You can add, edit, manage your Zoho contact details in contacts.zoho.com. The contacts URL may vary based on the data center your account resides such as "contact.zoho.com" or "contact.zoho.eu" or "contact.zoho.au" or "contact.zoho.in" or "contact.zoho.cn".
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- Zoho Contacts doesn't accept phone numbers or email addresses with invalid formats.
- If a name is not entered for a contact, Zoho Contacts will automatically assign the part of the primary email address before the @ symbol as the name of the contact.
- You can add a maximum of five email addresses to a contact.
All the deleted contacts will be moved to Trash and will be deleted permanently after 30 days.
- Click (3 dots), and then click Trash.
- To restore your contacts from the trash, click Restore.
- To clear the contacts from the trash, click Clear.
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- Click the sort icon
.
Sort your contacts based on their First Name or Last Name and only in alphabetical order.
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You can search for your contacts in two ways:
- Search contacts using Zoho Contacts:
- Search for your contacts using First name, Last name, Email address.
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- Search contacts using Zoho Mail:
- Log in to Zoho Mail.
- Click contacts on the left-hand panel.
- Click search on the top right corner of the page.
- You can also click on the search icon directly, Click on Mail and select Contacts
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- Search contacts using five filters:
- Contains
- First name contains
- Last name contains
- email (search using their email address)
- Company name (search using their company name)
Clean Duplicates
- Any inactive contacts will be moved to the Inactive section and removed from My Contacts or Org Contacts
section. - If an inactive contact becomes active, It will be moved back to My Contacts or Org Contacts section.
- Inactive contacts cannot be edited but can be deleted.
Bulk Edit
Bulk edit allows you to edit the details of multiple contacts at once. You can follow the steps below to edit your contacts:
- Select the contacts you want to edit (you can edit up-to 100 contacts at once).
Click the
✎ icon.
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- Select the field you want to edit. You can choose from the following options.
- Last Name
- Middle Name
- Nick Name
- Company
- Designation
- Select how you want to edit your contacts.
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- Click Edit another field to edit a different field.
- Click Edit all. A consent screen will be shown.
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- Review your edits and click Proceed.
Create Category
You can create categories under the Personal section. However, only the admins of the respective group or organization can create categories for the contacts.
- Go to contacts.zoho.com.
Click Add Category on the left side of the panel.
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- Enter the name of the category.
- Click Save.
There are three ways to add contacts to a category:
Method 1:
- Select the contacts you want to add.
- Click
icon.
Select the category to add the contact to.
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Method 2:
- Click the Category you want to add contacts to.
- Click
to the right of the Category panel
- Enter the details of the contact and click Save.
An error will occur if the contact already exists. You also cannot add contacts to organization category, if you're not an administrator.
Method 3:
You can also add a contact to a category using drag-and-drop:
- Select a contact from any category or group.
Drag and drop the contact and to another category.
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Account activity and history
Zoho Contacts allows you to keep track of the activity history of your account.
You can manage your account's activity by clicking Account Activity from the
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You can view a contact's history by clicking History to the left of the contact.
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