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# Contact Types
Contact types give you an additional level of categorisation to easily group, filter, or identify the customers in a better way for communication and deal tracking.
* When adding a Contact to Salesmate, you will get a dropdown to select a contact type.
* Users with manage field rights can create a new contact type and edit existing contact types. All other users can easily use and assign contact types to records.
* You can also quickly change the contact type from the contact's detail page too. The field appears above the contact name.
* \*\*View contact types in List view \*\*To view the contact types in the list view, you can click on the view settings button and choose contact type currently selected fields and hit Save.
* *Further Reads:*\*
* [How to add new contact types inside Salesmate?](https://support.salesmate.io/hc/en-us/articles/360039390951)
* [How to edit or delete the existing contact type inside Salesmate?](https://support.salesmate.io/hc/en-us/articles/360039390971)
**Note:** If you can't see the contact type field inside Salesmate, then please visit Setup >> Modules >> Contact and check if the field appears inside the unused field section.