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Contacts Uploader - Using an Existing Contacts List

How to upload contacts from an existing CSV file

Stacy Lane avatar
Written by Stacy Lane
Updated over 10 months ago

If your organization is already in possession of a contacts list, it can be uploaded once you confirm it meets Contacts Uploader requirements. Once uploaded, users will be able to search for contacts in the To field when sending a new fax.

Confirm Contacts List

Verify that your contacts list meets the following requirements prior to uploading:

  1. Must be UTF-8 CSV file.

  2. Must be smaller than 20 megabytes.

  3. Must have the three required text headers:

    1. Contact Value

    2. Name

    3. Company

  4. Headers must be spelled correctly but are not case-sensitive.

  5. Contact Value, Name and Company cell values must meet data requirements shown here:

Headers

Description

Limitations

Required?

Contact Value

The send destination value.

Example: Fax Number - 10 digits.

  • Cannot exceed 80 characters in length.

  • Fax numbers can be any format as long as 10 digits are present.

    • Examples

      • (XXX) XXX - XXXX

      • XXXXXXXXXX

      • XXX-XXX-XXXX

      • XXX XXX XXXX

Always.

Name

A text name description of the recipient.

  • Cannot exceed 80 characters in length.

If Company is blank.

Company

A text name description of the company associated with the send destination value.

  • Cannot exceed 80 characters in length.

If Name is blank.


Upload Contacts List

Once you have confirmed that your CSV file is ready for upload, navigate to Settings > Contacts.

Contacts

Drag and drop or click to upload the file.

Upload Contacts

If the upload is successful:

  • A notification will display in the top-right corner indicating that “Contacts imported successfully”.

  • A section called “Last Successful Upload” will display with file metadata.

Success

The following fields will appear if successfully uploaded:

  1. File Name - This is the name of the file uploaded successfully.

  2. File Size - This is the size of the file uploaded.

  3. Number of Contacts - This is the number of contacts generated from the upload. This also represents the total number of contacts for an organization because only one uploaded file can be active at a time.

  4. Upload Date - This is the date the file was uploaded for an organization.

  5. Uploaded By - This is the username / email of the user that uploaded the contacts file.


Upload Errors and Warnings

When uploading a file, if the data is incorrect or the template format doesn’t match, an error message will be displayed. Please contact support@kno2.com for assistance with errors/warnings.

Errors

Errors are displayed on the Contacts page until the next successful upload, which will automatically clear the error.

Errors

Warnings

If another organization administrator is already uploading a file, the following message will be displayed: "The file could not be imported as an upload is currently in progress".

Warning

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