People Records
In MinistryPlatform, a Contact is either a person or a company. Every person you want to track in the Platform must have a Contact record. Those who attend church events and join groups also become participants. Those who make donations become donors. And those who log in to your website become users. Participants, donors, and users all have separate records that link back to the contact.
When we think of managing people records, we are managing changes to data that reflect changes in the real world. Here are a few topics already covered in other help pages:
For more on keeping people data current, check out our Data Quality Resources section.