# Format CustomField Data Type Numbers as Human Readable

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/format-customfield-data-type-numbers-as-human-readable/25776>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 21, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/format-customfield-data-type-numbers-as-human-readable/25776 "2022-10-21T18:39:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/format-customfield-data-type-numbers-as-human-readable/25776/1 "2022-10-21T18:39:00Z")

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My problem/question is when I create a CustomField with the Data Type as Number, and I then use the Token in Email, the value of the token is not in a conventional human-readable format.

Example: {Contactfield=price} = 10000  
In an Email, It would look like this: Buy it now for ${Contactfield=price}! or Buy it now for $10000!  
If I wanted 10000 to include a comma - 10,000 - is there a way to format the token when DataType is Number?  
(for example with time, I can change its format, {contactfield=DATEFIELDALIAS|datetime}

If not, do I need to change my Data Type (to text) , and ingest the data the way I want it to be present in content?

Thanks!