Contacts
Internal (Staff) and External Contacts
CINNOX lets you store and find information about people inside and outside your organisation, such as names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
External Contacts vs Contacts
Regarding managing people outside your organisation, External Contacts and Contacts have the same features and functionalities.
However, when uploading, downloading, editing, or deleting external contacts in bulk, we recommend using External Contact Management in your Dashboard - Contacts Management menu.
Meanwhile, the Contacts in your Workspace (Dashboard and App) are best for adding, searching, editing, removing individual contacts and making calls or sending an SMS text to them.
You can view your contacts by category (e.g., External Contacts, Internal Contacts) and keep their information up-to-date.

Search Contacts
You can search for internal (Staff) or external contacts by typing their name in your Utility panel's search bar.

Search Contact
Internal (Staff) Contact List
The Staff Contacts List displays the following details of your fellow staff members or colleagues:
- Profile image/avatar
- Staff name
- Extension number
Availability Status

Staff Contact List
Clicking on a staff member's name or avatar will display the following detailed information:
- Profile avatar
- Staff name
- Phone Number
- Email Address
- Role
- Department
- Job Title
- Time Zone
- Extension Number
You can directly make a call (video call, audio, phone number) or send a chat or SMS when the staff phone number is available.

Internal (Staff) Contact Details
External Contact List
The External Contact List lets you store, manage, and share information about people outside your organisation, such as leads, prospects, and customers.
You can add new contacts, search, edit, and remove details from your external contacts, provided you are the contact owner.

External Contact List
You can make an outgoing off-net call or send an SMS when the external contact phone number is available.

External Contact Details
Creating New External Contacts
To create an external contact:
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Go to Workspace > Contacts from the navigation menu, then click the plus
icon at the bottom of the page.
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On Create New Contact that will be displayed on the Type dropdown list, select any of the following values:
- Lead (default selection)
- Prospect
- Customer
- Other
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On the Level dropdown list, select any of the following values:
- Primary (default selection)
- Secondary
- Tertiary
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Fill out or select the appropriate values for the following fields:
- First Name
- Last Name
- Country Code
- Mobile number
- Email address

- Select the radio button Save and create new to save the entered details and create a new Contact without leaving the screen.

- To view and fill out additional contact details, click on More Details.

The window will display the following:
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Personal Information
- First Name
- Last Name*
- Type
- Level
- Company
- Job Title
- Department
- Birth Date (in MM/DD/YYYY format)
- Language (select from the dropdown list)
- English
- Japanese
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
- Group
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Contact Number
- Mobile
- Work
- Home
- Other
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Contact Email
- Other Email
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Contact Address
- Street
- City
- State
- ZIP code
- Country
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Social Messaging

- Click on Create. The newly created external contact has been added to your External Contacts List.

Adding Notes to Contact
Adding notes to contact is a simple way to inform your group about something important.
You can add, view/edit notes at any time to your contacts.
To add a note to contact:
- Find the name of a contact and open its Profile.
- Click the Add New Note button located after the personal information of the contact; the Add New Note pop-up window will display
- Add your note
- Click Add to save the note

Adding a note to a contact
More about External Contacts
Manage your External Contacts with the following features:
- Import bulk contacts
- Export bulk contacts
- Merge existing contacts
- Share a contact
- Transfer Contact Ownershio
- Edit a contact
- Delete a contact
Please refer to our External Contacts Management section of this Guide.
Updated 22 days ago