# Contacts The contact profile gathers everything Instasent knows about one person — identity, commercial insights, last purchases, activity timeline, attributes, data composition, channel preferences, tags and segments — and lets you edit what's editable, send a quick SMS, create a contact by hand or delete one. **Language:** en **Audience:** platform **TLDR:** A contact's profile gathers everything Instasent knows about that person: identity, commercial stats, last purchases (on e-commerce projects), activity timeline, attributes, originating data sources, per-channel consent preferences, and their tags and segments. Open it by clicking their name in the audience table; from there you can edit attributes, send a quick SMS (if they have a mobile), create a contact by hand or delete one. **Translation key:** platform.audience.contacts-profiles **Search keywords:** contact, contacts, profile, contact profile, contact detail, activity timeline, activity, insights, attributes, edit attribute, data composition, channel preferences, subscription status, subscribe, unsubscribe, tags, segments, send message, quick sms, send sms, add contact, create contact, delete contact, merge, known since, last seen, predictive analytics, last purchases, purchases, products bought, purchased products **Related pages:** /platform/es/audience/contacts-profiles, /platform/en/audience, /platform/en/audience/audience-table, /platform/en/audience/attributes-events, /platform/en/consent **Docs index (every page):** https://docs.instasent.com/llms.txt **This zone's index:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/llms.txt **This page:** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/audience/contacts-profiles/ (HTML) · https://docs.instasent.com/platform/en/audience/contacts-profiles.md (Markdown) **Other language (es):** https://docs.instasent.com/platform/es/audience/contacts-profiles.md A contact's profile brings together everything Instasent knows about one person in your audience, on a single screen. Open it from the [audience table](/platform/en/audience/audience-table) by clicking a contact's name: you see who they are, how they behave commercially and what they've done over time, without hopping between screens. It holds their identity, their commercial insights, what they last bought, their activity timeline, their attributes, the data sources behind them, their subscription status per channel, and the tags and segments they belong to. ![A contact profile showing the insights cards, the last purchases strip, the activity timeline with orders and campaigns, and the right sidebar with attributes, data composition, channel preferences, tags and segments](/platform/en/audience/images/contacts-profiles--1-contact-profile.png) *The contact profile brings identity, insights, activity and attributes together in one view.* ## The header The top of the profile shows the contact's **initials avatar**, their **name** (or *No name* if it's unknown), their location and when they were last active. Two controls sit here: - **Actions** — a menu with **Delete user** (see [Deleting a contact](#deleting-a-contact)). - **Send message** — opens a quick SMS composer (see [Sending a quick SMS](#sending-a-quick-sms)). It's **disabled when the contact has no mobile phone**, since there's nowhere to send to. ## Insights The **Insights** card shows commercial figures for the **period you choose** (the selector at the top of the card). Two figures always appear: **Campaigns sent** and **Clicks**, along with the resulting **CTR**. For an e-commerce project, the card also shows **Orders**, **Amount**, **Average order** and **Abandoned carts**, each with a trend compared to the previous period. These e-commerce figures only appear when the project has order data. ## Last purchases For e-commerce projects, the **Last purchases** strip answers what this person actually buys. It sits between Insights and Activity, and holds up to **12 different products** taken from their most recent purchases. Each card carries the product photo, its name, the amount paid for it and the date of the purchase. When they took more than one unit, a **×N** badge appears over the photo, and the amount is the total for that line — not the unit price — whenever the purchase arrives with that figure. Clicking the card opens the product in a new tab; if the purchase carried no link to the product page, it takes you to the store instead. A repeat customer doesn't fill the strip with the same item: each product appears once, with their most recent purchase of it, so what you see is the variety of what they buy. Drag the strip sideways for the rest, or use the arrows that appear at the edges. The strip is fed by the **product purchases** that reach Instasent, so it only appears when the contact has some. Watch out for one case that catches people out: a contact can show **Orders** in Insights and still not get a strip, because those orders arrived without the detail of which products they contained. ![The Last purchases strip on a contact profile, filled with shoe and apparel cards that each show the product photo, its name, the amount paid and the purchase date, a ×N badge on the ones bought in multiples, and an arrow at each edge to move through the products that don't fit on screen](/platform/en/audience/images/contacts-profiles--2-last-purchases.png) *At a glance, what this customer actually buys — a strip of up to twelve products, with the units badge on the ones they took more than one of.