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Managing contacts

A contact is a person you support. Each contact has a name and an email address, and is unique by email within your workspace — so every ticket from jane@acme.com ties back to the same contact record. This gives you one place to see who a customer is and everything they’ve asked you before.

What a contact holds

  • Name — the person’s display name.
  • Email — their email address, which uniquely identifies them in your workspace.
  • Organization — an optional link to the company they belong to.
  • Notes — free-form context your team wants to remember about them.

Ticket history

Open a contact to see the tickets they’ve raised. Reviewing history before you reply gives you context — past issues, previous promises, and whether this is a recurring problem — so your team can respond with continuity instead of starting from scratch each time.

How contacts are created

You can add a contact yourself, but most appear automatically: when someone new emails your helpdesk or starts a live chat, a contact is created from their details. Because contacts are keyed by email, a returning customer is matched to their existing record rather than duplicated.

Editing and deleting

Open a contact’s detail view to update their name, email, organization link, or notes — for example, to correct a misspelled name or attach them to the right organization.

Deleting a contact does not delete their tickets; those remain in your system for the record.