## Overview

Contacts are necessary to begin to bill your clients within ChargeOver. Every contact will need an email, in order for emails 
to send out to your customers. Read on to learn more about how conacts work in ChargeOver.

Add a new contact
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Your business is growing! Follow the steps below to add a new contact to your ChargeOver account.

1. Find the customer in ChargeOver that you want to add the contact for, and click to get to the customer details
2. Choose the ==Contacts== tab for the customer
3. Click the blue ==New Contact== button

![](contacts.png)


4. This will allow you to fill in the details and create the new contact
5. ==Save Changes== when everything is filled in

![](contacts-2.png)

### Set a primary contact

Select the checkbox under **Primary Contact** that says **'Make this contact the primary contact for this customer.'**

Whoever you set as the **Primary Contact** for a customer will be the person who receives emails for invoices and notifications.

This also goes for any Contact that has their **Type** set to **'Billing.'**


Editing contacts
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Each customer in ChargeOver can have one or more Contacts. The Contact holds the person's name, email address, phone number, and more.

### Steps

1. Find the customer associated with the contact you're wanting to update
2. Click the ==Contacts== tab
3. You will see a list of all existing contacts. Click ==View or edit this contact== to make any changes

![](contacts-6.png)


4. Click the ==Edit== tab to change the contact's details
5. Remember to click ==Save== after the changes have been made

Multiple billing contacts
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You can have multiple contacts set to receive invoices or payment receipts. ChargeOver will send invoices and emailed receipts to all contacts that have their 'Contact Type' set to Billing.

### Set contact as billable

1. Click on ==Customers== in the left menu
2. From the list of customers, choose your customer and click on ==Contacts==. Then click ==New Contact==

![](new-contact.png)

3. Enter the contacts email
4. Set **Billing** for the Contact Type

Contacts who have a Contact Type of **Billing** will automatically receive invoices or receipts.

:::note

Remember to enter in an email for the new customer. Otherwise they will not receive notices about their invoices and other emails about their account.

:::

![](billing-contact.png)


Emails not sending to contacts
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Wondering why there are no emails getting sent to your customers contacts email addresses?

A lot of times you can make a simple mistake when making a contact and place the email in the wrong slot.

Make sure that the email address for any contact is added into the email slot and not the phone number slot.

### Correct email slot

![](contact-info.png)

### Incorrect email slot

![](incorrect-info.png)

If you are still having issues with emails being sent, we strongly recommend setting up [DKIM and SPF](https://help.chargeover.com/docs/getting-started/improving-email-deliverability/#docusaurus_skipToContent_fallback). 


Delete a contact
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You can only delete a contact in ChargeOver if they are **not** set as the primary contact for a customer. If the contact you wish to delete is the primary contact, you must first set one of the other contacts as the primary contact for the customer.

### Steps

1. Find the customer in ChargeOver that the contact is listed under, and click the ==Contacts== tab and then the ==Edit== to get to the customer details.
2. Choose the ==Contacts== tab for the customer

![](contacts-3.png)

3. Click **'View or edit this contact'**, and then select the ==Edit== tab
4. Click the red box in the corner that says ==Delete Contact==

![](contacts-4.png)

:::note

If you do not see the ==Delete Contact== button, check and make sure the contact is not assigned as a primary contact for the customer.

:::