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How to import Google Contacts into Freshsales

14 of the 17 columns in a Google Contacts export, mapped into 13 Freshsales fields under Freshsales' own names.

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Check your Google Contacts export first

Built on Google Contacts’ export columnsChecked against Freshsales’ import rulesUpdated October 3, 2026

One Google Contacts row, through the templatecopied as it ischanged on the way1explained below
  • Given Name to First NameWei
  • Family Name to Last NameChen
  • E-mail 1 - Value to Emaillowercasedwei.chen@westmarch.example.com
  • Phone 1 - Value to Work Number+44 20 7946 0962
  • Phone 2 - Value to Mobile Number+44 7700 900961
  • Organization 1 - Name to Company NameWestmarch Trading
  • Organization 1 - Title to Job TitlePartner
  • Address 1 - Street to Address5 Canal Walk
  • Address 1 - City to CityBirmingham
  • Address 1 - Region to StateWest Midlands
  • Address 1 - Postal Code to Zip CodeB1 2HP
  • Address 1 - Country to CountryUnited Kingdom
  • Notes, Group Membership to Description1joined, with labelsNotes: Met at the Birmingham legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts
Not imported: E-mail 2 - Value, Website 1 - Value and Birthday. The template leaves these out; map any to a custom field in Operelio.

Where Google Contacts and Freshsales don’t line up

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Two columns kept in Description

This template gives Notes and Group Membership no Freshsales field of their own.

The template writes them into Description, each with its label, and leaves empty ones out.

ExportNotes Met at the Birmingham legal tech forum.
Group Membership Clients ::: * myContacts
FreshsalesNotes: Met at the Birmingham legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts

Check your Google Contacts export before you import it

Looks for the 14 columns this template reads, and what Freshsales would skip.

Drop your Google Contacts CSV here

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Google Contacts to Freshsales in three steps

Step 1Export from Google Contacts
  1. Open Google Contacts.
  2. Check the contacts, or choose Selection Actions, then All.
  3. Click More actions at the top right, then Export.
  4. Select Google CSV and click Export.

In a work or school account you can't select every contact in the Directory.

Google: Export contacts
Step 2Paste into the template
  1. Paste the export at A1 of Paste your export here.
  2. Start here checks all 14 columns were found.
  3. Save Freshsales Contacts import as a CSV.

Works in Excel for Microsoft 365 and Google Sheets. Excel 2019 and older, Apple Numbers and LibreOffice can't run the formulas this file uses.

Just the 13 headers as a CSV

Step 3Import into Freshsales
  1. Go to Contacts in the left navigation bar and choose Import from CSV/XLSX.
  2. Choose contacts only, or accounts along with contacts, and upload the file.
  3. Check the field mapping and set the date format.
  4. Choose whether to create new records, update existing ones or both, and who owns them.
  5. Click Import Now.
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Questions

Where does Google Contacts' E-mail 1 - Value column go in Freshsales?

To Email on the contact.

Where do Notes and Group Membership go?

Into Description on each contact, labeled like "Notes: Met at the Birmingham legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts".

Duplicates and undoing an import: Freshsales import questions.

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