* ## Activity The **Activity** card is the contact's timeline of events — placed orders, coupons used, campaign deliveries and clicks, profile updates and more — newest first. You can shape it: - **Period** — choose **Last 30 days** (the default), **Last 90 days** or **Last 12 months**. If a period has no events, Instasent automatically widens it so you still see activity. - **Date basis** — toggle between the event's own date (**Event date**) and when Instasent received it (**Reception date**). - **Event types** — a multi-select to show only certain kinds of event, with **All events**, **Clear selected events** and a **Recommended events** preset. E-commerce events only appear for e-commerce projects. Order and checkout events expand inline with **More details**, and clicking any event opens a side drawer with its full breakdown — event parameters, attribution (UTM) and general info (event ID, type, dates, data source and contact). **Activity events are read-only.** They're a record of what happened, fed by your data sources and the API, so they can't be edited by hand. What each event type means and where events come from is covered in [Attributes & events](/platform/en/audience/attributes-events#events). ## The sidebar The right sidebar groups the contact's data into collapsible sections. ### Attributes The fields you know about the contact. **Known since** and **Last seen** sit at the top and are read-only. Below them the main attributes are shown first (name, email, phone, country, city, company, …), with **Show N attributes** to reveal the rest. You can **edit a value** with the pencil next to it — the input matches the attribute's type (a currency or language picker, a phone field, a Yes/No toggle, a country picker, a date picker, or plain text). Read-only and system-computed fields show a lock instead and can't be edited. Click a value to copy it to the clipboard; a value that's a URL opens in a new tab. For an e-commerce contact, a **Predictive analytics** block summarises their last order, the **last order amount** (shown as *Last spent*), average days between orders and predicted next order. > **Note**: Editing here changes one contact's *value* for an attribute. The attribute's *definition* — > its name and type, and whether it's editable at all — is set in > [Attributes & events](/platform/en/audience/attributes-events). ### Data composition A read-only breakdown of which **data sources** make up this contact's data, each with the percentage it contributes, and when the contact was last updated. ### Channel preferences The contact's **subscription status per channel** — a row each for SMS/RCS, Email and WhatsApp, with two columns: - **Subscribed** — whether the channel is active for this contact at all (a full suppression checkbox). - **Accepts marketing** — whether they accept marketing on that channel. This is a three-state checkbox: checked (*Yes*), unchecked (*No*), or indeterminate, shown as **No preference** when it has never been set. These checkboxes edit one contact by hand — useful to honour an unsubscribe requested by phone, or to reactivate a contact who asks to come back. > **Note**: What each state means — marketing preference versus full suppression — and how an opt-out > propagates across channels is owned by [Consent](/platform/en/consent). Editing here is a > manual override for a single contact. ### Tags and Segments **Tags** are free labels you apply to the contact: add one in the **New tag** field (spaces become hyphens), remove one with its ✕. **Segments** lists the segments this contact currently matches; clicking one navigates to that segment. Both collapse after the first few entries. ## Sending a quick SMS **Send message** opens a quick SMS composer with the conversation history for this contact and a sender picker. It's a fast way to message one person without creating a campaign. It's SMS only, and it's disabled when the contact has no mobile phone. ## Creating a contact by hand From the [audience table](/platform/en/audience/audience-table), **Add contacts › Add contact** opens a form to create one contact manually. The fields are first and last name (optional, **2 to 50 characters** each), email, country (defaulting to Spain), cellphone and gender, plus **Subscribed to SMS** and **Subscribed to Email** checkboxes (on by default). > **Note**: A contact needs **a valid email or a valid phone** (at least one of the two) to be created. ## Deleting a contact You can delete a contact from the **Actions › Delete user** menu on the profile, with a confirmation. Deleting removes the person and their data from the project. It **isn't** a way to stop messaging someone — for that, unsubscribe or suppress them instead (see [Consent](/platform/en/consent)). > **Note**: To remove several contacts at once, use the bulk delete in the > [audience table](/platform/en/audience/audience-table), which removes up to **5 contacts** per > batch. There is no "merge two contacts" button on the profile — unification happens automatically through [unique attributes](/platform/en/audience/attributes-events#unique-attributes-and-automatic-merging). To browse and act on contacts in bulk, head to the [audience table](/platform/en/audience/audience-table). --- This is one page of the Instasent documentation. For the complete machine-readable index of every guide and API reference, fetch https://docs.instasent.com/llms.txt — start there for full context.