Articles tagged contacts

Cleaning Up Duplicate Accounts
Updated 18 minutes ago

Duplicate accounts fragment a customer's history across two records. There's no one-click merge — here's the safe manual procedure that won't lose data.

Onboarding a Commercial Customer
Updated 18 minutes ago

Onboarding a business is fundamentally different from onboarding a household — multiple contacts, Net terms, possibly an agreement, possibly QuickBooks mapping. The full multi-contact intake flow.

Searching and Filtering Accounts and Contacts
Updated 17 minutes ago

How to find the right account or contact fast — when to use the global search bar, when to use the list filters, and how tags fit in.

Tagging Accounts and Contacts Well
Updated 16 minutes ago

Tags are the most flexible way to slice your customer base — but they're also the easiest thing to wreck. Here's a tag taxonomy that stays useful past month two.

The anatomy of an Account vs. a Contact
Updated 17 minutes ago

Suprata splits 'who you do business with' into two entities — Accounts and Contacts. Mixing them up causes real headaches at billing time. Here's the difference and when to use which.

What's the difference between an account and a customer?
Updated 17 minutes ago

Quick answer: 'Account' is a billable entity (a household or organization); a 'Contact' is an individual person. The longer explanation is in the dedicated article.

Working with Property Managers (One Contact, Many Accounts)
Updated 19 minutes ago

When the same person manages dozens of properties, each with its own bill, the right setup is one Contact attached to many Accounts. Here's the pattern and the gotchas.