System fields are prebuilt contact attributes in Constant Contact's Lead Gen & CRM platform (such as First Name, Email, and Company) used for contact tracking, form mapping, and automation merge tags. They are also tied to form fields and email merge variables.
If you need a field that is not built in, for example, "Favorite Color" or "Preferred Operating System", you can create custom fields.
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The available system fields are as follows:
Contact Constant Contact support if any of these system fields are missing from your Lead Gen & CRM instance.
System fields are located throughout Lead Gen & CRM and are used in various areas of the Lead Gen & CRM platform, including automations and merge variables. You can see a contact's system fields in Lead Gen & CRM, within a contact record:
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