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How to import Google Contacts into Pipedrive

7 of the 17 columns in a Google Contacts export, mapped into 6 Pipedrive fields under Pipedrive's own names.

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Free · 18 KB · Excel 365 or Google Sheets

Check your Google Contacts export first

Built on Google Contacts’ export columnsChecked against Pipedrive’s import rulesUpdated October 13, 2026

One Google Contacts row, through the templatecopied as it ischanged on the way1explained below
  • Given Name, Family Name to Name1joinedKaren Wilson
  • E-mail 1 - Value to Emaillowercasedkaren.wilson@pemberton.example.com
  • Phone 1 - Value to Phone+44 20 7946 0740
  • Organization 1 - Name to OrganizationPemberton Foods
  • Organization 1 - Title to Job TitlePartner
  • Notes to NotesMet at the Cardiff legal tech forum.
Not imported: E-mail 2 - Value, Phone 2 - Value, Address 1 - Street, Address 1 - City, Address 1 - Region, Address 1 - Postal Code and 4 more. The template leaves these out; map any to a custom field in Operelio.

Where Google Contacts and Pipedrive don’t line up

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Given Name and Family Name become one Name

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

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

ExportGiven Name Karen
Family Name Wilson
PipedriveKaren Wilson

Check your Google Contacts export before you import it

Looks for the 7 columns this template reads, and what Pipedrive would skip.

Drop your Google Contacts CSV here

Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and results are counts only.

Google Contacts to Pipedrive 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 7 columns were found.
  3. Save Pipedrive 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 6 headers as a CSV

Step 3Import into Pipedrive
  1. Go to Tools and apps, then Import data, then Import from spreadsheet, and click Get started.
  2. Select the kinds of data your file contains, such as People, and click Next.
  3. Click Upload spreadsheet and choose your file.
  4. Check the mapping, drag any unmapped column onto a field, and click Next.
  5. Check the preview, choose how duplicates are handled and click Start import.
Pipedrive's spreadsheet 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, a check against your Pipedrive records and dropdowns, and the push, from Starter.

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Questions

Where does Google Contacts' export fill Name, which Pipedrive requires?

Name joins Given Name and Family Name. The checker above counts the rows with Name blank.

Why do Given Name and Family Name become one Name field in Pipedrive?

Operelio's Pipedrive format uses a single Name field. The template combines the two Google columns with a space so each contact record displays correctly.

Duplicates and undoing an import: Pipedrive import questions.

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Upload your Google Contacts export and download a file Pipedrive can import. No credit card needed. The push into Pipedrive is from Starter.

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