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How to Import Customers List?
How to Import Customers List?

If you are migrating from another system and want to import customers in ProfitBooks, this guide will help.

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Written by Naveen
Updated over a week ago

Imagine you have customers data stored in another system and you want to import it in ProfitBooks. Let's see how you can import contacts like customer’s or vendor’s list from a file easily.

Please follow below mentioned steps:

1) Login to ProfitBooks and go to Income -> Customers

2) Click on ‘Import Customers’ option available near ‘Add New Customer’ button

3) Download the sample file. Please make adjustments according into your customer file according to the format of downloaded sample file. Customer name is mandatory. If billing address and shipping address are same then fill only billing address field

4) Click on ‘Browse’, select the file having customer data and press ‘Import’ button

5) On next screen, you will see the status of import. Records marked as ‘Success’ are successfully imported into ProfitBooks



Import process can fail to import certain records due to following reasons:

- Duplicate Records
- Type Mismatch (Ex: Invalid date or phone number format)
- Misplaced data (Ex: Date mentioned in Phone number column)

This way you can import your contacts in bulk into ProfitBooks easily with few clicks.

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