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Contacts / mini-CRM
Your contact list builds itself from real calls. What you add on top — notes and tags — is what turns it from a phone log into something you'd actually run a business from.
Contacts create themselves
The first time a number rings you, a contact is created from it. Anything the caller states — their name, email, address, your own custom fields — is filled in from what they actually said, never guessed.
On a repeat call, your agent already knows what's on file and checks rather than re-asking. Existing details are only overwritten when the caller confirms or corrects them out loud, and every change is logged.
You can also add someone yourself with + Add Contact — useful for a customer who walked in, emailed, or who you want ready before they call.
The contact page
Click any contact in Contacts to open their page. Everything on it is real data:
- Header — name, phone, email, address, first and last contact dates, and total interactions.
- Contact information — editable directly. Fix a mis-heard name or add a detail your agent never got.
- Activity timeline — what happened and when, including field changes with their old and new values.
- Appointments — their real bookings, with a "Book New Appointment" button already filled in with their details.
- Notes — see below.
- Call history — every call with its outcome, and recording playback where one exists.
- Tags and custom fields — see below.
What the Verified badge means
A phone number can show as verified, because it came from real caller ID on an actual call. An email address never can — nothing has ever confirmed a caller owns the address they read out. Treat emails on a contact as reported, not proven.
Notes
One editable field per contact, attributed to you with a timestamp. Not a running log of entries — one field you keep current.
That's deliberate. A thread of timestamped notes sounds richer but ends up as a wall nobody reads; one field forces it to stay the thing you'd want to know before picking up the phone to them.
Tags
Free-typed labels — "VIP", "fleet account", "prefers mornings". Add them from the contact page or straight from the list.
As you type, tags you've already used elsewhere are suggested. Take the suggestion where it fits: tags are only useful if the same idea ends up with the same label, and "VIP", "vip" and "V.I.P." are three different tags as far as filtering is concerned.
Finding people
The search box on Contacts searches across name, phone and email. Whatever you've filtered or searched down to is also exactly what the CSV export gives you — so search first, then export.
Contacts vs. calls
Calls is the log of what happened, one row per call. Contacts is the record of who, with every call they've ever made rolled up onto one page. Same underlying data, two useful ways in — go through Calls for "what happened this week", and Contacts for "who is this person ringing me back".
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Still stuck?
Open Help & Support in your dashboard to send us a message — we'll reply to the email on your account, usually within a day. You can also email support@talkybara.com.
