# Contact types

Contact types provide a method of arbitrarily grouping each of your Contacts into customisable categories. Each contact that you create must be assigned a contact type, but there are no restrictions on which contact type you assign to each contact.

Allowing users to define their own contact types ensures that contacts can be grouped by any criteria in order to meet your requirements. Some common examples of contact types may include Personal, Business, Customer, Supplier or Consultant but how you create your contact types will be completely based upon your own needs.

Regardless of the methodology you choose to implement with your contact types, you will now have the ability to quickly and easily differentiate between your contacts on both the contact form and in any contact-based reports.