# Edit Contact Subscription Preferences

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-contact-subscription-preferences/30036>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [January 12, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-contact-subscription-preferences/30036 "2021-01-12T02:37:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![JHooper](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/jhooper/32/67751_2.png) [@JHooper](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JHooper)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 2:37am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-contact-subscription-preferences/30036/1 "2021-01-12T02:37:58Z")

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Without GDPR enabled it’s impossible to control a contact’s subscriptions from the individual contact record, or en-mass from contact lists.

The proposed functionality is fairly elementry for marketing software of this calibre:

1. On the individual Contact record make the _Communication subscriptions section visible_ and functional, as it is for GDPR users (described in [this knowledgebase article](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/contacts/manage-your-subscription-preferences-and-types) — screenshot below).

 ![36262i6A69BC474CFD78AC.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/f/d/fd43ab36ff493cf3b1be15cbb64380b65dc23844.jpeg)

2. Make adding contacts in bulk work as described in the same article (see highlighted text in screenshot below). Currently this does not work and workflows have to be created as a hack (see [this thread](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/CRM/Manual-opt-in-with-GDPR-turned-off/m-p/396414)).

 ![36264i166BC89A62E5F084.jpg](https://d2qpr2jzcazej7.cloudfront.net/original/3X/9/3/938c40684317323e1984f0a7cdf309b7e44899e3.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![djowhite](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/djowhite/32/44643_2.png) [@djowhite](https://community.hubspot.com/u/djowhite)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2021, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/edit-contact-subscription-preferences/30036/2 "2021-01-12T14:02:44Z")

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+1, I have the same issue, without GDPR I can’t manually subscribe people who’ve opted in via another channel.