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Import your contacts from a spreadsheet or your phone
Bring people in from Excel, a CSV or your phone's contacts, check what Deed read before anything is added, and undo it if you need to.
Updated 8 October 2026, about 3 minutes
Before you start
- Your contacts in a spreadsheet (Excel or CSV), or your phone's contacts saved as a contacts file (.vcf)
- On an Android phone in Chrome, nothing more: Deed can open the phone's own contact list
On Contacts, press New contact and choose Import people. If Import is already open, choose People.
app.ondeed.co.zaContacts
887 contacts, 6 new this week
New contact
Add one personA name and a number now, the rest whenever you have it.Import peopleClients, owners or a calling list, from a spreadsheet or your phone's contacts.Press Choose a file: Excel, CSV or contacts (.vcf). On an Android phone, Choose from this phone's contacts opens the phone's own list, and only the people you tick come in.
On an iPhone, open Contacts, tap Lists, hold All Contacts, tap Export and save the file. Then choose it here. How to get your phone's contacts says the same for Android, Google and Outlook. A Numbers file goes through Excel first: in Numbers, choose File, Export To, Excel.
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PeopleClients, owners or a calling list, from a spreadsheet or your phone's contacts.Choose a file: Excel, CSV or contacts (.vcf)Choose from this phone's contactsHow to get your phone's contactsTodayInboxDealsListingsMoreDeed says how many people it found and what it read each column as. Change any it read wrongly. Columns it doesn't know, like a company or a birthday from a phone, go on each person's notes, or choose Don't bring in. Then press Continue.
app.ondeed.co.zaFileColumnsReviewCheck the columns
Deed found 214 people. All have a number. Change any column Deed read wrongly.
NameLerato DlaminiFull nameMobile082 555 1234PhoneEmaillerato@example.comEmail2 more columns go on each person's notes: Company and Birthday.ChangeContinueDeed lists who comes in, with their numbers, before anything is added. Anyone already in your book, by number or email, is skipped and listed apart, so nobody is doubled. Give the list a name if you like (a caller can also put it in one of their folders), then press Import.
app.ondeed.co.zaFileColumnsReview214 people come in
Nothing has been added yet.
List nameContactsWho comes in
Lerato Dlamini+27 82 555 1234Pieter Botha+27 83 111 2222Import 2146 skipped: 6 already in your book
Thabo MokoenaIn your bookYour contacts join your book as Dormant: people you already know, not new enquiries, so nobody is mistaken for a lead waiting on you. A person's stage changes on their page. If you're a caller, your list comes in as leads to call, on Calls. Undo import takes the whole import back out.
app.ondeed.co.zaYour contacts are in
From the Contacts list.
In your book now
214 contacts
Lerato Dlamini
+27 82 555 1234, lerato@example.com
Pieter Botha
+27 83 111 2222, pieter@example.com
6 were already in your book, so we skipped them.
See your contactsTidy your bookUndo import
Contacts
887 contacts, 6 new this week
New contact
Your listings come in from your portal profile: see Import your listings from Property24 or RE/MAX.
