Import your contacts from a CSV

Got a spreadsheet of people you want to keep track of? Upload it and they land in My Contacts, private to you. Frequency matches your columns to the right fields, shows you a preview, and skips anyone you already have.

How do I import a CSV?

Open My Contacts, choose Import, and follow the four steps. You can also go straight to /connections/import.

1. Upload your CSV. A CSV is the "comma separated values" file that Google Contacts, your email app, or a spreadsheet exports.
2. Check the columns. Frequency reads your headers and lines each one up with a field like name, email, or phone. You confirm or fix any it got wrong.
3. Preview. You see exactly what will happen before anything saves: how many people are new, how many match someone you already have, and how many are skipped.
4. Import. Confirm, and your contacts are in.

Nothing saves until you confirm at the preview step, so you can back out or fix the mapping at any point.

Which columns does it understand?

Frequency matches the common ones for you: name, email, phone, title, company, city, website, and social handles like Instagram, LinkedIn, and X, plus tags and notes.

• Anything it recognizes is lined up automatically, marked so you can see it was a guess.
• Anything unusual becomes a custom field that keeps its own label, or you can tell it to ignore that column.
• If it isn't sure about a column, Vera suggests a match and you approve it. Vera only ever suggests from your real columns; it never makes up a field or reads anything you didn't upload.

What happens if some people are already contacts?

Frequency spots anyone you already have, by a matching email or phone, and won't make a duplicate. You choose what to do with a match:

• Skip them and keep what you have (the default).
• Fill in the blanks from the file without touching what you already wrote.
• Overwrite your details with the ones in the file.

The preview counts the matches before you commit, so there are no surprises.

What if a few rows have problems?

One bad row never stops the import. If a line is missing an email or has something that looks off, Frequency flags just that row, imports the rest, and tells you how many it set aside so you can fix them and run it again.

Is my import private?

Yes. Imported contacts go into your own address book, the same as a scanned card:

• Only you can see them.
• The people in the file are not notified, and they are not added to any mailing list.
• Run the same file twice and Frequency updates your existing contacts instead of doubling them.

Good to know

• You need to be signed in to import.
• Prefer another way? You can also scan someone's code, import from Google, or add a contact by hand (see Finding people).
• Run a business on Frequency? Bringing a list into your Space CRM works the same way, and that list stays sealed to your Space. </content>

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