic marketing lists by selecting the Subscribed check box for the lists and saving these changes.
The elements of this tab are summarized below. For details about marketing lists, see Managing Marketing Lists.
This tab has a table that contains mailings the contact is subscribed to. On this tab, you can remove a mailing from the list or make it inactive if necessary.
To subscribe a contact to mailings defined for the customer, use the Recipients table on the Mailing & Printing tab of the Customers (AR303000) form.
You can use this tab to view and edit information about the user account (if any) associated with the contact. You can create a new user account if none exists, select the user type, manage the user’s password, and assign roles to the existing user. To activate, enable, disable, or unlock the user account, click the available command.
Alternatively, you can perform these commands by using the Users (SM201010) form.
If the selected contact is associated with an internal user account, this tab is not displayed on the form.
This tab has the User Roles section with a table that contains the list of roles assigned to the user and their descriptions.
This tab is available only if the Salesforce Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
On this tab, you can review the synchronization status of the record. If the record has not been synchronized with Salesforce, you can initiate the synchronization process by clicking the Sync with Salesforce button. For more details, see Overview of Synchronization with Salesforce.
On this tab, you can monitor real-time synchronization with HubSpot. If a particular record in the table has not been synchronized with HubSpot, you can initiate the synchronization process by clicking Sync with HubSpot on the table toolbar.
This tab is available only if the HubSpot Integration feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
In the table of this tab, you can specify the contacts associated with the customer location and assign roles to them.
This tab is available only if the Shopify Business-to-Business Entities feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
You can click Projects in the side panel to see which projects the selected contact is involved in.
The side panel is shown only if the Projects feature is enabled on the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) form.
You open the Activity Stream side-panel tab by clicking the Activities icon in the side panel. The tab shows all activities related to the selected record as a collection of activity tiles.
Each activity tile consists of the activity’s details (some shown as icons), its summary and description, and buttons and commands. By default, the activity tiles are collapsed, but you can expand any tile to see more information.
On this tab, you can create new activities by using the toolbar commands.
The Activity Stream toolbar includes the panel-specific buttons described below. You can also:
The set of activity data shown in the activity tile depends on the activity type.