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# Creating a Contact

Each business can have multiple contacts for various different purposes. For example, a main billing or shipping contact requesting freight movement or a rep when you're dispatching your shipments to a third party carrier. There are many ways to enter a business in Pegasys throughout the application to keep you in flow.

**From the Business page**
1. Open the Business record that you would like to associate the contact with.
2. Click on the **Create** button beneath the contact list.
4. Fill in the contact details.
5. Click **Create**.

**From a Contact dropdown**
Contact dropdowns appear throughout the application. For example, when you are adding a contact to a shipment. You can quickly create contacts on the fly without breaking your flow.

1. Click the **+** button beside the location dropdown.
3. Fill in the contact form.
4. Click **Create**.
5. You will be returned to your form with the new contact preselected.

**Contact Fields**
* **Name** - The Name of the contact.
* **Description** - Alias used to provide context to the contact. (Example: Billing)
* **Phone** - The main phone number for the contact.
* **Mobile Phone** - The secondary phone number for the contact.
* **Email** - The email for the contact. This is where you can setup configurations around emailing documents.