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How to import Google Contacts into monday.com

8 of the 17 columns in a Google Contacts export, mapped into 5 monday CRM fields under monday CRM's own names.

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Check your Google Contacts export first

Built on Google Contacts’ export columnsChecked against monday CRM’s import rulesUpdated October 3, 2026

One Google Contacts row, through the templatecopied as it ischanged on the way1explained below
  • Given Name, Family Name to Name1joinedPriya Nair
  • E-mail 1 - Value to Emaillowercasedpriya.nair@lumenlabs.example.com
  • Phone 1 - Value to Phone+44 20 7946 0184
  • Organization 1 - Name to CompanyLumen Labs
  • Notes, Group Membership, Organization 1 - Title to Notes2joined, with labelsNotes: Met at the Manchester legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts | Job title: Partner
Not imported: E-mail 2 - Value, Phone 2 - Value, Address 1 - Street, Address 1 - City, Address 1 - Region, Address 1 - Postal Code and 3 more. The template leaves these out; map any to a custom field in Operelio.

Where Google Contacts and monday CRM don’t line up

1

Given Name and Family Name become one Name

Google Contacts keeps Given Name and Family Name apart, and monday CRM has one Name field.

The template joins them, leaving out any that are empty.

ExportGiven Name Priya
Family Name Nair
monday CRMPriya Nair
2

Three columns kept in Notes

This template gives Notes, Group Membership and Organization 1 - Title no monday CRM field of their own.

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

ExportNotes Met at the Manchester legal tech forum.
Group Membership Clients ::: * myContacts
Organization 1 - Title Partner
monday CRMNotes: Met at the Manchester legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts | Job title: Partner

Check your Google Contacts export before you import it

Looks for the 8 columns this template reads, and what monday CRM would skip.

Drop your Google Contacts CSV here

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Google Contacts to monday CRM 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 8 columns were found.
  3. Save monday CRM 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 5 headers as a CSV

Step 3Import into monday CRM
  1. Open the Contacts board, open the New contact dropdown and select Import contacts.
  2. Browse to your file or drag it in.
  3. Choose the group to add the items to.
  4. Match each file column to a board column or a new column, or skip it.
  5. Set the duplicate behavior (add as new, skip or update) and click Import Now.
Monday CRM's Excel and CSV import, screen by screen

Operelio, with the same template

Fixes the capitals in names, formats phone numbers, removes duplicate and blank rows, which the Excel file leaves to you. On every plan. Email verification from Starter.

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Questions

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

To Email on the contact.

Where do Notes, Group Membership and Organization 1 - Title go?

Into Notes on each contact, labeled like "Notes: Met at the Manchester legal tech forum. | Groups: Clients ::: * myContacts | Job title: Partner".

Why do Given Name and Family Name become one Name field in monday CRM?

monday CRM items have a single Name column. The template combines the two Google columns with a space so each item displays correctly on the board.

Duplicates and undoing an import: monday CRM import questions.

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