Where do the contact pictures come from?

The contact picture (a.k.a. avatar) may be pulled from a number of different sources. The first choice is Gravatar, a service which lets anyone to upload their avatars. Gravatars are identified by person’s email address, so if the contact email is a match, we will use that picture. If no Gravatar image is available, we…

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What is the difference between Groups and Tags?

Contact Groups don’t change much over time and remain more or less constant for your business. They can have hierarchy and be organized into categories. While in theory you can create as many groups as you’d like, they are limited in number from the practical standpoint. Having too many will make the list too long…

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What are the different ways to create new contacts?

There are six distinct ways you can create new contacts in Annelite. To create a contact manually, click on + sign or Create new contact from email. You can add Message Filters that will create new contacts from email based on the criteria you define (for example, if subject contains the words “contact form”). A…

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What are Tags?

In Annelite, a Tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or label assigned to an object such as a Message, Contact or Activity. A tag is metadata that helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Even though Tags are typically chosen informally and personally by an individual user, they…

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How does contact merge work?

Go to the first contact, click Edit and then Merge button. Search for the second contact to merge with. Name, job title, company, and custom fields of the second contact will be overwritten by information from the first contact. All other contact fields will be added up.

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How do I post my web forms to Annelite?

You can post forms from your website directly to Annelite using our Web Form API. This requires a few simple modifications to your existing form: Change the form action to post to http://your-account-name.annelite.com/api/httpform Change the field names to match contact fields in Annelite. If your forms contain additional fields that don’t correspond to the fields…

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What are Categories and Groups?

One of the ways to organize your contact database in Annelite is to use Contact Groups. They are are hierarchically organized into Categories and can be managed in Settings > Contact Groups. In the left vertical Groups tab, you can collapse categories for compact view, and drag-and-drop to reorder the display sequence. This is done…

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