{"id":1823,"date":"2025-06-05T20:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=1823"},"modified":"2025-06-05T20:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T14:42:08","password":"","slug":"how-do-i-import-multiple-contacts-at-once","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb\/how-do-i-import-multiple-contacts-at-once\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I import multiple contacts at once?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To import contacts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to the Contacts section.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Locate the \u201cImport Contacts\u201d box.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fill in:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Select Group<\/strong>: Choose the group for the imported contacts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Import Contact File<\/strong>: Click \u201cBrowse\u201d to select the file (.xls or .xlsx format).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Click the \u201cImport\u201d button to start the process.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To import contacts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[1339],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-1823","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-groups-contacts"],"year_month":"2026-07","word_count":45,"total_views":0,"reactions":{"happy":0,"normal":0,"sad":0},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin","author_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"Groups &amp; Contacts","term_url":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/kb-cat\/groups-contacts\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smsgatewaycenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}