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Meet the People area

The People area is your contact database inside Tented. Every person you market to — leads from tent forms, imported lists, customers you add by hand — lives here, ready to be organized into lists and reached through email blasts and triggered flows. Click People in the sidebar to see everyone in your database. You can sort by any column, search by name or email, and customize which columns appear with the Columns button. A screenshot of the All People tab showing a table of contacts with Display Name, Email, Phone, Company, and Updated columns.

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Adding contacts

Click the Add button in the top-right corner to see your options: A screenshot of the Add menu with options to Add Contact, Import from CSV, Create Dynamic List, and Create Static List.

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Quick Add

Perfect for adding one person at a time. An email or phone number is required — everything else is optional:
  • Email and Phone
  • First Name and Last Name
  • Company and Job Title
A screenshot of the Quick Add form filled in with a contact named Maya Chen from Acme Robotics. Click Create and the contact appears in your database instantly.

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Import from CSV

Got a whole list? Choose Import from CSV and drag in your file. Tented reads your column headers, auto-maps them to contact fields, and gives you a row-by-row report when it’s done. A screenshot of the Configure Import screen showing CSV columns auto-mapped to Tented fields with overwrite options. For the full walkthrough — column mapping, overwrite behavior, custom fields, and import history — see Importing Contacts via CSV.

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Viewing a contact

Click any contact’s name to open their profile. The Details tab shows all their standard and custom fields — name, email, company, job title, address, lead status, lifecycle stage, and their Unsubscribed status for email marketing. You’ll also see which lists they belong to and any triggered flows they’re enrolled in. A screenshot of a contact's profile showing standard fields like name, email, company, job title, and email domain. The Activities tab is a running timeline of everything that’s happened with this contact — when they were created, which fields were updated, forms they submitted, and lists they joined or left. A screenshot of a contact's Activities tab showing a Person Created event with its source and filled fields.

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Filtering people

Click Filters to slice your database with audience rules. Rules can match on:
  • Contact property — any standard field, like Job Title contains “Marketing”
  • Activity — things that happened, like Form Submitted in the last 7 days
  • List membership — whether someone is (or isn’t) on a specific list
Combine multiple rules and groups to get as specific as you need. A screenshot of the Filter People dialog showing the audience rule builder.
These are the same audience rules used to build dynamic lists — so if you find yourself applying the same filter over and over, save it as a dynamic list instead.

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Bulk actions

Select one or more contacts with the checkboxes and the People Actions menu lights up. From there you can:
  • Edit — bulk-update a field across every selected contact (see below)
  • Add to List — drop them into an existing static list or create a new one on the spot
  • Export as CSV
  • Delete contacts you no longer need
A screenshot of the People Actions menu with Edit, Add to List, Export as CSV, and Delete options.

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Bulk-editing a field

Select your contacts, choose People Actions > Edit, pick a field (any standard or custom field), enter a new value, and apply it to everyone in the selection at once. Perfect for setting a lifecycle stage or lead status on a whole segment. A screenshot of the Edit dialog for 8 people with a field picker to choose which field to update.

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What’s next?

Next: Working with Lists

Organize your contacts into static and dynamic lists — the audiences behind your campaigns.