Date of Birth and Date Joined on Contact records

Most CRMs treat Contacts as faceless deal records. Turtini treats them as people who joined an organization for a reason. Two fields make that explicit: Date of Birth and Date Joined.

What each field is for:

**Date of Birth** — the person's birthday. Use this if your org cares about age (churches sending youth-only notices, fitness studios with member-anniversary discounts, healthcare practices with age-appropriate reminders, schools with class assignments). It's optional; orgs that don't track this leave it blank.

**Date Joined** — when this person became part of your organization. Different from `createdAt` (which is when the Turtini Contact record was created — sometimes years after the person actually joined). Use Date Joined for the real-world membership / customer / hire / patient-since date. Filter the contact list by Date Joined to find "members in their first year," "long-term customers eligible for the loyalty tier," "fifth-anniversary employees who deserve a recognition."

Where they show up:

- On the Contact edit form, below the Tags field
- In CSV exports as "Date of Birth" and "Date Joined" columns
- In CSV imports — see the Importing Contacts article. The importer auto-detects columns with names like "DOB," "Birthday," "Member Since," "Customer Since," "Date Joined," etc., and routes them into the right field.
- In Wally tools — Wally can read or write either field with a single command ("Mark Jamal as joined on January 15, 2024," "Find every member with a birthday in March")

Privacy considerations:

Both fields are visible to anyone in your org with read access on the Contact record. They are NOT public — there's no automatic publishing to a member directory or directory site unless you explicitly build a feature that uses them. The data stays inside your org boundary.

If you don't want to collect these:

Leave them blank. Both are optional and the platform never prompts you to fill them in. The Contact record renders cleanly with or without the dates set.