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title: Manually logging custom activities
related:
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/tracking-contact-activities/reference-activity-types.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/configuring-and-customizing-your-on-line-marketing-features/configuring-activities/adding-custom-activity-types.md
  - https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation/working-with-the-automation-process-designer/adding-marketing-actions-to-automation-processes.md
---

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In addition to the [default activity types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/contact-management/tracking-contact-activities/reference-activity-types.md), you can also ask your administrator to [add custom activity types](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/configuring-and-customizing-your-on-line-marketing-features/configuring-activities/adding-custom-activity-types.md) or log a single activity of a custom type for a contact.

To log a single custom activity manually:

1. Open the **Contact management** application on the **Activity log** tab.
2. Click **New custom activity**.
3. Fill in the details of the activity:

   | Contact          | Select the contact associated with the activity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
   | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
   | Activity type    | Select one of your custom activity types.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
   | Site             | Select the site for which you want to log the activity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   |
   | Activity title   | Add basic information about the event that the activity represents.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
   | Activity value   | Here you can assign a value to the activity. You can associate values with activities such as e-commerce purchases.                                                                                                                                                                       |
   | Activity URL     | The URL of the page where the activity occurred.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
   | Campaign         | The marketing campaign associated with the activity. Used e.g. if you need to monitor the behavior of the visitors of your website.                                                                                                                                                       |
   | Activity time    | The time when the activity occurred.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
   | Activity comment | Here you can add any additional information related to the activity, either as plain text or with basic formatting.<br>Click **Insert timestamp** to insert your timestamp into the comment. The default stamp contains the full name of your user account and the current date and time. |

   ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/13/manually-logging-custom-activities/logging_custom_activity.png)
4. Click **Save**.

You can now see the custom activity logged for the given contact.

## Automatically logging custom activities

In most cases, logging activities manually one-by-one is not a practical option. If you need the system to automatically record custom activities for contacts who perform a specific action, you can use one of the following approaches:

- Log the activity as part of a [marketing automation](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation.md) process via the [Log custom activity](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/managing-your-on-line-marketing-features/marketing-automation/working-with-the-automation-process-designer/adding-marketing-actions-to-automation-processes.md#logging-custom-activities) action step.
- Ask your developers to develop custom components for your website that [log the activity through the API](https://docs.kentico.com/13/on-line-marketing-features/configuring-and-customizing-your-on-line-marketing-features/configuring-activities/logging-custom-activities-through-the-api.md).