# Tutorial: import contacts into your CRM > Get companies and contact persons into Relations from a business card, your mailbox, LeadFinder, a form or a spreadsheet. Source: https://enydea.com/en/documentation/tutorial-import-contacts ยท Last updated 2026-10-02 ## Goal You will fill your CRM with companies and contact persons. Pick the option that matches where your contacts are today. Each option takes a few minutes. ## What you need - For the mailbox option, a connected mailbox. See [Connect your mailbox](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/tutorial-connect-your-mailbox.md). - For the spreadsheet option, an Excel file (`.xlsx`) with a header row. Alternatively, an AI assistant connected to Enydea. See [Connect Claude or ChatGPT](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/tutorial-connect-claude-or-chatgpt.md). The **Relations** screen itself has no import button. Spreadsheet import lives in **Settings**. ## Steps ### Option A: add one by one 1. Open **Relations** and click the round **+** button (**Create new Relation**). Confirm the question. 2. Type the **Name** and fill in the other fields. 3. Open the **Contact Person** tab, click **+** (**Create contactperson**) and fill in the person. ### Option B: scan a business card 1. Open **Mailbox**, click the three-dot button (**More actions**) and choose **Scan Business Card**. In **Relations** you find the same action in the three-dot menu of a relation. 2. Drop a photo of the card in the window or click to upload it (JPG, PNG or WEBP). Click **Scan**. 3. Check the result and click **Save to CRM**. Enydea creates a relation and, if the card has a person's name, a contact person. If the email address already belongs to a relation, Enydea only fills its empty fields. 4. Correct anything that is wrong in **Relations**. Changes typed in the scan window are not what gets saved. ### Option C: pick up senders from your mailbox 1. Open **Mailbox**, click the three-dot button (**More actions**) and choose **Extract Contacts from Emails**. 2. Wait for the message that the contacts were extracted. Enydea looks at the newest 200 emails in your inbox. It skips common free email domains such as gmail.com and senders such as no-reply addresses. For every sender without a relation it creates a relation with **Source** set to **email**. The relation is named after the sender, not the company, so rename it. No contact persons are created. ### Option D: save companies found by LeadFinder 1. Open **Leadfinder** and open a search with results. See [LeadFinder](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/leadfinder.md). 2. Tick the companies you want, or tick **Select All**. Companies already in your CRM are marked **Already in CRM (duplicate)**. **Deselect Duplicates** unticks them. 3. Optionally add tags, so the new relations are easy to find later. 4. Click **Add selection to Relations**. ### Option E: let a form add people 1. Open **Forms** and open or create your form. See [Forms](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/forms.md). 2. Switch on **Add submissions to CRM automatically**. Every submission becomes a relation and a contact person. People are matched on email address, so nobody is added twice. ### Option F: bring a spreadsheet Use this for a list of companies you already keep in an Excel file. ![The Upload to CRM tab of Settings with the Upload Relation panel open, showing a drop-down for each field to map from a spreadsheet column](https://enydea.com/seo-assets/screens/settings-upload-crm.webp) *Settings, Upload to CRM, with the **Upload Relation** panel open. Each drop-down picks the spreadsheet column that holds that field.* 1. Save your list as an Excel file (`.xlsx`) with a header row. Use one company per row and fewer than 500 rows. Only the company name is required. 2. Open **Settings** -> **Upload to CRM** and open the **Upload Relation** panel. 3. Scroll down to **Upload small file (less then 500 entries)**. Drag your file onto the grey area or click **Choose file**. The column titles from your file now fill every drop-down above. 4. In each drop-down, pick the column that holds that field, for example **Select Company**, **Select City** or **Select Website**. Leave the fields you do not have empty. 5. If the same rows also name a contact person, tick **Add Contact**. Drop-downs for the first name, last name, e-mail and phone appear. 6. Click **Upload to Database**. A summary appears at the top of the tab: ![The Upload to CRM tab after an import, with a summary of 3 companies imported, 1 already in the CRM and one skipped row](https://enydea.com/seo-assets/screens/settings-upload-crm-result.webp) *The summary lists how many companies were imported, how many were already in your CRM, and every skipped row with its reason.* - Skipped rows are listed with their spreadsheet row number, where row 1 is the header. For example "Row 6: no company name". - Imported companies get the tag `imported-` followed by the date, so you can find them in **Relations**. - Existing relations are never overwritten. A company that is already in your CRM (matched by relation ID, website or name) is only filled in where its fields were empty, so importing the same file twice creates nothing new. Contact persons and calls have their own panels, **Upload Contactperson** and **Upload Calls**. They attach to a company through the **3rd party Relation ID** column, so import the companies first and map that column. Each call also needs a date. If you only want to email the people and do not need them in the CRM, upload the sheet as a mailing list instead. See [Mailing lists and segments](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/mailing-lists-and-segments.md). **Or use an AI assistant.** If you have connected Claude or ChatGPT, paste the rows into the chat with the columns email, firstname, lastname, company, website, title and country, and ask it to import them as relations and contact persons. Rows without a valid email address are skipped. ## Check your work 1. Open **Relations** and search for a name you imported. 2. Open the relation. Check **Name**, **Email** and **Source**, and look in the **Contact Person** tab. 3. For a bigger import, use the filter icon and filter by **Tags** to see only the new relations. ## Next steps - Learn how to find and edit relations in [Relations (CRM)](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/relations-crm.md). - Email your new contacts with [Mailing lists and segments](https://enydea.com/en/documentation/mailing-lists-and-segments.md).