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title: "Tags"
description: "Classify contacts, vessels, tasks and crew"
url: https://docs.starnapp.com/en/articles/183-tags
updated: 2026-10-21
language: en
alternates: [es]
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# Tags

Classify contacts, vessels, tasks and crew

**Tags** are StarNapp's free classification: colour labels we assign to a **specific type** of record so we can filter it later. “VIP customer”, “Charter fleet”, “Maintenance” — we decide the criteria. A vessel tag does not appear on a contact, and the other way around.

## How do we get there?

We'll go to **SETTINGS → CONFIGURATION → TAGS**. We'll see one column per type: **TASKS**, **VESSELS**, **CONTACTS** and **CREW**.

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## How does it work?

Each tag has a name, a colour and a **type**. The type is the column: they don't mix across lists.

-   **TASKS:** work types when we create a work order (winterisation, maintenance, repair…). The work-order form picks them in the **TAGS** field. Detail in **Task and project categories**.
    
-   **VESSELS:** fleet, waiting for haul-out, for sale, and so on. How to assign them to the boat is in **Tags on vessels**.
    
-   **CONTACTS:** customers and suppliers (VIP, late payer, charter, regular supplier…). This column can also have an **icon**.
    
-   **CREW:** if we classify crew separately from general contacts.
    

Lists can be **filtered by tag**. A short, agreed taxonomy turns tags into work views: “all VIPs”, “all winterisations”.

Tags **do not replace** tax fields or document statuses: don't use a “Invoiced” tag instead of the quote status.

## How do we create and assign a tag?

1.  We'll go to **SETTINGS → CONFIGURATION → TAGS** and stay in the column for that type (tasks, vessels, contacts or crew).
    
2.  We'll press **+** and complete:
    
    -   **NAME:** short and unique. The whole team should mean the same thing.
        
    -   **COLOUR:** to recognise it at a glance on lists and records.
        
    -   On **CONTACTS**, the **icon** if we also want to tell them apart by symbol.
        
3.  From the matching **list** or **record**, we'll click the tags area and tick them. On vessels we can do it both in the list column and on the boat profile.
    

## What should we keep in mind?

> ⚠ **Important:** When we delete a tag, every item that had it is unlinked from it. The action does not delete contacts or boats: it only removes that classification.

> 💡 **Tip:** A few tags with a clear meaning are worth more than many improvised ones. We'll agree with the team what each one means before we create it.

-   If a tag doesn't appear on a contact, it was almost certainly created in another **column** (for example, vessels).
    
-   Catalog categories and stock warehouses are not tags. See **Set up catalog categories** and **Warehouses**.