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title: "Contacts & Guests | Setting up Manatal | ATS Support"
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description: "Visit our user guides to better understand how to use Manatal's recruiting software. Explore contacts & guests and improve your process with a cloud-based ATS."
updated: 2022-07-06T03:51:35Z
published: 2022-07-06T03:51:35Z
canonical: "support.manatal.com/what-are-contacts-and-guests"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.manatal.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What are Contacts and Guests

Contacts and Guests can be used in two different ways depending on your company type:

- **In-house HR department:** Collaborate in Manatal with hiring managers and other non-recruiters from their company.
- **Recruitment agency:** Track leads, and collaborate in Manatal with clients on their openings.

## Contacts

**Contacts** are external contacts associated with specific Organizations (Clients/Departments). They cannot view any activity on Manatal unless you invite them to collaborate as external Guests.

- Refer to [this article](https://support.manatal.com/docs/create-a-contact) for more information about contacts.

## Guests

**Guests** are similar to Contacts apart from the fact that they have been invited to track the candidate recruitment progress in Manatal within a given Organization (Client/Department). These guests will only receive basic notifications and view publicly shared candidate notes and attachments in Manatal.

- Refer to [this article](https://support.manatal.com/docs/guests) for more information about guests.