You can define custom categories for your contacts to help you group suppliers, customers and contractors as you wish.

This could be to create industry specific customers such as electrical, gas or charities hospitals and schools etc.

Navigate to the 'Work Settings' section of the 'Settings' interface by selecting Settings from the left hand menu and work from the top sub-menu:

Selecting the 'Contacts categories' option from the left hand side, you can add a new custom category for your contacts by selecting the 'Add New' button:

This will open a pop-up window:

From this window, simply define a category and choose whether this applies to:

Once define, customer contact categories help you to group your contacts which can help when reporting as well as choosing appropriate contractors to allocate jobs to.

How to add a contractor or supplier.
​How to add, edit or delete a new contact.
​Managing Contractors in Workforce FM.
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