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title: Object types | Lightfield
description: Choose built-in or custom objects for API integrations.
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Use this map to choose an API resource. For what each record represents in the app, see [Lightfield basics](/help/getting-started/index.md).

## Built-in objects

| Object                                             | Description                                                                                                                                                                                 | Example fields                                                                     |
| -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| [Account](/api/resources/account/index.md)         | an organization you do business with, typically a customer                                                                                                                                  | website, revenue, industry                                                         |
| [Opportunity](/api/resources/opportunity/index.md) | an engagement tracked by stages over a period of time, representing progress towards a deal                                                                                                 | deal amount, stage, next steps                                                     |
| [Contact](/api/resources/contact/index.md)         | a person, typically linked to accounts and opportunities                                                                                                                                    | email address, phone number, job title                                             |
| [Task](/api/resources/task/index.md)               | a to-do with an owner and due date                                                                                                                                                          | status, due date, owner                                                            |
| [Meeting](/api/resources/meeting/index.md)         | a meeting synced from a calendar, or a past meeting logged manually. [Retrieve meetings and download their transcript](/using-the-api/retrieving-meeting-transcripts/index.md) via the API. | participants, meeting url, transcript (`$transcript`)                              |
| [Email](/api/resources/email/index.md)             | an email message synced from a mailbox, or created through a connected mailbox                                                                                                              | subject, sent at (`$sentAt`), from, to, cc, bcc, body, attachments (`$attachment`) |
| [Note](/api/resources/note/index.md)               | a note you can format and link to records                                                                                                                                                   | title, body, account, opportunity                                                  |
| [List](/api/resources/list/index.md)               | a curated list of records of a given object type                                                                                                                                            | name, object type                                                                  |
| [Member](/api/resources/member/index.md)           | an internal member of your team                                                                                                                                                             | name, email address, role                                                          |

## Custom objects

Create and configure custom objects in the app using [Custom objects](/help/custom-objects/index.md).

Read and write custom object records through the [object API](/api/resources/object/index.md) with the object’s slug. [Fields and relationships](/using-the-api/fields-and-relationships/index.md) shows how object data, including fields you add to built-in objects, is represented in the API.