# 'Tagging' Contacts?

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265>\
**Category:** CRM\
**Tags:** free\
**Created:** [April 19, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265 "2024-04-19T10:15:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SNicholls6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@SNicholls6](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SNicholls6)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265/1 "2024-04-19T10:15:36Z")

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This may not need tagging in the HubSpot definition, but I need a way of when a proposal becomes a deal, then adding something to that relevant contact pr company to signify they are a client - I could do it in notes but could not then select a view for clients, ex-clients etc which I would like to be able to do.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:19am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265/2 "2024-04-19T10:19:20Z")

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Hi @SNicholls6,

In HubSpot tagging is done through properties: [Create and edit properties](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/properties/create-and-edit-properties)

Once created, you can mark records accordingly.

For a client status, consider using the existing fields on contact and company “Lifecycle stage”: [Use contact and company lifecycle stages](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/records/use-lifecycle-stages)

Best regards!

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**Author:** ![SNicholls6](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@SNicholls6](https://community.hubspot.com/u/SNicholls6)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:29am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265/3 "2024-04-19T10:29:25Z")

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Thanks 🙂 if I’m trying to be as ‘smart’ as possible here, the lifecycle stages would seem to be the best way to go? So where do I go to edit lifecycle stages? Can’t find the option

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**Author:** ![karstenkoehler](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/karstenkoehler/32/68554_2.png) [@karstenkoehler](https://community.hubspot.com/u/karstenkoehler)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 10:31am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265/4 "2024-04-19T10:31:29Z")

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@SNicholls6 they are, yes 🙂

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**Author:** ![Lucila-Andimol](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/lucila-andimol/32/69276_2.png) [@Lucila-Andimol](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Lucila-Andimol)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/tagging-contacts/105265/5 "2024-04-19T15:51:26Z")

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Hey @SNicholls6

it is standard in HubSpot that when a contact/company has an associated deal the lifecycle stage is set to “Opportunity”. so if you want to know all the contacts/company that you had work/quoted in the past, you should filter Lifecycle stage is Opportunity.

If that deal ended up closed one, the lifecycle stage property is set automatically to Customer. (again, if you want to filter: Lifecycle stage is Customer)

[Here is some info on how this work](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/object-settings/manage-how-lifecycle-stages-sync-between-objects)

The difficult part comes to differencitate active customers from ex-customer. Here you can create a custom property to set this values. Or a date property with the end service date.

[Here is some info on how to create custom properties](https://knowledge.hubspot.com/properties/create-and-edit-properties)

hope this helps