Modify, Archive or Delete a contact from Community

Before starting

This article will cover the following points:

• Modifying a contact's information
• Updating the information of several contacts at the same time
• Archiving or deleting a contact
• Recovering an archived person

Modifying a contact's information

To modify the information on a contact's profile, you first need to find the person in your CRM, under Community > Contacts. The Search and Filter by tools on this page can help you with this.

Once you've found the contact, click the details icon to access their page.

Once on the person's page, go to the profile tab and click update profile. 

Here you can correct any typing errors or update any part of the contact's information. This way, you'll always have the correct data to keep your nonprofit running smoothly!

Updating the information of several contacts at once

If you need to update the information of several people at once, this can be easily done by importing an Excel file with their updated profiles. 

You can check this article for full info, plus tips and tricks to import your contact's file.

TIP: Don't forget to include the column with the contacts' unique identifier (email, contact ID, or unique identifier) in your import file, so you avoid duplicates and allow the software to recognize that you want to update a profile and not create a new one.

Archiving or deleting a contact

Did you create a profile by mistake, or do you simply want to take someone out of your CRM? You can easily archive or delete them.

Archiving a contact

Go to Community > Contacts. Select the people you want to archive by ticking the box beside their last name. Next click the +Options button and choose archive selected contacts and confirm.

Your archived contacts will now be under Community > Settings > Additional Contact Actions.

No information on an archived person is lost. On this page, you can choose to recover these contacts or to delete them permanently from your software.

Deleting a contact

To delete a contact, first, archive them, then head over to Community > Settings > Additional Contact Actions. Select their profile and click delete selected contacts.

Be careful, if you delete a person, all of their information will be deleted.

We, therefore, advise you to not delete people who have been involved in any actions on your software. For example, if they had participated in an event, become a member, donated, etc. 

Recovering an archived person

Did you mistakenly archive someone? No worries, you can easily recover them in your CRM. 

Head over to Community > Settings > Additional Contact Actions, select the archived person, and click Recover selected contacts.

Due to a technical limitation, only the first 1,000 people archived will be shown. However, you can easily access any archived member via the search tool.

Once recovered, the person will reappear in your contact list.