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Contact Collaboration

How contact sharing works in Tern

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Written by Molly Johnson
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Overview

This article walks through how to share your contacts with other Tern advisors, or with your agency.

How to share your contacts in Tern

1. You'll see a Collaboration section on the 'About' tab of each contact

To add another advisor, add the email they use in Tern and click 'invite'. They will receive an email inviting them to collaborate on the contact.

2. If you are a part of an agency, you'll also see an 'Agency' section

If you have a "default" agency, any new contacts you create will share to your Agency Owner/Administrators automatically. Learn more about setting up your agency default.

For existing contacts, we recommend also sharing these 'in bulk' so that your agency administrators have access. You'll find this option on your contacts menu:

Collaborator access to contacts

1. If a contact has been shared with you, you'll see it in your 'Shared with Me' tab

You can also use the filter option to narrow down to a specific owner's contact:

2. Clicking on the contact will take you to the 'about' tab

You can fully edit most of the information there. The exception for editing is contact tags, collaboration settings, and relationships at this time.

3. You can access client documents

You can view/edit client documents and add your own documents.

4. You can see contact activity

5. You can access and add notes

6. You can access historical trips

You can see all trips the contact has taken - including any imported trips via the contact owner. For the trips in Tern, if you have access to the trip, you'll be able to click through to view it directly from here.

7. You can view and send contact emails

You can view all emails, send new emails to contacts, and reply to threads you have started. But you cannot reply to an existing thread started by someone else with owner/collaborator access to the contact.

7. You can view form responses

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