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Managing Contacts and Custom Properties

2 min readAug 21, 2026

In this article

Understand the fields every contact carries, how to add your own custom properties, and how they show up across Alps.

Every person who reaches out to you becomes a contact in Alps, with a profile that grows the more you learn about them. Alongside the standard fields Alps ships with, you can add your own custom properties so the contact record actually matches how your business thinks about customers.

Standard fields

Every contact comes with a core set of fields: name, email, phone, address, company, job title, and a lifecycle stage that tracks where they are in their journey with you.

Lifecycle stages
Lifecycle stage is one of the standard fields, but it has its own settings page and its own set of customizable stages. See the dedicated guide for how to set it up.
Understanding lifecycle stages

Adding custom properties

If your business tracks something the standard fields don't cover, for example a subscription plan, a referral source, or an internal account tier, you can define your own property. Go to Settings, then Contact, then Contact Properties, and create a new one with a name and a type.

Once a custom property exists, it becomes available on every contact in your workspace and can be filled in manually or set automatically through the sync API or an automation.

Where properties show up

Standard and custom properties both feed the contact's profile page, and can be added to the contact card layout so the fields that matter most to your team are visible at a glance without opening every tab.

Syncing from your own product
If contacts are created somewhere else first, your product, your billing system, your signup form, you don't need to enter them by hand. The sync API can create and update contacts automatically as things happen, including their custom properties.
Syncing contacts automatically

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