# Send events to contacts
**URL:** https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** community
**Created:** [November 6, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905 "2020-11-06T17:48:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@programwar](https://forum.mautic.org/u/programwar)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905/1 "2020-11-06T17:48:41Z")
Hi,
I’m trying to send events to existing contacts and tack if they have performed some specific action. These actions could be sent by two ways:
- In front-end using mtc.js (or this I understand 🙂)
- From Backend using the Mautic Rest API.
I’m reading some Mautic documentation, but for me is not very clear how to deal with this topic.
From JS, I just have found this link ([https://docs.mautic.org/en/contacts/manage-contacts/contact-monitoring](https://docs.mautic.org/en/contacts/manage-contacts/contact-monitoring)), but it seems that it is only possible to send “pageview” type events.
From Rest API ([https://developer.mautic.org/#mauticjs-api](https://developer.mautic.org/#mauticjs-api)), I have not found any way to send custom events to contacts.
I have also check Events section ([https://developer.mautic.org/#events](https://developer.mautic.org/#events)) but it seems related to internal events dispatched by Mautic or custom plugins and they can not be used by mts.js.
Could anyone please share and starting point for this question?
Thank you!!!
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### Author:  [@namratasaun](https://forum.mautic.org/u/namratasaun)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2021, 1:19pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905/2 "2021-01-05T13:19:00Z")
any update on this? @programwar
I have a similar issue?
custom events
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### Author:  [@programwar](https://forum.mautic.org/u/programwar)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905/3 "2021-01-11T18:36:30Z")
hi @namratasaun,
There is no any progress ☹
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### Author:  [@namratasaun](https://forum.mautic.org/u/namratasaun)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905/4 "2021-01-12T06:32:26Z")
oh alright. update if you find any workaround
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### Author:  [@bellafronte](https://forum.mautic.org/u/bellafronte)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/send-events-to-contacts/16905/5 "2021-01-25T12:06:36Z")
We have two different issues closed on Mautic repo asking the same question and soliciting a more flexible and advanced events manipulation. This issue is opened in 2016 and since javascript events don’t change anything.
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> Are you going to implement Events / Actions that leads do?
> Events can be things like button clicks, scrolling to the bottom...