How to add a single Contact
All Users are able to add an individual Contact to Capsule. There are several different ways of doing this. This list will help you understand the different ways you might add individual Contacts.
- Using the Add new button found in the top menu bar.
- From the People & Organizations page, you’ll find a dedicated button to Add Person or Add Organization.
- Using the Mail Drop Box to automatically create a Contact when sending/forwarding an email. You can learn how to do this in our Getting Started guide. The User who forwards the initial email will be marked as the Owner of the new Contact by default.
- Using the Capsule Mobile App. When creating a Contact in the app, you’ll be able to select an Owner in the Assign To field before completing the new Contact form.
- Setting up a Web Form integration to create contacts in Capsule from a website form submission. By default, new contacts added via the Capsule Website Contact Form integration or the Wufoo integration will be assigned to the Super Administrator for your Capsule account. It is possible to change this assignment for both integrations to a different user. New form submissions will be added to the users default team. - Set the
REVIEW_IDfor the Capsule Website form submissions. - Set thetask:IDfor Wufoo form submissions. - Contact sync via accounting integrations, for example, QuickBooks, Xero, FreeAgent, FreshBooks, KashFlow , or Sage Business Cloud Accounting UK.
It is important to note that with an accounting integration set up, new Contacts created by the integration will be added to Capsule as unassigned Contacts and are therefore visible to all users in the account with the exception of Users with the Restricted role. If you need to control access to Contacts created by an accounting integration, you will need to assign the Contacts to a Team as they are added to Capsule.
How to Add lists of Contacts
- You may have multiple spreadsheets that you use for managing different sets of Contacts or data that has been exported from another CRM. These lists can all be added to Capsule using the import tool.
- Contact sync via accounting integrations, for example, if you are using an accounting package such as QuickBooks, Xero, FreeAgent, FreshBooks, KashFlow , or Sage Business Cloud Accounting UK. Integrations with these platforms are available on the Growth, Advanced and Ultimate plans.
How to Create Contacts via the Mail Drop Box
You can easily create a new Capsule contact when sending/forwarding emails using the Mail DropBox. When BCC’ing the Mail DropBox to store an email in your account, Capsule searches through the email addresses for existing Contacts in order to identify a match. If there isn’t a matching email address, Capsule will create a brand new Contact.
In addition to the new Contact, a Task will be generated automatically to remind you to check on that new Contact, as there may be some further information you would like to capture from their email signature for example.